Mary Riggs Collins

(1861-1912)

Biographical Data

Important Dates

Mary Riggs Collins was born in 1861. She died in 1912, and was buried in St. Matthew's Churchyard in Hillsborough, NC.

Relatives

• Parents: Josiah Collins, IV (1830-1890) [1] and Sally Rebecca Jones (1833-1892)  [1].
• Paternal grandparents: Josiah Collins, III and Mary Riggs.
• Maternal grandparents: Cadwallader Jones, [Jr.] (1788-1861) [1] and Rebecca Edward Long (1795-1881) [1].
• Siblings:
  • two brothers, Josiah Collins, V [1] and Cadwallader Jones Collins [1].
  • three sisters, Rebecca Allen Collins [1], Lizzie Jones Collins (1871-1900) [1] and Althea Collins [1].
• Uncles: Cadwallader [III] Jones (1813-1899) [1], Pride Jones (b. 1815) [1] and George Pumpelly Collins (1835-1903) [1].
• Aunt: Mary Rebecca Jones (1823-1878) .
• Cousins: Alice Ruffin Collins (1874-1958), George William Kent Collins (1869-1946), Henrietta Page Collins (1870-1955), Mary Arthur Collins (1866-1871), Paul Cameron Collins (1877-1961), Eliza Adam Jones (1839-1911) , Mary Cameron Jones (1843-1924) , Frances Iredell Jones (b. 1837) , Rebecca Edwards Ruffin (1846-1899) , Mary Browne Ruffin (b. 1850), Thomas Ruffin [3] (1852-1922), Susan Brodnax Ruffin (b. 1852), Cadwallader Jones Ruffin, Sarah Lillie Jones Ruffin (b. 1860), Sterling Ruffin [3] (1857-1932), Allen Jones Ruffin (b. 1857), Sarah Jones Ruffin (1856-1859), Annie Kirkland Ruffin (1860-1960), Joseph Roulhac Ruffin and Anne K. Ruffin (b. 1848).

References

1. Mary Claire Engstrom. The Book of Burwell Students: Lives of Educated Women in the Antebellum South. (Hillsborough: Hillsborough Historic Commission, 2007).