William Enoch Collins 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 25 Feb 1869 - Rhea Co., Tennessee
    Christening: 
          Death: 5 Jan 1956 -  ( at age 86) 2
         Burial: in Carey, Childress Co., Texas
 Cause of Death:
Parents 
         Father: Bluford M. Collins (1837-      )
         Mother: Eliza A. Miller (1842-      )
Spouses and Children 
1. *Alice A. Shaver (2 Oct 1871 -       ) 1 
       Marriage: 1 Nov 1891 - Rhea Co., Tennessee 1
       Children:
                1. Clara B. Collins (1893-      )
                2. Rosa E. Collins (1895-      )
                3. Ova Lee Collins (1898-      )
                4. Anna Collins (1900-      )
                5. John Miller Collins (1902-      )
                6. James B. Collins (1905-1992)
                7. Celia Pauline Collins (1907-      )
                8. Ralph Shaver Collins (1910-      )
Notes
General:
The following is from an article by Linda Shaver Hinds on page 204 in History of Rhea County, Tennessee:

Alice (Shaver) Collins passed away before William moved their family to Memphis, Hall County, Texas. He married a second time to Martha Sarah McDonald and their children were William Thomas (born September 2, 1917) and Velma.

OBITUARY:

Find-a-Grave Memorial # 17376698:

Published in The Memphis Democrat, Volume LXV, Number 33, Memphis, Hall County, Texas, Thursday Afternoon, January 12, 1956, Page 1,8)

William E. Collins Dies in Childress Thursday Night

Funeral services for William Enoch Collins of Childress were held in the First Baptist Church in Carey at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon. Rev. Jess Terry of Dora, M., Baptist minister, Rev. George Clark, pastor of the Carey Baptist Church and Rev. Robert Knight, pastor of the Methodist Church at Tell, officiated.
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Sources

1 Bettye J. Broyles, History of Rhea County, Tennessee, Rhea Co. Historical & Genealogical Society, 1991, pg 204. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.

2 "Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 17376698.

3 Social Security Death Index, Repository: http://www.ancestry.com.

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