Mary E. Sellers

Brief Life History of Mary E.

When Mary E. Sellers was born in June 1851, in Mississippi, United States, her father, Harmon W Sellars, was 32 and her mother, Emma C Barnes, was 32. She married John Franklin Collins about 1866, in Montgomery, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Beat 1, Carroll, Mississippi, United States for about 30 years. She died on 13 June 1920, in Lee, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Winona, Montgomery, Mississippi, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Franklin Collins
1843–1916
Mary E. Sellers
1851–1920
Marriage: about 1866
Fannie Belle Collins
1862–1938
Collins
about 1867–
Collins
about 1871–
Collins
about 1873–
Collins
about 1877–
Collins
about 1884–
James Franklin Collins
1869–1923
Dora Idella Collins
1872–1946
Walter Monroe Collins
1874–
Mary E Collins
1878–1958
John Henry Collins
1882–1949
Josephine Collins
about 1884–1923
Robert Lee Collins
1888–1959

Sources (10)

  • Mary Collins in household of John Collins, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Mary - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Mary
  • Mary Collins Arkansas, U.S., Death Index, 1914-1950

World Events (8)

1861

Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.

1861

Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.

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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