Mary Omeaza Mullins

Brief Life History of Mary Omeaza

When Mary Omeaza Mullins was born on 30 August 1854, in Dresden, Weakley, Tennessee, United States, her father, James Forgay Mullen, was 38 and her mother, Omeisa Dorothy Jolley, was 35. She married Coleman Potts Smith on 25 May 1873. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Weakley, Tennessee, United States for about 20 years. She died on 5 July 1907, in Dresden, Weakley, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Weakley, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

Coleman Potts Smith
1842–1917
Mary Omeaza Mullins
1854–1907
Marriage: 25 May 1873
William Henry "Red" Smith
1874–1946
Almedia P Smith
1877–1905
Flora Ella Smith
1880–1901
Mary O Smith
1887–1900
Gertie Agnes Smith
1891–1969

Sources (9)

  • Ormasa Mullen, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Omeaeuza Mullin, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
  • Omeaza Smith, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

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.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

English (of Norman origin): habitational name from one or more of the many places in France with names derived from Old French molins ‘mills’, such as Moulins (Aisne) and Moulines (Calvados, Manche). Compare Molin , with which there may well have been some interchange.

Irish (Clare and Cork): from variant of Mullen .

English: there has been some confusion with Mullings .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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