Calvin Dotson Collins, Rapides Parish Louisiana 
Submitted by: Houston Tracy Jr   

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Source: Biographical Sketch by Annie G. Parker   

CALVIN DOTSON COLLINS  
Calvin Dotson Collins was born at Covington, La. and was a brother to Eveline 
Lenora Collins Beeson. Calvin married Martha Jane Smith and they came to that 
part of Rapides Parish (in 1859), which is now Vernon Parish, La. from Pike 
County, Mississippi. [When did he go to Mississippi ? She does not include that 
data] He went back to Ms. to enlist in the Army for the American Civil War and 
was at Port Hudson with (his) other brothers. Martha died soon after he returned 
from the War. He remarried twice and moved onto Dyer's and Hemphill Creek, located 
eight miles from Boyce in Rapides Parish, La., where he died in 1902.