Part 52 The England to Baltimore and Ohio Line

PART FIFTY-TWO

England to Baltimore Ohio Missouri Line – 1830 to 2010

This is the second of two sections of this Collett family line

Updated December 2022

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Benjamin Collett was born at New Burlington, Clinton County in Ohio during the month of June in 1831, only seven months after the wedding of his father Daniel Haines Collett and Maria Ann McKay, his second wife. They were confirmed as his parents when he died there on 24^th June 1831.

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Temson S Collett was born at New Burlington on 30^th November 1832, the first-born child of Daniel Haines Collett and Maria Ann McKay. She was 18 years old, and 28 years of age, in the Chester Township census returns for 1850 and 1860, when she was still living there with her family. She became Temson S Wood when she married, and was nearly 79 years old when, as a widow and a farmer, she died on 1^st September 1911 at Greenfield, Highland County in Ohio. Four days later, she was buried at Wilmington Cemetery. Her death record confirmed that her parents were Daniel H Collett and Maria McKay, and that her place of birth was New Burlington, a few miles north-west of Wilmington.

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Moses McKay Collett was born at Chester Township, just south of New Burlington, during August 1833, the second child and eldest son of Daniel and Maria Collett. As Moses Collett he was 17 in the Chester census of 1850 when he was still living at the family home, which is where he was also still living ten years later in 1860 when he was 26. By the time of the next census in 1870, Moses had already married Mary Harrison around 1866 and the couple was staying in lodgings in Indiana, where Mary was due to give birth to their first child. The census return recorded the couple as Moses M Collett who was 35 and his wife Mary H Collett who was 29, both of them born in Ohio.

It would appear that Mary presented Moses with just three children while they were living at New Richmond, Montgomery County in Indiana, but by 1880, the family of five had returned to Ohio and was listed in the census for Chester Township. At that time in his life Moses M Collett was a farmer and owner of a sawmill at the age of 47, Mary H Collett was 38, Grace E Collett was 10, Daniel Harrison Collett was seven, and Abbie M Collett was three. Twenty years later all three children had left the family home which by then was at Port Jefferson Village, Salem Township in Shelby County, Ohio. Moses was 67 and had been married to Mary H Collett aged 59, for thirty-four years.

Just three years after that Moses McKay Collett passed away at Port Jefferson on 24^th February 1903. His widow outlived him by over twenty-six years when the death of Mary H Collett was recorded at 205 South Main Street in Sidney in Shelby County on 13^th December 1929 at the age of 83. She was buried two days later at Glen Cemetery in Ohio and her death record stated that she had been born on 11^th January 1841 at New Burlington in Ohio, the daughter of John Harrison and Grace Lonsdale, both of them from England.

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Grace E Collett

Born in 1870 at New Richmond, Indiana

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Daniel Harrison Collett

Born in 1873 at New Richmond, Indiana

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Abbie Marie Collett

Born in 1877 at New Richmond, Indiana

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Abigail Collett was born at Chester Township on 22^nd May 1838, the second daughter and third child of Daniel and Maria Collett. In the Chester Township census of 1850, A Collett was 12, but ten years later she was incorrectly described as Abigail Collett aged 24 (sic). When she married, she became Abigail Nickerson, who was 80 years old and a widow living at Chester Township where she died on 18^th December 1918. Three days later she was buried at Springfield Cemetery in Clinton County, Ohio. The informant of her death was Mrs Hattie Inwood on New Burlington

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Elizabeth A Collett was born at Chester Township in 1840, the fourth child of Daniel H Collett and Maria McKay. As imply E Collett she was 10 years of age in 1850, and as Elizabeth Collett she was 20 years old in 1860. She later married to become Elizabeth A Browning and, by the time she died on 11^th June 1919, she was a widow. It was at Market Street in Washington Court House, Fayette County in Ohio, that she passed away at the age of 79, and was buried at Bloomingbury Cemetery.

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Sarah Ann Collett was born at Chester Township on 8^th February 1842, another daughter of Daniel and Maria Collett. As Sarah Collett, she was eight years old in 1850, and in 1860 it was as S A Collett that she was still living at Chester Township with her family. She was married during the following years, and as Sarah Ann Shambaugh, a widow aged 75, she died at Chester Township on 12^th July 1918, and was buried three days after at the Miami Cemetery in Waynesville. The informant of her death was her brother Horace Collett (below).

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Oliver Francis Collett was born at Chester Township on 2^nd July 1851, another son of Daniel and Maria Collett. As Francis Collett, he was ten years old in the Chester Township census of 1860, and was Frank Collett in 1870, when he was 20 years of age. His occupation was that of a mechanic. He died on 2^nd June 1913 at Burlington, Springvalley, Greene County in Ohio, where he was buried on 4^th June. His death certificate confirmed that he died from cancer of the pancreas and stomach, was 62 years and 11 months, married, a mechanic, and the son of Daniel H Collett of Lebanon in Warren County, and Maria McKay from Virginia. The informant of his passing was Mrs L Collett of New Burlington.

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Horace Waters Collett was born at Chester Township on 12^th April 1852, the last child of Daniel Haines Collett and Maria McKay. In the census of 1860, when he was eight years old, Horace Collett and his large family was still living in Chester Township, where he was 18 in 1870. It was ten years later, that as Horace Waters Collett aged 28, he was living with his widowed mother Maria, while also recorded with the family was Anna R Rayburn aged 20, Horace’s future wife. It was during 1881 that Horace Waters Collett married Rachel Anna Rayburn, and three years later their son James William Collett was born in Clinton County on 6^th July 1884. Rachel had been born at Springfield, Sangamon County in Illinois on 15^th January 1859, and was recorded as Ann in later records.

On the day of the census in 1900, Horace W Collett was 48 and a farmer who had married Ann Collett, aged 41, nineteen years earlier, with Ann having given birth to two children during those years, who were still living with the couple at New Burlington Village in Chester Township. The children were confirmed as James W Collett who was 17, and Maggie M Collett who was 14, both of them attending school. Ten years after that, their very recently married son and their daughter-in-law, plus their own daughter, were living with Horace and Ann at Chester Township in 1910, when Horace was 59 and a farmer, having a general farm, with his son working with him. Ann was 51.

By 1920, Horace W Collett was 67 when he and Rachel, aged 60, were still living at Chester Township with just their daughter Margaret M Collett, aged 33, still living with them. Horace Waters Collett had only been living at 532 South Detroit Street in Xenia, Greene County in Ohio, for three years and five days when died on 19^th October 1929, a retired farmer aged 77 years and 6 months. Two days later he was buried at Miami Cemetery, Corwin Road, Waynesville, Warren County, Ohio. The death certificate confirmed that his father was Daniel Collett from Rexanna, Ohio, while his mother was Maria McKay from Fredricksburg in Virginia. The informant of his death was his unmarried daughter Margaret Collett. His widow Rachel Anna Collett, nee Rayburn, passed away just over six years later on 15^th March 1936 at Xenia, Greene County in Ohio, also at the age of 77. The record of her death named her parents as James Rayburn and Margaret Haines, and stated that she was also buried at Miami Cemetery with her husband.

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James William Collett

Born in 1883 at Chester Township, Ohio

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Margaret Maria Collett

Born in 1886 at Chester Township, Ohio

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James Isaac Collett was born in Ohio on 21^st February 1832, the eldest child of Daniel M Collett and Sarah Kyle, who was living with them at Chester Township in 1851, aged 18, when he was recorded simply as Isaac Collett. Six years later he was still with his family at Chester Township when he died on 28^th April 1857, following which, he was buried at Jonah’s Run Cemetery.

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Samuel Byrel Collett was born in Ohio during September 1833 and was another son of Daniel and Sarah Collett. Samuel was 16 in 1851, when he and his family were living in Chester Township. Six years after that census day, Samuel became the couple’s eldest child following the premature death, at the age of twenty-five, of his brother James (above). It would appear that he may have been married three times in his life, on the first occasion the marriage of Samuel B Collett and (1) Susan Alexander took place on 23^rd December 1857 at Chester Township and was recorded at Clinton County. Susan’s father had already died, while her mother was named as Frances Hussey. It is unclear, whether or not they had any children because, later on in his life, Samuel married (2) Lottie Oliver/Lottie Ward from Indiana.

By the time of the census in 1880, Lottie had already given birth to her first child, when the three of them were living at Fairfield Township, in DeKalb County, Indiana. Physician Samuel Collett informed the census enumerator that he was 40, when he was nearly 47, probably out of embarrassment at being much older than his wife Lottie S Collett, who was only 25. Their son Curtis Collett was five months old on that census day on 23^rd June 1880, with an additional note that the month of his birth was December. When Curtis became a married man after the turn of the century, he gave his mother’s name as Lottie Oliver. It was when he died, that Curtis’ mother name was recorded (most likely in error) as Lottie Ward. Curtis may have been the couple’s only child, with Lottie not surviving to provide further offspring. The only occasion when their son was named as Curtis O Collett, was on the day he died.

The census in 1900 stated that Samuel B Collett had married (3) Elizabeth in 1885. The census return that year located the childless couple residing at 502 Caroline Street in Pleasant Township, Van Wert, when Samuel reported his age correctly as 67, with Elizabeth being 72, who helped him raise his son after Lottie died. Once again Samuel’s occupation was that of a physician, while Elizabeth had given birth to eight children prior to marrying Samuel, four of whom were still living. After a further four years, during which his wife passed away, when he was still residing in Van Wert, physician Samuel Byrel Collett died at Springfield in Clark County, Ohio, on 21^st June 1904 at the age of 70.

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Curtis O Collett

Born in 1879 at Dekalb County, Illinois

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John Collett was born in Ohio during 1836 and was the third son of Daniel and Sarah Collett. He was 14 years old in the census of 1850 when John was living with his family at Chester Township. No record of him has been found after 1850.

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William Robert Collett was born at Jamestown, Greene County, Ohio in April 1837, another son of Daniel M Collett and Sarah Kyle. According to the census in 1850, his family was residing at Chester Township, the birthplace of his father, where William was 12 years old and the fourth of nine children. By the time he was 22, William had already taken over from his father, managing the family’s farmland. That was confirmed in the next census of 1860, when the whole family was living at Xenia Township in Greene County, Ohio, when his was an attorney at law. In 1870, three years before William married Hannah Elizabeth Crouse, known as Lizzie, he was 33 and a farmer living at Cedarville Township in Greene County, with his 62-year-old mother Sarah K Collett, being assisted on the farm by his brother Seth (below). His father was absent that day, maybe because of his work as an attorney, while the only other siblings still living at the family home were Mildred A Collett who was 23, an Ella M Collett who was 19.

Approval for the marriage of William R Collett and Lizzie Crouse was given by the Probate Court in Greene County in writing on 25^th June 1873, after which the wedding day was recorded at Greene County. Once married, the couple settled at Van Wert in Van Wert County, Ohio, where all of their children were born. Two years later, William’s father died, from which time his widowed mother lived with William and his family. That situation was confirmed in the next census of 1880, when the family of William R Collett was residing at 25 Franklin Street in Van Wert when, living there with them, was William’s widowed mother Sarah K Collett aged 72. Head of the household, William was 43 and a grocer with a provisions store, his wife Lizzie Collett from Ludlow in Virginia was 34, their son Charles Collett was six, Daniel M Collett was three, and Walter R Collett was not yet one year old.

Where the family was located in 1890 has yet to be discovered. However, in 1900 they were living at 114 Franklin Street, Pleasant Township in Van Wert, where William R Collett was again working as a grocer at the age of 63 and had been married to Lizzie for twenty-six years, during which time she had given birth to five children who were all still alive. Lizzie was 54, having been born in May 1846. Their son Charles C Collett was 25 and working for his father, Daniel M Collett was 23, Walter R Collett was 20, James L Collett was 18 and still attending high school, and Raymond W Collett was 12 and at school. That was the only time that son James was referred to as James L Collett, as he was really James Monroe Collett, born during February 1882.

Four years after that day, William Robert Collett senior died on 28^th December 1904 at Van Wert, at the age of 67, and was buried there at Woodland Union Cemetery. His death record confirmed he was born in Greene County Ohio, a married man and a retired merchant, the son of Daniel M Collett and Sarah Kyle Collett. Lizzie survived him by twenty-two years, when Hannah Elizabeth Crouse Collett, aged 79, died at Lima on 8^th January 1926, and recorded at Van Wert County, after which she was buried with her husband at Woodland Union Cemetery in Van Wert, on 10^th January. The record of her passing confirmed that she was the widow of William Robert Collett, and that she was born on 10^th March 1846, the daughter of Charles Crouse and Mary Milburn.

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Charles Costin Collett

Born in 1874 at Van Wert, Ohio

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Daniel M Collett

Born in 1877 at Van Wert, Ohio

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Walter R Collett

Born in 1879 at Van Wert, Ohio

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James Monroe Collett

Born in 1882 at Van Wert, Ohio

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Raymond Walthew Collett

Born in 1888 at Van Wert, Ohio

NOTE:

Just to add confusion, there was another William R Collett who was born at Lebanon, Ohio, on 26^th October 1853 who was the son of William R Collett and Margaret van Horne, and died on 29^th December 1931 at Perry Township, Stark County, Ohio, aged 78, when he and Eltina Collett (his wife) were living at 711 Payne Street in Akron City, where he was buried. The earlier marriage of William R Collett and Eltina Marble was recorded at Summit County, Ohio, on 4^th December 1874. On the day of the census in 1910, William and Eltina had been married for 35 years and had given birth to six children, four of which were still living at that time, two of them living with the couple at Akron City, Ohio. Head of the household William R Collett was 56 and a commercial traveller in the grocery trade, Eltina Collett was 55, and their two sons were Kenneth Collette who was 23 and a mechanical draftsman, and Paul E Collette who was 15. Paul E Collette was born on 19^th February 1895 at Akron and he married Odette E Hastings, daughter of Terri S Hastings and Mildred Gray, on 18^th April 1916 and recorded at Summit County, Ohio. His military registration card, dated 5^th June 1917, described Paul E Collette as 22, married, residing at 231 Cassall Street in Akron, who was an employee at the Oak Rubber Company.

