Helen Mae COLLINS

Brief Life History of Helen Mae

When Helen Mae COLLINS was born on 7 January 1884, in Barbour, Alabama, United States, her father, Justus Collins, was 26 and her mother, Lucy Gertrude Dent, was 22. She married Joseph Earl Beury in 1905. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Ward, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States in 1900. She died on 5 December 1958, in Lewisburg, Greenbrier, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 74.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Earl Beury
1876–1919
Helen Mae COLLINS
1884–1958
Marriage: 1905
Joseph Lawton Beury
1906–1984
Justus Collins Beury
1908–1977
John Harry Beury Sr
1909–1985
Elizabeth Josephine Beury
1912–1999

Sources (12)

  • Helen M Collins in household of Justin Collins, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Helen Mae Collins, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
  • Helen Collins Beury, "West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999"

World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1886 · Giving Working Men a Union

The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.

1904

St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.

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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