When John Henry Gulledge was born in February 1864, in Decatur, Tennessee, United States, his father, James Roger Gulledge Sr., was 37 and his mother, Visey Gibson, was 37. He lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870 and Civil District 12, Decatur, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. He died on 8 April 1937, in Parsons, Decatur, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Gulledge Cemetery, Decatur, Tennessee, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
In April of 1865, the steamboat the Sultana exploded. The Civil War had been over for awhile so this was considered the worst maritime disaster in US history. Compared to the Titanic where 1,512 people were killed, 1,8000 soldiers were killed on the Sultana. Confederate soldiers that weeks earlier had been fighting with Union soldiers were now fighting to save their lives.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Altered form of English Golledge, itself probably a variant of Colledge .
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