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The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]
Service Corporation International is an American provider of funeral goods and services as well as cemetery property and services. It is headquartered in Neartown, Houston, Texas, and operates secondary corporate offices in Jefferson, Louisiana (near New Orleans). [5] [6] SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries. [1]
The Confederate Monument in Union City, Tennessee, also known as First Monument to Unknown Confederate Dead, is a simple marker erected in 1869 in a cemetery that was the burial site for the remains of 29 unidentified Confederate combatants killed in the American Civil War. It is about 40 feet (12 m) tall. [2]
Date listed [9] Location City or town Description 1: Butler House: Butler House: April 11, 1973 : 309 N. Church St. Mountain City: Home of Congressman Roderick R. Butler, built circa 1870. [14] 2: Alfred Johnson Farm: Alfred Johnson Farm: July 1, 1998
Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross (September 27, 1838 – January 3, 1898) was the 19th governor of Texas, a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War, and the 4th president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, now called Texas A&M University.
Bierfield and his African-American clerk, Lawrence Bowman, were confronted in Bierfield's store in Franklin, Tennessee, and fatally shot on August 15, 1868, by a group of masked men. The killers were believed to belong to a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan , which had emerged as an insurgent force in the state in 1866.
St. Mary's Cemetery is a historic Roman Catholic cemetery in Lawrence County, Tennessee, United States, located off Rascal Town Road, 5 miles (8.0 km) southeast of St. Joseph. The cemetery contains about 20 19th-century monuments and was still being used for burials as of the late 20th century.
Iron City is situated in the Shoal Creek Valley, north of the Tennessee-Alabama state line. Iron City is surrounded by rugged hills on the north, south, and west, and by the creek on the east. State Route 227 passes east-to-west through Iron City, connecting it to St. Joseph across the hills to the east and State Route 13 south of Collinwood to ...