When Carson Cannon Clevenger was born in 1846, in Newport, Cocke, Tennessee, United States, his father, Allen Clevenger Sr., was 38 and his mother, Susan Hightower, was 35. He married Mariah Wood about 1866, in Cocke, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Cocke, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years and Edwina, Cocke, Tennessee, United States in 1880. He died in 1881, in Newport, Cocke, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Cocke, Tennessee, United States.
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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 Clavinger, status name for the keeper of the keys in a great household, Latin clavigerus, from clavis ‘key’.
History: George Clevenger was born in Yonkers, NY, in 1654, the son of JohnClevenger (born 1633), who probably came from Devon, England.
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