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Willis D. Collins (Bourbon County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace)

b. 1810-03-13 d. 1889

Bourbon County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace. Bourbon County, Kentucky, native. Son of Foster Collins and Elizabeth Matheny Collins. Married to Sally Ann Palmer Collins in Bourbon County, Kentucky, on October 2, 1834. Father of William L. Collins, Elizabeth Collins, and Lucinda J.H. Collins. Farmer in Bourbon County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Bourbon County in 1850. Farmer in Bourbon County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Bourbon County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Bourbon County in 1861.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 2, p. 156A-B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 2, p. 31.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 1, p. 530.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 1, p. 103B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bourbon County Marriages, Film 004542764.

"W D. Collins (1810-1889)," Find A Grave, Memorial 152821962, accessed October 7, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152821962.

Perrin, William Henry, ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky. (Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1882), 574.

KYR-0001-020-0740.

Citation

Collins, Willis D.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202142 (November 12, 2026).

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