This biography is a rough draft. It was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import and needs to be edited..
Research Notes
Comment posted on his FSFT profile by Pamela Dempsey:
"Reason This Information Is Correct:
B. J. Collins, merchant, Hazen, Ark. Jared Collins, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in North Carolina in 1807, was married in about 1832 to Miss Matilda E. Witty and reared a family of five children: Sally J. (deceased, married Dr. Jerome Cockran), J. W. (was killed in a battle at Jonesboro, Ga.), O. B. (is residing at Birmingham, Ala.), Emma C. (married Mr. Steadham and now resides at Pine Bluff, Ark.) and Mattie E. (now Mrs. Lawrence, resides at Memphis, Tenn:). Mr. Collins moved to Mississippi about 1835, and settled in Hernando County, where he was engaged in the tailor's business, but later became a tiller of the soil in the same county. His wife died and he married Miss R. J. Irwin, the mother of the subject of this sketch, in 1842, ... (Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas, Goodspeed Publishers, 1891, p. 692) " Steffen-1085 18:22, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
Sources
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4LC-DV9 : 22 December 2020), Jared Collins, DeSoto, Mississippi, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
WikiTree profile Collins-2580 created through the import of Turnham Family Tree.ged on Mar 6, 2012 by Blake Turnham. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Blake and others.
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