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Seth S Kyle Collett was born at Chester Township, Ohio on 13^th July 1839, another son of Daniel Collett and Sarah Kyle, who were recorded there on the day of the census in 1840 and 1850. Seth was ten years of age in the latter. His family moved to Xenia Township in Greene County, Ohio, during the 1850s, where they were living in 1860, when Seth Collett was 21. Although the census return did not credit him with a job of work, it seems likely that he was helping his brother William (above), who had taken over the running of the farm, following his father exchanging farming for the law courts. Another family move took place in the 1860s, with them living at Cedarville Township in Greene County in 1870.

It was the same situation as ten years earlier, with Seth S Collett, aged 31, a farmer who was again working with his older brother William, at the home of their parents. On that day, their father was any on business perhaps. Things changed over the next few years when the brothers Seth and William became married men in 1872 and 1873, and two years later their father passed away. The marriage of Seth S Collett and Viola C Shigley took place on 1^st August 1872 at Greene Township in Trumbull County, Ohio. Over the remainder of that decade, Viola gave birth to three sons, although only two of them survived. During those seven years the couple lived at Cedarville Township, where their first three children were born, including twin sons, before temporarily moving to Ross Township in Greene County.

It was there, in Ross Township, that the four members of the family were living on the day of the census in 1880. Seth Collett was a farmer who said he was 36 when in fact he was 41, probably out of embarrassment regarding the sixteen years age difference. His wife Viola Collett was 25, their two surviving sons were Warren C Collett who was six, and Joseph V Collett who was three years of age. By the time their next child was born in 1881, the family had left Ross Township, and was settled in Jamestown in Greene County.

After a gap of twenty years, during which no census records have been found, for 1890, Seth S Kyle Collett and Viola Collett were still residing at Jamestown village in Silvercreek Township in 1900. Seth was 60 and a farmer, who had been born during July 1839 and, who had been married to Viola Shigley for twenty-seven years. She was only 45 years old, having been born in April 1855. On that census day, the couple had three sons living with them and they were Joseph W Collett who was 23, Henry M Collett who was 20, and John McKay Collett who was eight years old and still at school.

According to the next census in 1910, when the family had reduced in size, they had returned to Cedarville Township, where head of the household was listed as Seth S Collett aged 59 and a farmer and an employer, having ‘a general farm’, and Viola Collett was 54. During their thirty-seven years together, she had given birth to five children, four of whom were still living. One of those four, was their youngest son John Collett who was 18 years old with no stated occupation, and the only child still living with them. Not long after that census, Seth S K Collett died at Cedarville Township on 21^st August 1910, when he was still said to be 60, instead of 61, and was buried at Jamestown Cemetery on 23^rd August. His father was confirmed at Daniel Collett, with his mother’s maiden-name being Kyle. However, the informant of his death, caused by ‘disease of the live, probably cancer’, was son John M Collett who said his father’s date of birth was 13^th July 1841, instead of 13^th July 1839.

Being so much younger, his widow remarried and, upon her death in 1934, she was named as Viola C Collett Haverstick, who was laid to rest at Old Silvercreek Cemetery after she had died at Jamestown, Silvercreek.

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Warren Curtis Collett

Born in 1873 at Cedarville Township, Ohio

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William B Collett twin

Born in 1876 at Cedarville Township, Ohio

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Joseph W Collett twin

Born in 1876 at Cedarville Township, Ohio

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Henry Moody Collett

Born in 1880 at Jamestown, Ohio

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John McKay Collett

Born in 1891 at Jamestown, Ohio

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Daniel Collett was born at Chester Township in 1841 and was the sixth son of Daniel and Sarah Kyle. He was eight years of age in the census of 1850 when he and his family were again living in Chester Township, and was 19 in 1860 but living at Xenia Township in Greene County. Ten years later, Daniel Collett who was born in 1841 died at Chester Township on 6^th November 1870, and was buried at Jonah’s Run Cemetery, when his family was residing in Cedarville Township in Greene County.

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Francis Collett was born at Chester Township in 1844 and was six years old in the census there in 1850. No obvious record of him has been found after 1850, not even a recorded of his death.

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Mildred A Collett was born at Chester Township 1846, and was eighth child and the eldest of the three daughters of Daniel and Sarah Collett at Ohio. As simply M A Collett, she was four years of age in the Chester Township census of 1850. By the time she was 14 years old, Mildred was 14 and living with her family at Xenia Township in Greene County in 1860. On leaving school, she stayed in the field of education, being a teacher, as did her two younger sisters. That was confirmed in the next census of 1870, when the family was living at Cedarville Township in Green County, where Mildred (Milard) Collett was 23.

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Julia A Collett was born at Chester Township in 1848, another daughter of Daniel and Sarah Collett. As J A Collett she was two years of age in 1850 when still living at Chester Township but, later on during the 1850s, the family moved to Xenia Township in Greene County, when Julie A Collett was 12 years old. Just like her two sisters Mildred (above) and Ella (below), Julia’s occupation in 1870 was also that of a teacher. On that occasion though, she was staying at Lima in Allen County, Ohio, at the home of John Collett, a sawyer from Ohio, and his wife Vesta from New York. As simply Julia Collett she was 21 and a teacher.

However, it was as Julia A Collett that she married Jacob O Stout on 20^th May 1880, possibly at Lima, with their wedding recorded at Allen County. It was during the following year that the first of their four known children was born, although Eva Stout did not survive and died on 6^th August 1881 at Greenville in Michigan, where she had been born. Within two years daughter Nesta Stout was born, no record of her birth found, and she was followed by their only son John Collett Stout who was born on 22^nd June 1885, his birth also recorded at Allen County. Their daughter Edna J Stout was born four years later, and she was 19 years old when she married 22-year-old Alexander Gonzalez from California, at Los Angeles on 1^st July 1908. The groom’s parents were named as Emanuel and Mercedes Gonzalez.

According to the census in 1900, the Stout family was living at 536 West High Street, Bath Township in Lima City, Allen County, where retired Jacob O Stout was 59 and born during the month of May in 1841. Julia A Stout was 50, and their three children were Nesta who was 18, John who was 15, and Edna who was 11, all of them still attending school for the previous eight months. Nothing more is currently known about the family, except that Julia was a widow in 1920 living Van Wert in Van Wert County at the age of 73. Two years after that day, Julia A Stout died on 13^th June 1922, her passing recorded at Greene County in Ohio.

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Ella M Collett was born at Chester Township in 1851 and was the tenth and last child of Daniel M Colet and Sarah Kyle. With their family complete, Daniel and Sarah moved to Xenia Township in Greene County, Ohio, where they were living in 1860. Another family moved took place after 1860, which saw the reduced family living at Cedarville Township in Greene County. Although Ella’s father died in 1875, he was not at home in 1870, when it was just two of her older brothers William and Seth, managing her parents farm, plus school teachers Mildred A Collett and Ella M Collett, who was 19. It would appear that Ella never married and that she died on 21^st July 1938, the death of Ella Collett recorded in the State of Ohio.

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Eleanor Collett was born in Greene County Ohio on 12^th October 1837 and was the eldest of the five children of Nathan Haines Collett and Mary S Hackney from Manchester in Virginia. She was two years old in 1840, and was 12 years of age in the Chester Township census of 1850, where Eleanor and her family were living on that day. She was 22 in 1860, with no stated job of work, when the family was living within the Oakland Post Office district of Chester Township. Another family move took place during the 1860, which saw them residing within the Wilmington Post office district of Chester Township with Eleanor Collett being 33 in 1870, when all five siblings were still living with their parents.

Eleanor was again living with her family at Chester Township in 1880, where her father was still farming the land, and when once again Eleanor had no occupation, at the age of 42, like her two younger sisters Hannah and Louisa (below). Following the death of their father in 1889 and their mother in 1891, Eleanor was head of the house when she and her two sisters were recorded at New Burlington in 1900. All three sisters were described as farmers, on land in their ownership, when Eleanor was 63 and employing 28-year-old Patrick Jordan as a farm labourer. After another decade, Eleanor was 72 and a farmer, having a general farm at Chester Township, while her two younger sisters living there with her, Hannah and Louisa, were surviving on their own income. Helping Eleanor with the farm was hired hand John Marlett who was 37 and a farm labourer.

By 1920, the same three sisters had moved to nearby Wilmington in Clinton County, where head of the household Eleanor Collett was 82 at 336 North Walnut Street, when Hannah was 78 and Louisa was 73. It was at that same address that Eleanor Collett died on 25^th April 1922, at the age of 84, after which she was buried on 28^th April at Miami Cemetery in Waynesville, where her father was buried in 1889. The record of her death confirmed that her address was 336 North Walnut Street in Wilmington, where her sister Hannah was living when she died four years later, and where her brother Hugh Sidwell Collett and sister Louisa Collett (below) were living after Hannah passed away. It was Hannah who was the informant of Eleanor’s death, who also confirmed their parents were Nathan H Collett and Mary S Hackney, and that Eleanor had been born in Greene County, Ohio.

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Hannah Collett was born on 15^th June 1841 in Greene County, the second daughter of Nathan and Mary Collett who was eight years old in the Chester Township census of 1850. After completing her schooling, Hannah entered into the world of education, as confirmed in the next census in 1860. That day, Hannah Collett was a school teacher at the age of 18, when she was still living with her family in the Oakland Post Office area of Chester Township. Thereafter, Hannah was not recorded as having an occupation in the subsequent census returns, except that of 1900, when she and her unmarried sisters were described as farmers, having taken over the family’s farm by then, following the deaths of both parents in 1889 and 1891. For the census years prior to their passing, Hannah was 28 in the 1870 census for Chester Township, and where she was 38 in 1880. By the time she was 59, she and her sister were living at New Burlington in 1900, and was 68 in 1910 census, back at Chester Township.

Towards the end of her life, unmarried Hannah Collett was 78, when she and her sister Louisa (below) were living at 336 North Walnut Street in Wilmington, the home they shared with their 82-year-old sister Eleanor Collett (above). None of the three of them had an occupation, with Hannah and Louisa confirmed as the younger sisters of Eleanor, who died two years later. Four years after losing her sister, Hannah was 85 when she died on 1^st August 1926 at Union Township, Wilmington, Clinton County and was buried at Waynesville Cemetery on 3^rd August. The record of her death confirmed that her last address was 336 North Walnut Street, where her sister Louisa and brother Hugh were living after 1926. The informant of her passing was Howard Collett (Ref.52P40) of Wilmington, when her parents were confirmed as Nathan and Mary Collett.

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Rebecca Collett was born at Lebanon in Warren County, Ohio, in 1844, another daughter of Nathan and Mary Collett. She was six in Chester Township census of 1850, was 16 in the Oakland Post Office district of Chester Township in 1860, and was 26 in 1870, when she was still living with her family, but as Wilmington Post Office area Chester Township. It was four years later, during 1874, when Rebecca Collett married missionary William Kendall McKibben, with whom she had four known children. In the census of 1900, the six members of the family were residing in Granville Village, Granville Township in Licking County, Ohio. William was 52, Rebecca said she was 51, when she was actually 56, son Ernest McKibben was 21, daughters Grace McKibben and Irene M McKibben were 19 and 17, and son Vinton M McKibben was nine years of age. The three eldest children had been born in China, while William was on a missionary tour to that country.

Daughter Grace McKibben had been born on 5^th January 1881. Upon her later death, after marrying Hayward D Warner, she was referred to as Grace McKibben Warner, who died at 1671 Sixth Street in Chehalis, Lewis County in Washington, at the age of 52. Son Vinton Moore McKibben was born on 10^th November 1890 at King’s Hill in Warren County, Ohio. He was 23 when he married Gertrude Burmeister, aged 22, on 4^th February 1914 at Los Angeles, California, when his parents were confirmed as William McKibben and Rebecca Collett.

William Kendall McKibben was 86 when he died on 15^th December 1934 at 3515 Wood Park Avenue in Seattle, King County in Washington, whose wife was confirmed as Rebecca Collett McKibben. His occupation was that of a White Cross Social Worker, who had been born at Lima, Ohio on 6^th April 1848. No record of the passing of Rebecca Collett McKibben has so been found.

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Louisa Collett was born at Chester Township on 18^th March 1846, the fourth daughter of Nathan and Mary Collett. She was four years old in 1850 at Chester Township, was 14 in 1860 again at Chester Township, but in the Oakland Post Office district. Louisa was again with her parents at Chester Township in 1870 at the age of 23, younger than she actually was, which happened and in 1880, when she was recorded in error as 32. In 1889 her father died and in 1891 her mother was laid to rest, after which Louisa, together with her two older unmarried sisters, took over management of their parents’ farm.

That situation was confirmed in the census of 1900 although, by then, the land they were working was at New Burlington, where Louisa Collett was 54, her correct age. However, by 1910 the three sisters were once again residing at Chester Township when Louisa was 64. Another change of address during the following years, which became the wider family home, that was 336 North Walnut Street in Union Township, Wilmington, Clinton County, where Louisa, aged 73, and her older sisters Eleanor and Hannah, were recorded in 1920. The three of them of were finally reduced in number when, first Eleanor died in 1922, and then Hannah in 1926, leaving Louisa on her own, that is until her widowed brother Hugh moved in with her.

It was also at 336 North Walnut Street that she and Hugh were living in 1930, when she was 84. There were still living at that address when Louisa Collett died on 17^th September 1934, her death record confirmed that she was born at Chester Township, the daughter of Nathan and Mary Collett, and was buried at Waynesville Cemetery on 20^th September 1934. Perhaps, surprisingly, it was not her brother Hugh who informed the authorities of her passing, instead, it was Howard Collett (Ref. 52P44), who was also the informant of the earlier death of her sister Hannah (above).

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Hugh Sidwell Collett was born at Chester Township in 1850, but just after the census that year, and was the fifth and youngest child of Nathan Haines Collett and his wife Mary. He was 10 years old and 20 years of age in the Chester Township’s next two census returns, when he and his family were respectively residing at Oakland Post Office district, and then at Wilmington Post Office district of the township. For the latter event, he was helping his father on the farm but, on becoming a married man, he set up home on the adjacent farmland, as confirmed in the census of 1880. Hugh S Collett was 29 and a farmer at #41 Chester Township, where his wife Mary M Collett was 28, and their son Ewing N Collett was one years old. Living at #42 were Hugh’s parents, with his three unmarried sisters.

