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| Name: | lori collins |
| E-mail address: | mimmie696@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | daughter of robert collins granddaughter of grace collins and andrew jackson collins grace was like a mother to me she raised me. she was the daughter of berry collins and nancy e hammonds collins |
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| Name: | Ronda Flora |
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| Name: | Jeanette Adkins |
| E-mail address: | wvtulip2003@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Researching the families of Ratliff, Sheppard/Shepherd, Hatfield, Norman from the Blackberry Ky area and Mingo and Logan Co areas of WV. Enjoyed your site! Would like to hear from others with these surnames or who may have some information to help me. Thanks Jeanette |
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| Name: | William Martin |
| E-mail address: | WmMartin1@aol.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://wmmartin.com |
| Comments: | Hi Frankie, long time no see. Thought I would stop by and see how you all were doing. I miss you guys!
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| Name: | mable collins nevils |
| E-mail address: | mablekc1@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | really enjoyed reading your memories,it took me back to my childhood years when my brothers and sisters played on the pine covered mountains of eastern ky.perry co.thanks for all the beautiful memories,would love to share family history sometime..email me God Bless mable |
| Name: | Betty Collins |
| E-mail address: | collins7829@comcast.net |
| Comments: | Your web site is wonderful. I am researching James Collins,b. abt. 1847 in TN and d. 1898 in Springfield,
Washington Co., Ky. He married Sarah Ellen Wall/Walls, b. abt 1847, d. 1893 in Ky. She was the daughter of Isaac Berryman Wall/Walls (went by Berryman) and Charity Shouse. Their marriage bond is 1864 in Graninger Co. TN., The Walls and James and Sarah moved to Ky about 1865. |
| Name: | TERESA SLONE |
| E-mail address: | pokeyreds@msn.com |
| Comments: | Thank you the research, I have alot of info on the Elijah Collins family from Morgan and Elliott Counties in Kentucky. I suspect he originated from Floyd Co., but have not been able to prove it. He is a difficult man to research. He is also listed as Mulatto, fpc and indian in the censuses. If you would like any of my info just e-mail me. |
| Name: | Cleland L. Thorpe |
| E-mail address: | cthorpeky@newwavecomm.net |
| Comments: | I always followed everything Brenda Collins Dillen posted. She was big on the Collins Research. My G-Grandmother was Icy Collins, a daughter of Martin and Elizabeth Collins and a G-G-Granddaughter of James and Lexy Collins.
Cleland Thorpe |
| Name: | Cleland L. Thorpe |
| E-mail address: | cthorpeky@newwavecomm.net |
| Comments: | I always followed everything Brenda Collins Dillen posted. She was big on the Collins Research. My G-Grandmother was Icy Collins, a daughter of Martin and Elizabeth Collins and a G-G-Granddaughter of James and Lexy Collins.
Cleland Thorpe |
| Name: | Shawn Loggins |
| E-mail address: | shawnloggins@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | Thompsey would be my great,great,great,great,great grandmother. She and David had many children, my lines continues through Solomon Collins, Tipton Collins, Lindsey Collins, and Nellie Collins. Do you have any heritage information about Thompsey and Native American Indian? Would love to find out more about the Poston or Posting side of my family.
Shawn |
| Name: | Martha Adams Meek |
| E-mail address: | mladams35@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Bless you, This was my home so many years ago. The land of our first memories will always be the homeland of our hearts.
The Gibsons/Gipsons are my family that is related to the Collins. Also the original settlers Anthony Hall, Patrick Johnson, John Wallis Bates, Sr. John Hobbs Adams. All these are my ancestors and Spencer Adams who was sheriff of all of eastern Kentucky when it was just called Floyd County was John Hobbs brother. |
| Name: | Jalyn |
| E-mail address: | jalyn@yahoo.com.br |
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| Name: | Caleb |
| E-mail address: | caleb@earthlink.net |
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| Name: | Scott Collins |
| E-mail address: | saponi360@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Marriage bond for David Collins and Thompsey Posting.
