When Joseph Albert Colville was born on 2 August 1854, in Benton, Arkansas, United States, his father, Marvel Duncan Colville, was 23 and his mother, Matilda Caroline Vaughn, was 17. He married Amanda Fuson on 15 May 1881, in Hill, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Justice Precinct 1, Hill, Texas, United States in 1910 and Justice Precinct 1, Cherokee, Texas, United States for about 10 years. He died on 2 August 1931, in Gallatin, Cherokee, Texas, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Piney Grove Cemetery, Gallatin, Cherokee, Texas, United States.
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Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
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.
English and Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from Colleville in Seine-Maritime, France, named with the Scandinavian personal name Koli (see Cole 2) + Old French ville ‘settlement, village’. The Scottish branch of the family were descended from Philip de Colville, who came to Scotland as a household knight of kings Malcolm IV (1153–65) and William ‘the Lion’ (1165–1214).
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