When Mary Jane Caledonia Renegar was born on 20 December 1862, in Lincoln, Tennessee, United States, her father, Jasper Weaver Renegar, was 28 and her mother, Mary Jane Buchanan, was 28. She married Rufus Alexander Solomon on 20 December 1883. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Civil District 23, Lincoln, Tennessee, United States for about 20 years and Kelso, Lincoln, Tennessee, United States in 1948. She died on 22 March 1948, in Lincoln, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Kelso Cemetery, Kelso, Lincoln, Tennessee, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In April of 1865, the steamboat the Sultana exploded. The Civil War had been over for awhile so this was considered the worst maritime disaster in US history. Compared to the Titanic where 1,512 people were killed, 1,8000 soldiers were killed on the Sultana. Confederate soldiers that weeks earlier had been fighting with Union soldiers were now fighting to save their lives.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Americanized form of German of Renninger .
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