tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79604973306058029492024-02-07T18:07:58.955-08:00Fortner and Collier AncestorsTake a journey with me though Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina tracing my AncestorsAncient Echoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08573143064657803581noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960497330605802949.post-23614875792754186232015-05-30T13:22:00.000-07:002015-05-30T13:22:30.668-07:00+George Washington Collier<span style="color: #45818e;">There are so many Collier people to write about, it took me a while to figure out who to write about next. So many of the Colliers were part of the founding of Atlanta, Georgia. 'So I decided to just write all the names on paper and draw from a box and George Washington Collier is who got picked.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #45818e;">George Washington Collier was born in Gwinnett, Georgia November 29, 1813 to Meredith Collier and Elizabeth Gray-Collier, his parents had 14 other children. His father bought some land in 1822 and built a small four room house. </span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"> Wash, as he was called, purchased the land from his father years later and built a new house on the site where the old home stood. One of his earlier jobs was carrying mail back and forth from Decatur, Georgia and Allatoona, Georgia. He made the mail carrying trip twice a week usually walking and never missing a trip.</span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #45818e;"> During the time when the railroad was expanding in the area, Wash was one of those that saw the opportunity to make a living as a builder, so he built small homes and sold them, he said he didn't make a lot of money but it was worth the time, and while building he still continued to deliver the mail. In 1845, he was appointed postmaster in Marthaville, GA,</span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"> Soon after he bought several pieces of property one for $130.00 which with all the other property he acquired amounted to a very profitable investment, which was the beginning of Atlanta's Five points.</span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;">His grocery store and Post office were in PeachTree.</span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #45818e;">In 1849 Collier who was a Democrat was replaced with a new postmaster by the new Whig administration, but he continued his grocery store on the site of what would be known as 25 Peachtree Street. He built the Hunnicutt Drug Store in 1859.</span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;">By the 1850 George and his siblings had established themselves very well in the community with Edwin Collier and Wesley Collier owing farms north of Peachtree Rd, John Collier a lawyer built himself a house at 47 Nelson St.</span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #45818e;">George married late in life, around 1870's he married:</span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"> Lesbia Ann Cornett born, 1856 Georgia - 1889 DeKalb, GA. </span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;">They had six living children and one child that died with the mother at birth, both child and mother are buried together.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span><span style="color: #45818e;">Their children were:</span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #45818e;">Virgil Collier, 1872- Atlanta Ga, - Oct 13, 1929 Atlanta, GA.</span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;">George Washington Collier Jr. Aug 1876 Atlanta Ga, - 1910 Atlanta GA.</span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;">Lula Valentine Collier - Feb 14, 1878 Georgia - March 30 1965 Fulton Georgia</span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;">Lemma Collier -1880-1880</span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;">Irwin Collier -1885- 1886</span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;">Roy Collier -1887- 1965</span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #45818e;">In 1892 along with owning Five Points and a general store, he also built the Aragon Hotel, at the Five points which had 125 rooms, six stories tall and cost $ 250.000, it was one of the three major first class hotels in the city located 169 Peachtree ST. NE, at the corner of Ellis St in Atlanta, what is today The Peachtree Center.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #45818e;"> Wash continued to farm and deal in real estate through his life. George Washington Collier died a millionaire in 1903.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I will probably write more about Wash as I continue my research.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br /></span>Ancient Echoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08573143064657803581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960497330605802949.post-33352718698258968832014-08-18T13:28:00.001-07:002014-08-18T13:40:57.611-07:00+James Wesley Brown<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">James Wesley Brown born Sept 29, 1829 Georgia, died Jan 24, 1896 McClardy, Blount County, Alabama.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He was married twice first to Sarah Barnett born January 30, 1823, Georgia and died Oct 22, 1878, Blount Co Alabama. They were married Jan 13, 1853 in Forsyth, Georgia.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next he was married to Mary Elizabeth Buckelew born Nov 9, 1840 Gwinnett Co Georgia and died July 24, 1905 Blount Co. Alabama. They were married in 1878. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">John Alvin Brown, 1854 GA- Feb. 15, 1936 Alabama</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Martha Ann Matilda Brown 1856-1945</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lewis Brown, 1859-?</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lucinda Carolina Brown, 1863-1932</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">James Cornelius Brown, 1865- 1903</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lexie A. Brown, 1880-1881</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">W. Samuel Brown, 1882-?</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eliza Eunetta Brown, April 23, 1884, 1972 Blount Co. Alabama</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would like to find out who James Wesley Brown's parents were, their names, place of birth and if they had any more children besides James. Also I'd like to know what happened to some of his children, if they married, died in war or were never married at all. The two photos of Martha and Mary Susan I know what happened to them and who they both married. Lucinda Carolina married Joseph G. Green in 1883 and had 9 children, she's buried in Bethel Cemetery in Alabama. I'll update as I find out any new information.