A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Elizabeth Blaylock
From Find A Grave (listing for William Winwright Collins):
Notes for ELIZABETH BLAYLOCK:
Source: The Journal of Benjamin Franklin Blaylock, (1853 - 1929), Grandson of William Winwright Collins and Elizabeth Blaylock and son of William Mason Blaylock and Elizabeth Collins. (Family History Library US/CAN Film # 176578).
The Journal tells of Elizabeth Blaylock - Collins leaving their Plantation on the Tombigbee River, Greene County, Alabama (now Hale County) on October 16, 1838, after the death of her husband William Winwright Collins. The family moved to (then) Choctaw County, Mississippi, to a large tract of land (one mile east of Lodi, Mississippi), which was acquired before the death of her husband. Elizabeth Blaylock - Collins died on December 11, 1840, two years after leaving Alabama, leaving a 9 year old daughter, Elizabeth Collins, born September 7,1831, in Greene County, Alabama, without parents and she was raised by her sister, Mary Collins who was married to Richard Blaylock.
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