Two years earlier the marriage of Hugh S Collett and Mary Matthie took place on 14^th February 1878 and was recorded at Warren County, with their son born twelve months later. Not long after the birth of their second son, Hugh and the family moved to a new farm in Kansas, where the couple’s third son was born. In 1895, the census that year identified the five members of the family living at Ninnescah Township in Sedgwick County, Kansas, where farmer Hugh was 44, Mary was 43, Ewing was 16, Ernest was 12, and the latest arrival for four. Twenty years later, it was just Hugh and Mary who were listed in the 1915 census for Ottawa in Franklin County, Kansas, when they were 64 and 63. It was there also that they were still living in 1920, aged 69 and 68.

Mary Matthie Collett passed away during the 1920s, at which time Hugh was reunited with his sister Louisa Collett who were living together in 1930 at 336 Walnut Street, Union Township, Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio. That property was previously occupied by his three unmarried sisters, with only the youngest of the three, Louisa, being still alive in 1930. For that census, Hugh S Collett was 79, and Louisa Collett was 84. On the death of his sister four years later, Hugh travelled to Indiana to live with his son George A Collett at Mills Place, Union Township in Montgomery County, where he was 89 in 1940. He survived for a further two years, when he died at Crawfordsville in 1942 and was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery.

52Q17

Ewing Nathan Collett

Born in 1879 at Chester Township, Ohio

52Q18

Ernest B Collett

Born in 1882 at Chester Township, Ohio

52Q19

George A Collett

Born in 1890 at Clearwater, Sedgwick, Kansas

52P25

Henry Boyce Collett was born in Darke County, Ohio on 11^th September 1841, the first-born child of Jonathan Collett and Frances Mariah Boice (Boyce). He was possibly born at Greenville Township where he and his farming family were living in 1850, when he was nine years old. He was named as Henry B Collett, with the B perhaps his mother’s maiden-name, but thereafter referred to as simply Henry Collett. It was during the first half of 1867, when he was 25, that he married (1) Sarah Ann Deardoff, Sarah having been born on 18^th August 1839 at Bethany, Butler County, Ohio. She presented Henry with a total seven children, with four of them recorded with the couple in 1880, when the six of them were living at Brown Township in Darke County.

That year the family comprised farmer Henry who was 38, Sarah was 40, John was 11 and was already working on the farm, Anna was eight, Martha was seven, and William was five years old. Completing the household was Sarah’s mother Deborah Deardoff aged 64, farm labourer and servant John Peats aged 24, and domestic servant Mary Ehrman. Living in the adjacent property to the Collett family was the family of Sarah’s younger brother William C Deardoff aged 36 and another farmer, with his wife Caroline and their five children. Sadly, by that time, the youngest child of Henry and Sarah had suffered an infant death, with the birth of Augustus Collett at Brown Township recorded at Darke County on 20^th August 1876, when his mother was confirmed as Sarah Deardoff.

Henry was widowed sometime after the start of the new century, following which he married (2) Lavenia A Sieg at Hardin County Ohio on 18^th April 1908. Henry was confirmed as a widower, the son of Jonathan Collett and Frances M Brice (sic), born in Darke County, while Lavenia from Hardin County was named as the daughter of Paul K Sieg and Rebecca Mannieote. Lavenia was born at Ansonia, Ohio, on 20^th August 1850. Two years after their wedding day the couple was recorded in Brown Township at 93 Canal Street, where Henry was 68 and living on his own income and Lavenia was 58.

It was the same situation in 1920, when they were again living at Canal Street in Brown Township, by which time Henry Collett was 78 and Lavenia Collett was 69. It would appear that Henry lived all of this life in Darke County, at the end of which less than two years later, and curiously recorded as W Henry Collett, he died there on 5^th February 1922, when he was 72 years old, and was buried at Greenville Union Cemetery in Greenville Township.

52Q20

John Collett

Born in 1869 at Brown Township, Ohio

52Q21

Anna Collett

Born in 1872 at Brown Township, Ohio

52Q22

Martha Collett

Born in 1874 at Brown Township, Ohio

52Q23

William H Collett

Born in 1875 at Brown Township, Ohio

52Q24

Augustus Collett

Born in 1876 at Brown Township, Ohio

52P26

Maranda Collett was born at Darke County, Ohio during 1843 and was the second child and eldest daughter of Jonathan and Frances Collett, with whom she was living at Greenville Township in 1850 at the age of seven years. She later married Andrew Baird and, on the occasion of the marriage of their daughter Cora Dell Baird at Darke County on 10^th August 1905, the bride’s mother’s name was confirmed as Maranda Collett. The groom was P O Coblentz, aged 50, son of Lewis Coblentz and Julie Miller, with Cora only 33 years of age. Cora was born on 21^st September 1874 and died on 21^st January 1938, having previously suffered the loss of her husband Andrew.

The older daughter of Maranda and Andrew was Mary Ellen Baird who was born on 4^th November 1869, and she married Frank Weaver. When Mary Ellen Weaver died at Greenville on 27^th June 1944 her parents were confirmed as Andrew Baird and Maranda Collett, by which time, she to was a widow.

52P29

Sally M Collett was born at Chester Township on 17^th February 1856, the first child of Moses Collett and Mary Jane Smith. Sally married into the Cooke family, but tragically was not married very long when her husband died or was killed. By the time of the census of 1880 Sally M Cooke was a widow at the age of twenty-four and was once again living with her parents on their farm in Chester. It has not been determined at this time if Sally ever remarried. What is known is that Sally M Cooke nee Collett died on 27^th September 1917.

52P30

James Collett was born at Chester Township on 28^th October 1860, where he also died nine months later on 31^st July 1861.

52P31

Edwin S Collett was born at Chester Township on 6^th August 1862 and was seventeen years old at the time of the census in 1880 when he was working at home in Chester with his family. Edwin was in his late thirties when he married Norma Scott on 12^th October 1910. Norma was over sixteen years younger than Edwin, having been born at Chester Township on 17^th December 1878. The marriage produced no issue for the couple and only lasted for just over five years when Norma died on 17^th May 1916. Edwin S Collett died eight years later on 6^th May 1924.

52P32

Benjamin Collett was born at Chester Township on 28^th December 1866 and was thirteen years old in 1880 when he was working at home on the farm in Chester. Very little else is known about Benjamin except that he died on 9^th September 1901 when he was just thirty-four years old.

52P33

Bertha Virginia Collett was born at Chester Township on 21^st September 1871 and was eight years of age in the Chester census of 1880. Bertha never married and her home address was 322 East Locust Street in Wilmington, Union Township in Ohio when she died at Columbia, Hamilton County in Ohio on 5^th June 1936 at the age of 64. She was buried at Waynesville in Warren County, Ohio on 8^th June 1936, while the record of her death confirmed her parents were Moses N Collett and Mary Jane Smith from Waynesville, which was also stated in error as the place of birth of Bertha Virginia Collett.

52P34

Allie Maria Collett was born at Chester Township on 26^th February 1877, the youngest child of Moses Collett and Mary Jane Smith. With her absence from the census of 1880 when she would have been almost three years old, it must be assumed that she had already died by then.

52P35

Allen Collett was born at Chester Township on 28^th September 1851 and, it was just one week before his first birthday, that he died there on 7^th October 1852

52P36

Bernard Yeo Collett, who was known within the family as Bernie, was born at Chester Township on 7^th August 1853, the only surviving son of Benjamin Collett and Sarah Yeo. As simply Bernard Collett, he was seven years old in the Chester Township census of 1860, the only child living within the Oakland Post Office district of the township. He received his education at the school in Chester Township and at Harveysburg. Bernard married Emma Shidaker on 23^rd December 1874 and was one of the most widely known and highly respected farmers of Chester Township. Emma was born on 16^th October 1856 and she presented Bernard with a daughter.

The Chester Township census in 1880, identified the couple and their daughter living at #40, next door to Bernard’s parents (Ref. 52O14) at #39, while at #38 was uncle Moses N Collett (Ref. 52O13) with his family, at #41 was unknown Hugh S Collett, and at #42 uncle Nathan H Collett (Ref. 52O11) and his family. All of them involved in farming. In 1880 Bernard Y Collett was 26, his wife M Emma Collett was 22, and daughter Edith Collett was one year old.

Bernard was a farmer virtually all of his life, and following the death of his wife Emma on 27^th November 1903, and that of his mother four years later in 1907, he and his sister Anna (below) joined forces and took over their parents’ farm. At one stage Bernard’s farm-holding extended to three hundred and thirty acres. A few years later, as a Republican, Bernard was elected as a delegate from Clinton County to the constitutional convention of 1912. In 1914, the Collett families of Clinton County celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the arrival of the family in that area of America.

One hundred and one members of the family attended the reunion, and during the years since then, the Collett and McKay families have held an annual summer picnic to mark the occasion, and all of them, up to 1926, were attended by Bernard Yeo Collett, who died later that same year on 18^th October 1926. His death record provided the following information. The informant of his death at the age of 73, was his sister Miss Nan Collett (below) of Wilmington, Ohio, he was buried at the Miami Cemetery in Waynesville, and both he and his parents (Benjamin Collett and Sarah Yeo) were all recorded at Harveysburg, which is questionable, since in no census return was the family every living anywhere other than Chester Township.

52Q25

Edith Collett

Born in 1879 at Chester Township, Ohio

52P37

Mary Collett was born at Chester Township on 26^th February 1862 and was four months short of her ninth birthday when she died there on 6^th November 1870. The death record stated that she was born and died at Chester Township and was eight years and eight months old. Previous written here, in error, was the statement that she had been born at Harveysburg. The very next record of a death, after that of Mary, was 64-year-old Daniel Collett

52P38

Anna Mary Collett, who was also known as Nan, was born on 26^th December 1872 at Chester Township, where she was baptised and where her family was living in 1860 and 1870. That is, despite the Family Bible stating that her parents, Benjamin Collett and Sarah Yeo, had left Chester Township in Clinton County for Harveysburg in Warren County around 1867. Her second name was very likely a tribute to her late sister. By the time of the census in 1880, she was seven years old and was described as Anna M Collett of Ohio, when she was the only child still living with her parents at Chester Township. In 1926, it was as Miss Nan Collett, that she informed the authorities of the passing of her brother Bernard Yeo Collett (above). Anna Mary Collett never married and survived well into her old age, when she died around 1940.

52P39

Nathan J Collett was born on 25^th January 1865, the first child of William Collett and Elizabeth Macy, and he may have been born at Clinton County, Ohio, where his parents were married, before moving to Warren County. Tragically, he survived for just over three and a half years, when he died on 1^st August 1868 and was buried at Miami Cemetery, Corwin Avenue in Waynesville, Warren County, Ohio

52P40

George T Collett was born on 30^th January 1866, the second child of William Collett and Elizabeth Macy. George was around thirty months old when his brother Nathan (above) died and sadly, he too followed, when he died at Massie Township in Warren County on 30^th October 1875, just a few months before his tenth birthday. He was then laid to rest with his brother at Miami Cemetery.

52P41

Mary S Collett was born at Massie Township, Ohio, on 8^th April 1877, the tragic third and last child of William Collett and Elizabeth Macy who died there, after just two months, on 15^th June 1877. She was buried with her two brothers at Miami Cemetery.

52P42

Harry Ewing Collett was born at Paola in Miami County, Kansas, on 30^th November 1870 and shortly after he was born his parents settled in Chester Township where all of his six younger siblings were born. Harry Ewing Collett was nine years old in the census of 1880 and was living at Chester with his family. He died on 14^th January 1938 at Sabina in Clinton County and was buried at the Miami Cemetery in Waynesville.

52P43

Arnold Sabin Collett was born at Chester Township on 28^th April 1873, the second child of Robert Collett and Henrietta Sabin. He was living with his family at Chester Township in 1880, when he was seven years of age. Nothing beyond that day, certainly for the next forty years, is known about Arnold, except he married Cassie Graham (1878-1962), with whom he had a son Robert. The census in 1920 identified the family living at Chester Township, where Arnold S Collett was 46 and a farmer, Cassie G Collett was 44, and Robert G Collett was five years of age. By 1930, the family was residing at 267 Collett Street in Chester Township, when Arnold S Collett was 57 and still working as a farmer, Cassie was 55, and Robert was 15.

After another decade, it was the same situation, with farmer Arnold S Collett being 66, Cassie Collett being 64, when son Robert Collett was 25 and a farm labourer. That day they were living on Highway 13 at New Burlington in Chester Township, just along the road from farmer Thomas Collett (Ref. 52R2) was 25 and a farmer and a married man living on Highway 13 with his wife Louise who was also 25 and from Ohio, together with their one-year-old daughter Sue Anne Collett. It was two years later, as A S Collett, that he informed the authorities of the passing of his aunt, 64-year-old spinster Harriet Collett (Ref. 52O25) of Chester Township in 1923, she being the cousin of Arnold’s father Robert. It was nineteen years later, on 28^th June 1942, that Arnold Sabin Collett died at Clinton County in Ohio.

52Q26

Robert Graham Collett

Born in 1914 at Chester Township; died 1964

52P44

HOWARD COLLETT was born at Chester Township on 25^th May 1876, the son of farmer Robert Collett and Henrietta Wilgus Sabin. He was four years old in the Chester census of 1880 and was still a bachelor twenty years later when he was still living with his parents at Chester at the age of 24 in 1900. It was nine years after that when he married (1) Mary Stokes Tibbals at Warren County in Ohio on 9^th September 1909. The record of the marriage confirmed that Howard was 33 and the son of Robert Collett and Etta Sabin, while Mary was 32 and the daughter of Wallace Tibbals and Adella Stokes.

Once married they settled initially in Wilmington in Clinton County where they were recorded on the day of the census in 1910, when Howard Collett was 34 and Mary Collett was 33. Over the next decade Mary present Howard with at least two children, who were both living with the couple at 214 Tenesdale Street in Union Township, Wilmington in 1920. Howard Collett was a surveyor for Clinton County, when he and Mary Collett were both 43, and the two children were listed as Henrietta Collett who was eight and Wallace T Collett who was five years of age. Also living with the family that day was Mary’s mother Adella Tibbals who was 76, and Mary’s older sister Flora Tibbals who was 50. In 1926 Howard was the informant of the death of his elderly cousin, spinster Hannah Collett (Ref. 52P21), and again for her unmarried sister Louisa Collett (Ref. 52P23) in 1934.