Know all men by the presents that we David Collins and Henry Zively (?) are held and firmly bound unto our Sovreign Lord the King and his Successors (?) in the Sum of five hundred pounds Proc. money for the True and faithful payment of which we bind our Selves our and each of our heirs Executors & Administrators jointly & Severally firmly by the Presents. Sealed with our Seals and delivered this 1st day of October Anno Dom. 1772. The condition of the above Obligation is Such; that Whereas the above bounden David Collins had the day of the date of these Presents, Obtained a License to be joined in Matrimony with Thompsey Posting now if there should not at any time appear any ------------ any Lawful Cause why the said David Collins & Thompson Posting should not be joined together in holy Matrimony agreeable to the Laws Respecting that Institution Then this Oblig. to be Void Otherwise to remain in full force & virtue. David (his mark) Collins seal Henry Zivley (?) seal ?Abe/ Alex Brown seal State of North Carolina, Rowan County I Louella M. Goodman, Deputy Register of Deeds for Rowan County, do hearby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of Marriage License recorded in this office in Book 20, Page 1943. Witness my hand and Official Seal, this 7th day of Sept. 1990 Jean K. Ramsey By: Louella Goodman ASST./DEPUTY REGISTER OF DEEDS Witness my hand and official seal 1990 sounds like this was transcribed by someone then to be put out for genealogists to have a copy of it and other interested people and a book is listed with a page number book 20 page 1943. This second document I think is it being transcribed and written up by this Jean K. Ramsey and Louella Goodman in 1990 I was told that a John Zivley from Rowan County, N.C. moved off to Tennessee. Also are there any other Brown family that connect up in our lines? Found Henry Zivley's marriage to Elenor Enochs 10 yrs. previous to David Collins 1750's which was in 1772. Henry Zivley/Zevly and Elenor Enochs marriage date 03 Apr 1762 Rowan County, N.C. County Court Record FHL # 0317002 and 0500949 - 0500957 Then their bond record. Henry Zivley/Zevly and Elenor Enochs bond date 03 Apr 1762, bond # 000130745, NOrth Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741 - 1868 image # 002445 Rowan County, N.C. record # 02 482, Bondsman: John Johnston; William Williams, Witness: Will Reed; John Brandon I am leaning more and more in the direction of thinking her last name was actually Poston and not Posting. For one there are no other Posting surnamed people in Rowan County, N.C. or any where else that I have looked. In Rowan County, N.C. I do find Poston families that interacted with the Brown and Zivley/Sivley families along with some others that interacted with the Collins families. The marriage bond of David Collins 1750 and Thompsey Posting shows that Henry Zivley and Abe/Alex Brown where on the bond. I have recently made myself aware of what these bonds where for and their nature. According to what I have read the persons on the bond tend to be related in some way to the bride. This would mean that Henry Zivley and Abe/Alex Brown where relations of Thompsey Posting or Poston. Unless of course its all coincidence I think the Poston families in Rowan where Thompsey's families. Strangly when looking for records in the Federal Census on Ancestry.com for N.C.,they only listed two for Poston in the 1790 Federal Census, they were Jerre Poston of Caswell County, N.C. and Danl Poston of Lincoln County, N.C. However, Abstract of North Carolina Wills page 279 shows a 1785 listing for John Poston with Mary, Jean, Margaret, Elizabeth, Robert, and John. This would have been after the 01 Oct. 1772 marriage bond for Thompsey Posting and David Collins. The other search I did was on Abe/Alex Brown and the Brown families. I did find an Alex Brown, but not an Abe Brown. Alex Brown is listed with his brother John Brown as merchants of Peterbourg Record Book Abstract 1792-1820 Person County, N.C. Compilations: Land Grants; 1794, 1805, and 1823 Tax Lists; Record Books Abstracts, 1792-1820; Letters of Attorney Pg.60 Caswell County N.C. Will Book, 1777-1843; 1784 Tax List; and Guardians'Accounts, 1794-1819 Pages 92,93,97,107,125,136 Page 136 Shows information on the Browns and an interesting John Collins, James Gibson, Dixons, and several others of import to the Collins lines. These pages also had Williams, Enochs and some of the others listed on the above posting. Then on page 137 of their records for Marriages of Rutherford County, N.C., 1779-1868 shows a marriage involving Mary Hardin and G.W. Smith 12 Nov 1859; Bondsman Drury Dobbins, and married 13 Nov 1859 by Robert Poston. Those pages I listed above had a lot of information on Poston, Brown, Rice, Johnston, etc.; the way it looks these particular families seemed to follow each other in the migration routes. So I'm thinking that is a fairly good sign post to follow looking for the connections. What is most needed is a document whether a will, census, or otherwise that shows Thompsey listed with a Poston family, the Browns, or the Zivley/Sivley's. On Zivley I had a lady named Janet tell me that a John Zivley went from Rowan County, N.C. to Tennessee and that fits some of our family groups migration routes. I need to check the Grainger County, TN area and surrounding counties to see if the Zivley/Sivley surname pops up there before the Collins move from N.C. to Ky thence to TN. Hope this is a good restart of looking more intently for our Thompsey. |
| Name: | Raven McMillian |
| E-mail address: | ravenmcmillian@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I'm a Collins & Bowling descendant - interested in your research - hope to hear from you |
| Name: | Annie Collins Storland |
| E-mail address: | lupielu3@aol.com |
| Comments: | Today after 30 years of research I talked to my first cousin once removed. I met him 46 years ago and we are reunited.