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Ancient Echoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08573143064657803581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960497330605802949.post-92144216299909208202014-08-18T11:48:00.001-07:002014-08-18T11:48:48.647-07:00+Atlanta Georgia Colliers Part 1<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b> I was trying to decide who to write about for my next post when I came across some twin brothers on my husbands Collier side. Their story peaked my interest so I went to the internet to search for more information and discovered more than a handful of books written about these two brothers and their children. So this is what I found.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Merrell and Meredith Collier were born on May 10, 1782 in Randolph, North Carolina to John Jeremiah Collier and Sara Wood.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Nancy Collier b: 1783-1862</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Jessie Collier b: 1794-1870</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Thomas Collier b: 1798-1880</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>William Collier b: 1802-1850</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>John Collier b: 1805-?</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Joshua Collier b: 1808-1897</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>He was married to Patsy Burton on Sept 22, 1807 Jackson Co. Georgia, but she must have died because he's already married to Elizabeth Ward by Nov 20, 1813, Jackson Co. Georgia.</b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Meredith is living in DeKalb, Georgia and unfortunately he owns 2 slaves. Meredith and Elizabeth had 8 children:</b><br />
<strong><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Edwin Gartell Collier</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Nancy Collier</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Merrell Collier</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Sarah Ann Collier</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">George Washington Collier</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">John Collier</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Aaron Collier</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Emiline Collier</span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Merrell moved to Georgia about 1820 from what I've found so far he arrived with very little money to his person. Merrell raised one son and the rest girls. his daughter Laura married T.J. Flake, the other daughter Charlotte married Honorable Eli J. Hulsey his son Henry went to medical school and afterwards married and had two children. Merrell was justice of the peace for a while in Panthersville.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Meredith Collier was born on 10 May 1782, in Randolph County in the central piedmont of North Carolina.[1] On Christmas Day, 1806, Collier married Elizabeth Grey in Wilkes County, North Carolina, in the mountainous northwestern part of the state, and according to family tradition, the couple moved to Georgia a short time later. They settled first somewhere in northeast Georgia, probably in southwestern Jackson County, and it was there that the first seven of their fifteen children were born, including their fifth child, George Washington Collier, born 29 November 1813. In 1818, Gwinnett County was organized out of newly-ceded Indian lands west of the Appalachee River in northeast Georgia and may have encompassed the Colliers’ old homestead, since Gwinnett County incorporated part of the southwest side of original Jackson County. They cannot be located in the Second Federal Census in 1810, but when the Third Census was taken in 1820, Meredith Collier and his family, including seven-year-old George, were among the 4,500 white residents listed in Gwinnett County.[2]</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">There were already several thousand white settlers in residence in DeKalb County when it was formally organized in December 1822. Earlier that year, Joel Pritchet hired Meredith Collier, one of his neighbors in Gwinnett County, to help him move to a new house that he had built a couple of miles northwest of what would become downtown Atlanta. In doing so, Collier is reported to have liked what he saw of the new country, especially the land along Clear Creek in Land Lot 104 and soon himself decided to move. His son George remembered during the course of two newspaper interviews in 1896 and 1897 that his father “went to law over some land he owned there [in Gwinnett County] and finally grew tired of the worry.” As a result, “he made a trade with the fellow that owned it and it came around that we moved down here from Gwinnett County.” Any record of Collier’s purchase of Land Lot 104 was apparently destroyed in 1842 when the DeKalb County courthouse burned, but his son remembered that Meredith Collier built a house for his family “on the spot” where the present Collier-Bentley House now stands at the crest of a small hill above Clear Creek in Land Lot 104, 17th District. He also remembered that he and his younger brother John planted two walnuts behind the house in 1826, trees that survived until well into the twentieth century and were the progenitors of a second generation of walnut trees that is still present on the site.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">In the spring of 1823, the county’s Inferior Court justices began appointing men “to view and designate the different routes on which roads are intended to pass” through the county. Peachtree Road, which had been laid out in 1814 between Hog Mountain in northeastern Gwinnett County and Standing Peachtree, the site of an old Indian village on the Chattahoochee River at the mouth of Peachtree Creek, was one of the first roads formally designated, along with “the Shallowford road” that connected Decatur with “the Shallow Ford,” an important river crossing into Cherokee country, now submerged by the upper reaches of Bull Sluice Lake near present-day Roswell.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">In July 1823, the justices instructed Meredith Collier, Charles Harris, Joel Pritchett, Joseph Morris, and Naman Hardman to survey a road from Decatur to Standing Peachtree, the site of another important river crossing where another of Collier’s old Gwinnett County neighbors James McConnell Montgomery would open a ferry in 1837.