It was a very similar situation ten years later when the Wilmington census of 1930 for Union Township included Howard Collett who was again a surveyor, and Mary Collett, both being 54 years old, their daughter Henrietta Collett who was 18, and their son Wallace Collett who was 15. Again, living with the family was Adella Tibbals who was 86, and Flora Tibbals who was 60. By that time in his life, Howard was the owner of their home at 736 Pattison Place, which had a value of $5,000. Howard’s wife Mary Stokes Collett, nee Tibbals, passed away during the 1930s, following which Howard married his sister-in-law, (2) Flora Tibbals. That was confirmed by the census in 1940 when the couple was still living at the same address, where Howard Collett was 63 and Flora T Collett was 70. The elderly couple’s housekeeper was named as Catherine Clevenger who was 26. Howard Collett died fourteen years later, sometime during 1954.

52Q27

Henrietta Collett

Born in 1912 at Wilmington, Ohio

52Q28

WALLACE TIBBALS COLLETT

Born in 1914 at Wilmington, Ohio

52P45

Harriet Sabin Collett was born at Chester Township on 13^th July 1878, with her birth recorded at Clinton County where her parents were confirmed as Robert Collett and Etta Sabin. She was simply recorded as Harriet Collett aged one year in the Chester census of 1880, but seven years after that day, she died on 19^th October 1897, at nine years of age.

52P46

Horace Clinton Collett, who was also known as Garfield, was born at Chester Township on 12^th July 1880 and survived to see his nineteenth birthday but died shortly after on 13^th August 1899

52P47

Maurice Collett was born at Chester Township on 20^th December 1885 and it is known that he later died while in New York.

52P48

ROBERT McGilvrey COLLETT was born at Chester Township on 16^th December 1892 and had lived a very long life when he died in 1980.

52P49

John Dunlap Collett was born in Indiana on 15^th March 1862 and was eighteen and working in farming at the time of the census of 1880, when he was still living with his family at Vermillion. Two things happened six years later. First, he graduated from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana in 1886, following which at the end of that year he married Olive C Parrett on 30^th December 1886 at Newport in Indiana. When his parents were married in 1861, the marriage service was carried out by John W Parrett, who was very likely Olive’s father, or some other relative. Olive was born on 16^th November 1869, and their marriage produced just one son for the couple, who also had a later connection with Wabash College.

52Q29

John Parrett Collett

Born in 1902 at Newport, Indiana

52P50

Eva Collett was born in Indiana on 10^th March 1864 and was sixteen in the census of 1880 when she was still at School. Four years later, just following her twentieth birthday, she married Adam B Littlepage at Charleston in West Virginia on 8^th April 1884, with the Reverend John W Parrett officiating at the service. Adam was born at Charleston on 14^th April 1859 and died on 1^st July 1921 and was buried at Charleston. The marriage produced two children for the couple at Charleston, while it is known that Eva outlived her husband by around twenty years.

Frances Littlepage was born at Charleston in West Virginia on 25^th July 1885, the eldest of the two children of Ellen Collett and her husband Adam B Littlepage. One source uses the masculine spelling for her first name, Francis, which may be just a simple error. Frances later married Fletcher Irwin, but the married did not produce any offspring for the couple. Stephen Collett Littlepage was born at Charleston on 4^th December 1886, the only son of Adam and Ellen Littlepage. Stephen married Margaret Payne on 22^nd November 1919 with whom he had a daughter.

52P51

Samuel Dunlap Collett was born at Newport in Indiana on 27^th October 1868, the third of five children of Stephen Stevenson Collett and his wife Sarah Jane Dunlap. He was eleven years old in 1880 when living with his family in Vermillion and he graduated from Rose Polytechnic Institute in 1890. He was an engineer and was nearly forty years old when he married Genevieve Tissot Westlake in Brooklyn, New York on 27^th October 1909.

Jennie, as she was known, was born on 7^th December 1881 and, less than two years after they were married, she presented Samuel with a daughter, their only child. Samuel Dunlap Collett was still living at Brooklyn when he died on 26^th December 1933. His widow Jennie Collett nee Westlake was 89 when she died nearly thirty-six years later on 4^th November 1970 at the family home on Shelter Island, New York.

52Q30

Jane Tissot Collett

Born in 1911 at New York

52P52

Benjamin Dunlap Collett, who was known as Ben, was born on 25^th August 1873 and sadly died on 1^st June 1880 at Newport when he was only seven years old. He was also listed as being seven years old in the 1880 Census while living with his family in Vermillion.

52P53

Frederick Dunlap Collett, who was known as Fred, was born on 7^th November 1875 and was five years old in the Vermillion census of 1880. When he was eleven years old his eldest brother John (above) graduated from Wabash College in Crawfordsville during 1886, while it was not until 1902 that Fred Collett attended the same college. He married (1) Blanche Howard who either suffered a premature death prior to 1918 or was divorced from Fred by then. On 12^th September 1918, when he completed his military draft registration at Penniman in York County, Virginia, he claimed his next-of-kin was his wife of a different name. On that day, Fred Dunlap Collett, aged 42 and born on 7^th November 1875, was a clerk with the Du Pont Engineering Company in Penniman, when he and his wife, Mrs Augusta M Collett, were living at 806 Seventh Street in Penniman. In fact, it was on 4^th April 1919, when divorced Fred Dunlap, aged 39 (sic) and from Newport, married (2) Augusta Marie Speek at York Town in York County. Fred was confirmed as the son of Stephen S Collett and Sarah J Collett, while Augusta was described as being 23 years of age and born at Stewart Draft in Virginia, the daughter of W L Speek and Emma Speek.

During the next eleven years Augusta Marie Collett must have died since, on the day of the census in 1930, Fred D Collett was 49 (sic), when he was lodging at the home of Robert and Mary Goss in Richmond in Virginia, and when he was described as clerical, working from home. It was later that same year when, at the age of 55, he died at Richmond on 21^st August 1930, although he was buried at Newport in Indiana. Thirty years earlier, an article in the Newport Hoosier State newspaper on Wednesday 20^th December 1899 recorded the death of his daughter in the following way. “Little Josephine, daughter of Mr & Mrs Fred D Collett of this place, died about 2.30 o’clock last Monday morning at the age of eight months and four days. Josephine was a sweet little girl and was the idol of her parents, who are grief stricken over her death. Her death was sudden, number of people not knowing she was sick. She took sick Friday, but it was not thought she was dangerously ill until yesterday afternoon at the house, the Reverend Rodgers officiating, after which her remains were laid away to rest in the Thomas Cemetery, northwest of town.”

52Q31

Josephine Collett

Born on 14.04.1899; died 18.12.1889

52Q2

Daniel Harrison Collett was born at New Richmond in Indiana on 4^th February 1873, the second of the three children of Moses McKay Collett and Mary Harrison. After the birth of all three children at Indiana, his parents returned to the State of their births, that being Ohio, where the family was living in 1880 when Daniel Harrison Collett was seven years old. Thereafter, there is a big gap in his life and that of his parents who, by 1900 were living at Port Jefferson, where Daniel’s father died three years later. By that time Daniel was a married man with a daughter, who was working as a dentist. It was during 1895 that the marriage of Daniel H Collett and Emma Burkamp took place, with their daughter born at Chillicothe in Ross County, Ohio in 1899. Emma had been born in Kentucky in 1874, the daughter of German parents.

By 1910, the family of three was residing at Toledo City, Lucas County in Ohio, where Daniel was a dentist at the age of forty, having been married for fifteen years. Emma was also forty, and had given birth to one who was still living with the couple. She was Ruth H Collett who was 10 years of age and born at Chillicothe. The next family record was Daniel’s enlistment record for military service. That was dated 12^th September 1918, when Daniel Harrison Collett was living at 133 Main Street, Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. He was 45 years old, with his date of birth as indicated above, whose occupation was that of a dentist, who was working at his home address, when his wife was Emma Collett.

In 1920 they were the only two people living at 133 Main Street in Toledo City, where Daniel H Collett from Indiana was 47 and a dentist, and Emma Collett from Kentucky was 45. For the next census in 1930, independent dentist Daniel H Collett was 57 and the owner of the property, valued at $15,000, that was the family home at 4203 Berwick Avenue in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. Emma B Collett was 56, and was 21 years of age when she married Daniel who was 22. Back living with the couple was their daughter Ruth Collett Lamb, aged 30 and a divorcee, a sales lady in a dress shop, who was married when she was 18. Accompanying her mother, was Daniel and Emma’s granddaughter, Nancy C Lamb who was nine years old, with both mother and daughter born in Ohio.

It was two years later that Daniel Harrison Collett of 4203 Berwick Avenue died on 3^rd May 1932, the cause of death being a ruptured aorta. He was 59 and described as a Doctor of Dentistry, who wife was Emma Collett. His place of birth was confirmed as New Richmond (a town in Coal Creek Township, Montgomery County) in Indiana, and his parents were confirmed as Moses Collett and Mary Harrison. Daniel was buried on 6^th May at New Park Cemetery in Toledo City.

52R1

Ruth H Collett

Born in 1899 at Chillicothe, Ohio

52Q3

Abbie Marie Collett was born at New Richmond, Indiana on 26^th January 1877, the youngest of the three children of Moses McKay Collett and Mary Harrison. Within the couple of years after she was born, her parents returned to Chester Township in Ohio, where they were born, and where the family was living in 1880, when Abbie M Collett was three years old. It was on 15^th May 1895 when Abbie Marie Collett married Charles Calmer Clapper at Shelby City in Richland County, Ohio. The licence for the couple to be married was signed on 14^th May 1895 when Charles was 24 and from McDonald, Ohio, and when Abbie was 18 and from Port Jefferson, Ohio. Five years after their wedding day, the couple and their daughter were living at Salem Township, Adamsville in Muskingum County, Ohio, where Charles C Clapper was 30 and a school teacher, Abbie M Clapper was 23, and Mary E Clapper was three years of age and born during April 1897.

Ten years later, the same three members of the family were living at 1636 West Street in Dayton, Montgomery County, in 1910. Charles was no longer a teacher instead, aged 39, he was an insurance agent for the Prudential, when Abbie was 33, and Mary was 13. By the time of census in 1920, Charles and Abbie were again living Dayton but at 54 West Mamma Avenue, when their daughter had left home. She was replaced by the couple’s son Charles L Clapper junior who was eight years old, when Charles senior was 49 and a salesman of auto parts, and Abbie was 43.

It was at the same address in Dayton City that the three of them were recorded in 1930 at 59, 53, and 18 years of age, when Charles senior was still working as an insurance salesman, and Charles junior was a salesman in a grocery store. In 1940, at the age of 69, Charles was an operator at the county sewerage plant, when his wife was 63, living alone at 52 West Mamma Avenue in Dayton. Abbie was 79 years old when her death was recorded at Dayton in Montgomery County, Ohio, as Abbie Marie Collett Clapper who passed away on 12^th November 1956, after which she was buried at Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum in Dayton.

52Q4

James William Collett was born at Clinton County on 6^th July 1883 the only known son of Horace Waters Collett and Rachel Ann Rayburn. At the time of his death, his date of birth was recorded as 6^th July 1884, while all of the earlier records say it was 6^th July 1883. It was at New Burlington Village in Chester Township that James W Collett was 16 when he and his sister Maggie (below), aged 13, were living there with their parents in 1900. It was during 1909 when James married Laura Amanda McCoy with whom he later had a son who was born in Clinton County, while in 1910 the recently married couple was still living with James’ parents at Chester Township. James was 26 and was working with his father of the family’s farm, his wife Laura was 27, and also still living there was James’ unmarried sister Margaret who was 23. The disagreement between the two families arose from the fact that Laura was joint owner with her brother Elmer of the farm in which Elmer, his wife and daughter lived. Elmer also owed money to James, who requested that the three members of the McCoy family vacate the property in order for his son Thomas Collett to live there, which was presumably opposed by Elmer.

In both the 1920 and 1930 census returns the couple and their son were residing at Chester Township where James W Collett was 36 and a farmer with his own account, as he was aged 47 respectively, his wife Laura A Collett was 37 and 47, and son Thomas was five years of age and 15 years old. In the latter census it was stated that James and Laura were both 26 years old when they were married. In 1917 the name of James W Collett of Clinton County, date of birth 6^th July 1883, was included in the Draft for the First World War, and again in 1942, when as James William Collett of Wilmington in Clinton County he was included in the Draft Registration for the Second World War. Also, on that list his date of birth was again given as 6^th July 1883. By the time of the census in 1940 their son was married and James, aged 56, and Laura, aged 57, were living in New Burlington, where their son and his family were also recorded.

During his life he was a prominent and prosperous pig breeder in Clinton County, that is until he fell foul-of-the-law, when he was accused and imprisoned in the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus for the triple murder of his brother-in-law Elmer McCoy aged 59, his wife Forest McCoy aged 64 and their daughter Mildred McCoy who was 22, at the McCoy farm near Washington Court House. He was subsequently convicted by a Fayette County jury on 10^th March 1944 for the fatal shootings, the first Ohioan ever tried on three first degree murder charges simultaneously.

He was incarcerated in the Ohio State Penitentiary in Columbus on 31^st March 1944 and, on Monday 22^nd May 1944, The Evening Independent newspaper published an article under the headline ‘Collett is Lonely Old Man in Pen's Death Row’. The article included the following details:

Warden Frank D Henderson reported today that since imprisonment of the 60-year-old man on March 31, Collett's only visitor was wife, Laura on April 24. The warden said visitors were permitted daily except Sunday and added: "In Collett's case I would be willing to waive all regulations and allow his family to see him outside regular visiting hours and also on Sunday, but no one has asked to do so." Collett's 29-year-old son, Thomas, has not seen the condemned man since his trial last March at which time he cried out "he was the best father a boy ever had." Collett - now No. 81269 - is confined in a cell 5 feet 6 inches wide x 10 feet long, just 200 yards from the electric chair where he was scheduled to die on July 26. (However, Collett's conviction has been appealed, which automatically stays his execution until a ruling is handed down by the higher court.) A runway, 5 feet wide x 35 feet long connects his cell with that of the only other occupant of death row, 18-year-old Henry Hagert, convicted slayer of 12-year-old twin boys in Cleveland. The warden said Collett was "turned out for exercise" in the runway twice a day. The white-haired, frail farmer has required considerable medical attention and invariably wears his high, plastic neck brace to relieve an old spinal injury, the warden added.

