Hale County AlArchives Biographies.....Collins, Charles W, July 1 1830 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    CHARLES W. COLLINS, a most prominent and prosperous merchant of Hale county,
was born in Stafford county, Va., July 1, 1830. He is a son of Joseph Todd
Collins, who was a native of Caroline county, Va., in which he lived most of his
life and died. He was descended from an old Virginia family of Irish origin. He
was a planter by occupation. His wife was a Miss Susan Wood, also a native of
Caroline county, Va., and of English ancestry. They were the parents of four
sons and five daughters. Of these sons Charles W. Collins is the eldest. He was
given a fair literary education, and afterward learned the carriage maker's
trade. At this trade he, however, worked but a short time, and in the winter of
1851-52, he left the Old Dominion, and came to Alabama, where he joined an uncle
who had come to this state in 1836, and had settled in the cane brake region of
Hale, then Marengo county. That uncle was named John Collins, and was a native
of Caroline county, Va. He was one of the most successful farmers in the state,
and accumulated a large fortune. After a long and useful life, he died in 1867.
At his death Charles W. Collins became a legatee for a considerable portion of
his estate, other portions falling to the brothers of Charles W., Joseph Todd
Collins, J. W. Collins and R. W. Collins. The last two are representative
farmers and reputable citizens of Hale county, and of Joseph Todd Collins a
memoir appears elsewhere in this work. Charles W. Collins married in 1855, Miss
Cary T. Collins of Virginia, who died in 1865, leaving three children. In 1867
Mr. Collins married Miss Louisa Collins of Virginia, who died in 1872, leaving
two children. In 1874 Mr. Collins married Miss Hattie E. Allen, daughter of Rev.
W. L. Allen of Virginia, who has borne him five children. Mr. Collins and family
are members of the Baptist church. Before the war he was an old line Whig, but
since the war he has voted the democratic ticket. He has never sought political
office, preferring the life of a farmer and business man. His ambition in life
has been gratifying, for no other planter in the cane brake region has finer
lands and better cultivated fields than he.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1056-1057
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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