[3] Although it is difficult to trace the entire route of this road today, it left the Shallowford Road (now Clairmont Road) north of Decatur and survives generally in the existing routes of North Decatur Road, Rock Springs Road in Morningside, and continuing along Montgomery Ferry Road through Piedmont Heights into Ansley Park. After crossing Clear Creek in Land Lot 104, the route of the road as it continued in a northwesterly direction has been obliterated by modern development but can be picked up again in Collier Road, which took its name from Meredith’s son Andrew Jackson Collier, and DeFoor’s Ferry Road, which was named for a subsequent ferry operator at Standing Peachtree.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Meredith Collier had probably already built his house when he helped lay out the road between Decatur and Standing Peachtree. He built at the crest of a small hill just a few hundred feet above Clear Creek and oriented his house toward the west and Peachtree Road, the original route of which apparently ran somewhat east of its present route.[4] According to legend and Collier’s reminiscences in 1896, Peachtree Road followed an old Indian trail in the vicinity of the Collier’s house and survived as the long drive to his house until the construction of Ansley Park in 1904 and, in Land Lot 104, until the construction of Sherwood Forest in 1949. The road from Decatur to Standing Peachtree ran just north of the house as it passed in a northwesterly direction through Land Lot 104.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Post offices were established at Standing Peachtree in 1823 and at Decatur in 1825, and as the county grew, a third post office, called Clear Creek, was established in November 1831. In July 1833, Meredith Collier succeeded Ulysses Montgomery as postmaster of the Clear Creek Post Office, which was apparently operated out of Collier’s house in Land Lot 104 until the post office was discontinued in February 1839. The position helped make Collier well-known, and in 1838 he was elected to the State House of Representatives, where he served two or three terms. He was also later elected to the State Senate and served as Justice of the Peace for a number of years.</span></span></span></div>
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<b>George Washington "Wash" Collier</b> (29 November 1813 – 20 June 1903) was one of the first recognised settlers in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Atlanta">Atlanta</a> area.</div>
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Wash Collier came to the Atlanta area when his father, Meredith Collier, purchased Land Lot 104 in 1822.<sup style="line-height: 1;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wash_Collier#cite_note-1" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank">[1]</a></sup> On that land Meredith Collier built a four room house. Wash Collier was one of 15 children and he purchased the house and land from his father. Around 1868, Wash Collier built on the site of his father's house a new house, which still stands today in what is now <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansley_Park" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Ansley Park">Ansley Park</a>.<sup style="line-height: 1;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wash_Collier#cite_note-2" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank">[2]</a></sup> He was the first postmaster in the area running mail from the fort at Standing Peachtree on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattahoochee_River" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Chattahoochee River">Chattahoochee River</a>. He held on to his undeveloped land lot 104 most of his life which left the northern part of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midtown_(Atlanta)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Midtown (Atlanta)">Midtown</a> in a rustic state.</div>
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In 1899 he gave an extensive interview to the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Journal" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Atlanta Journal">Atlanta Journal</a></i> which is an important primary source for the early history of the area.</div>
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Collier built and owned the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Aragon" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Hotel Aragon">Hotel Aragon</a>, one of the city's principal hotels.</div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 1) Wikipedia free encyclopedia on Wash Collier;</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">2) 1820 US Census from Ancestry.com</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">3) 1830 US Census from Ancestry.com</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">4) gmeaders from Ancestry.com</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">5) Atlanta Environs, A Chronicla of it's People & Events, 1820. - 1870 by Frankliin M Garrett</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">6) The Chinaberry Tree Chronicles ( A Collier Genealogy) an unpublished by Dwight A. Collier </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">7) DeKalb County Minutes of Inferior Court 1822-1842. </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">8) G.W. Collier House (c.1868) by Tommy H. Jones. </span></b></span>
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Ancient Echoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08573143064657803581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7960497330605802949.post-36392076474867933412014-02-15T16:07:00.001-08:002014-02-15T21:40:42.818-08:00+Hiram McDuffy Collier <span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b> The past few weeks have been very exciting, I've found more information on the Collier side plus an extra bonus, "Photos" Yea!!!!!!!!! . No longer do we have to wonder what Hiram looked like, and the icing on the cake, Photos of his wife, his brother, and his brother's wife. That was the "Jackpot" of finds. Thank you to a 3rd cousin of my husbands for sharing these photos on Ancestry.com site.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The brothers in the photo married the sisters in the photo. Hiram McDuffy Collier is my husbands gr grandfather.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Hiram McDuffy Collier b: Feb. 2, 1865 Marion Co. AL</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Parents: Joshua Collier and Rebecca Ann McClung</b></span><br />
