Georgia Collins Hughes 1311 - Officially Missing 2017

Georgia Collins Hughes and her four children and five great grandchildren and one great, great grandchild are "missing" - out of reach.  The great grandchildren were possibly all born between 1994 and 1999.  There are several more great grandchildren likely born since 1999.

With the number of generations between her parents: Richard Hill Collins 4/4/1908 to 9/21/1999 and Helen D. ?  12/22/1911 to 2/27/1994, it is unlikely that the 1940 Census for Richard is accurate.  It says that he is 32, single, living with his aunts in Phoenix. For four generations to be born in 58 years, Georgia has to be born in 1941 and for there to be three consecutive 19 year splits.

There was one Georgia G. Hughes, born 5/13/1932, who was connected to Camp Verde, Arizona - the last town Richard and Helen lived - but she did not pan out as a Frazee.

Arizona birth records are sealed for 75 years, and there were no Georgia Collinses born in Arizona before 1942.  Using a phone directory search, there are at least ten Georgia Hugheses born between 1941 and 1944 who were alive in 1999.  None of them have a connection to Arizona.  In 2022, if the Arizona birth records prove fruitless, when the 1950 Census is released, I should be able to narrow the date of birth and return to the search.

Finding Helen's surname has also been a problem.  She was born in Watson, Arkansas. The census area for 1920 is known as Red Fork. There were 1830 residents in Red Fork district in 1920.  Helen Wheeler was born in 1911, but her sisters are Esther and Bernice, not Lola and Ann and she probably married an Acie Dickerson, No other Helens born in 1911/12 appear in the 1920 Red Fork census so it is likely that the family moved before then.  Hopefully, her surname will also be available once the Arizona birth records are unsealed.

As the 1950 Census has come out now, Richard Hill Collins is listed with Helen Collins born in Pennsylvania in 1913 (although I can't find her there under that name) and Georgiana Collins was born in 1934 in Illinois.  The Arizona marriage records say that Richard marries Helen Barlet in 1948.  Given his 1940 Census record, the marriage and the age of Georgia, I highly suspect that she is adopted by Collins and her birth name would be Georgiana Barlet, in Chicago.  There is a George Barlet in Chicago in the 1940 census, living alone with his parents, but he is married.  If only I could find any other source record for that man.

In Lola Raydar's obituary, it lists Helen Collins, so it shows that at least one of Richard's wives was Helen Dickenson born in Watson, Arkansas in 1911.  It would seem that Georgia was the daughter of another of Richard's wives, Helen Barlet born in Pennsylvania in 1913 but, I don't know whether Barlet was Helen's married name (the opinion of several contributors to Familysearch who believe that Helen Dickerson (Dickenson) of Arkansas for some reason lied about every detail in the Census as well as changing the spelling of her maiden name.