Brief Life History of Martha M
When Martha M Collier was born on 29 March 1829, in Jackson, Indiana, United States, her father, Hiram D Collier, was 21 and her mother, Nellie Ellender Stogdill, was 25. She married Jesse Stogdill on 15 May 1851, in Freetown, Pershing Township, Jackson, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Hamilton Township, Jackson, Indiana, United States in 1860 and Salt Creek Township, Jackson, Indiana, United States in 1870. She died on 7 October 1883, in Mark, Davis, Iowa, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Hopkins Cemetery, Fabius Township, Davis, Iowa, United States.
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- Martha Stockdell in household of Jessie Stockdell, "United States Census, 1860"
- Martha Collier, "Indiana, Marriages, 1811-1959"
- Margaret Collier, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1834
Historical Boundaries 1834: Owen, Indiana, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English colier, in most parts of the country ‘maker or seller of charcoal’, but in some areas (such as Bolton le Moors and Wigan, Lancashire) where coal measures were near the surface, ‘miner or seller of coal’ (in the modern sense, ‘fossil fuel’). The name was taken to Ireland from England and was first recorded there in 1305. In Petty's ‘census’ of 1659, it was recorded as a principal surname in Meath.
English: occupational name from Middle English coilour, coliour, culliour, Old French coileor, coillour ‘tax collector’. Surnames with this origin seem to have died out in Britain.
French (northern): from collier ‘collar’, a metonymic occupational name for a maker of collars.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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