When John Vandover Sandlin was born on 14 April 1856, in Arkansas, United States, his father, William J Sandlin, was 33 and his mother, Matilda Jane Anderson, was 29. He lived in Hempstead, Arkansas, United States in 1860. He died on 23 October 1862, at the age of 6.
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Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
By the time the Battle of Pea Ridge happened the Union forces had pushed Confederates through Missouri and Arkansas. This battle was important in securing Missouri for the Union and opening Arkansas for the Union.
Swedish: ornamental name composed of the element sand ‘sand’ + the suffix -lin, derived from Latin -(l)inius ‘relating to’. Compare Sandelin .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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