Lucy Ann Collins, born 21 Feb 1846, died 20 May 1863 of tuberculosis in
Knoxville TN. She was the d/o William Smith Collins & Mary Ann (Bronston)
Collins of Richmond.
After the Civil War began, Lucy and her friend Nannie Stone were sent to Col G W Churchwell's school in Knoxville, Tennessee because the families felt it was safer for southern sympathizers to go further south because Kentucky was occupied by the Yankees.
The girls nursed soldiers and contracted TB and died 4 month apart.
Lucy's funeral notice read:
"Died at Col. D. W. Churchwell's near Knoxville, May 20th, Miss Lucy A. Collins, of Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky, aged 17 years, 2 months and 17 days. Her friends, and Kentuckians, are invited to attend her burial at the cemetery, this evening, 21st inst., at 4'oclock, P. M. The procession will form at Col. Churchwell's residence at 3:o'clock P.M."
Lucy was either not buried in TN, or reinterred in RIchmond. Family lore says that her brother William Joel Collins 14, and a family retainer went to Tennessee to fetch Lucy's body and bring it back in a spring wagon. Lucy and Nannie were buried together and their names are carved on the same stone.
Nannie's mother, Mrs. Mildred (Phelps) Stone is buried next to her daughter in the Collins family plot.
Knoxville TN. She was the d/o William Smith Collins & Mary Ann (Bronston)
Collins of Richmond.
After the Civil War began, Lucy and her friend Nannie Stone were sent to Col G W Churchwell's school in Knoxville, Tennessee because the families felt it was safer for southern sympathizers to go further south because Kentucky was occupied by the Yankees.
The girls nursed soldiers and contracted TB and died 4 month apart.
Lucy's funeral notice read:
"Died at Col. D. W. Churchwell's near Knoxville, May 20th, Miss Lucy A. Collins, of Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky, aged 17 years, 2 months and 17 days. Her friends, and Kentuckians, are invited to attend her burial at the cemetery, this evening, 21st inst., at 4'oclock, P. M. The procession will form at Col. Churchwell's residence at 3:o'clock P.M."
Lucy was either not buried in TN, or reinterred in RIchmond. Family lore says that her brother William Joel Collins 14, and a family retainer went to Tennessee to fetch Lucy's body and bring it back in a spring wagon. Lucy and Nannie were buried together and their names are carved on the same stone.
Nannie's mother, Mrs. Mildred (Phelps) Stone is buried next to her daughter in the Collins family plot.
Lucy Ann Collins, born 21 Feb 1846, died 20 May 1863 of tuberculosis in
Knoxville TN. She was the d/o William Smith Collins & Mary Ann (Bronston)
Collins of Richmond.
After the Civil War began, Lucy and her friend Nannie Stone were sent to Col G W Churchwell's school in Knoxville, Tennessee because the families felt it was safer for southern sympathizers to go further south because Kentucky was occupied by the Yankees.
The girls nursed soldiers and contracted TB and died 4 month apart.
Lucy's funeral notice read:
"Died at Col. D. W. Churchwell's near Knoxville, May 20th, Miss Lucy A. Collins, of Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky, aged 17 years, 2 months and 17 days. Her friends, and Kentuckians, are invited to attend her burial at the cemetery, this evening, 21st inst., at 4'oclock, P. M. The procession will form at Col. Churchwell's residence at 3:o'clock P.M."
Lucy was either not buried in TN, or reinterred in RIchmond. Family lore says that her brother William Joel Collins 14, and a family retainer went to Tennessee to fetch Lucy's body and bring it back in a spring wagon. Lucy and Nannie were buried together and their names are carved on the same stone.
Nannie's mother, Mrs. Mildred (Phelps) Stone is buried next to her daughter in the Collins family plot.
Knoxville TN. She was the d/o William Smith Collins & Mary Ann (Bronston)
Collins of Richmond.
After the Civil War began, Lucy and her friend Nannie Stone were sent to Col G W Churchwell's school in Knoxville, Tennessee because the families felt it was safer for southern sympathizers to go further south because Kentucky was occupied by the Yankees.
The girls nursed soldiers and contracted TB and died 4 month apart.
Lucy's funeral notice read:
"Died at Col. D. W. Churchwell's near Knoxville, May 20th, Miss Lucy A. Collins, of Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky, aged 17 years, 2 months and 17 days. Her friends, and Kentuckians, are invited to attend her burial at the cemetery, this evening, 21st inst., at 4'oclock, P. M. The procession will form at Col. Churchwell's residence at 3:o'clock P.M."
Lucy was either not buried in TN, or reinterred in RIchmond. Family lore says that her brother William Joel Collins 14, and a family retainer went to Tennessee to fetch Lucy's body and bring it back in a spring wagon. Lucy and Nannie were buried together and their names are carved on the same stone.
Nannie's mother, Mrs. Mildred (Phelps) Stone is buried next to her daughter in the Collins family plot.
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