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Joseph Walter Collins

Also Known As: "Walter"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Wake, NC, United States
Death: February 18, 1897 (37)
Wake, North Carolina, United States (pneumonia)
Place of Burial: Holly Springs, Wake, North Carolina, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Isham Henry Collins and Mary Ann Collins
Husband of Texanna Ora Alice Collins
Father of Martin Henry Collins; Roger F Collins; Delcie Leora Mims and Colonel Hubert Walter Collins
Brother of Charles Hilliard Collins and Artelia Corinna Boothe

Occupation: farmer
Managed by: Douglas Markham
Last Updated:

About Walter Collins

A J. Walter Collins was a large landowner, 389 1/2 acres in Holly Springs township and a J. W. Collins owned 65 acres in Buckhorn township. Both took their mail at Enno post office, so may be same person. Branson's Directory of Raleigh with Wake County Farmers, 1891

A Joseph Walter Collins, b. Aug. 2, 1859 and d. Feb. 18, 1897 is buried in same cemetery with others of this family and is likely person.

Lots of Joseph Collins in old land records, including a 1902 church trustee, 1914 bought a city lot while single, 1934 Joseph Wilber Collins unmarried.

Another 1933 Joseph W. Colllins, living in Baltimore MD with Sidney Wade Collins transfers land in Wake co. to Mattie A. Collins, which adjoins an Alford owner, and is described as the old J. J. Jones tract, and later the W. L. H. Alford tract, about 50.7 acres.

There is a Mattie b. 1882 who married JD Collins in Holly Springs b. 1872, and had children including Wilber and Wade. from the 1910, 1920 censuses.

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Walter Collins's Timeline

1859
August 2, 1859
Wake, NC, United States
1882
October 1, 1882
1884
1884
1887
March 29, 1887
Wake County, North Carolina, United States
1892
January 28, 1892
Holly Springs, Wake County, North Carolina, United States
1897
February 18, 1897
Age 37
Wake, North Carolina, United States
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Holly Springs, Wake, North Carolina, United States