CHARLES COLLINS [Chickasaw.]

Charles was born in August, 1851, son of George W. Collins, a native of Kentucky. In 1851 Charles emigrated with his father and brothers to Panola County, Chickasaw Nation, and went to school across the river in Grayson County, Texas. In 1881 he married the Widow McCoy, daughter of Captain Joseph Harris, deceased, and sister of Hon. Robert Harris, National Agent. She died in 1886, leaving one girl, Maggie, seven years of age. In 1887 he married Miss Tennie Trentham, daughter of Joe Trentham, of Tennessee, by whom he has an infant daughter named Allen. Charles Collins resides close to old Fort Washita, in the neighborhood of his brothers, Tom and Edward. He has three hundred acres under cultivation, the greater part of which he rents on the usual terms. He is not a politician, nor has he ever run for office, much preferring his home occupations, and an occasional dead shot at a deer, in the dense woods of the Washita, than political rivalry.

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