Brief Life History of Martha "Mattie" Rebecca
When Martha "Mattie" Rebecca Collins was born on 20 February 1879, in Douglas, Missouri, United States, her father, George A. Cody Collins, was 20 and her mother, Sarah Emmaline Hannah, was 19. She married John H. Cochran on 14 June 1898, in Howell, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Cleveland, Pawnee, Oklahoma, United States in 1930 and Spring Creek Township, Howell, Missouri, United States in 1940. She died on 5 December 1957, in West Plains, Ripley, Missouri, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Union Grove General Baptist Cemetery, West Plains, Ripley, Missouri, United States.
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- Martha Cowhorn in household of John Cowhorn, "United States Census, 1910"
- Martha Rebecca Collins, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Martha Rebecca Collins Cochran, "Find A Grave Index"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded
The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Colin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish and Manx: shortened Anglicized from Ó Coileáin, compare Cullen , or in Man or west Ulster shortened from Mac Coileáin, compare McQuillan and McCallion . The genitival -s is a local addition to Collin and variants after the surname was Anglicized.
Americanized form of French Colin or Collin and also Collette .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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