Mary Collier

MARY DECENDED FROM ONE OF THE EARLY PIONEER & EUROPEAN CATHOLIC FAMILIES OF TEXAS WHO ARRIVED IN TX IN 1826. HER PARENTS WERE: BENJAMIN BRYANT BURCH & MARY CARSON (DAVISON) BURCH OF MOSCOW & LIVINGSTON TX. SHE HAD 2 SISTERS OLIVE MARTHA BURCH,& RUTH BURCH (DIED AT 2) AND TWO BROTHERS BENJAMIN BRYANT BURCH JR, & COL. GEORGE DAVISON BURCH. SHE GREW UP IN CORRIGAN TX. SHE MARRIED SELMA LOIS COLLIER IN DEC 21 1919 IN YOAKUM TX. SHE HAD 1 CHILD MARY VIRGINIA COLLIER(MOORE). HER GREAT GRANDFATHER JAMES BURCH FOUGHT AT THE BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO. THE BURCHS MOVED TO NACOGDOCHES TX IN 1826. HER PARENTS DIED OF SCARLET FEVER WHEN SHE WAS 12, THEN MARY WITH BROTHERS AND HER SISTER MOVED TO YOAKUM TO LIVE WITH HER MOTHERS SISTER,KATE DAVISON BILBRO AND HUSBAND JOSEPH AND THEIR KIDS JOSEPH JR , MARY ESTHER. WITHIN THE NEXT TEN YEARS, HER SISTER OLIVE BROTHER BEN AND HER COUSINS MARY ESTHER AND JOSEPH DIED OF TB. MARY ATTENDED CATHOLIC SCHOOL & CHURCH GROWING UP. LATER SHE JOINED THE METHODIST CHURCH IN SILSBEE TX..