When Doctor Franklin Harris Perdue was born in 1838, in Wayne, Kentucky, United States, his father, William Benjamen Franklin Perdue, was 26 and his mother, Mary Avaline Frost, was 29. He married Armilda Gipson on 20 August 1856, in Fentress, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He registered for military service in 1861. He died on 17 June 1864, in Casey, Butler, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 26, and was buried in Simpson Cemetery, Wayne, Kentucky, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
English and Irish (of Norman and French origin): nickname from Old French par Dieu ‘by God’, which was adopted in Middle English in a variety of more or less heavily altered forms (compare e.g. Pardoe and Purdy ). The surname represents a nickname from a favorite oath. The surname in Ireland belonged to a French Protestant family who settled in County Cork.
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