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LOOKING FOR THE PARENTS OF THOMAS O. COLLINS b:MAY 1856 WHITLEY COUNTY, KY. AND d:SEPTEMBER 1911 WHITLEY COUNTY, KY.

1st Generation

1. Joel Walters was born 1836 in Wayne county, Kentucky and died April 1, 1890 in Corbin, Whitley county, Kentucky. He married 1st Rachel Durham August 18, 1856 in Williamsburg, Whitley county, Kentucky. She was born September 1836 in Kentucky and died 1863 in Williamsburg, Whitley county, Kentucky. He married 2nd Jane Wilson January 7, 1864 in Kentucky. She was born 1837 in Overton, Tennessee and died in unknown. He married 3rd Jane Bunch January 12, 1871 in unknown. She was born 1837 in unknown and died unknown in unknown.

Children of Joel Walters and Rachel Durham:
i.2. James Harvey Walters was born August 25, 1857 in Williamsburg, Whitley county, Kentucky and died October 15, 1937 in Thornton, Wyoming.
ii.3. Mary Elizabeth Walters was born 1858 in Whitley county, Kentucky and died December 6, 1910 in Whitley county, Kentucky.
iii. 4. John Walters was born 1861 in Whitley county, Kentucky and died in unknown.

Children of Joel Walters and Jane Wilson:
iv. Rachel Walters was born 1867.

2nd Generation (Children)

2. James Harvey Walters was born August 25, 1857 in Williamsburg, Whitley county, Kentucky and died October 15, 1937 in Thornton, Wyoming. He married Jenny Durham in unknown. She was born abt.1893 in Enid, Oklahoma and died in unknown.

Children of James Harvey Walters and Jenny Durham:
i. Alva Walters was born November 1889 in unknown and died in unknown.
ii. Alma Walters was born November 1889 in unknown and died 1974 in unknown.
iii. Loyld L. Walters was born June 4, 1892 in Mercer county, Missouri and died January 3, 1975 in Iola, Kansas.
iv.Winnie P. Walters was born 1893 in Mercer county, Missouri and died 1893 in Mercer county, Missouri.

3. Mary Elizabeth Walters was born 1858 in Whitley county, Kentucky and died December 6, 1910 in Whitley county, Kentucky. She married Thomas O. Collins March 21, 1878 in Williamsburg, Whitley county, Kentucky. He was born May 1856 in Kentucky and died September 1911 in Whitley county, Kentucky, son of Thomas Collins and Sarah 'Sally' Ann Eaton.

Children of Mary Elizabeth Walters and Thomas O. Collins:
i. Harvey Collins was born November 1884 in Whitley county, Kentucky.
ii. Daniel Collins was born April 1886.
iii.Rose 'Rosa' Collins was born July 1890 in Whitley county, Kentucky and died About 1841 in Whitley county, Kentucky.
iv. Anna May Collins was born October 1892 in Tennessee and died January 14, 1975 in Jellico, Campbell county, Tennessee.
v. Thomas 'Tom' Collins was born July 2, 1894 in Whitley county, Kentucky and died October 19, 1927 in Whitley county, Kentucky--Highland cemetery..
vi.Everett Collins was born 1899.

4. John Walters was born 1861 in Whitley county, Kentucky and died in unknown. He married unknown

NEED GENELOGY INFO ON HIS WIFE, CHILDREN, AND PARENTS.

Thomas Davis b:1760 in Fauquier county, Va. d: probably after 1842 in TN.
Applied for pension 11 Janurary 1833; Haywood county, N.C. aged 72 years old.
Pension # S1756

He volunteered and served under Capt. Coffin and Major Rowan, marched to Camden S.C. and then 96; was then placed under command of General Sumpter. was marched to Kings Mountain before the battle of that place. He was marched to South Carolina to Fish Dam Ford on Broad river and from there was in the battle of Blackstocks on Tiger river, where General Thomas Sumpter was wounded. Some time after that battle he was discharged as his term of service was expired.

In August 1781 he volunteered and served a second time under Capt. Alexander Gordon and was placed in a regiment commanded by Col. Francis Malvede, (a French officer) in the brigade of General Nathaniel Greene, Col. William Washington, & General Harry Lee, in the battle of Eutaw Springs. "We then took british prisoners to Bells Branch near Salisbury N.C. guarded them and I was then discharged November 1781".

William Davis(?brother) and Solomon Ray of Haywood county, N.C. testified that they knew him, and that he had fought in the Revolutionary war.

He lived in Wilks county, N.C., when he served in the Revolutionary war; after the war he moved from Wilks to Buncombe county, N.C. & lived there about ten years, then lived in Haywood county, N.C. where he filed for his pension in 1833. from there he immigrated to Morgan county, TN. where his family relations lived & requested that his pension be transferred from N.C. to TN.
(In his depostion for Mary (Davis)Duncan (?sister) applying for Benjamin Duncan's pension, it was indicated that he resided in Anderson county, TN.).

b: ca. 1829 Ky. Trying to find the parents of Thomas Collins.