Brief Life History of John Bell
When John Bell Hollis was born on 27 August 1843, in Wayne, Tennessee, United States, his father, William Newton Hollis, was 40 and his mother, Sarah Jane Kilburn, was 30. He married Mary M. Luker on 10 January 1861, in Lawrence, Tennessee, United States. He lived in District 12, Grainger, Tennessee, United States in 1870 and Civil District 12, Warren, Tennessee, United States in 1900. He died on 4 January 1917, in Westpoint, Lawrence, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Bethlehem Cemetery, Wayne, Tennessee, United States.
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- John B Hollis, "United States Census, 1900"
- John B Hollis, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- John B. Hollis, "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1963"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
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.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English (Midlands): topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) holly or holly trees’, from Middle English holi(e), holin (Old English holegn, holen). Compare Hollen and Holley 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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