Mary Jane Lafayette Battle Collier (1825-79) was born in Powelton, Georgia. She was a descendent of North Carolina planters and married future Alabama governor John Gill Shorter on January 12, 1843, in Eufaula.
Mary Jane Collier
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Courtesy of the A. S. Williams III Americana Collection. The University of Alabama Libraries.
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