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letter to Belle about coming to Manquin for Ralph's birth
#208 Jan 19th (1907)
Dear Belle,
Enclosed please find two small pieces of linen all I could find. You might need it before I could get there. Forgot to say in my last letter that I…

1883.12.01 or so 209 ltr from Ma to Martha maybe - written with left hand.pdf
written with left hand
Saturday
Dear Martha or Mother??
Been waiting for pa to visit, but he seems to be busy all the time. My thumb was working Monday & until 3 next day, but....

1889.02.18 no 21 original ltr frm W Georg to Hugh MacHatton.pdf
#21 W Georg (unknown written to Hugh MacHatton) 02.18.1889
My dear old Friend and brother
Seated at last to hold a long chat with you dear old friend of former years.

1898.09.23 211 Original 50th Wedding Anniversary Sam Collins and Jane Taylor.pdf
Invitation to 50th Wedding Anniversary of Rev. Samuel Collins, D.D. and Jane L. Taylor married in 1848.
Parents of Lizzie Collins (MacHatton)

1817  no.212  Biographies Hugh MacHatton p1.pdf
#212 Elizabeth MacHatton, daughter of Joseph Alexander and Lucretia Anne (Maxwell) MacHatton. The MacHattons, a Scotch family whose know lineage dates back t the early fourteenth century, came to America long before the Revolutionary War. The first…

1792 - 1935  no. 214 Family Record Collins line.pdf
#214 Family Record of Births, Marriages, Deaths
John Collins
Isabella Currie Collins
Nancy Collins
James Adams Collins
Maria Elenor Collins
Elizabeth Collins MacHatton
Margaret Collins Bradford (Bradfute??)
Samuel Walter Collins
George…

1825.04.19  no. 215 ltr to Isabella Currie from cousin George Harper.pdf
#215 George Harper - to Isabella Currie (Collins) 04.19.1825
Letter from George Harper to his Cousin Isabella Currie (Collins) as he must have been in a Presbyterian seminary ... very lengthy letter - hard to read some of the writing.

2007.04.04 no.216 ltr from Sheila Winship to cousin Shirley A Reid Mitchell.pdf
#216 April 4, 2007
Dear Shirley,
I am trying to clean out my boxes of files and keepsakes, and it occurred to me that you might like to have these letters of Grandpa Reid's. Mom saved them;

1909.02.24  no. 217 Death Certificate J E Collins.pdf
#217 State of California, Department of Public Health
J E Collins
Male
49 yrs 3 months 22 days
Married - wife just listed as Mrs. J E Collins
Occupation: Bookkeeper
Father: George Collins - born in Ohio
Mother Elizabeth Collins - born in…

1875.02.18  no. 218  8 Shares of Stock in First National Bank of Bloomington purchaseed by Isabella and ck to SW Collins.pdf
#218 8shares of First National Bank of Bloomington Stock certificate to Isabella Collins 02.18.1875 and a check from Isabella to S W Collins 03.04.1875 for $60

1871.11.17 no 219 original ltr from Hale Iberia to S W Collins.pdf
#219 Iberia O. Nov. 17, 1871
Mr. S. W. Collins
Dear Sir
As this is Friday afternoon and I am out of employment I thought I had better spend the time in writing to a friend...

1918.09.09 no 22 original ltr frm Anti-Saloon League to John Q McComb.pdf
Chicago
Dear Sir and Friend: -
Primary Day next Wednesday, September 11, 1918. This is the most important day in the history of this movement as far as Illinois is concerned.

1939.10.09  no. 220 Ltr from Will to Belle reg his stroke.pdf
W W Collins
Real Estate, Insurance and Loans
Laurel, Nebraska
Dear Sister Belle Oct. 9, 1939
Just a few for it is very hard for me. I have to do it with my left had only I had a stroke the last of March but on the left side and…

1907.09.27 no. 223 original ltr from S W (Walter) Collins to Lizzie MacHatton p1.pdf
S W Collins, Wholesale & Retail Grocer, Bloomington, Indiana Sept. 27, 1907
Dear Sister,
Your letter recd. By some means that letter was lost - but I remember the contents. I will inclose check for $300.00 as you request. I suppose...

1907.10.02 no. 224 original ltr from Will Collins to Elizabeth Collins MacHatton p 1.pdf
Laurel Nebraska, Oct 2, 1907
Mrs. E MacHatton
Chicago Lawn
Dear Mother:
Your letter bringing the new of Pa's death received the 30th. I had just returned from Oklahoma that day....

1907.09.26 no. 225 original ltr from Ed Collins to Lizzie Collins MacHatton.pdf
Sun=Set Fruit Exchange
Member of Southern California Fruit Exchange
Orange, Cal. 9/26/1907
My Very Dear Mother:- I am greatly ashamed of myself that I have not written to you since I got your letter telling me that Father was so dangerously sick,…

1878.01.28 no 229 Ltr from J E Collins to Lizzie MacHatton.pdf
January 28, 1878
Dear Mother,
I am at school today. I have not many schollars ... DOCUMENT IS VERY HARD TO READ
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