Milton County GaArchives Photo Tombstone.....McCollum, William
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Wally McCollum mccollumw@comcast.net January 2006

Cemetery:           Providence Baptist Cemetery
Name:               William McCollum


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WILLIAM MCCULLOM 
 
Tombstone of William "Billy" McCollum in the cemetery of the 
Providence Baptist Church near Alpharetta in Milton County, Georgia. 
Billy was the eldest son of Daniel McCollum 
(1760-1850). 

Billy served in the War of 1812 in Captain Benjamin Goss's company of 
Colonel Austin's regiment of the South Carolina militia.  He enlisted on February 1, 1815 and was 
discharged on March 24, 1815 eight days short of the 60 days needed to qualify for a pension. 
His application was rejected for this reason.  His place of enlistment was Pendleton 
District South Carolina and his place of discharge was Sister's Ferry in that district. 
He filed his application in 1871 from Milton County, Georgia where he said he lived five miles north of 
Alpharetta.  The document indicated that he married Susannah Miller on or about 
June 10, 1810 in Pendleton County South Carolina. 

Susannah is buried in the Old Blue Creek Baptist 
Chruch Cemetery in White County, Georgia beside her father-in-law, Daniel. 

Billy married his second wife, Esther Edwards, in 1826. 
Esther is buried beside him at Providence.