Daughter of Joel Estes and Sarah Langhorne Bates, both of Virginia and Tennessee.
She married William Blount Collins in Brownsville, Haywood Co., Tennessee February 7, 1833 (source, book "Cary-Estes Genealogy" by May Folk Webb and Patrick Mann Estes, 1939, p. 169).
William and Eliza had seven known children. The first three were born when they lived in Haywood Co., Tennessee: Shadrack Joel Collins, William Cary (or Carey) Collins, and Moreau Pinckney Collins. The last four were born when the family lived in Ouachita Co., Arkansas: Sarah Belle (or Bell) Collins, Virginia Allie Collins, Cornelia Estes Collins, and Ann Eliza Blount Collins.
By the 1860 census, the family was living in Orange Co., Texas, and by 1870 in Houston Co., Texas. William, a physician, died in 1873 and is buried in Houston Co., in a cemetery on private property. Eliza died in 1896 in Chester, Tyler Co., where she is buried.
Her obituary from The Crockett Courier, Crockett, Houston Co., Texas (on microfilm and computer file at the Crockett public library) Friday, November 27, 1896:
"Mrs. Eliza J. Collins
"The above named sister, mother of Dr. S.J. Collins of this county, died at Chester, Tyler county, Tex., Nov. 3rd [1896]. She was born in Virginia, and had nearly reached her 81st year. She was the honored mother of a number of children (having one son in the ministry of the Methodist church), and left a large number of grand children and great grand children. A large part of her life was spent in this county, residing many years on Nevil's Prairie [Houston Co.], with her son-in-law Rev. George Stewart. She made many friends in that community and in other communities where she had lived. In early life she became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church South, and continued to live in exemplary piety to the end. She was particularly conspicuous for wearing that ornament that the inspired writer speaks of, "a meek and quiet spirit." Even in her old age the writer has often known her to walk a mile to attend preaching. She seemed to esteem it a privilege to be found in the house of the Lord and to take part in His worship. Her pleasant countenance, her regular presence at church seemed to imply that like David, she esteemed one day in the courts of the Lord "better than a thousand" other days, and that she would "rather be a door-keeper in the house of God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." She being dead yet speaketh, and her works do follow her.
"Friend"
(Note, her headstone says she died in 1898 but her obituary indicates it was 1896.)
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US Census sources:
1850 - Jefferson, Ouachita Co., Arkansas
1860 - Orange, Orange Co., Texas
1870 - Houston Co., Texas
1880 - Tyler Co., Texas
(Memorial updated 05.08.2013 jm)
She married William Blount Collins in Brownsville, Haywood Co., Tennessee February 7, 1833 (source, book "Cary-Estes Genealogy" by May Folk Webb and Patrick Mann Estes, 1939, p. 169).
William and Eliza had seven known children. The first three were born when they lived in Haywood Co., Tennessee: Shadrack Joel Collins, William Cary (or Carey) Collins, and Moreau Pinckney Collins. The last four were born when the family lived in Ouachita Co., Arkansas: Sarah Belle (or Bell) Collins, Virginia Allie Collins, Cornelia Estes Collins, and Ann Eliza Blount Collins.
By the 1860 census, the family was living in Orange Co., Texas, and by 1870 in Houston Co., Texas. William, a physician, died in 1873 and is buried in Houston Co., in a cemetery on private property. Eliza died in 1896 in Chester, Tyler Co., where she is buried.
Her obituary from The Crockett Courier, Crockett, Houston Co., Texas (on microfilm and computer file at the Crockett public library) Friday, November 27, 1896:
"Mrs. Eliza J. Collins
"The above named sister, mother of Dr. S.J. Collins of this county, died at Chester, Tyler county, Tex., Nov. 3rd [1896]. She was born in Virginia, and had nearly reached her 81st year. She was the honored mother of a number of children (having one son in the ministry of the Methodist church), and left a large number of grand children and great grand children. A large part of her life was spent in this county, residing many years on Nevil's Prairie [Houston Co.], with her son-in-law Rev. George Stewart. She made many friends in that community and in other communities where she had lived. In early life she became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church South, and continued to live in exemplary piety to the end. She was particularly conspicuous for wearing that ornament that the inspired writer speaks of, "a meek and quiet spirit." Even in her old age the writer has often known her to walk a mile to attend preaching. She seemed to esteem it a privilege to be found in the house of the Lord and to take part in His worship. Her pleasant countenance, her regular presence at church seemed to imply that like David, she esteemed one day in the courts of the Lord "better than a thousand" other days, and that she would "rather be a door-keeper in the house of God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." She being dead yet speaketh, and her works do follow her.
"Friend"
(Note, her headstone says she died in 1898 but her obituary indicates it was 1896.)
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US Census sources:
1850 - Jefferson, Ouachita Co., Arkansas
1860 - Orange, Orange Co., Texas
1870 - Houston Co., Texas
1880 - Tyler Co., Texas
(Memorial updated 05.08.2013 jm)
Daughter of Joel Estes and Sarah Langhorne Bates, both of Virginia and Tennessee.
