hihi all, I am looking for information on John Robert Collins, most likely married in Ohio or Indiana and probably born in Virginia. He married Rebecca Middleton. Their children included Frances W. Collins, who eventually married Charles Taylor Tarpenning in Xenia, Greene Co, Ohio. Frances is my great-great- grandmother. Other children of John Robert and Rebecca were: Arthelia, Martha, Belle, Xeia, Fanny, Nancy, Robert, Roy, Freddie, Russell, Clifford, Charlie, and John. I am sorry I do not have more specific dates or locations. This information was pieced together through grandparents and great aunts. The only clue we have to possibly distinguish this line of COLLINS from the myriad of others out there is that one wife or mother at some point close to Frances W. Collins's generation was a Native American woman. (Family stories have it as Cherokee. Martha apparently took after the Indian genetics strong enough to leave memories in everyone's minds and my great-grandmother remembered an "Indian squaw" in her house as a girl.) If anyone out there has any info on this family, we'd be thrilled to hook up with you. We've had luck with our other major surnames, so I'll keep my fingers crossed for this one, too! Have fun, happy researching, Rainya Shingledecker Wallner Researching the family names Shingledecker, Collins, Tarpenning, Hill, Horde Visit our genealogy page at: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/s/h/i/Nola-J-Shingledecker/