When John Porter Bilbrey was born on 2 September 1847, in Overton, Tennessee, United States, his father, Alexander Porter Bilbrey, was 25 and his mother, Mary Melvina Matthews, was 23. He married Martelia L Deck on 9 October 1873, in Overton, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 7 April 1924, in Overton, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Bilbrey Cemetery, Rickman, Overton, 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.
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Altered form of English Bilbrough or of its variant Bilborough. Compare Bilberry and Bilbro .
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