Hi there Bobbie Wright Saw your message below and wondered if a part of my COLLINS in TX material might help. >In checking out Comanche Co., Tx. marriages today, I found the following >two marriages that I need to know about. > >1. Mark COLLINS m 10/1/1889 Elizabeth JAMES > (who are the parents of this Mark) > >2. William L. COLLINS m. 3/1/1860 Sarah Ann WOODRUM > (Is this the son of William Joseph COLLINS and Elizabeth ANDERSON b. >1839 in Tn?) > >I believe he is the step-son of my ggg grandmother Nancy Louvenia >Collins BARBER who was in Comanche Co., Tx. from the 1860's until her >death in 1949. Two branches of my COLLINS family [neither my direct line] came to Crockett, Houston Co., TX, one in 1839 and the other in 1854 and later. There are obvious blanks in the siblings of the earlier branch, but the later ones are known fairly well. In addition while gathering COLLINS info in Crockett, I came across another COLLINS tree that looks very tantalizing. Details as follows: 1839 - Thomas P. COLLINS (1800-1869) arrives in Crockett. Wife Adeline BISHOP arrives a couple of years later. They had one daughter. In 1867 her mother was still living in Tuscombia, AL beside the TN border. - His brother James P. COLLINS (1809-1881) & wife Amelia VANN and son John arrived about the same time and John (1838-1869) went back to TN to get his education in law. Other children known and being followed up. None matches your names. - Thomas' 2nd brother John COLLINS (1811-1890) who married a Miss Wingate in TX also came in 1839. There were children of his second marriage who were born in Athens, Houston Co., TX and tended to move to Dallas. Their names are NOT known. - I think I have determined that these were three sons of Dr. John COLLINS (b.1773) and Elizabeth Pillar (m.1794) from Co. Tyrone, Ire. and understand that there were at least 2 sisters. The sons were all born in Cookstown, Tyr. but I do not know when they emigrated, where they landed and if their parents came with them. 1854 - James COLLINS, Jr. (1834-1887), merchant, came to Crockett to work with Thomas, his father's first cousin. He marries there and has 2 dau & 4 sons, all known in detail. In time he is a partner to Thomas and eventually prime owner with Thomas' only child, Mary COLLINS as partner. 1860 - Dr. S.J. COLLINS (b.1835 TN) comes to Crockett. His parents and an uncle had come from Ireland to the USA a few years before his birth and settled in TN. Later the uncle moved to FL and established a furniture store in Tallahassee. One of his descendants is Leroy COLLINS, one time governor of the state. COLLINS family still owned and operated the store in the 1980s. - S.J. COLLINS attended medical school in TN and had m. Lucy BELL (b.1844 AL) before coming to Neville's Prairie, now Lovelady outside Crockett. They had children William Bell COLLINS (1862-1927) [who m. Mattie NELMS of Pennington, TX near Lovelady], John Robert COLLINS, and Joe, Julius, Frank, Lucy and Anna. Descendants of William are known. - S.J.'s connection to TN and naming of the first son William, leads me to wonder if his father's name was William, and if that person might have been another brother of Thomas above. William is a common enough name earlier in this family. - Why did S.J. chose the Crockett area??? Was it a family connection? - The name BELL appears several times in the names of my known COLLINS family members as Thomas Bell COLLINS, the 4th son of James Jr. COLLINS who came in 1854; Samuel Bell COLLINS, the 2nd son and Susan B. COLLINS 2nd daughter of James P. COLLINS. Does this indicate any connection? I don't know. Does any of this get your attention? I understand that there were many COLLINS families in TN but most trace back to pre-revolutionary days. In the above cases, the families have apparently come from Ireland to TN in the 1812-1830 period, prior to the Potato Famine years of 1845-52. I look forward to hearing from you. John M. Collins ***************************************************************************** * * * John M. Collins, jcollins@xcelco.on.ca * * Sarnia, Ont., Canada * * * * Looking for COLLINS in Cookstown, Co. Tyrone area in 1750-1850 period. * * Also allied Ulster families of BELLIS, CLARKE, DAVISON, DUNLOP, LYND, * * MAGILL, MORGAN, PILLAR, WALLACE, WEIR, and ANDREWS of Dublin * * * * Later locations: Belfast, Dublin, Ballymena Co. Antrim in Ire; Chile; * * Peterborough, Toronto, Ont, Canada; Philadelphia, PA, Crockett, TX, USA. * * Family was Irish Presbyterian in all occurences found. * * * ***************************************************************************** �