This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------DB7CDC700B2A6FC59613E950 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Denise Maddox wrote: > > Hi List! > > I need some help. Can you send me how Collin County got formed? The > year, from which County? and any other interesting information! Was ther > a man named Collin? I will take the information and post it on the > Collin County site. > > Make sure you reply to the whole list, so everyone can see the > information. > > Your Listowner, > Denise Denise, In response to your query about the formation of Collin County, I offer the following information which is taken from COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS, FAMILIES, published 1994 by Alice Ellison Pitts and Minnie Pitts Champ. Collin McKinney, born in New Jersey in 1766, moved to Texas to a "point six miles east of the present city of Texarkana. He arrived there September 15, 1824. In 1831 they moved farther west and settled on Hickman's Prairie on the Red River, which was then in Miller County, Arkansas, but is now in Bowie County, Texas." Sometime prior to 1846, he moved his family to a point "near the line of Collin and Grayson counties, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits the remainder of his life. Collin died on September 8, 1861, at the age of ninety-five. He is buried in a marked grave in the cemetery at Van Alstyne, Texas." "When a new county was created from Fannin County in 1846, it was named Collin in his honor. When the county seat was moved from Buckner to a point near the geographical center of the county in 1848, he was still further honored through the naming of the county seat, McKinney, thus perpetuating the memory of his full name." To see a picture of the "old" McKinney Courthouse, circa 1915, visit my web site: "http://ccvn.com/ccbc/home.html" or the web site for the North Collin County Genealogical Society at "www.kencole.org/nccgs.htm" --------------DB7CDC700B2A6FC59613E950 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="mchamp.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Minnie Pitts Champ Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="mchamp.vcf" begin:vcard n:Champ;Minnie Pitts x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Collin County Book Co. adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:mchamp@airmail.net title:http://ccvm.com/ccbc/home.html x-mozilla-cpt:;-144 fn:Minnie Pitts Champ end:vcard --------------DB7CDC700B2A6FC59613E950--