MARSHALL COUNTY, TN - BIOGRAPHIES - Henry Collins
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HENRY COLLINS, one of the prosperous farmers of Marshall County, Tenn., was
born September 28, 1845.  His early education was wholly neglected, but he has
overcome this deficiency by study during his leisure moments, and now has a
fair general education.  In 1863 he volunteered in Forrest’s command Eleventh
Tennessee Cavalry and after serving two years and receiving a slight wound he
returned home and resumed farming.  In 1866 he wedded Fannie Collins, by whom
he had ten children, eight of whom are living.  He is a Democrat and owns a
330-acre farm, one of the best in the county.  He takes great pride in raising
fine Holstien cattle, and some of his animals are the best in the county.  His
parents, Henry and Nancy E. (Cunningham) Collins, had both been married
previous to their union.  The father was married to Fannie Martin, by whom he
had nine children, and the mother’s first husband was O. P. Sheppard, by whom
she had one child.  Our subject, Henry Collins, is the only child born to
their union.  The father was a native of North Carolina, and moved from there
to Georgia, thence to Tennessee in 1826.  He was a Democrat and farmer and
died in 1861, followed by his widow a year later.

Surnames: Collins, Cunningham, Martin, Sheppard
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."