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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- 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"
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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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