Brief Life History of Mary E.
When Mary E. Sellers was born in June 1851, in Mississippi, United States, her father, Harmon Sellars, was 32 and her mother, Emma C Barnes, was 32. She married John Franklin Collins about 1868. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Beat 1, Carroll, Mississippi, United States for about 30 years. She died in July 1918, in Winona, Montgomery, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Winona, Montgomery, Mississippi, United States.
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Sources (7)
- Mary Collins in household of John Collins, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Mary
- Mary Sellers in entry for Walter Monroe Collins, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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1861
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): variant of Seller , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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