Marty and Karla Grant

!BIRTH:From Collins family bible;

!NAMED-EQUITY ROLL (no number, page 16 in published Rolls)
Jan 1839 Henry L. Williams et al vs. Silas Rogers et al
Wm S. Rogers Sr decd ... married and had two legitimate children, separated from wife in 1807, and about 1810 began to live with Elizabeth Cook. Three children born Frances C. M., Nancy S. E. and Wm S. Cook alias Rogers whom he acknowledged as his children.
... in 1819 by the death of his father in Alabama, Wm S. Rogers Senr inherited two slaves Diomede and PEter. Wm S. Rogers was a Cooper ...
... On 27 May 1829 the decd deeded his oldest lawful child Eliza M. (now Mrs. Darnell), the slave Peter. S: Eliza M. Rogers. W: Silas Rogers, Thomas Davis, G. D. Williams.
... other lawful child Mary Rogers ...;




!CENSUS:1870 Marion Co, SC Legette # 68 Frances C.M. COLLINS, 54 (1815/16) born SC;

!CENSUS:1880 Marion Co, SC Legette # 291
Ben F. COLLINS, 30 married (no wife listed)
Matilda, 60, Grandmother, widowed
Emily McRae, 30 cousin, single
Elwood, 2, cousin;

!TOMBSTONE:Ariel Baptist Cem, "Matilda Davis Collins ? - May 10, 1898";