Brief Life History of Mary E
When Mary E Collier was born on 3 May 1841, in Randolph, Missouri, United States, her father, Lewis Collier, was 39 and her mother, Judith Cornelious, was 39. She married Dr. Hardin P Benning in December 1872, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Callao Township, Macon, Missouri, United States in 1900. She died on 29 April 1917, in Callao, Macon, Missouri, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Callao, Macon, Missouri, United States.
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- Mary E Benning, "United States Census, 1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary E Collier - Published information: Newspaper article: birth-name: Mary E Collier
- Mary E. Collier Benning, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1858
Historical Boundaries: 1858: Macon, Missouri, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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