When Rebecca Jane Collins Stanfill was born on 10 February 1843, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Peter Shadrach Collins, was 29 and her mother, Margaret Hinkle, was 24. She married Milton Letcher Stanfill on 20 January 1865, in Campbell, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Jellico, Campbell, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Civil District 8, Hardeman, Tennessee, United States in 1900. She died on 31 July 1907, in Tennessee, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Winfield Baptist Church Cemetery, Winfield, Scott, Tennessee, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
Oldest grave seen in the memorial list.
English: variant of Colin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish and Manx: shortened Anglicized from Ó Coileáin, compare Cullen , or in Man or west Ulster shortened from Mac Coileáin, compare McQuillan and McCallion . The genitival -s is a local addition to Collin and variants after the surname was Anglicized.
Americanized form of French Colin or Collin and also Collette .
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