When Martha E Colvin was born on 25 April 1857, in South Carolina, United States, her father, William Hardwick Colvin, was 47 and her mother, Jane Weir, was 39. She married Joel P Holleman on 21 November 1872, in Arcadia, Bienville, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Police Jury Ward 2, Lincoln, Louisiana, United States for about 20 years. She died on 23 September 1920, in Lincoln, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Saint Rest Cemetery, Dubach, Lincoln, Louisiana, United States.
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In 1860, South Carolina quit the United States because its citizens were in favor of slavery and President Lincoln was not. The Civil War started a year later.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Scottish and Irish (Donegal, Antrim): variant of Colville , probably reflecting a local pronunciation. The name was taken to Ulster in the 17th century.
Manx: if not identical with 1, perhaps from the Old Norse personal name Kolbeinn, with /v/ substituted for /b/.
English: from the rare Middle English personal name Colwin, Colvin, which may be a borrowing into English of a Welsh name whose modern form is Collwyn ‘white’, or of colwyn ‘doe, puppy, pet dog’, or of the placename Colwyn (Denbighshire, Radnorshire).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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