I paid a visit to my ancestors graves this weekend and took pictures of the gravestones if anyone thinks they have a connection to these Coulters. The gravestones are for A.J (Andrew Jackson) Coulter, born July 27, 1838 and died Nov. 6, 1914. His first wife Angeline Reed was buried right next to his grave. She was born Aug. 27, 1838 and died Sep 2, 1862. Her two children (they had four together) who died during the war share a tombstone and they are William (born March 27, 1859) and Marion (born Feb. 13, 1858) and both died on Sept. 1, 1862. Reportedly, A.J. came home from his service in the war and found his wife and two of his children dead from a fever (not sure which one, but my grnadmother said that a typhoid fever and a flu epidemic was circulating in Covington County at the time, so it's likely it was one of those things).

The graveyard is off of Blackjack Rd. in Collins, and it sneaks up on you right past a bridge. It has a chain fence around it and no sign. Several Millers are buried there (not sure of the connection to the Coulters).

Not too far from the graveyard is an old dilapidated building that strongly resembles a large two-story shed. All the windows are blown out and no paint remains. The wooden boards are protruding from every angle and it looks very untended to. Its the Old Williamsburg School where my grandmother's mother (Olive Linda Coulter, daughter of Victor Daily Coulter, and granddaughter of A.J. Coulter) went to school. My granmother thinks it also was where Victor Daily and his siblings attended school. There really should be renovation efforts to the place and a historical sign erected there.

The Coulter land in Collins was very extensive. My grandmother showed me where are all her aunts and uncles used to own land. It justs goes on and on. Victor Daily donated the lake on the property (now known as Mike Connor Lake) to the city decades ago (probably in the 1910s or 20s, maybe even earlier). He also donated a lot of his land for the building of two churches, one a Methodist and one a Baptist. My grandmother told me that her mother Olive told her that she remembered as a little girl riding to church every Sunday in the wagon. Her mother Lola would get out and go into the Baptist Church and her father would get out and go into the Methodist. I love that story. It just shows how difficult our family has been and always will be! But the Baptist Church was named for Victor Daily. They named it Victory Baptist Church. The current pastor is Gregory Ulland and it was est. in 1885.