DANIEL COLLINS [ Chickasaw.]

Son of George Collins was born in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in March, 1839. Came to Panola County, Chickasaw Nation, in May, 1852 in company with four brothers, three of whom are living. In 1866 he married Sarah, the daughter of Joe Potts, of Colbert, a citizen of the Nation and uncle of Jim Potts, the founder of Pottsborough, Texas. At the commencement of the war Mr.Collins enlisted under Gen. Cooper, where he was for some time employed guarding the agency at Fort Cobb. Later on he joined the Choctaw Brigade and fought at Cabin Creek and elsewhere, after which he returned to his home and married. At the commencement of Governor Overton's administration, Daniel Collins was elected to the Senate, which office he filled for five consecutive terms in a highly creditable manner. In the election of August, 1888 he tied with Col. Lew Reynolds for the Senate, but rather than cause ill feeling be retired from the field. Mr. Collins has seven children, the oldest, Georgie, is married to G. R. Beeler, banker at Purcell; Louie, unmarried; Mirtie, married to William Kersey, of Carriage Point; Ben Carter, Maud, Daniel and Charlie, the oldest being twenty-three and the youngest being four years. Mrs. Sallie Alverson, the oldest living Chickasaw aged one hundred years, is residing with Mr.Collins, and is still able to recall the treaty made between Andrew Jackson and her people in 1829.

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