Lewis W. Collins lived in Yadkin where he e. at age 19 on 10-16-1861.P resent until captured at Warrenton, VA, on 9-29-1862. Paroled aboutsa me date. Reported AWOL on 10-1-1862. Returned to duty March-Apr.1863 . Captured at Falling Waters, MD on 7-14-1863. Sent toBaltimore, MD a nd confined at Elmira, NY on 8-18-1864. Released fromthere about 6-12 -1865, after taking the Oath of Allegiance. NCpension records indicat e he was wounded at Gettysburg, PA, on7-1-1863. (NCT X, 23)
8/6/1870 Edwards Twp, PO Elkin, Wilkes Co, NC was where the censustak er found Louis W Collins, age 35 with wife Sarah, 34, son WilliamR, 3, a nd Mary Hiat, 25, laborer. Louis was a farmer but had no realestate o r personal property,
1880 Where was this family that year?
6/11/1900 Elkin Twp, Surry Co, NC. Listed in that census were LewisW C ollins, 55, and wife Sallie, 65, both born in NC. They had beenmarrie d 34 years, she had birthed 3 children but all were deceased.Lewis was a f armer and owned the farm, free of mortgage. Next doorwas Thomas W Col lins, 66.
4/25/1910 Same place. Before the next census Lewis had lost hisfirst w ife and remarried a much younger woman and started a family.Recorded w ere Lewis W Collins, 68, married 7 years to Lizzie, 37, whohad birthed o nly one child, Montgomery, 6. Lewis was still farmingon his own farm. T he county was full of other Collins families.
He was 54 when he and Elizabeth married, making his birth year 1848