The appeal was eventually heard on 2^nd December 1944, following which the statement below was published in The Evening Independent in Massilion, Ohio, under the headline “Appeal Lost by Collett, Washington Court House Ohio”:

‘The court of appeals affirmed today the conviction of James Collett in the triple McCoy murders a year ago, sending the 61-year-old Clinton County farmer a step closer to the electric chair. In a 2-to-l decision, the court upheld a first-degree murder conviction returned by a jury last spring in Fayette Common Pleas Court, and unless the supreme court intervenes, Collett will go to his death in the chair. Elmer McCoy, 59, his wife Forrest, 64, & their 22-year-old daughter, Mildred, were found slain on their prosperous farm five miles from here on Thanksgiving Day in 1943. Collett subsequently was arrested, confessed slaying Elmer, but insisted he knew nothing of the women's deaths.’

It was at Columbus in Franklin County, Ohio, that James William Collett died on 20^th April 1945 following almost thirteen months behind bars, and following which his body was laid to rest at the Miami Cemetery in Waynesville. The death certificate confirmed that he was the son of Horace W Collett and Rachel Ann Rayburn, and the husband of Laura A Collett. Laura Amanda Collett, nee McCoy, who was born at Lafayette County on 5^th September 1882, had lived a long life when she died at Wilmington on 23^rd August 1976, at the age of 93, just two years before the death of her son. Laura was then buried at Miami Cemetery, Corwin Road, Waynesville, Warren County, Ohio.

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Thomas William Collett

Born in 1914 at Clinton County, Ohio

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Margaret Maria Collett was born at Clinton County in Ohio on 20^th June 1886, the only known daughter of Horace Waters Collett and Rachel Ann Rayburn. As Margaret Collett, she informed the authorities of the passing of her father, who died at 532 South Detroit Street in Xenia, Greene County in Ohio, on 19^th October 1929. She was remained unmarried and was 64 years old when she died on 2^nd November 1950, and was buried at Miami Cemetery, Corwin Road, Waynesville, Warren County, Ohio.

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Curtis O Collett was born at Fairfield Township in Dekalb County, Illinois, on 21^st December 1879, when his father Samuel B Collett, a physician, would have been 47. Curtis was the only child of Samuel by his second wife Lottie Oliver (born in 1855) who died between 1880 and 1885, when his father married for a third time. In the June census of 1880, Curtis was five months old when living with his parents at Fairfield Township. Later on, at the age of 24, Curtis Collett married 18-year-old Lillian Fuehr, the daughter of Louis J Fuehr and Amanda Emery. They were married on 8^th March 1904, with their wedding recorded at Lucas County, Ohio. Lillian had been born at Toledo on 25^th August 1886.

Tragically, nine and a half years after his wedding day, when Curtis O Collett was only 33, he suffered a premature death on 9^th October 1913 while a patient at the State Hospital in Toledo City. The cause of death was curiously noted on his death record as “melancholia, from exhaustion caused by the lack of nourishment”. This would indicate a very sad man who, who was possibly on some sort of hunger strike, perhaps from the loss of his wife or child, etc, since no record of Lilian has been found at all after their wedding day. His death record also confirmed that he had been a stage employee (in a theatre) prior to his passing, and was the son of Samuel and Lottie Collett although, the informant of his death, a doctor at the hospital, gave his mother’s maiden name as Ward.

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Charles Costin Collett was born at Van Wert, Van Wert County in Ohio during the month of June in 1874, the first of the five sons of William Robert Collett and Hannah Elizabeth Crouse who was known as Lizzie. He was very likely born at 25 Franklin Street in Van Wert, where the family was living in 1880, when Charles was six years old. No record of the family has been found 1890, but they continued to live on Franklin Street, where they were recorded in 1900 at a property further along the street. That year Charles C Collett was 25 years of age and employed by his father as a clerk, working at his grocery store in Van Wert, with the family living at 114 Franklin Street, Pleasant Township in Van Wert.

Five years later, he was only 31 years of age, when Charles Costin Collett died at Van Wert on 10^th December 1905, after which he was buried with his father at Woodland Union Cemetery in Van Wert, following his passing during the previous year. The death record for unmarried Charles Costin Collett confirmed that he was the son of William Collett and H E Crouse, and that he had died at Van Wert where he was living and working as a clerk, and where he had also been born.

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Daniel M Collett was born at Van Wert on 23^rd May 1877, the second son of William and Lizzie Collett, who was three years old in 1880. It is possible his place of birth was in the family home at 25 Franklin Street in Van Wert, where they were living on the day of the census in 1880. Twenty years later, the census in 1900 identified the family living at 114 Franklin Street, Pleasant Township in Van Wert, where Daniel M Collett was 23 and a telegraph operator. Not long after that day, Daniel M Collett married Isa Mabel Davis and in the autumn of 1905 their son was born at Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. The record of his birth on 3^rd October 1905, confirmed that his father was Daniel M Collett aged 28 from Van Wert, and his mother was Isa Mabel Davis aged 25 from Markle in Indiana.

By 1910 the couple had given birth to a second child, with the four members of the family residing at 968 Jefferson Street in Huntington Township, Huntington County, Indiana. Daniel was 32 and married to Isa for six years, she was 28 and had given birth to just two children, and they were Charles who was four, and Virginia who was two years old. Daniel’s occupation was a dispatcher with the Indiana Pipe Line Company.

Daniel was 41 when he enlisted for military service, his registration form signed of 12^th September 1918. That stated his home address was 576 William Street, in Huntington, from where he was employed as an oil dispatcher by the Indiana Pipe Line Company of 18 Franklin Street in Huntington. His wife was again reported to be Isa Mabel Collett. Two years later, the census in 1920 confirmed that the enlarged family was still living at 576 William Street, where Isa had given birth to a second daughter. Daniel was 42 and continuing to work on the pipeline, Isa was 38, Charles H Collett was 14, Virginia R Collett was 11, and the couple’s latest arrival was Rachael A Collett who was only ten months.

During the first half of the next decade, Daniel took the family back to Ohio, where he appeared on the electoral rolls from 1924 onwards. That move was confirmed by the following census in 1930, which revealed the family, albeit reduced by the absence of the two eldest children, living at Ottawa Township in Putnam County (15 miles north of Lima). By that time, Daniel’s work on the pipeline had provided a good enough income to have purchase a property valued at $12,000, by far the most expensive property on the whole census return. Daniel M Collett, an oil dispatcher, was 52, Isa M Collett was 48, and Rachael A Collett was eleven years old. Their world came tumbling down three years later.

When Daniel died on 30^th October 1933, he was 56 years old and a patient at Van Wert Hospital, when his home address was 824 Jamerson Street in Lima, Allen County in Ohio. The record of his death gave the cause of death as a cerebral haemorrhage caused by a fractured skull, caused by a fatal accident at work the day before he died. Daniel had been working as an oil dispatcher on the Buckeye Pipe Line at Van Wert, Pleasant Township, a married man whose wife was Isa M Collett, and his parents were confirmed as William R Collett from Jamestown, and Hannah E Crouse from Ludlow in Virginia. The informant for his death was his son Charles H Collett. It was on the following day that Daniel M Collett was buried at Memorial Park Cemetery in Lima on 1^st November.

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Charles Herman Collett

Born on 03.10.1905 at Chicago

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Virginia B Collett

Born in 1908 at Indiana

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Rachael A Collett

Born in 1919 at Indiana

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Walter R Collett was born at 25 Franklin Street in Van Wert on 23^rd September 1879. He was the third son of William and Lizzie Collett and was only eight months old on the day of the census in 1880. With no record found for any member of his family in 1890, he was 20 years when he appeared in the Van Wert census of 1900. Walter R Collett was working as a day labourer when he was still living with his family, but at 114 Franklin Street, Pleasant Township in Van Wert. Four years later, on 31^st March 1904, Walter R Collett married Mamie E Holzer of Delphos, Van Wert, the daughter of German born Victor Holzer, when Walter was confirmed as the son of W R Collett and Elizabeth Crouse. Sadly, at the end of that same year, his father died.

Upon the death of his father, with perhaps his mother returning to her Crouse family, Walter and Mamie, who was known as Mary, moved into the family home at 114 South Franklin Street in Pleasant Township. It was there that they raised their family, and where they were living in 1910. On that particular day, Walter was 29 and a labourer carrying out odd jobs, Mary was 25, and their son Daniel was incorrectly recorded as Dale Collett aged five years. Ten years on from that day, Walter was 39, but with no stated occupation, Mary was 36, and their two children were Daniel Collett who was 15, and Mary Collett who was six years of age. The same census return stated that Walter was the owner of the property.

It was exactly the same situation in 1930, when the four members of the family were again living at 114 South Franklin Street in Pleasant Township. By that time Walter was 50 and a teamster working for a trucking company. Mary was 46, Daniel was 25 and a labourer, and Mary E Collett was 16 with no occupation. After a further decade, Walter Collett aged 60 was a house buyer who was still living the house he inherited from his father. The only person living with him at 114 South Franklin Street was his wife Mary Collett who was 57. Many years later, when Walter R Collett was 83 and in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, he died on 20^th March 1961 and was subjected to a certified autopsy carried out by a physician at the Ohio Department of Health.

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Daniel Collett

Born in 1905 at Pleasant Township, Ohio

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Mary E Collett

Born in 1914 at Pleasant Township, Ohio

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James Monroe Collett was born at Van Wert on 6^th February 1882 and possibly at 25 Franklin Street, where his family was recorded two years earlier in 1880. He was another son of William and Lizzie Collett, and it is interesting that the entry for his birth in the Van Wert County Register of Births was amended from James W Collett to James M Collett. Where he and his family were in 1890 remains a mystery, while it was at 114 Franklin Street in Pleasant Township, Van Wert, that he was living with his family in 1900, when he was still attending school at the age of 18, when he was recorded as James L Collett born in February 1882.

James Monroe Collett married Maude Leona Burdge on 14^th June 1906 at Adams County in Indiana. Maude was born on 21^st March 1881, the daughter of Marshall Burdge and Amanda Detmar. In 1910, the childless couple was living at 302 East Third Street in Pleasant Township. James M Collett was 28 and working as a clerk in a bank, while Maude was 29, also from Ohio, who had been married to James for four years. Later on, Maude presented James with a daughter and, according to the next census in 1920, the three members of the family were living at 601 North Walnut Street in Pleasant Township, Van Wert. James was 38, an accountant with the First National Bank, and the owner of his home, Maude L Collett was 39, when daughter Gertrude M Collett was recorded in error, by the census enumerator as being seven years and seven months old, and not three years and seven months (see below).

Two years earlier, on 12^th September 1918, James M Collett of 601 North Walnut Street, aged 36 and born on 6^th February 1882, in the employ of the First National Bank, and the husband of Maude L Collett, completed his Military Registration Card at Van Wert County.

James’ wife Maude Leona Collett died at Van Wert on 11^th March 1926, where she was buried at Woodland Union Cemetery. It was towards the end of the following year that James M Collett, a banker and the son of William R Collett and Hannah Elizabeth Crouse, married (2) Thelma L Cole aged 25, at Van Wert on 10^th December 1927. She was the daughter of Ira Cole and Sadie Clunk. Thelma’s entry into the Collett family was confirmed in the census of 1930, when James and his daughter were recorded at the same address as in 1920. By then James was 47, a cashier at the bank, and the owner of 601 North Walnut Street valued at $6,000. His new, much younger wife, was 27 and also born in Ohio, while Gertrude was recorded as Jerry M Collett who was 13 years old, the name she was known by from then on.

In the end, it would seem that James spent much of his life at Van Wert in Ohio. James Monroe Collett was 62 years of age when he died at Van Wert on 12^th December 1944, and was buried there at the Woodland Union Cemetery. His married, and then divorced daughter, a school teacher, was married for a second time three months after losing her father, although permission to do so was granted by the Probate Court in Van Wert County on 6^th May 1944, before he died. It was at Van Wert on 26^th March 1945, that Jerry M Bowden, nee Collett, married Arthur E Perry, in military service, the son of Arthur Perry and Effie Bullion.

Daughter Gertrude Marie Collett was born on 6^th April 1916 at Van Wert and her Certificate of Birth, confirmed that she was the legitimate daughter of James M Collett, aged 35 and a banker, and Maude L Burdge, aged 39 and a housewife, both of them from Van Wert. On the occasion of the marriage of Jerry L Collett and John Bowden on 21^st January 1939, the groom’s dated on birth was recorded as 23^rd May 1909, the son of John Bowden and Mallie Miller. John junior was a poultry dealer from Fort Wayne in Indiana, while Jerry was a school teacher at Geneva in Indiana, the daughter of banker James Collett and Thelma Cole (her stepmother!).

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Gertrude Marie Collett

Born in 1916 at Pleasant Township, Ohio

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Raymond Walthew Collett was born at Van Wert on 12^th January 1888, the last son of William Robert Collett and Hannah Elizabeth Crouse, better known as Lizzie. He was 12 years old in the census of 1900, when Raymond and his family were living at 114 Franklin Street in Pleasant Township, Van Wert. Less than seventeen years later, the marriage of Ray W Collett, aged 29, and (1) Eldira F Thompson, aged 18, was conducted on 9^th January 1917 by Albert H Heaver, a Minister of the Gospel, at Paulding in Ohio.

Later that same year, at Paulding on 5^th June 1917, Raymond completed his military registration card with the following details. It included his second forename Walthew and stated he was living in the village of Latty in Paulding County, a few miles north of Van Wert. His occupation was that of a telegraph operator employed by the New York, Chicago & St Louis Railroad, based on that railway line at Latty. More importantly, he was recorded as a married man.

