When Mary Elizabeth Paralee Hill was born in 1846, in Decatur, Tennessee, United States, her father, Rev John Priar Hill, was 47 and her mother, Rebecca Aldridge, was 41. She married John Marshall Quinn on 29 May 1879, in Decatur, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870. She died in 1891, in Decatur, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Parsons, Decatur, 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.
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
English: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a hill, from Middle English hill, hell, hull ‘hill’ (Old English hyll). Compare Hiller . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
English: possibly in some cases from the personal name Hille, a pet form of some name such as Hilger or Hillary .
German: from a short form of Hildebrand or any of a variety of other names, male and female, containing ancient Germanic hild ‘battle’ as the first element.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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