North Collin County Genealogical Society Welcome to the home page of the North Collin County Genealogical Society. Collin County is located north Texas. The Society meets once a month in the Dulaney Room of the McKinney Memorial Library in McKinney, Texas .
Meetings are open to the public.
Emerson Cottage was located at 204 S. Kentucky Street in McKinney, Texas at the turn of the century. Standing at the front is the proprietor, Johnnie Bagley Waters next to her husband, James A. Waters. Mr. Waters owned and operated a shoe store on the square in McKinney. Their children, next to them dressed in white, are Billy Waters, Jim Alice Waters, Pearl Waters, and Evelyn Waters. Pearl Waters later married Addison G. Wilson.