When James Madison Edgin was born on 16 January 1838, in DeKalb, Tennessee, United States, his father, Thomas Edgin, was 47 and his mother, Catherine Conatser, was 40. He married Eliza Jane Riley on 6 October 1859, in Clarksville, Johnson, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in DeKalb, Alabama, United States in 1850 and White Oak Township, Franklin, Arkansas, United States in 1860. He died on 19 August 1878, in Franklin, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 40.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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.
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
English: unexplained.
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