Brief Life History of Peter Benson
When Peter Benson Duncan was born in 1837, in Cannon, Tennessee, United States, his father, Lemuel James Duncan, was 32 and his mother, Sarah M Cox, was 22. He married Elizabeth Ann Sissom on 3 March 1856, in Cannon, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died in 1863, at the age of 26, and was buried in Sission Cemetery, Bradyville, Cannon, Tennessee, United States.
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- Peter Duncan, "United States Census, 1860"
- Peter B Duncan, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Peter Benson Duncan, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (4)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
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.
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish: from the Older Scots personal name Dunecan, itself from the traditional Irish royal name Donnchad(h), derived from donn ‘brown-haired’ + cath ‘battle’. Judging by the Scots form, the Scottish Gaelic intermediary seems to have been understood as containing ceann ‘head’, as if the whole name meant ‘brown head’; compare sense 2. In Ireland the name was Anglicized as Donagh or Donaghue. Compare Donahue .
Irish: used as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Duinnchinn ‘descendant of Donncheann’, a byname composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + ceann ‘head’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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