Jefferson COLLIER
Susannah MARKHAM

Husband:  Jefferson COLLIER
Birth:  15 Jun 1820, Collier's Creek, Montgomery Co., Arkansas
Death:  31 Mar 1897, Montgomery Co., Arkansas
Burial:
Father:  Jackson Martin COLLIER
Mother:  Mary Belle ANDERSON

Marriage:  5 Aug 1841, Hot Springs Co., Arkansas

Wife:  Susannah MARKHAM
Birth:  26 Dec 1826, Randolph Co., Arkansas 
Death:  21 Mar 1896, Montgomery Co., Arkansas 
Burial:  
Father:  Thomas MARKHAM 
Mother:   Lydia UNKNOWN 

Children:
1. Lydia Emeline COLLIER, b: 1844, Caddo Gap, Montgomery Co., Arkansas
2. Jonathan Wilson COLLIER, b: 1845, Caddo Gap, Montgomery Co., Arkansas
                                                d: Civil War; Serving at Camdem
3. Charles W. COLLIER, b: 8 Dec 1847, Caddo Gap, Montgomery Co., Arkansas
                                        d; 8 Jan 1929, Bell Co., Texas
4. Harrison R. COLLIER, b: Sep 1849, Caddo Gap, Montgomery Co., Arkansas
5. Alfred Marion COLLIER, b: 1852, Caddo Gap, Montgomery Co., Arkansas
                                            d: 1918
6. Louisa Margaret COLLIER, b: 1854, Caddo Gap, Montgomery Co., Arkansas
7. Arzelia G. COLLIER, b: 1856, Caddo Gap, Montgomery Co., Arkansas
8. Matilda COLLIER, b: 1858, Caddo Gap, Montgomery Co., Arkansas
9. Andrew J. COLLIER, b: 1862, Caddo Gap, Montgomery Co., Arkansas
10. Nancy J. COLLIER, b: Jan 1865, Caddo Gap, Montgomery Co., Arkansas
                                       d: 1900, Black Springs, Montgomery Co., Arkansas
11. Ruthy Eleanor, b: 1868, Caddo Gap, Montgomery Co., Arkansas
12. Cynthia L. COLLIER, b: Sep 1869, Caddo Gap, Montgomery Co., Arkansas
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Notes:
From the Western Arkansas Biographical and Historical Memoirs:
Jefferson received no advantages in his youth, he often felt the need of it, and after his marriage, began applying himself to his books, and thus obtained a fair education.  He was married in August 1842, to Miss Susanna, daughter of Thomas and Lydia Markham, natives of Illinois, who came to Arkansas in a very early day and in 1835, to what is now Montgomery County, settling down above Caddo Gap. Mrs. Collier was born in Randolph County, Ark., in 1825, and has borne her husband fifteen children.  When first married, Jefferson settled on his present farm, which had been an old abandoned place, and this farm of 270 acres has been his home for nearly fifty years.  He is the oldest native resident of the county, and throughout his long and useful career here, has kept his name unspotted from the world.  Just after the War, he was elected to the State Senate, but did not qualify.  He served all through the War in the Confederate Army, in a company of Arkansas Calvary, with Capt. William Carroll (note: Company G, Woosley's Battn.) , and was one of the brave and intrepid "boys in gray".  He has been a member of the A.F.& A.M since 1854, being now a member of New Hope Lodge #42.  He and his most worthy wife have been citizens who command the respect of all who know them, and for many years have been members of the Missionary Baptist Church.  Mr. Collier was reared in the wilds on this county, and is probably more familiar with the early history of this county than any other one of its citizens.  as an illustration of the expedients to which the early settlers were sometimes obliged to resort, he tells of how his mother at one time "knit a pair of socks, from the wool which she picked from the head of a buffalo, and sold them to a merchant for a pair of cotton cards.  Cards at that time sold for $10 a pair.  The merchant's name was William Barkman.  My father was the first settler on Collier's Creek.  He shot the buffalo from his camp pole, and I now live within a mile of that same place."

1850 Federal Census Data (M432_0028, Page 387), Gap Twp., Montgomery Co., Arkansas,
                                                                                                                 Enumeration Date: 20-Sep-1850, Family #1

1860 Federal Census Data (M653_0046, Page 891), Gap Twp., Montgomery Co., Arkansas,
                                                                                                                    Enumeration Date: 29-Jun-1860, Family #273

1870 Federal Census Data (M593_0059, Page 121A), Gap Twp., Montgomery Co., Arkansas,
                                                                                                                     Enumeration Date: 18-Aug-1870, Family #350

1880 Federal Census Data (T9_0052, Page 382D), Gap Twp., Montgomery Co., Arkansas,
                                                                                  Enumeration Dist: 111, Enumeration Date: 22-Jun-1880, Family #191

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Sources:
1) Marriage:  Arkansas Marriages to 1850 online database (Ancestry.com)
2) Biography - Western Arkansas Biographical and Historical Memoirs, Southern Publishing Co., Chicago, 1891, Page 480