When John Franklin Downum was born on 9 March 1838, in Winchester, Franklin, Tennessee, United States, his father, John Rufus Downum Sr., was 25 and his mother, Mary Frances Dudley, was 16. He married Florida Adeline Devenport about 1859. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 24 January 1863, in Washington, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 24.
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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.
Altered form of Downham .
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