Red River County. This creek in later years has been universally known as Collier's Creek.

[The Wilburn Family]

James Wilburn married Ann Straton in Virginia and came to Texas in 1859 and settled at what is now known in Red River County as Pinchem. Some of the early settlers of that place were the Warrens, Wyatts, Scoggins, and Matthews.

[The Taylor Family]

Dr. Joseph Marcellus Taylor was born in Nash County North Carolina, January 5, 1820. He studied medicine in Philadelphia. While there he met and married Miss Mary Windrum. They moved to the town of Stanhope, North Carolina, where Dr. Taylor practiced medicine for a number of years. There were eight children born to this union: Ophelia, Alsey Marcellus, Ida, Charley, Albert, Drury, Joseph, and Debernia.

Dr. Taylor's dislike of seeing people suffer led him to stop the practice of medicine and to take up the study of law. He practiced law in Nashville, North Carolina, until his health began to fail. He then moved to a small community in Wilson County which was later named Taylor for his family. Here he bought land and raised the first tobacco ever grown on a commercial scale in this county. Dr. Taylor served in the Civil War in the company organized by his brother, Captain A. J. Taylor, with J. W. Ballentine as his lieutenant, and assisted in the Confederate cause. Captain Taylor moved from North Carolina to Clarksville, Red River County, in 1883.

In 1884 Dr. Taylor with his family (with the