This is as close as I can come to your Willam Austin Collier. I wonder if they may have been cousins. Name: William M. COLLIER ---------------------------------------- Birth: ca 1847 York County, South Carolina[1] Death: ca 1875 [2] Father: James Parsons COLLIER (ca1808-1867) Mother: Mary Ellen ROBINSON (1808-1890) Spouses: ---------------------------------------- 1: Bessie TURNER Children: William M. Sources 1. The obelisk in the Collier plot at Magnolia Cemetery, Mary Anna Glasgow's papers on McLain family, and 1850 York Co., SC census. 2. The obelisk in the Collier plot at Magnolia Cemetery and Mary Anna Glasgow's papers on McLain family and Jean Happ Hudson's Family History Information-Dora's unknown source (ca 1950-1952). ----------------------------------------