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From: "Parker & Trisha Todd" <>
Subject: Re: [MDCAROLI] Fleetwood
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 16:35:58 -0500
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Hi Adina,

Her name was Martha, you can see what I have on her here;
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=trishaann&id=I655
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According to the 1900 Census of Caroline Co., MD she was born July 1866 in
MD. The 1910 census also gives her birthplace as MD. Her tombstone in
Hillcrest Cemetery in Federalsburg has "1866-1928."

Parker

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adina Watkins Dyer" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 1:47 PM
Subject: [MDCAROLI] Fleetwood


> Thanks Parker! I wonder what her first name was and where in Indiana she
> was born? Anyone know if the Fleetwood's came to Indiana? I know that
Ada
> Davis' brother, William F., spent some time in Indiana, he can be found
> living with relatives in a couple of census records.
>
> Ada Davis' mother, Elizabeth Gowty Davis Watkins, came with her second
> husband, Josiah Watkins, and their children to Warren Co., Indiana, in
1865,
> settling in the little town of Milford, which is now known as Green Hill.
> It was originally named Milford after the town in Sussex Co., De., from
> which the town's settlers came. Those early settlers and founders were
> William B. Bailey and his brother Horatio. It seems that most of that
> little town was settled by folks from Maryland and Delaware, and several
of
> those were my Watkins family.
>
> Thanks again!
> Adina
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Parker & Trisha Todd" <>
>
>
> > Hi Adina,
> >
> > I sent this yesterday but it may have been to your old e-mail address
and
> I
> > thought you might like to have this information, so here it goes again.
> > From "The Denton Journal" of 3 Nov. 1928
> >
> > Mrs. Frank Collins, of American Corner, died at Emergency Hospital,
> Easton,
> > on Tuesday evening of last week, following an operation. She had been in
> ill
> > health only a few days prior to her death, and her departure came as a
> shock
> > to the entire community. Mrs. Collins was a descendant of Ada Davis and
> > Isaac Fleetwood. She was born 63 years ago in the State of Indiana and
at
> > the age of nine her father brought her into this State, where she spent
> the
> > remainder of her life. She was an upright Christian woman, a strong
worker
> > for the church which she attended and loved by all who knew her. She
> leaves,
> > beside her husband, four children- Mrs. Bertha Daffin, of near here;
> Wilmer
> > T. Collins, of Philadelphia; Mrs. Sallie Lord, of Concord; T. Sydney
> > Collins, of Smithville, and two brothers, George, of Philadelphia, and
> > Henry, of Waverly, Va. Funeral services, conducted by Rev. A.W. Betts,
> > assisted by Rev. G.E. Leister, were held on Friday morning of last week
at
> > American Corner and interment was made in Hillcrest cemetery.
>
>
>
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