Brief Life History of Andrew
When Andrew Breeden was born about 1838, in Sevier, Tennessee, United States, his father, John Albert Breeden, was 45 and his mother, Nancy Cordelia Frost, was 44. He married Mary Elizabeth Richards on 22 October 1862, in Sevier, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States in 1870. He died before 1893.
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- Andrew Breden, "United States Census, 1870"
- Andrew Bruden, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Andy Breeden in entry for Martha Breeden Jones, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
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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
English: habitational name from Bredon in Worcestershire or from Breedon on the Hill in Leicestershire, both of which are named from an unattested Celtic word brez ‘hill’ + the tautologous addition of Old English dūn ‘hill’.
English: variant of Braden 2 or 3.
Americanized form of German Breden .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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