Have you contacted Samford University in B'ham? (aka Howard College - was renamed in the 60s, as I recall - they have a good section on past Baptist ministers in AL) Early MS records show these COLLINS: Charles, Dennis, Hedger, John, Joshua, Luke, Luke Jr., Nancy, Robert, Susannah, Theophilus, Thomas and William. Do you have any idea in which part of MS he was born? Carol At 09:47 AM 5/8/98 -0500, Pat D Fite wrote: >Would like to find more information about Powhatan E. Collins b 1825 MS m >Eliza C. (?) b 1830 SC. His children were M. Ida Collins b 1849 AL, Eliza C. >b 1856 AL and Powhatan E Jr. b 1858 AL. He was the son of Rev. Jacob G. >Collins and Mary Ann King. > >He was baptised on 15 Jan 1842 at St Anthony Street Church. In Jan 1844 he went to Marion AL to enter the theological department of Howard College. He was second pastor of the First Baptist Church of Selma AL. He was there from ca >1845 to 1849. He went to St Francis Street Church in 1855, joined the church >in 1856. and resigned as pastor of St Frances Street Baptist Church in Mobile Co AL in 1858. > >Pat Fite >patdfite@bigfoot.com ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> ><HTML> ><HEAD> > ><META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> ><META content='"MSHTML 4.71.1712.3"' name=GENERATOR> ></HEAD> ><BODY bgColor=#ffffff> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Would like to find more information about >Powhatan E. Collins b 1825 MS m </FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Eliza C. (?) b 1830 SC. His children were M. Ida >Collins b 1849 AL, Eliza C.</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>b 1856 AL and Powhatan E Jr. b 1858 AL. He was >the son of Rev. Jacob G.</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Collins and Mary Ann King.</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>He was baptised on 15 Jan 1842 at St Anthony >Street Church. In Jan 1844 he went to Marion AL to enter the theological >department of Howard College. He was second pastor of the First Baptist Church >of Selma AL. He was there from ca</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>1845 to 1849. He went to St Francis Street >Church in 1855, joined the church</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>in 1856. and resigned as pastor of St Frances >Street Baptist Church in Mobile Co AL in 1858. </FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Pat Fite</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>patdfite@bigfoot.com</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> >