When Columbus Russell Clevenger was born on 15 June 1853, in Cocke, Tennessee, United States, his father, Allen Clevenger Sr., was 44 and his mother, Susan Hightower, was 42. He married Rhoda Cora Netherton about 1873, in Cocke, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Edwina, Cocke, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Civil District 6, Cocke, Tennessee, United States in 1900. He died on 4 January 1905, in Cocke, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Clevenger, Cocke, Tennessee, United States.
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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.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
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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