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COLLINS, William Flowers, <\/strong>retired farmer, banker; born Marshall Co., Tenn., Oct. 8, 1834; Irish and Scotch descent; son of Elisha <\/strong>and Elizabeth (McGregor) COLLINS;<\/strong> father\u2019s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents James<\/strong> and Martha (Vinson) COLLINS<\/strong>; maternal grandparents William<\/strong> and Sarah (Flowers) McGREGOR<\/strong>; received common school education; enlisted as private in Company \u201cB,\u201d 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 \u201cH,\u201d 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\u2019s Island, about eleven months; in campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta; was in battles of New Hope Church, and Kennesaw Mountain,\u00a0 etc.; married Eudora O. FISHER<\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City:\u00a0 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\u2019s 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 \u201cB,\u201d Seventeenth Tenn. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,613,809,4407,4419],"tags":[942,231,1508,1481,2230],"class_list":{"0":"post-4950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-gibson","7":"category-marshall","8":"category-obion","9":"category-surname-c","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-collins","12":"tag-fisher","13":"tag-flowers","14":"tag-mcgregor","15":"tag-vinson","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14907,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions\/14907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}