_NE A CLOGCJ \'L RTC, WORDS

 THE COLLAR FAlILY

 In a number of the genealogical records contained in
 this volume reference has been made to the Coller family.
 The name is now extinct, there having been but one son, who
 left no issue. The daughters, who were numerous, married in-
 to some of the most prominent old families and have many de-
 scendants with different surnames. The Coller family was the
 very first in point of time that settled in Tampa or th vicin-
 ity, and it is fitting that the family history should be per-
 petuated.
 Levi Coller, the head of the family, 1raso of dLingled
 English a.nd German ancestry. H~e was born in .Massachusetts
 and came frao that state to Florida, arriving in St. -ugus-
 tine in 1812. Hii wife, Nancy Dixon, was of english and French
 lineage. Her father was the omner of large tracts of land in
 Florida under grants from the crown of Spain. The hoIe of the
 Dixon firmily was at Rosemary 3luff, on -e St. Mary's River.
 Levi and Nancy (Dixon) Coller wer: arrivedd in 1813.
 Florida in t:iose days ,aRs in the riddst cf war, and in 1315
 hostilities became very bitter. The Indians "iere allies of
 Spain, which power was contesting it rigtso with the United
 States, while Zngland was at the same time endeavoring to the'
 utmost to prevent the expansion of the young republic, and was
 rewarding the savage warriors by paying thmn from five to ten
 dollars apiece for :imerican scalps. A veritable reign of ter-
 ror prevailed. The white qet-lers fled from their homes under
 much protection as a body of icn1ie guards, of which Levi Coller
 was one, could afford.
 While thus fleeing for thoir lives the young -dffe of
 Levi 'Joller was overtaken by travail =t -; deqIs td house by
 the -way, and. the babe .ras born that afternoon, 'hen she at-
 tained womanhood, became the ".'ife of <obert Jackson. She was
 that Nancy Jackson 'whose life almost spanned a century.
 Yor a few years previous to the restoration of peace
 'and after:ard s, the Goller family resided in Ulachua County
 un to 1822. THere, in ccmnon :-ith other pioneers, most of whom
 had been imporvished by the war, the needs of an increasing
 family necessitated close oconoi- iand application to such
 :measures of industry as ',ere open to them.
 Levi toller raised and, ginned cotton, his wife and chil-
 dren spun and dyed it; it was then sent to the loom and woven,
 into cloth, which they then made into garments for the family;
 Mrs. Coller's health failing, her husband decided to go
 to Tampa, hoping that she would be benefited by the salt water
 of the Gulf. He reached Tampa in 1823 on horseback, with
 saddlebags filled with things that he would need on.his
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