Hello List Would love to exchange info. on COLLINS, COOPER AND ATKINS/ADKINS lines as follows: My lineage begins in Lincoln Co with Elias/Elijah/Lige Collins and wife (probably #3 or maybe #4), Selecia/Celecia/Cecelia Adkins, (on dau. Lelia Belle Collins Sartain Clark's death cert. parents listed as Elijah and Saeshia Atkins Collins). Have no idea who Saeshia's parents were. Input appreciated. Cannot prove Elijah Collins parents. He was b) ca 1803 d) 1898 (dates on stones) bur Lucas Madden Cemetery Lincoln Co. WV as is Celecia/Saeshia b) 1829 d) 1916 (dates on stone). One of their son's, Andrew Jackson Collins b) 8 March 1858 d) 16 Dec 1930 (my gr. grandfather) m2) Sarah "Sallie" Cooper Nance.b) ca 1859, d?) ca 1888. She had been married previously to William Sherman Nance Sr and had twins a female who died either at birth or very young, not named, and a male William Sherman Nance Jr. b) 18 Oct 1876 d) 25 May 1955. Do not know what happened to Wm. S. Nance Sr. can't find him anywhere. The son Jr. was living with Sr.'s parents in Lincoln Co. in 1880 census. Also in the 1880 Lincoln Co Wv Census, Jr.'s mother Sarah/Sallie was married to Andrew Jackson Collins and had a female child Martha A. 7/12. Andrew J. and Sarah Collins had three additional children, the last born May 1887. By March of 1900 Andrew is married to Elizabeth Clay (div. from Willis Johnson) and they have had female twins, Flora died as a baby and Cora Belle b) 9 March 1900 d) 28 Oct 1914. Sarah/Sallie Cooper had a brother, Isaac Cooper b) 25 May 1858 d) 22 May 1943, he was living with his nephew and wife, my grandparents when he died. I remember him well. I am trying to sort out the Sarah/Sallie Cooper's and have eliminated at this point the following: Sarah Cooper b) May 1850 d) ca 1909 m) Floyd Spurlock, d/o John William Cooper and Sarah Elizabeth Campbell Smith. Sarah Cooper b) ca 1842 d/o Thomas Cooper and Catherine _?_ Sarah Cooper b) (9 Feb ?) 1858 d) 12 Dec 1938 m) 18 Aug 1877 John Keck b) 7 July 1859 d) 1 Nov 1922 Any in-put appreciated Barb in OH