Josiah Collins, born 7 Nov 1778, in Halifax County, VA. He traveled with his parents, Stephen Collins and Catherine McHendree Collins to Kentucky about 1779. Josiah Collins married Amelia "Milly" Oldham in Madison County, KY 25 Nov 1802. Milly was the daughter of Richard Oldham and Ann Pepper Oldham. Josiah & Milly had 9 children: Joel Collins b. 1803; Albert G. Collins b. 1804; Paulina Collins b. 1808 married Richard Davis; William C. Collins; Louisa Collins; Jeremiah V. Collins born 1814; Elizabeth "Betsy" Collins born 1 Oct 1817; Ann Collins, born 1821; and Millie Collins born 1829. Josiah Collins was a minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), a slave owner, and farmer. He died 18 April 1871 in Madison County. Amelia/Milly died 21 March 1864. Most of my information comes from these sources: 1. French Tipton Papers, Book Z, pp 137, 138 2. Prewitt, Richard A. "The Collins Book", p. 55, 57, 60, 61 My questions: 1. Does anyone have any dates of marriage or spouses for the Collins children? 2. Does anyone have any names of other children for the Richard Oldham/Ann Pepper family?

I'm writing in response to the message from The Hensons requesting information about the children of Richard and Ann (Pepper) Oldham, and the marriages of the children of Josiah and Milly (Oldham) Collins. First of all, I have a request: Do you know how I could obtain a copy of the pages from the French Tipton Papers that you cite? I have good evidence that Albert G. Collins was (as your information states) a son of Josiah and Milly, but I'd really like to have an even more authoritative source for this. According to W.H. Miller's HISTORY AND GENEALOGIES... - and I realize from reading E.W. Wallace's postings that this work is sometimes unreliable about the Oldhams - the children of Richard and Ann (Pepper) Oldham were: William Oldham, who first married Sallie Gilbert on Oct. 19, 1809, and after her death the widow Susannah Anderson (Reid) Moberley, on Oct. 30, 1826; Zerah Oldham, who married Amelia Collins [Miller first says on Dec. 24, 1839, but this can't be right, and he later says "about 1807"]; Hezekiah Oldham, who married Frances Oldham on Nov. 26, 1795; Samuel Oldham, who married Poly White on Aug. 8, 1797; Moses Oldham, who married Ann White on Nov. 10, 1796; Richard Oldham, who married Sallie Williams on Nov. 3, 1824. Ann Oldham, who married Joseph Collins on Sept. 14, 1809; Milly Oldham, who married Josiah Collins; Edith Oldham, who married Jesse Cobb; ---- Oldham, who married Mr. ---- McClean. My information regarding the marriages of the children of Josiah and Milly (Oldham) Collins is as follows: Albert G. Collins (born not in 1804, but on Sept. 12, 1803 - he must have been the oldest of Josiah and Milly's children) married Permelia Foster on June 1, 1831, in Clark County. [Albert and Permelia are my great-great-grandparents. They moved to Missouri in 1838, then to Dallas, Texas, in 1846. They were highly-regarded citizens there, but three of their sons became involved with the Sam Bass gang. There's a possible connection to the Chenault family of Madison County: Martha E. Collins, one of Albert and Permelia's daughters, married James Chenault in Dallas on July 15, 1858. Two of the Collins children, and two Chenault children, are buried in what was known as the "Collins-Chenault" cemetery. After James Chenault's death, Martha married J. E. Ervay.] Joel Collins married Elizabeth Palmer on Jan. 24, 1831, in Clark County. Paulina Collins married Richard Davis on March 16, 1826, in Madison County; Louisa Collins married Sterling Wood on Jan. 25, 1831, in Madison County; Jeremiah Collins married Frances Reid on Aug. 1, 1839, in Madison County, and after her death married Polly Ann Lane, on Sept. 25, 1848, in Clark County; Elizabeth "Betsy" Collins married Robert D. Kidd on Oct. 8, 1832, in Madison County; Ann Collins married Joseph Huls on Sept. 25, 1839, in Madison County; he was apparently dead by 1850, and in about 1855 she married Webber Sale, presumably also in Madison County; Milly Collins married Robert Watts on Mar. 28, 1845, in Madison County.