<b style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The 1870 Census showing Hiram at age 4.</b><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Rebecca b: 1828 Georgia, she can read and write.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Joshua Collier b: 1808 N.C. cannot read or write</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Malinda F Collier b: 1859 Al</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Nancy C Collier b: 1862 Al</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Francis M. Collier b: 1863 Al</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>John Collier b: 1867 Al</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Mary E. Collier b: 1869 Al</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>In the 1880 Census:</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>It shows Joshua a Farmer</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Hiram : farmer</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>and Joshua and Rebecca have a new son named:</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Joseph b: 1871 Al</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>In the 1900 Census:</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Hiram has been married to Mary Susan Brown for 15 years. They married August 3, 1884 in Marshall, Alabama. They have seven children:</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Wesley J. b: May 1884 Al</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>John H. b: Sept 1886 Al</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Riley N. b: Nov 1888 Al</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>William P b: Mar 1890 Al</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>George T. b: Sept 1891 Al</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Susan C. b: Oct 1895 Al</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>James M. b: Oct 1899 Al</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Hiram is still a Farmer, Wesley is farming, and Riley is farming.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Neither Hiram or Mary Susan can read or write.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The 1910 Census:</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Hiram is 45 years old, he's still doing General Farming, Wesley and John have moved out living on their own.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>James McDuffy Collier my husband's grandfather is 10 years old.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>John Henry ( Sept 12, 1886 Marshall, Al, July 31, 1968, Blount, Alabama)</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Riley Nathan Collier ( Nov. 24, 1888 Alabama, May 15, 1970 Cullman, Alabama)</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>William Presley Collier ( Mar. 4, 1890, Marshall, Al, April 13, 1965 Loxley, Alabama)</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>George Tillman Collier ( Sept 30, 1891 Marshall, Al, Jan 25, 1943, Hattiesburg, Forrest, Mississippi)</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Susan Catherine Collier ( Oct 22, 1895 Marshall Al, Dec 30, 1945 Cullman, Alabama)</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>James McDuffy Collier ( Oct 5, 1899 Marion Co. Alabama, Feb 29, 1960, Cullman Alabama)</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b>Tennessee State Marriages 1780-2002, Ancestry.com</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b>Alabama Death's 1908-59, Ancestry.com</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b>Alabama Deaths & Burials Index 1816-1974, Ancestry.com</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Roxie Fortner Sailors on the back left..her name is mentioned as Rosie but my husband new her and she went by Roxie. also Monty which his full name was Montezuma Fortner and Martha Ann Fortner. What a nice surprise to find all of them. I have to say too that my husband I think really resembles his grandfather very much. They even have the same type mustache and hair and shape face. I could tell right away that they are related, no doubt.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>So then while researching I find another leaf moving so I check out that hint as well and there is Alice Emma Fortner in three photos another nice surprise.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Horace Timothy b: 1912-1970</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Raymond Wilson b: 1914-1994</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Marvin Austin b: 1920-1981</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Miriam Lovina b: 1920-1985</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Enola Mae b: 1923-1923</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b> From what I know the family has roots in Germany, Ireland, Prussia, as well as South Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, Georgia and I'm sure other places that we haven't discovered yet.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>The Fortner side has been the most difficult to trace back, there is a story that was told about how the Fortner's arrived in the America's. Apparently there were 7 brothers that came over from Germany, when they arrived in America, they split up each going their own way, some stayed north, others migrated to South Carolina and on down to Georgia and Alabama, also the story goes that one brother went to Texas. I find a lot of Fortner people in all these states but so far I haven't been able to verify that any of the this story is true, or how far back this event took place.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Rebecca Rothchild married William Collier, they lived in Scotland after both of their families pretty much disowned them because Rebecca is Jewish and William is Episcopalian. They eventually moved to North Carolina settled there and their families moved to Alabama.</b></span><div>
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>One other story is that some of the Collier side is also Redbone Irish and or Scotch Irish so I can see more research in my future.</b></span><div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>I'm going to try and follow the families, and record their places of birth, death, marriages, arrival's in America, occupations and tell some stories that were told to me about the families.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Hopefully some one that knows more about this family will read this and add or correct any information that I have acquired so far and share photos as well.</b></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Isaak Stiebel, Langenschuarz Jewish Cemetery ,<br />Germany</td></tr>
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