During the following year, Eileen Collett, the still-born child of telegraph operator Raymond Walthew Collett of Van Wert and 30 years of age, and Eldira Fern Thompson of Paulding County and 20 years old, was born at Latty on 25^th August 1918 where her parents were living. Two years later, the Van Wert census in 1920 included Ray W Collett, aged 31, living at 615 North Washington Street, from where he was employed as a train dispatcher for the railroad company. His wife that day was 22-year-old Eldira Collett, from whom he was soon to be divorced.

The later subsequent remarriage of divorcee Ray Walthew Collett and (2) Mary Alice Angevine took place at Van Wert on 22^nd October 1922 and was recorded at Van Wert County. Ray was 34 and a train dispatcher, the son of W R Collett and Elizabeth Crouse. Mary was 25 and a telephone operator, the daughter of George Angevine and Cora Albright. Both the bride and the groom were residing in Van Wert at the time.

Their daughter Lucy Carolyn Collett was born at the County Hospital in Van Wert on 16^th February 1924, when her mother was confirmed as Mary Alice Angevine who was 27. Her father Raymond W Collett and his wife Mary were residing at Coldwater Village in Mercer County, Ohio, where James was a telegraph operator, aged 35. The Coldwater census of 1930, placed the family home as the only property on West Main Street, between East and West Walnut Street, in Butter Township, the house owned by Raymond having a valuation of $2,000. Raymond W Collett was 42 and a telegraph operator working at the nearby railroad station, his wife Mary A Collett was 32, and Lucy C Collett was six years old.

More properties appeared on West Main Street over the following years, with the house of the Collett family allocated the number 729, the last dwelling on West Main Street in 1930. That year, head of the household R W Collett was 52 and agent for the railroad company, working at the ticket in the local station. Slightly confusing, his wife was recorded as Alice M Collett who was 43 and a housewife, with Lucy Collett aged 16 and a student attending high school. The later death of Raymond Matthew Collett happened at Van Wert on 4^th March 1953, where he was buried at Woodland Union Cemetery.

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Eileen Collett

Born in 1918 at Latty, Paulding, Ohio

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Lucy Carolyn Collett

Born in 1924 at Coldwater, Ohio

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Warren Curtis Collett was born at Cedarville Township in Greene County on 7^th August 1873, the first-born child of Seth S Kyle Collett and Viola C Shigley. He was the eldest of five sons, with only four of them surviving beyond childhood. By the time of the census in 1880, his brother William had died, so it was just his parents and younger brother Joseph who made up the family living at Ross Township, where his father was a farmer. That day, Warren C Collett was six years of age and, not long after, the family moved again to Jamestown in Greene County. With no record of the family in 1890, it was four years later, when he was 21, that the marriage of Warren Collett and Bettie (Beccy) Little took place on 14^th November 1894 and was recorded at Greene County.

Once married, the couple settled in Ross Township in Greene County, where they were living in 1900. The census return confirmed that they had been married for six years, having had no children by then. William Curtis Collett was 26 and a farmer, while his wife was recorded as Blanche Collett also 26, but born during April 1874. Lodging with the couple was 13-year-old schoolboy Alfred Allen. Ten years later, Warren’s widowed mother-in-law Mariam Little, aged 62, and her unmarried son William C Little, aged 31, were staying with the childless couple at Ross Township. William C Collett was 36 and a farmer, when his wife Rebecca B Collett was 35.

On 12^th September 1918 Warren Curtis Collett of R4 Jamestown Ohio, completed his military registration card with the following details. He was 45 years of age and confirmed that his date of date was as written above, and that his wife was Rebecca Blanche Collett. It was a repeat of the 1910 census in 1920, the same four members of the Collett/Little family residing on Little Road in Ross Township. Farmer of a general farm was Warren Collett aged 46, Rebecca Collett was 45, Mariam Little was 73, and William Little who was 39 and still not credited with a job of work.

Over the next decade, the couple left Ross Township and, by 1930, they were living at 2085 Peasley Street in Columbus City, Franklin County, Ohio. Warren C Collett was 56 and Rebecca Collett was 55, by which time Warren had given up farming and was the owner of his own decorating business. However, he had retired from work completely by 1940, when the census that year identified him at 949 Hunter Avenue in Columbus City at the age of 66, with Rebecca the same age. Possibly after Rebecca died, Warren C Collett returned to Jamestown in Greene County when he died in 1956 at the age of 83, and was buried at nearby Old Silvercreek Cemetery.

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William B Collett was one half of a set of twin brothers who were born at Cedarville Township on 13^th September 1876, the second and third sons of Seth and Viola Collett. Apart from the record of his birth, no record of his premature death has been found, but was firstly absent from the family living at Ross Township in 1880. Later on, within the census return for 1910, his mother confirmed that she had given birth to five children, one of whom had not survived.

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Joseph William Collett was born at Cedarville Township on 13^th September 1876, another twin son of Seth and Viola Collett, who had been given his deceased twin brother’s name in his honour. Joseph was three years of age and with his family living in Ross Township for the census in 1880. During the following weeks and months that year, his parents moved to Jamestown, where his brother Henry (below) was born. After a gap of twenty years, Joseph W Collett was 23 and a teacher at a school in Jamestown village, Silvercreek Township, in Greene County, where he was still living with his family in 1900. Four years after that census day, Joseph W Collett married (1) Clara Kyle Butcher on 20^th April 1904, with the event recorded at Clark County, Ohio. The licence to be married, approved at the Probate Court for Clark County, contained the following information.

Joseph was 27 and born at Cedarville Township on 13^th September 1876, the son of Seth S Collett and Viola C Shigley, who was a stenographer, residing at Springfield in Clark County. Clara was 18 and born at Selma, Ohio on 27^th August 1885, the daughter of William Butcher and Adella Hempleman, who was residing at Hustead. No obvious record of the couple has been identified in 1910, but it was during the following decade that Clara Kyle Collett died, leaving Joseph W Collett as a widower in 1920. By that time, he was 43 and working in a laboratory, and a lodger with his seven-year-old son Harold Collett at 420 North Warren Street in Madison, Dane County in Wisconsin, when both of them were recorded as having been born in Ohio.

During the 1920s Joseph W Collett married (2) Ella O, as confirmed in the next census of 1930, when the three members of the family were living at 1435 North Moore Street, Portland City in Oregon, a property owned by Joseph with a valuation of $3,500. At that time in his life, Joseph W Collett from Ohio was 52 and a paymaster with the United States Forestry Service. His wife Ella O Collett was 42 and a graduate nurse employed in a private care home from Minnesota (of Norwegian parents), while Joseph's son J Harold Collett from Ohio was 17 and at high school. The same census return also reported that Joseph was 26 when he was first married, with Ella being 30 when she was married for the first time.

Joseph W Collett died at Portland on 26^th July 1936 and was buried at River View Cemetery. Four years later, according to the Portland census of 1940, his widow and his son were revealed to again be living at North Moore Street, but at #6825. Ella Collett was 54 and a private nurse, while Harold Collett was 27 and working for a broadcasting company as a radio engineer. After a further ten years, unmarried son Joseph Harold Collett, aged 36 and from Ohio, was a radio engineer working at a local radio station. What is interesting about the census return for 1950, is that he and his stepmother were was still living at 6825 North Moore Street in Portland. However, the head of the household was Ella J Collett from Minnesota who was 62 and a church visitation worker, who was referred to as the mother of Joseph Harold Collett, instead of his stepmother. Six years later, when Joseph Harold Collett was 42, he married Mary who was his wife when he died on 1^st January 1989.

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Joseph Harold Collett

Born on 01.10.1912 in Ohio; died 1989

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Henry Moody Collett was born at Jamestown, Silvercreek Township in Greene County on 28^th December 1880, the fourth son of Seth and Viola Collett. It was there also that he was still living with his family in 1900 at the age of 20, by which time he was working as a blacksmith. It was on 5^th March 1904 at Kalispell in Montana when Henry Moody Collett married Lillian P Morrill. Both the bride and the groom were 24 and single, with Henry from Jamestown confirmed as the son of Seth S Collett and Viola C Shigley, and Lillian from Salt Lake City being the daughter of C W Morrill and Martha E Wightman.

What happened to them after 1904 is not currently known, and it was in 1920 that they reappeared at San Diego Township on Tenth Street, where Henry from Ohio was 39 and a civil engineer working in the construction industry, and where Lilian from Utah was 40. After another ten years, they had moved to Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, where they were living at 527 Twelfth Street. Henry M Collett from Ohio was 49 and a civil engineer, who had been married when he was 23, and was the owner of the property having a valuation of $6,000. His wife Lillian P Collett was 50 and born in Utah, who had living there with them, Lillian’s 18-year-old niece Geraldine Morrill from Montana.

On 18^th November 1946, Henry M Collett sailed out of Honolulu (Hawaii) onboard the USAT General Mason Mathews Patrick and arrived at San Francisco on 24^th November 1946. The passenger list confirmed his date of birth (as written above) and that he had been born at Jamestown in Ohio, a single man, whose home address was 18400 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, Los Angeles, California. He made exactly the same sea journey at the end of the following year. The USAT Pvt Eldon H Johnson sailed from Honolulu on 13^th December 1947 arriving in San Francisco on 18^th December, when his home address was the same as one year earlier.

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John McKay Collett was born during September 1891 at Jamestown, Silvercreek Township in Greene County, Ohio. He was the last child of Seth S Kyle Collett, a farmer, and Viola C Shigley. With no record of the family found in 1890, it was in 1900 that eight-year-old John McKay Collett was living with his family at Jamestown and attending school there. By 1910, John was 18 with no occupation, when he was the only child still living with his parents at Cedarville Township in Greene County, Ohio. It was on 3^rd September 1914, that John McKay Collett married Grace O Miller at Trinity Church in Xenia, Greene County. John was 23, a mechanic living at Jamestown and the son of S S Collett and Viola Shigley, and Grace was 21 from South Salem, Ohio, whose mother was Effie Bradford Miller.

Their marriage produced a daughter, born at South Sycamore Street in Jamestown on 25^th July 1915, when John was a garage mechanic. The family of three was recorded at Jamestown, Silvercreek Township in 1920. The census that year placed the young Collett family residing at 160 Church Street, a rented property, where John was 28 and an automobile mechanic, Grace was 26, and Marjorie was four years and six months old. All three of them had been born in Ohio. By 1930 the family was again living in rented accommodation but at 128 East Xenia Street in Jamestown village. The census that year listed John M Collett aged 38 as a garage proprietor, Grace O Collett aged 36, and Marjorie P Collette aged 14.

Ten years later the family home was at 199 Limestone Street in Jamestown village, the dwelling owned by John with a valuation of $2,500. John M Collett was 48 and the manager of an automobile storage facility, his wife Grace Collett was 46, and their daughter Marjorie Collette was 24 and a grade teacher at a public school. Grace continued to living at Jamestown, where she died in 1966 and was buried at Silvercreek Cemetery, while no record of the passing of her husband has been found.

Six years earlier, on 17^th March 1960, when John M Collett was 68 years old, and Grace Collett was 67, they both signed an Affidavit of Attendance at the Birth of daughter Marjory Prugh Collette, who was born at Jamestown, Silvercreek, on 25^th July 1915. On that day in 1960, John and Grace were still living at North Limestone Street in Jamestown. That result in the case being assigned to the Probate Court of Greene County, Ohio, with the hearing date set for 23^rd March 1960, for Marjory to register her birth, which had not been recorded at Probate Court of Greene County, with the following wording.

“In the matter of the registration of the birth of Marjory Prugh Collette. Case No. 109. This day the application of Marjory Collette Gibbs to register her birth came on for hearing on 23^rd March 1960 having submitted the affidavits of John M Collette and Grace Collette and the following documentary, evidence viz. Family Bible entry in support of said application, the Court finds that the applicant’s birth should be registered in accordance with the following facts:

Date of Birth – 25^th July 1915

Place of Birth – Greene County, Jamestown, South Sycamore Street

Name of Child – Marjory Prugh Collette, Father – John M Collette 23, Father – Grace O Hixon 21”

John and Grace’s married daughter Marjory Collette Gibbs appears to have continued to occupy her parent’s home after they died, since it was 54 North Limestone Street in Jamestown that was her home address when she died at Xenia Township on 25^th March 2002, when she was a widow aged 86.

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Marjory Prugh Collette

Born on 25.07.1915 at Jamestown, Ohio

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Ewing Nathan Collett was born on 23^rd February 1879 at Chester Township, the first-born son of Hugh Sidwell Collett and Mary Matthie. He was one year old in 1880 and was 16 in the census of 1895. It was n 31^st May 1906 that Ewing N Collett aged 27 married (1) Myrtle B Hall aged 28 at Alva City, Woods County, Oklahoma. By 1910 the childless couple was residing in Harris Township, Muskogee County in Oklahoma, where Ewing Collett was 31 and the President at Bacone College in Muskogee, and Myrtle Collett from Nevada was 32, confirmed as married for four years. Their only known child was born in 1914.

It was on 12^th September 1918, that Ewing Nathan Collett, aged 39, enlisted for military service, his registration form stating that his home address was 1216 West 42^nd Street in Oklahoma. At that time in his life his occupation was that of an assistant state superintendent with R H Wilson, the state superintendent, at the State Capital in Oklahoma City. His wife was confirmed as Myrtle Hall Collett, at the address above. The three members of the family were still living at 1216 West 42^nd Street in 1920, when Ewing was 40 and again an assistant state superintendent, at the Public Superintendents Office. Myrtle was 41 and daughter Helen F Collett was six years of age.

It was in the following year when Myrtle Hall Collett died at Kiowa Township in Barber County, Kansas, when she was 43 and buried at River View Cemetery. Unfortunately, no census return has been found for 1930, but six years prior to the day, on 4^th May 1924, widower of three years Ewing N Collett, aged 45, married (2) Beulah C Oates, aged 39, at Muskogee, Oklahoma. On the occasion of the later census in 1940, the pair of them were recorded at 217 Thirty Street in Oklahoma City, where Ewing stated he had been living in 1930. Ewing was 61 and a salesman with a publishing company, with Beulah being 57 and born in Missouri. It was just nine years later when Ewing Nathan Collett died at Oklahoma City during 1949 at the age of 70, where he was buried at Memorial Park Cemetery.

