I am seeking any one researching the Collins family oif Darke County Ohio. I am descended from Laura Collins who lived there in the 1840's?. Any help appreciated. Dean Dingler wrote: > I am seeking information all along this COLLINS family. My ggg grandfather > was John COLLINS, born about 1795 Virginia, married Elizabeth JOHNSON, 17 > October 1817 Pendleton County, Kentucky. His father may have been James > COLLINS. Elizabeth JOHNSON was born in Kentucky and possibly the daughter of > Nelson JOHNSON. > > Their son was Ogilvie "OGilby" COLLINS, born 5 December 1830 in Fayette > County, Kentucky, married Mary Ann Cheatham on 23 Aug. 1849 in Lewis County, > Missouri. Ogilvie served as a Private in Company "D" of the 69th Enrolled > Missouri Militia, and was a blacksmith and Preacher. He died 1913 in Lewis > County, Missouri. Mary Ann CHEATHAM was born on 5 May 1831 in Kentucky and > was the daughter of Archibald CHEATHAM and Ester HARE. Mary Ann died in 1916 > in Lewis County, Missouri. They had children: Oliver Wendell COLLINS, > William F COLLINS, John M. COLLINS and Ella M.COLLINS. Ella married Edward > PORTER. > > Ogilvie and Mary Anns son Oliver Wendell COLLINS was born on 1853 at > Monticello, Missouri and died on 1947 at Napa, Canyon County, Idaho. He > married Nancy Francis WAGGENER on 1874 in Lewis County, Missouri. Nancy > Frances was the daughter of Simeon Green WAGGENER and Rachel MCALISTER. > Oliver W. and Nancy Francis had 10 children of whom 3 survived: Henry > Herbert COLLINS born on 1877 in Lewis County Missouri and died 1941, married > his cousin Martha Velora WAGGENER born 1881 and died 1949; Roy George > COLLINS born 1889, married Nellie __, and had a child named Margaret. They > inherited the farm in Canyon County, Idaho, from Oliver. Possible other > surviving child was Simeon COLLINS. > > Henry Herbert COLLINS and Martha Velora WAGGENER had six children: Harold, > Ara Frances, Russell O., Nera Mae, Betty Elizabeth, and Richard Benjamin, > all deceased. > > Thanks for your help. > > Crystal Dingler, deadin@worldnet.att.net