City: Kenton
COLLINS, William Flowers, retired farmer, banker; born Marshall Co., Tenn., Oct. 8, 1834; Irish and Scotch descent; son of Elisha and Elizabeth (McGregor) Collins; father’s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents James and Martha (Vinson) Collins; maternal grandparents William and Sarah (Flowers) McGregor; received common school education; enlisted as private in Company “B,” Seventeenth Tenn. Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., May, 1861, served two years, returned home and organized company on own account and was first lieutenant of same, Company “H,” Fifty-third Tenn. Regiment; promoted Nov., 1862, to captain of his company, and served as same until close of war; captured at Ft. Donelson, Tenn., imprisoned at Camp Chase, later Johnson’s Island, about eleven months; in campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta; was in battles of New Hope Church, and Kennesaw Mountain, etc.; married Eudora O. Fisher, Nov. 26, 1866; member F. & A. M. Chapter No. 125; U. C. V. Camp Union City, Tenn.; Democrat; sheriff of Marshall Co., Tenn., 1860-1862; postmaster Kenton, Tenn. from 1893 to 1897 vice-president of Bank of Kenton, Tenn.; elder Presbyterian church, U.S.A., for thirty-six years.
