Brief Life History of Mary Elizabeth
When Mary Elizabeth Collier was born on 21 December 1892, in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, her father, Henry Barksdale Collier, was 43 and her mother, Sallie Bettie Hine, was 39. She lived in Shelby, Tennessee, United States in 1900. She died on 15 September 1958, in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States.
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- Mary E Callier in household of Henry B Callier, "United States Census, 1920"
- Mary Elizabeth Collier, "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1963"
- Mary L Collier in household of Henry B Collier, "United States Census, 1900"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1898 · War with the Spanish
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1910 · The BSA is Made
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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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