When John E Elder was born in July 1846, in Rutherford, Tennessee, United States, his father, Joshua W. Elder, was 53 and his mother, Lydia J. Etter, was 48. He married Amanda Amy C. or Woodsie Paramore about 1871, in Union Township, Conway, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in White River Township, Prairie, Arkansas, United States in 1900 and Vaugine Township, Jefferson, Arkansas, United States in 1910. He died in September 1913, at the age of 67, and was buried in Bellwood Cemetery, Pine Bluff, Jefferson, Arkansas, 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.
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Scottish: distinguishing nickname from Middle English and Older Scots elder ‘parent; older, senior person’, perhaps in some cases denoting the older of two bearers of the same personal name. It may have been used also to denote an elder of a church, a senior and respected member of the congregation. Compare Senior .
English: in southeastern England, this may be a variant of Helder .
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Elter , which has the same meaning as 1 above.
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