Coral’s family history · Chapter 23

The Witters

The Witter chapter connects the Collins, Witter, Angevine, and related families across Washington, D.C., western New York, and Pennsylvania. Coral traces Mary and John Collins’s children, including Kate, and Kate’s marriage to Charles Henry Witter in 1884.

She follows the family through Olean and Austin and describes the occupations and moves that shaped their lives. Ethel Witter’s marriage to Dean Angevine in 1906 connects this branch with the Angevine history in the preceding chapters.

The next generation included Clella, Elva, Wanda, and Eunice. Coral’s account records their continuing family ties and the importance of the Hyner homestead in their childhood memories.

The complete chapter contains intimate accounts of illness, family separation, adoption, and personal relationships. Those passages, recent family photographs, and information identifying potentially living descendants remain in the private edition. This public summary preserves the older family connections and places without publishing those details.