When Benjamin Avant Peek was born in 1842, in Rutherford, Tennessee, United States, his father, Thomas Randolph Peek, was 30 and his mother, Elizabeth Wright, was 24. He married Louisa Jennie Dillard on 23 December 1869, in Red River, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Justice Precinct 8, Red River, Texas, United States in 1880. He died on 13 June 1889, in Red River, Texas, United States, at the age of 47.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
English: variant of Peak .
Irish: variant of Peak 4.
North German and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a spearmaker, from Middle Low German pēk ‘pike’.
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