He knows that Griffin Collins III (1st wife Rachel Collins)and Margaret Milum Collins were his grandparents. They were my great grandparents. Griffin had at least 4 more children with his second wife. He talked about Uncle Sherman and Nelson. We are a part of your family and would love the opportunity to correspond. My brother just sent in his DNA test under the Collins DNA study. We should have the results in about a month. Please feel free to contact us. Again, we would love to hear from you. Annie from Minnesota lupielu3@aol.com |
| Name: | Sara |
| E-mail address: | michaelandsara@aol.com |
| Comments: | Is this family site still running? I cant get it. please help. I am part of this line. |
| Name: | edie moore |
| E-mail address: | emoore8565@bellsouth.net |
| Comments: | howdy,
glad i found this site. I am a Slone and a Thomas from Caney Creek Knott Co and I am a Moore and a Collins. Great site. see y'all edie moore Floyd Co, Ky |
| Name: | Deborah Sue Wood Sigrist |
| E-mail address: | debbiessigrist@msn.com |
| Comments: | I have at least 1 Collins in my family tree-a Calvin Collins who married Elizabeth Wilder in 1850.
My dad's family on both sides-Wood and Barger have deep roots in Kentucky/West Virginia. The Barger side also has many Bowlings. |
| Name: | naur collins |
| Comments: | i am apart of the collins family |
| Name: | carolyn barnett fyffe |
| E-mail address: | csbf1947@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | i found this site and it looks very nice. i thought i would sign and view your guest book first.thanks for all the dedication you havethat makes genealogysuch a delight for all of us searchers. |
| Name: | Loretta Nobert |
| E-mail address: | l-nobert@shaw.ca |
| Comments: | I have just begun my genealogy research. My grandfather was Willard Collins, son of Herman Ray Collins, son of Elijah, son of Isaac, who I believe was the son of Aaron, son of David & Thompsey...I am learning more every day and it is all so extremely interesting to me. I am very thankful for the work that you have done to date and look forward to learning so much more. Please e-mail if you wish to communicate with me at all. :) |
| Name: | LaCrecia Parks |
| E-mail address: | lacrecianp@yahoo.com |
| Name: | Debbie H. Miller |
| E-mail address: | debie51655@aol.com |
| Comments: | This has been very enlightening for me, it seems my Collins line connects to this Griffin Collins line but I have just started my Collins lines.You have a beautiful layout. Thank you for sharing your family history.