She married William Blount Collins in Brownsville, Haywood Co., Tennessee February 7, 1833 (source, book "Cary-Estes Genealogy" by May Folk Webb and Patrick Mann Estes, 1939, p. 169).
William and Eliza had seven known children. The first three were born when they lived in Haywood Co., Tennessee: Shadrack Joel Collins, William Cary (or Carey) Collins, and Moreau Pinckney Collins. The last four were born when the family lived in Ouachita Co., Arkansas: Sarah Belle (or Bell) Collins, Virginia Allie Collins, Cornelia Estes Collins, and Ann Eliza Blount Collins.
By the 1860 census, the family was living in Orange Co., Texas, and by 1870 in Houston Co., Texas. William, a physician, died in 1873 and is buried in Houston Co., in a cemetery on private property. Eliza died in 1896 in Chester, Tyler Co., where she is buried.
Her obituary from The Crockett Courier, Crockett, Houston Co., Texas (on microfilm and computer file at the Crockett public library) Friday, November 27, 1896:
"Mrs. Eliza J. Collins
"The above named sister, mother of Dr. S.J. Collins of this county, died at Chester, Tyler county, Tex., Nov. 3rd [1896]. She was born in Virginia, and had nearly reached her 81st year. She was the honored mother of a number of children (having one son in the ministry of the Methodist church), and left a large number of grand children and great grand children. A large part of her life was spent in this county, residing many years on Nevil's Prairie [Houston Co.], with her son-in-law Rev. George Stewart. She made many friends in that community and in other communities where she had lived. In early life she became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church South, and continued to live in exemplary piety to the end. She was particularly conspicuous for wearing that ornament that the inspired writer speaks of, "a meek and quiet spirit." Even in her old age the writer has often known her to walk a mile to attend preaching. She seemed to esteem it a privilege to be found in the house of the Lord and to take part in His worship. Her pleasant countenance, her regular presence at church seemed to imply that like David, she esteemed one day in the courts of the Lord "better than a thousand" other days, and that she would "rather be a door-keeper in the house of God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." She being dead yet speaketh, and her works do follow her.
"Friend"
(Note, her headstone says she died in 1898 but her obituary indicates it was 1896.)
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US Census sources:
1850 - Jefferson, Ouachita Co., Arkansas
1860 - Orange, Orange Co., Texas
1870 - Houston Co., Texas
1880 - Tyler Co., Texas
(Memorial updated 05.08.2013 jm)
She married William Blount Collins in Brownsville, Haywood Co., Tennessee February 7, 1833 (source, book "Cary-Estes Genealogy" by May Folk Webb and Patrick Mann Estes, 1939, p. 169).
William and Eliza had seven known children. The first three were born when they lived in Haywood Co., Tennessee: Shadrack Joel Collins, William Cary (or Carey) Collins, and Moreau Pinckney Collins. The last four were born when the family lived in Ouachita Co., Arkansas: Sarah Belle (or Bell) Collins, Virginia Allie Collins, Cornelia Estes Collins, and Ann Eliza Blount Collins.
By the 1860 census, the family was living in Orange Co., Texas, and by 1870 in Houston Co., Texas. William, a physician, died in 1873 and is buried in Houston Co., in a cemetery on private property. Eliza died in 1896 in Chester, Tyler Co., where she is buried.
Her obituary from The Crockett Courier, Crockett, Houston Co., Texas (on microfilm and computer file at the Crockett public library) Friday, November 27, 1896:
"Mrs. Eliza J. Collins
"The above named sister, mother of Dr. S.J. Collins of this county, died at Chester, Tyler county, Tex., Nov. 3rd [1896]. She was born in Virginia, and had nearly reached her 81st year. She was the honored mother of a number of children (having one son in the ministry of the Methodist church), and left a large number of grand children and great grand children. A large part of her life was spent in this county, residing many years on Nevil's Prairie [Houston Co.], with her son-in-law Rev. George Stewart. She made many friends in that community and in other communities where she had lived. In early life she became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church South, and continued to live in exemplary piety to the end. She was particularly conspicuous for wearing that ornament that the inspired writer speaks of, "a meek and quiet spirit." Even in her old age the writer has often known her to walk a mile to attend preaching. She seemed to esteem it a privilege to be found in the house of the Lord and to take part in His worship. Her pleasant countenance, her regular presence at church seemed to imply that like David, she esteemed one day in the courts of the Lord "better than a thousand" other days, and that she would "rather be a door-keeper in the house of God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." She being dead yet speaketh, and her works do follow her.
"Friend"
(Note, her headstone says she died in 1898 but her obituary indicates it was 1896.)
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US Census sources:
1850 - Jefferson, Ouachita Co., Arkansas
1860 - Orange, Orange Co., Texas
1870 - Houston Co., Texas
1880 - Tyler Co., Texas
(Memorial updated 05.08.2013 jm)
