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Title |
Collins-Wilson Photograph Collection |
Collection |
Collins-Wilson Photograph Collection |
Catalog Number |
013PC4 |
Date |
ca. 1856-2013 |
Location |
Kentucky |
Description |
This collection is compiled of late 19th and early 20th century photographs of various formats documenting the Collins family of Kentucky, with only one photograph from the Wilson family (013PC4.70). The collection also includes some more recent photographs taken of ancestral family homes and gravestones, which were photographed by the descendants of the families in the early 2000s. There is a familial relation between the Collins and Wilson families, but it is unclear when it occurs. William Smith Collins (1810-1885) and Mary Ann Bronston (1817-1884) raised a family of five children in Madison County, KY. During the Civil War two of their sons, Joseph (1840-1918) and Thomas Bronston (1842-1869) joined the Confederate army as members of the 11th Kentucky Cavalry of Gen. John Hunt Morgan's command. William was arrested by Union authorities for his Southern sympathies and was confined in Camp Chase, Ohio in 1862. Following the capture of Morgan and most of his men during the disastrous Ohio Raid of 1863, Capt. Thomas B. Collins served with mounted forces in the Confederate Army of Tennessee. Capt. Collins rejoined Morgan's command in early 1864 after the noted raider's escape from a Union military prison. Cut off from his unit during Morgan's Last Kentucky Raid in June 1864 Collins made his way to Canada and participated in Confederate secret service operations until the end of the war. He was among the Confederate partisans who raided St. Albans, VT on October 19, 1864. He went into exile in France after the war and died of tuberculosis in Paris in 1869. After the war Joseph married Carrie Lee Embry (1848-1875), the daughter of Jacob and Caroline Embry, and raised a family in Madison County, KY. They had a son in 1870 and named him Thomas Collins in honor of his late uncle. One of the younger sons of William Collins and Mary Bronston was Jacob Collins, born around 1858. He married Kate Marshall in 1886, and they had a son named Marshall Collins, who would enroll in the Naval Academy in 1904 and had a lifelong military career, eventually earning the rank of Commander. In 1943 he married Katherine Abbey, and they lived out their lives in Richmond, KY. The couple had one son, Cutler Goodrich Collins (1917-1990), who married Betsy Fawler in 1943. As for the Wilson family, Capt. John Wilson (1822-1896) was the son of Ebenezer and Rody (Dillingham) Wilson. He married Sarah Bowman (1826-1900) and they raised a family in Estill County, KY. Capt. Wilson fought for the Union as a member of the 8th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and he notably planted the Union flag on Lookout Mountain during the Civil War battle on November 25, 1863. He passed away in 1896 of cancer, and was buried with Masonic honors. Folder Listing: Folder 1: 013PC4.01 - Tintype of William Smith Collins Folder 2: 013PC4.02-.09 - Photographs of the family of Joseph Collins, the eldest son of William, including his wife Carrie Embry and their son Thomas Bronston Folder 3: 013PC4.10-.14 - Photographs of Captain Thomas Bronston Collins, the brother of Joseph. Folder 4: 013PC4.15-.25 - Photographs of the family of Marshall Collins, the son of Kate Collins, the younger sister of Joseph and Captain Thomas. This folder also includes images of himself, his mother Kate, his son Cutler, and his daughter-in-law Betsy Fowler. Folder 5: 013PC4.26-.34 - Photographs of the headstone of Lucy Ann Collins, the youngest child of William Smith Collins. This folder also includes images before and after the gravesite was vandalized in 2010. Folder 6: 013PC4.35-.69 - Photographs of the home of William Smith and Mary Ann Bronston [441 N Madison Ave Richmond, KY] Folder 7: 013PC4.70-.77 - Photographs of the home of Captain John Wilson and Sarah Bowman [Station Camp, Estill County, KY], as well as a photograph of John Wilson and other members of the 8th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment hoisting the Union flag over the Battle of Lookout Mountain (013PC4.77). Select images digitized: 013PC4.01 - William Smith Collins 013PC4.06 - Joseph Collins 013PC4.08 - Carrie Embry Collins 013PC4.09 - Thomas Bronston Collins (son of Joseph and Carrie) 013PC4.11 - Captain Thomas Bronston Collins 013PC4.18 - Marshall Collins during his years in the Naval Academy 013PC4.24 - Cutler Collins as a boy, riding a horse 013PC4.27 - The gravestone of Lucy Ann Collins and her friend Nannie 013PC4.35 - Frontal view of the home of William Smith Collins and Mary Ann Bronston 013PC4.70 - Captain John Wilson and the 8th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry atop Lookout Mountain. 013PC4.71 - View of the home of Captain John Wilson and Sarah Bowman |
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American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) Battles Confederate States of America. Army Mountains Nineteenth century Twentieth century Twenty-first century Uniforms United States - Confederate States of America United States. Army United States. Navy |