Debbie |
| Name: | mable colins |
| E-mail address: | mablekc@YAHOO.COM |
| Comments: | YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE TO YOUR FAMILY,LIKE YOU I'VE BEEN WORKING ON MY BRANCHES AND THEY DO TWIST AND TURN ALL AROUND,MY FAMILY IS FROM KRYPTON,KY. ROSCO AND DORA COLWELL COLLINS, |
| Name: | Barbara Thomas |
| E-mail address: | thomasbarb318@wmconnect.com |
| Comments: | Your front page is as far as I got so far--your story was beautiful, it is so sad for all the ones in Kentucky, Tennessee, etc. who had to give up their homes for progress--which made a few rich, but most families poorer, financially, that is. Your family may have not had alot of money, but you seem to be rich, am glad your Daddy's roses survived--some things are meant to be. Good site, thank you for all, Barbara |
| Name: | Kenneth Webb |
| E-mail address: | kennethwebb226@bellsouth.net |
| Comments: | Was hoping to find my greatgrandmother, Susan Bolin, her daug Rosa Lee Dockery married Clyde Collins . Susan was from Hancock Co Tn moved to Lee Co Va. I still enjoyed your site, and will add it to my favorites |
| Name: | pansy burchett baldridge |
| E-mail address: | mariebaldridge@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | i think this site is one of the most beautiful one;s i saw also the caring for your family is wonderful.
i also come from the very head of john;s creek.went to the ole one room school house estie mae well;s was my teacher,i do miss those days ,and the apple trees.i also knew your family. i hope you keep up your beatiful site. |
| Name: | Sharon Kearns Johnson |
| E-mail address: | sjohnson19@cox.net |
| Comments: | I was born in Appalachia, Virginia in 1946, and was raised on a hillside farm by my grandparents at Duffield, in Scott County, Virginia. I am currently working on a book about my family and childhood. I've enjoyed reading information on your website. |
| Name: | marie baldridge |
| E-mail address: | mariebaldridge@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | i love your site,visit often.
also knew uncle nelse,aunt gpsy collins on john;s creek where we all lived.i was a burchett lived i the very head of burchett branch,love ky and my mountain roots. keep up your wonderful site |
| Name: | Kermit Collins |
| E-mail address: | kclc@kconline.com |
| Comments: | Hi again all: I an an adopted Grand son of Nelson & Gypsy Ann Farmer Collins. I love this site and read it many times each year. I loved Maw & Paw Collins. They were two of the best people I have ever known.I also have known Frankie since she was an infant.I remember Great Grandfather & Great Grandmother William Sherman & Levisa Collins.I was very young-but can still remember them very clearly.They were good to all they came in contact with.Also loved by so many. God bless all who visit this site. You are privledged to have this site to enjoy. |
| Name: | Sheila Allen-Winterberg |
| E-mail address: | winterbergs@suddenlink.net |
| Comments: | Hi I have enjoyed the work of you and your friends, as well as learned a lot.
I am descended from John and Esther Neal Allen of Scott County VA.through their son James Allen. Esther had a daughter Nancy Jane (after John Allen died) who married James Collins the son of Allen and Biddy. They moved abt 1900 from Scott to Wise County where they both died. I have more on this family if you are interested to add to your collection. My grandpa's sister married a Collins also in Rockcastle County Ky that is from the Vardie Collins line. And for good measure.. I have " Bolin " blood myself. |
| Name: | Ann (Collins) Storland |
| E-mail address: | lupielu3@aol.com |
| Comments: | Just this month my sister and I think we have enough information on our grandfather, Charles Lewis Collins b 04 Mar 1880 to say that he was the son of Griffin (III) Collins and Margaret Milam Collins. So our line would be Griffin (III)> Griffin Jr > Griffin Sr.
Our Grandpa Charley had been our stumbling block since 1977. It has been a long road but we finally have had our breakthroughs in the last year. Glad to find your site. |
| Name: | Gillian Thorpe |
| E-mail address: | gillthorpe37@msn.com |
| Comments: | please help me to find my ancestors and heritage |
| Name: | jb francis |
| E-mail address: | jbfrancis6@aol.com |
| Comments: | I wan to come back soon. Thanks |
| Name: | JB Francis |
| E-mail address: | jbfrancis6@aol.com |
| Comments: | Happy am I to find folks who are interested in genealogy. Especially Appalachian Mountain Families.
