THE LANE/COLLIER COUSINS

 

DONALD, picking up BOYD , REEDA ANN COLLIER, DWIGHT , DELBERT , FAY AND JAN COLLIER seated LINDA COLLIER AND RAYBURN
boys are Lane/Layne and girls are Collier

 When I think of family I think of this bunch, the Lanes and Colliers. I do have other cousins, lots of them and they are very dear to me, but it is this group, 5 brothers and 4 cousins, that was my family and extended family, when I was growing up. My memories of this little group starts sometimes in the middle to late 40s. I was born in 1943, so you can just figure it from there. I have heard some of our 'stories' so many times, it is hard to remember the difference between , what I have heard and what I actually remember, but this is my story so if anyone is confused or remember it different, go write your own.

 

 

SARAH WILLYNE COLLIER LAYNE

born September 17, 1913 at Sage, Izard County, Arkansas

died June 16, 1994, Home was Hoxie, Arkansas

”We were living in a little Shotgun house a few miles northeast of Bay, Arkansas. We didn’t have much of a yard, the cotton grew right up to the house. Mrs. Lane [grandmother Mannie Lane] and Mrs. Sutterfield were there to help out. It had turned cold and snowed during the night. The seed potatoes we had ‘eyed’ the evening before were still on the kitchen table and had frozen. They were ruined and we had to throw then out.” I do not write this to acquaint you with southern country living, but to share a part of the story I heard every year, for 51 years, on the 4th of March, the day I celebrated my birth.

Sarah Willyne Collier had raised one family, (her mother, Ada Ethel ‘Addie” Dobbs Collier had died in 1929 when mother was 15 years old. ) and had 3 boys when she decided to introduce me into this big wonderful world.

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