Mitchell County GaArchives Obituaries.....William Bryant Collins Sr. ?
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Camilla Enterprise
Wm. B. Collins, Sr. Passes Monday
  William Bryant Collins, Sr., retired Mitchell County farmer and prominent and 
beloved citizen of  Flint community, died at his home Monday night at 8 o’clock 
after a days illness. Weakened with infirmities of old age, he had not been 
feeling well for some time but was able to attend services Sunday at Flint 
Baptist Church. During the day he became ill. News of his quiet passing brought 
sorrow to numerous friends throughout the county.
  Funeral services took place Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock at Bramlett 
Funeral Home.  Services were conducted by the Rev. Burt   Newsome, pastor of 
Flint Baptist Church.
  Pallbearers were C. S. Boynton, Flint; Jasper Groover, Americus; Robert G. 
Collins, Boston; Judson Hall, Albany; John Collins, Cotton and Jack Stratford, 
Albany.
Interment was in the family plot in Oakview cemetery.
  Mr. Collins was born March 24, 1871, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. 
Collins, at the old family home place at Flint where generations of the Collins 
family have lived for more than a hundred years and where he lived his entire 
life. A hard working farmer, loyal friend and neighbor, Mr. Collins will be 
remembered for his many fine rugged traits of character handed down by his 
forebears, pioneer settlers of this section. His wife the former Annie Laurie 
Calhoun, preceded him in death in March, 1947.
 Surviving are his two sons, W. B. Collins, Jr., and Lewis B. Collins, both of 
the Flint community and one daughter, Mrs. Ted Willis of Atlanta. His two 
sisters surviving are Mrs. S.C. Boynton, Flint and Mrs. Hattie Black, Long 
Beach, Calif. There are four grandchildren.


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