JB Francis |
| Name: | Jeroma McIntosh-Miller |
| E-mail address: | grandmajay1@wmconnect.com |
| Comments: | I was raised in Weeksbury,Ky. until I was 12 and then moved to Indiana,I still visit my mom who still lives there, about twice a year.It is still home to me. |
| Name: | Lisa Smith |
| E-mail address: | dogloverlisathekid@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | This is a nice site. I just started searching my family tree, some of my family was from the appalachian mountain region. |
| Name: | Elaine Winkler |
| E-mail address: | mewinkler@adelphia.net |
| Comments: | Very nice website. Loved the flowers and stories. |
| Name: | Lisa Smith |
| E-mail address: | dogloverlisathekid@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I Like your site. I ahve family on my dad's side from the appalachian maountain area. |
| Name: | Roy L Chadwick |
| E-mail address: | chadwick011554@yahoo.com.au |
| Comments: | Boy sure miss those Mountians,and Streams.also trying to find any info my GGGmother Elender Choate/Shote brn abt 1801 Ky,and later was found in Warren/Hamilton Co Tn abt 1818. She was believed to be full blood Cherokee. I believe she went into Tn before the Massacre of Yahoo Falls in Wayne/Whitley Co Ky in the early 1800's.
Thanks Roy Chadwick,formerly of Harlan Co Ky. |
| Name: | Rhandi |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.hotcybernews.com/eotm/ |
| Comments: | Love this site man |
| Name: | Betty |
| E-mail address: | bgrinsell@excite.com |
| Comments: | A few years ago I was contacted by a Frankie Dillon from KY.
She had questions about my aunt Alphie Massengill, Scott co VA. My grandpa was Lee Massengill. He may be connected to Sarah Collins, not sure yet. |
| Name: | Patty Cline |
| E-mail address: | 3064@ccrtc.com |
| Comments: | Love this sight,I believe we come from the same wood pile. But like you said Collins are very hard to find. I sent you an Email, Hope to here from you. |
| Name: | Edna Belcher Bays |
| E-mail address: | lilbit53@earthlink.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.tribalpages.com |
| Comments: | Hi
i am trying to do a family tree for my husband his family came from Floyd county Ky i have done my on the Belchers I would like help on my husband side of the family here are some names I have hargus Porchman Joe M Bays |
| Name: | christine gibson randolph |
| E-mail address: | paulrandolph@2000@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I have really enjoyed visiting your website. I would like
to add a name to your Collins. I have documentation for my information. Also, I knew my grandfather Daniel Harrison Collins. Daniel was born 1889/90. I have found both on different documents. I have personal knowledge that Dan was my grandfather. Besides the children you have listed, he had a son named Farley Gibson. Dan and my grandmother,Nora Gibson, were never married. I don't know any details. I was aware of Sara Ann Collins, Dan's dau. I found the rest on a document from Carter's funeral home in Prestonsburg,Ky. This document gave his children's names and that of his parents. It listed William Sherman Collins and Louisa Bowling. As you know, Bowling is spelled many different ways. Does anyone out there have a photo of Daniel Harrison Collins ? I have one of him in his casket. It really is not very easy to tell anything about how he looks. This photo has my dad, Sarah Ann, and two other women I cannot identify. I will visit your website from time to time. But any info. will be appreciated. Also, does anyone have any knowledge of Jim Bob Gibson? His mother is supposed to be Dollie Gibson, father Daniel Bowling. Small world. I found a Dollie Gibson on a census age 46 and at another household, Jim Bob was 54. So unless there was a misprint of the ages, this Dollie could not have been Jim Bob's mother. |
| Name: | Janie Merida Watt |
| E-mail address: | jahewatt@aol.com |
| Comments: | Surnames I research are Merida/Merideth and various spellings; Moore, mostly found in Clay and Knox County Kentucky; first Merida ancestor born in Lee County Virignia.
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| Name: | Staci Collins |
| E-mail address: | staciandmatt@aol.com |
| Comments: | Fantastic website! I am related to you and this Collins line via: My father Joseph Leroy Collins> Joseph William Collins> Johnny Collins> David Collins> Enoch Collins> Griffin Collins Jr.> Griffin Collins Sr.> Lewis Collins. This is where I am at in my research. Enoch was born right after the twins in Griffin Jr.'s family. My grandfather was a very dark man. His mother was a Cherokee listed on the Dawes Roll and the more research I do I see the Melungeon and Indian mentioned hand in hand with the surname Collins. Especially from Floyd County, Kentucky, Virginia and North Carolina. I absolutely love your website and will be visiting it often.
Sincerely, Staci Collins |