Brief Life History of Thomas Baker
When Thomas Baker Breazeale was born on 8 October 1836, in Roane, Tennessee, United States, his father, Elijah Windfield Breazeale, was 32 and his mother, Nancy McMullin, was 29. He married Nancy Jane "Jennie" Young on 20 October 1860, in Roane, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Civil District 1, Roane, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Lenoir City, Loudon, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. He died on 7 November 1924, in Roane, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Oral Cemetery, Oral, Roane, Tennessee, United States.
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- Thomas Brazell, "United States Census, 1870"
- F B Breazeale, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Thomas B. Breazeale, "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1963"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
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.
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
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.
Name Meaning
Irish: variant of Brazil .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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