This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BkB.2ACE/228.1.1 Message Board Post: Amy, thanks for your message. We are related! I will gladly tell you what I know about the Collins clan. My mother (still living) was a Collins. I am descended from one of the brothers of Ben Collins, namely Horace Edwin "Ed" Collins and his first wife, Mattie Belle Page. My branch of the Collins lived in Wichita Falls, where my mother was born. Ben and Ed also had brothers Albert, Charles & Frank and a sister, Marietta. Their parents were William Gregory Collins (a Confederate veteran of the War War) and Lucy Etta Acock. Feel free to contact me directly at dadmunk@pacbell.net. Cousin Michael Davis.