When John Alexander Brogdon was born on 5 September 1862, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Samuel Alexander Brogdon, was 34 and his mother, Martha Elizabeth "Lizzie" Williams, was 19. He married Anna Belle Bozeman on 24 July 1882, in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Jefferson, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Civil District 8, Knox, Tennessee, United States in 1910. He died on 17 December 1918, in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in New Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In April of 1865, the steamboat the Sultana exploded. The Civil War had been over for awhile so this was considered the worst maritime disaster in US history. Compared to the Titanic where 1,512 people were killed, 1,8000 soldiers were killed on the Sultana. Confederate soldiers that weeks earlier had been fighting with Union soldiers were now fighting to save their lives.
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
English: variant of Brogden .
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