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Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio History

Around 2am, April 27, 1865, the steamboat Sultana exploded while passing north of Memphis, TN along the Mississippi River. The tragedy claimed over 1,500 passengers' lives, most of them recently paroled Union soldiers returning home from Confederate prison camps at the close of the Civil War. Largely forgotten, the Sultana disaster remains the worst shipwreck in American history.

Among these 1,500 passengers were 10 Cuyahoga Falls residents.

Captain Demming N. Lowery

 Lietenant John Eadie

Corporal John W. Eadie

J. C. Cook

2d Lieutenant John C. Ely

Thomas Evans

Robert Gaylord

C. Nealy

James J. Patterson

Isaac J. Woods

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