Brief Life History of James E
When James E Blackburn was born in May 1845, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Robert Rankin Blackburn, was 44 and his mother, Sarah Josephine Fain, was 24. He married Mary Jane Cantrell on 23 June 1866. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Justice Precinct 6, Cooke, Texas, United States in 1880 and Chickasaw Nation Reservation, Murray, Oklahoma, United States in 1900. He died in 1902, in Elmore City, Garvin, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Elmore City, Garvin, Oklahoma, United States.
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- J E Blackburn, "United States Census, 1870"
- Jams E Blackborn, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"
- Legacy NFS Source: James E Blackburn - Individual or family possessions: death: ; Texas, United States
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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
English: habitational name from any of various places called Blackburn, but especially the one in Lancashire, so named with Old English blæc ‘dark’ + burna ‘stream’. This surname is found mainly in northern England.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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