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Helen F Collett

Born in 1914 at Oklahoma City

52Q18

Ernest B Collett was born at Chester Township on 24^th August 1882, the second son of Hugh and Mary Collett. He was 12 years old in the census of 1895, after his parents had settled at Ninnescah Township, Sedgwick County in Kansas. Thirteen years later Ernest married Maude Evangeline Merriman in 1908 and by the day of the census of 1910, Maude had only recently given birth to their first child. Ernest B Collett from Ohio was 27 and a teacher at a high school, Maude E Collett from Kansas was 26, and their daughter Esther M Collett was seven months old and born at DeKalb, Dekalb County, Illinois, where they were living that census day.

The couple’s next three children were born there and afterwards the family went to living in Chicago, where they were recorded in the 1920 Census on 1964 Bentiaur Avenue. Ernest was 37 and still employed as a schoolteacher, who was rented the property. Maude was 36, Esther M Collett was ten, Ruth N Collett was eight, Eleanor N Collett was six, and Elizabeth G Collett was one month short of her fifth birthday. Ten years later the same family was residing at 4510 Kildare Avenue within the Jefferson Township of Chicago, another rented accommodation, where Ernest B Collett was 47 and again a teacher at a high school. His wife Maude was 46, and the four daughters were 20, 18, 16, and 15. Staying with the family at that time in 1930, was Maude’s widowed father George B Merriman aged 82.

It is possible that three of their daughters were married during the 1930s, because it was only Ruth who was still living with her parents in 1940. Also, at some time during the 1930s, Ernest was promoted in his job of work, and in 1940 he was 57 and the Principle at a Public School. His wife was also 57, while Ruth was 28 and a graduate nurse, when they were again living at 4510 Kildare Avenue. On his retirement, Ernest and Maude moved to Florida where they were living in 1950 at 242 East Avenue in Clermont, Lake County when, retired teacher Ernest B Collett was 65, as was Maude E Collett. Nine days before his eight-four birthday, Ernest B Collett died while in the state of Florida on 15^th August 1966. His widow survived him by twelve years, when Maude Evangeline Collett passed away at Contra Costa in California on 1978, when her date and place of birth were confirmed as 17^th January 1883 in Kansas.

52R14

Esther M Collett

Born in 1910 at DeKalb, Illinois

52R15

Ruth N Collett

Born in 1912 at DeKalb, Illinois

52R16

Eleanor N Collett

Born in 1914 at DeKalb, Illinois

52R17

Elizabeth G Collett

Born in 1915 at DeKalb, Illinois

52Q19

George A Collett was born on 21^st December 1890 at Clearwater, Sedgwick County, the youngest of the three sons of Hugh Sidwell Collett and Mary Matthie, who was four years old in the Ninnescah Township census of 1895. George entered the First World War on 5^th June 1917, as confirmed by his military record for 1917-1918 which contained the following details. His home address was 4022 Irving Park Boulevard in Chicago, he was employed at the YMCA, was a married man with a wife, who was tall, with blue eyes and brown hair. By 1^st April 1918, he had risen to the rank of First Lieutenant with the Company A of the 12^th Machine Gun Battalion. On 31^st January 1919 rota, he was listed under Officers as being a Supply Office who was currently absent on leave since 17^th January, to be with his wife who was expecting the birth of their first child. Ruth was the daughter of Caroline E Leisk, who was living with the couple in 1930.

His marriage to Ruth produced at least five children, two of which were recorded with the couple in 1930. Tragically, though, the couple had already suffered the loss of their first child who died just after celebrating her first birthday on 8^th March 1920. Her death certificate stated that she was one year and sixteen days old, the daughter of medical student George A Collett of Clearwater and Ruth C Leisk of Milwaukee, of 7009 Perry Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, who was buried at Mount Olive Cemetery.

Around the middle of the 1920s, the family left Chicago and moved to Indiana, and it was at North Jefferson Street in Union Township, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana, that they were living in 1930. That year George was 39 and a surgeon, Ruth was 38, son Hugh was nine, and daughter Jean was five. Living with the young family was Ruth’s mother Caroline Leisk from England, born of a Scottish father and English mother. She was 71 and confirmed as the mother-in-law of George A Collett.

In June 1938, George and Ruth were in France, from where they sailed out of the Port of Le Harve on 30^th June 1938 onboard the S S Manhattan bound for New York, where they disembarked on 7^th July. George A Collett of 15 Mills Place in Crawfordsville was 47, having been born at Clearwater on 21^st December 1890, when Ruth C Collett was 41 whose date and place of birth was recorded on the passenger list as 23^rd October 1896 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

By 1940 the family was still residing at 15 Mills Place, in the Union Township area of Crawfordsville, where they had also been living in 1930. George A Collett from Kansas was 49 and a medical surgeon with a private practice. His wife Ruth C Collett from Wisconsin was 42, and their children were Hugh S Collett aged 19, Jean Collett aged 15, both born in Illinois, Mary A Collett aged nine, and John Colett who was only five months old, both of them born in Indiana. Staying with the family was George’s widowed father Hugh S Collett who was 89 and from Ohio.

During the next decade the family moved to Nevada where, in 1950, they were living at Pine Street in Elko, Elko County. George was 59 and a physician and surgeon, Ruth was 53, and son John Collett was ten years of age. Perhaps for a holiday, the three of them made a return flight with Pan American World Airway from Kindley Field in Bermuda on 30^th June 1952 to Idlewild Airport in New York. They were recorded on the passenger list as: Passenger 1 – Ruth C Collett; Passenger 2 – George A Collett; and Passenger 3 – John L Collett.

52R18

Jane Caroline Collett

Born on 20.02.1919 at Chicago, Illinois

52R19

Hugh Sherwood Collett

Born on 12.02.1921 at Chicago, Illinois

52R20

Jean Collett

Born on 26.11.1925 at Chicago, Illinois

52R21

Mary A Collett

Born in 1931 at Union Township, Indiana

52R22

John L Collett

Born on 29.11.1939 at Union Township

52Q25

Edith Collett was born on 20^th November 1878, with her birth recorded at Clinton County, the only child of Bernard Yeo Collett and Emma Shidaker, who were married in 1874. Edith’s mother died in 1903, and it may have been around this time that she married Shirley Scott of Milford in Ohio.

52Q28

WALLACE TIBBALS COLLETT was born at Wilmington in Clinton County, Ohio on 14^th November 1914, the only son of Howard Collett and Mary Stokes Tibbals. He was recorded as being five years of age in the Union Township, Wilmington, census of 1920 and was 15 in the same census of 1930, when he was living there with his parents and old sister Henrietta. It is established that by the summer of 1937, Wallace was a married man, which was how he sailed out of Southampton in England on 28^th August onboard S S Statendam, arriving at New York on 5^th September 1937. The passenger list described him as being 22, married, born at Wilmington on 14 11 1914, whose home address was 736 West Main Street, in Wilmington. This is interesting because in 1930 his parents were living at 736 Pattison Place, which was in the ownership of his father, so perhaps the same property.

During the second half of the 1930s Wallace Tibbals Collett married (1) Carrie Ellen Hudson, also of Wilmington, with whom he had a son who was born at 1005 Saghorn Street, Hamilton in Butler County, Ohio, where the family was living in 1940. Wallace T Collett, a teacher at a county school, and Carrie H Collett were both 25 years old, while their son Jonathan H Collett was two years of age.

On 3^rd March 1987, Carrie Ellen Hudson Collett, who had been born on 16^th September 1914, died at and was buried at Miami Cemetery, Corwin Avenue in Waynesville, Warren County, Ohio. No record of his later marriage to Stella Miller (see below) has been found.

On 1^st December 1994, Wallace T Collett was a resident at 1115 Ashbridge Road in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and later at 1181 Edwards Road in Cincinnati, Ohio. The death of Professor Wallace T Collett from Wilmington, Ohio, was recorded at Delaware in Pennsylvania on 9^th May 2006 aged 91. He had actually died at Bryn Mawr, when he was living at Rosemont, Pennsylvania, and was buried with his first wife at Miami Cemetery, in Waynesville, Ohio. His obituary was published in the Philadelphia Inquirer on 17^th May 2006, which named his two wives and his three children. They were Carrie Hudson Collett, Stella Miller Collett, Jonathan Collett, Stephen Collett, and Jane Moeller, nee Collett. Two weeks prior to his passing, on 21^st April 2006, his eldest son Jonathan Collett who had been born on 16^th March 1938, was residing at Oneonta, Otsego County in New York.

52R23

Jonathan Hudson Collett

Born on 16.03.1938 at Hamilton, Ohio

52R24

STEPHEN WALLACE COLLETT

Born in 1946

52R25

Jane Collett

Born in 1948

52Q29

John Parrett Collett was born in Indiana on 19^th May 1902, the only child of John Dunlap Collett and Olive C Parrett. He followed in his father’s footsteps when he attended Wabash College in Crawfordsville, where he was a Trustee in 1924, and after that he went to Harvard University where he acquired a Master of Arts degree in 1926. It was on 29^th September 1928, that John Parrett Collett married Mary Elizabeth Hamilton, who had been born on 11^th December 1901 in Indiana, and who was a graduate at Smith College in 1926. Once married, Mary presented John with three daughters when they were living at 3663 Spring Hollow Drive in Indianapolis City.

In 1929 John published a book about his family which had been written many years earlier by his father. The title of book, ‘Genealogy of the Descendants of John Collett’, was a reference to his ancestor John Collett (Ref. 52G1) of Little Gidding. Appendix Two at the end of this family line includes transcripts of letters written by John P Collett of Indianapolis about the work carried out by his father.

After nearly two years into their married life, the childless couple was anticipating the birth of their first child on the census day on 30^th April 1930, when they were living at 3663 Spring Hollow Drive in Indianapolis City. John was 28 and a financial analyst with an investment company. His wife Mary H Collett was also 28 and born in Indiana. Their home was owned by John and was valued at $32,000. By 1940 their family was complete, with the five of them recorded at 3663 Spring Hollow Drive, where John was 37 and an executive in investment securities, Mary was 38, and their three daughters were confirmed as Anne Collett who was nine, Jane Collett who was six, and Mary F Collett who was one year old. The family’s 23-year-old servant was Edna M Chattia from Indiana.

Early in June 1953, John and Mary were in Europe, perhaps even for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2^nd June, because they sailed back to New York, First Class, on the R M S Caronia on 5^th June, disembarking on 12^th June 1953. The ship’s passenger list confirmed that their address was the same as in 1930. Forty years after returning to America, John Parrett Collett was 91 years old when he died on 29^th December 1993, when he was residing at Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. He was subsequently buried at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis.

52R26

Anne Collett

Born on 30.08.1930 at Indianapolis

52R27

Jane Collett

Born on 20.12.1933 at Indianapolis

52R28

Mary F Collett

Born on 24.03.1939 at Indianapolis

52Q30

Jane Tissot Collett was the only child of Samuel Dunlap Collett and his wife Jennie Tissot Westlake and was born at Brooklyn, New York on 5^th June 1911. She married Trafton Otis Badger on 28^th August 1937, Trafton having been born on 15^th August 1910. The marriage resulted in the birth of two children. Jane Tissot Badger nee Collett died at Shelter Island, New York on 3^rd August 1997, and was followed just two year later by her husband, who died on 15^th July 1999.

52R29

Wade Westlake Badger

Born in 1942 at Evanston, Illinois

52R30

Carol Collett Badger

Born in 1945 at Brooklyn, New York

52R1

Ruth H Collett was born at Chillicothe, Ross County in Ohio, on 16^th August 1899, the daughter of Daniel Harrison Collett and Emma Burkamp. In 1910, 10-year-old Ruth Collett was living with her parents at Toledo City, Lucas County in Ohio, where her father was a dentist. Eight years after that census day, when Ruth was two months short of her nineteenth birthday, she married 20-year-old Lynne T Lamb, the son of Clarence M Lamb and Mary Gross, on 8^th June 1918 at Monroe in Michigan. Both the bride and the groom were residing in Toledo, where Lynne was an inspector, and Ruth was a stenographer, the daughter of Dr Daniel H Collett and Emma Burkamp. Two years later, the childless couple was living at 201 East Broadway in Toledo City, when Lynne Lamb was 22 and a chemist at a factory, with Ruth being 20 with no occupation and likely to be preparing for the birth of their first child.

Sadly, her marriage to Lynne did not endure and, by the time of the census in 1930, Ruth Collett Lamb aged 30 and a sales lady at a dress shop, and the divorced mother of nine-year-old Nancy C Lamb who, with her daughter, was once again living with her parents at 4203 Berwick Avenue in Toledo. Her father died in 1932 and, three years later, Ruth and her daughter were still living at 4203 Berwick Avenue (possibly with her widowed mother), which was where Ruth and Nancy were still living in 1940, the census that year confirming that they had been living at the same address five years earlier. At the time in her life Ruth Lamb was 40 and book-keeper working in a jewellery store. Daughter Nancy Lamb was 19 and with no stated occupation. After a further twenty-three years, Ruth H Collett Lamb died at Sylvania, Lucas County in Ohio, on 29^th August 1963 at the age of 64, and was buried at the Toledo Memorial Park.

52R2

Thomas William Collett was born at Clinton County on 19^th October 1914, the only child of James William Collett and Laura Amanda McCoy. It was at Chester Township that he was living with his parents in 1920 when he was five years old, and again in 1930 when he was 15. On the occasion of the next census in 1940, Thomas was 25 and a farmer and a married man living on Highway 13 at New Burlington in Chester Township with his wife Louise who was also 25 and from Ohio, together with their one-year-old daughter Sue Anne Collett. A close neighbour, also on Highway 13, was elderly farmer Arnold Sabin Collett (Ref. 52P43), his wife Cassie and their son Robert Collett (Ref. 52Q26). Six years later, when Thomas was thirty-one years old, his father died in the electric chair, having been found to be guilt of the murder of three members of his wife’s McCoy family.

That event also closely coincided with the birth of a son for Thomas and Louise who, in 1950 was recorded with the family at the same address as in 1940, but as Collette. They were Thomas W Collette aged 35 and still working as a farmer, Louise Collette who also 35, Sue A Collette who was eleven, and Allen Collette who was six years of age.

