Referred to as the “Collins’ House” because of Teague residents’ living memories, was built in the 1800s by Dr. Felix Grundy Traynham and his wife, Lillie Coleman, at 814 Magnolia St.
The house is a stop on the annual Tour of Homes, from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14.
A descendant of one of the oldest families in South Carolina, Traynham came with his parents and siblings to Texas in 1884. He was a cultured man who was knowledgeable in many areas. Traynham graduated at the top of his Class of 1856 from the medical branch of Transylvania University in Louisville, Kent.. He was on the cutting edge of medicine, having studied allopathic medicine, the new germ theory medicine, a change from the bloodletting and the prescribing of high doses of mineral poisons which were common at this time.
