Born in Metter, Candler, Georgia, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Valentine Sample Durden
and Martha Jane (Martin) Durden
Sister of
Iley Lester Durden, Unnamed Infant Son Durden, Lexie Lee (Durden) Cannady, Eddie Louis Martin, Bonnie Jane (Durden) Williams [half], John Lewis Durden [half], Homer Louie Durden [half] and Geneva (Durden) Dean [half]
Wife of
Pike Collins
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Mother of
Nuel Brown Collins
Died
at age 88
in Winnsboro, Fairfield, South Carolina, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 29 Aug 2021
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Biography
Dessie was born in 1892. She passed away in 1983.
Sources
- "South Carolina, Delayed Birth Certificates, 1766-1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2R8-FG97 : 17 March 2018), Dessie Lee Durden, 1892; citing Birth Registration, Metter, Candler, Georgia, United States, 16-1296, South Carolina Department of Archives & History, Columbia; FHL microfilm 1,426,391.
- "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3VH-J8K : accessed 29 August 2021), Dessie L Durdin in household of Valentoru S Durden, Militia Districts 351, Cobbtown & 1192, Blue Ridge, Tattnall, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 129, sheet 16A, family 273, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,222.
- "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLL6-L5S : accessed 29 August 2021), Dressie Collins in household of Pike Collins, Cobbtown, Tattnall, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 142, sheet 37B, family 382, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 212; FHL microfilm 1,374,225.
- "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJXC-B8L : 1 February 2021), Dassie Collins in entry for Peke Collins, 1920.
- "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4D3-2WF : 11 January 2021), Dessie Collins in household of Pike Collins, Township 14, Fairfield, South Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 20-21B, sheet 12B, line 80, family 189, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3807.
- "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q5Q3-Z7NM : 18 July 2020), Mrs Dessie Durden Collins, 1983.
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