Thomas William Collett was 63 when died at Christ’s Hospital in Cincinnati, Hamilton County in Ohio on 30^th March 1978 and was buried at Springfield Friends Cemetery in Adams Township, Clinton County, where he had been residing prior to being admitted into hospital. Thomas died just two years after his mother Laura passed away at the age of 93. Mary Louise Hormell was born on 4^th February 1915 at Clinton County, and was still living there in Wilmington when she died on 28^th January 2000, just seven days before her 85^th birthday. She was then laid to rest with her husband at Springfield Friends Cemetery.

52S1

Sue Anne Collett

Born in 1938 at Wilmington, Ohio

52S2

Thomas Allen Collett

Born in 1944 at Wilmington, Ohio

52R24

STEPHEN WALLACE COLLETT was born on 16^th March 1946, the son of Wallace Tibbals Collett and his with Carrie. His older brother Jonathan H Collett was born at Wilmington in Clinton County, Ohio, which may have been the birth place of Stephen. However, on completing his education in America it would appear that perhaps it was his work which resulted in Stephen eventually living in Norway. Certainly, it was at Borhaug in Norway that he married Inga Berit Kyllingstad who was born in 1939. The marriage produced a total of seven children, all of them born in Norway.

Stephen attended the Collett Reunion in Oslo in August 2009 and it was during that event (see report on the website entitled ‘The Collett Reunion Norway 2009’) when the initial discussion took place regarding the preparation of this line of the Collett family. However, it was not until after a chance meeting between Stephen Wallace Collett and Kaare Knutson (Part 24 – The Norway Line) in Oslo during August 2014 that the details of his family, and those of his father and grandfather have been received and inserted here for the file update in March 2015. Tragically within a few months of the aforementioned Oslo Reunion, Stephen’s wife Inga Berit Collett nee Kyllingstad died of cancer at the end of 2009.

On 11^th June 2016 the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet published an article about Americans living in Norway and their possibilities of being able to vote in the US primary election later in year. The same article referred to Stephen W. Collett, and included a photograph of him holding his ballot paper, just received from the USA, with which he intended voting for Bernie Sanders. In the autumn of 2022, Stephen was living at Adger in Norway.

52S3

Christina Kyllingstad Collett

Born in 1962 in Norway

52S4

Cosmo Collett

Born in 1965 in Norway

52S5

Isabella Collett

Born in 1966 in Norway

52S6

Anna Carolyn Stokes Collett

Born in 1967 in Norway

52S7

Rachel Else Collett

Born in 1969 at Lyngdal, Norway

52S8

Daniel Levi Collett

Born in 1970 in Norway

52S9

Ida Louise Kyllingstad Collett

Born in 1981 in Norway

52R29

Wade Westlake Badger was born at Evanston, Illinois on 21^st June 1942, the eldest of the two children of Jane Tissot Collett and her husband Trafton Otis Badger. He married Susan Donohue who was born on 29^th August 1940, on 28^th December 1968, from whom he was divorced in 2003. The marriage produced two sons for Wade, who in 2011 was still living at the family home on Shelter Island in New York State. They are Michael Patrick Badger who was born on 27^th September 1969, and Matthew Collett Badger on 27^th December 1972, both them born at Rochester, New York.

52R30

Carol Collett Badger was born at Brooklyn, New York on 17^th December 1945, the daughter of Jane Tissot Collett and her husband Trafton Otis Badger. She married (1) Stephen Robert Landa on 24^th June 1967, Stephen having been born at Orange, New Jersey on 22^nd February 1945. Over the next nine years, Carol gave birth to three children, the first two born while she was living at Norwalk in Connecticut, with the third born at Cincinnati in Ohio. They are Genevieve Anne Landa who was born on 25^th October 1970, Elizabeth Brooks Landa who was born on 2^nd November 1973, and William Clayton (Clay) Landa who was born on 3^rd November 1976

Carol was divorced from Stephen on 16^th December 1994, following which she married (2) Richard Addison McMakin on 22^nd March 1997. Richard was born in New York City on 28^th November 1940. It was Carol’s brother Wade (above) who first discovered the Collett Family History website during 2011, and on informing his sister, it was Carol who kindly provided the new details that resulted in the updating of this family line. Today Carol and Richard live at Olmsted Township in Ohio.

Carol also confirms that her family’s home on Shelter Island, New York, built in the 1880s by the father of her maternal grandmother Jennie Tissot Westlake, is still in the family in 2011 and contains lots of information in the attic - see her brother Wade Westlake Badger (above).

Footnote: Al Collett the Third is seeking information about his father and his grandfather, both of whom were named Albert Collett. Al’s father was born at Baltimore on 18^th August 1917 and his father was a US soldier in the First World War who did not survive the conflict. The two older Albert’s surname was spelt with an e at the end which was shortened to Collett during Albert Collett the Second’s time serving with the US Army during the Second World War.

52S1

Sue Anne Collett was born at Wilmington, Clinton County in Ohio on 2^nd September 1938, the older of the two children of Thomas William Collett and Mary Louise Hormell. In the US Census of 1940, one-year-old Sue and her parents were recorded at Highway 13, New Burlington, Chester Township in Ohio, where her father was a farmer. The family was again living there in 1950, but recorded with the Collette spelling of the surname, where Sue was 11 years old. Ten years later the marriage of Sue Anne Collett and Roger F Bennett on 19^th June 1960 at Clinton Township in Knox County, Ohio. The marriage record confirmed that Sue was the daughter of Thomas Collett and Louise Hormell, and that Roger was the son of Maynard D Bennett and Marie S Steele. Sue Anne Bennett was 78 when she died on 6^th September 2016 at Dallas, Texas, after which her body was returned to Wilmington, where she was buried in Sugar Grove Cemetery, Wilmington.

52S2

Thomas Allen Collett was born at Wilmington, Ohio on 12^th April 1944, the younger of the two children of Thomas William and Mary Louise Collett. As simply Allen Collette (sic) in 1950, he was six years old when living at Chester Township with his family. It was again as Thomas Allen Collett that he married Karen Rae Gullett at Clinton Township, Know County, Ohio on 29^th August 1965. The groom was confirmed as the son of Thomas Collett and Louise Hormell, while the bride was the daughter of Mitchell Gullett and Stella Hieneman. Into the new century, Thomas Allen Collett from Wilmington was certainly living there from 2000 until 2005. What is interesting though, it that Thomas Allen Collett, was also referred to as Allen Barn Collett, Allen Collett Collett, and Thomas Collett.

52S3

Christina Kyllingstad Collett was born in Norway during 1962, the eldest of the seven children of Stephen Wallace Collett and Inga Berit Kyllingstad. It was perhaps during a visit to her father’s parents at Wilmington in Clinton County, Ohio that she met Daniel Benton who was born at Wilmington in 1963 and whom she married in Delaware. Their marriage produced three children Elizabeth Benton, Stephen Benton, and Anna Benton, all of them born in America.

52S4

Cosmo Collett was born in 1965 and he married Anne Brit Bjerge, who was born in 1963, at Grimstad in Norway with whom he had two children. On 8^th November 2015 it was reported on Norwegian television that 18-year-old Tobias Collett had scored the final goal in a football match for his team Jerv FC of Grimstad.

52T1

Kaja Collett

Born in 1989 at Arendal, Norway

52T2

Tobias Collett

Born in 1998 at Grimstad, Norway

52S5

Isabella Collett was born in 1966 and she married Khalid Sikel at Kristiansand in Norway, Khalid having been born during 1968. Their two children were Arild Jørgensen Collett who was born in 1992 and Emma Sherin Collett Sikel who was born in 2006.

52T3

Arild Jørgensen Collett

Born in 1992 in Norway

52S6

Anna Carolyn Stokes Collett was born in 1967 and she married Åsa Roth in Oslo. Their son Ellis Tony Collett Roth was born in 2011 and their daughter Malou Collett Roth was born in 2013.

52S8

Daniel Levi Collett was born in 1970 and he married Hanne Skoland at Lyngdal in Norway. Hanne was the same age as Daniel having also been born in 1970. Their married provided the couple with three children, all of them born at Lyngdal.

52T4

Johan Maximus Skoland Collett

Born in 1996 at Lyngdal, Norway

52T5

Elias Skoland Collett

Born in 1998 at Lyngdal, Norway

52T6

Olivia Skoland Collett

Born in 2004 at Lyngdal, Norway

52S9

Ida Louise Kyllingstad Collett was born in 1981 and she married Richard Belle, born in 1983, at Stavanger in Norway.

APPENDIX ONE

This appendix includes details of another Hannah Collett, not Hannah Rebecca Collett (Ref. 52H4) the daughter of John Collett (Ref. 52G1), who died in 1650, and his wife Susannah Ferrar who died in 1657. That other Hannah Collett was born around 1610, the daughter of John and Anne Collett of London, and she married the court musician Clement Lanier (1591-1661) at St Martin’s Church in Ludgate, London, on 17^th April 1628, the ancestors of Margaret Drody Thompson of Pinopolis in South Carolina. Sincere thanks go to Margaret for supplying much information on the Collett family, which was not restricted to just the Colletts within this family line, but included other details relating to Part 18, etc.

It is the Will of Hannah’s widowed mother Anne Carter of London, formerly Anne Collett, made on 31^st March 1647, which clarified she was not the daughter of John Collett and Susanna Ferrar who respectively died in 1650 and 1657. In addition to the Will, it was on 8^th June 1647 that Anne Carter signed a memorandum to her Will, which resulted in the removal of her two sons Thomas Collett and Richard Collett, when it was stated that their bequeaths were to be given instead to Clement and Hannah Lanier “in respect of the great care charge and trouble they are at and expend in my tedious sickness”. That change of heart took place just under four months prior to her death as her Will (PCC, PROB 11/201, q.189) was subsequently proved at Greenwich on 27^th September 1647 by Clement Lanier and his wife Hannah, the same day that Anne Carter was buried in the churchyard of St Alfege in Greenwich.

In her original Will, Anne Carter stated that she wanted to be buried near her husband John Collett at All Hallows Church on Lombard Street in London. Among her bequests was the lease of the inn ‘The Barrel and Oyster’ in Gracious Street which was to be passed to Clement and Hannah Lanier who were to pay Five Pounds from recent takings to Anne’s son Thomas Collett. [New information received from Margaret D Thompson reveals that Anne Carter’s second husband was Walter Carter. Margaret has also located an article published in 2002 in the American Genealogist Magazine which sheds more light on their family, the details from which have been included in the June 2012 version of this file]

There were also bequests to Anne’s other children who were listed as Richard Collett – later removed, William Collett - one featherbed and bolster, George Collett, Valentine Collett, and Elizabeth Collett, who each received Five Shillings “to buy them gloves or rings in remembrance of me”. One featherbed and other bedroom items were also given to her grandchildren John Lanier and Hanna Lanier (the children of Clement Lanier and Hannah Collett), with the residue to the executors Clement and Hannah Lanier. Overseers of the Will were Doctor Creighton of Greenwich and her son Richard Collett, while the witnesses were Richard Bassano and Francis Collyer - see Legal Documents for a full transcript of the Will and the later amendment.

It would also appear from the records that this Collett family was connected with the Church of St Alfege (Alphage) in Greenwich where, on 22^nd May 1628, John Collett the brother of Hannah Collett married Anne Higgins with whom he had a number of children all baptised there, with one buried there, all as detailed below.

Other members of this Collett family buried at St Alfege’s Church were: Henry Collett on 20^th June 1616; William Collett 1^st September 1618 (husband of Sara who later married John Coop at St Alfege’s on 14^th February 1617); and their daughter Sara Collett who was buried there on 13^th July 1616, having been baptised there on 15^th May 1616. And finally, in April 1637 John Collett, a brewer of Deptford, married Jean Combe at St Alfege’s Church in Greenwich. Could this be the same John Collett who had married Anne Higgins nine years earlier? More members of the Collett family with a confirmed link to the Church of St Alphage can now be found in the new version of Part 54 – The London, Russia and Canada Line. An uncommon name which occurs in both lines is Valentine Collett, which may be a vital clue that could ultimately connect these two families together.

It would be logical to assume that Anne Carter, then as Anne Collett, had inherited The Barrel & Oyster Inn on Gracious Street from her husband at the time of his death. It also seems likely, bearing in mind the fact that Humphrey Collett (Ref. 52D1) is known to have owned other property within that area of London, that the inn may have been part of his estate up until his death in 1558.

Humphrey had eleven children and the families of ten of these have been excluded as they are unlikely to be the forebears of the husband of Anne Carter (Collett). The possible link to this family would therefore lie with Humphrey’s eldest son Thomas who had children of which little is known, or with his three brothers Thomas, Roger and John, about whom nothing is known.

Therefore, for completeness, the following has been included here as a brief outline of the known family of John Collett and his wife Anne who later became Anne Carter.

52A/F1

John Collett was an oysterman who possibly worked on the oyster beds in the River Thames. It may have been later in his life that he owned and managed the inn known as ‘The Barrel and Oyster’ on Gracious Street in London. It was around 1609 that he was married to Anne, who was born around 1590, and their marriage produced at least ten children, as listed below. The death and subsequent burial of John Collett on 4^th December 1630 at All Hallows Church on Lombard Street in London was followed less than two weeks later by the burial there of his youngest daughter Mary, who was buried at All Hallows on 17^th December 1630. It was eight months after his death that his widow Anne filed a Marriage License Allegation with the Bishop of London on 17^th August 1631 for her marriage to Walter Carter. The document read as follows:

“This day appeared personally Walter Carter of the parish of St George in Botolph Lane, London, aged about 49 years and alleged that he intendeth to marry with Anne Collett of the parish of All Hallows, London, widow, aged about 38 years, the late wife of John Collett, late of the same parish, a draper. And it appeareth that this is now lawful, both by reason of lack of any impediment, consanguinity, affinity or other defect, to be married at the parish of St. Faith’s in London”.

Little is known about the dates of birth of the children of John and Anne Collett and the list below has been compiled from the order the names as they appear in the 1647 Will of Anne Carter (Collett), together with baptism details obtained from the records at All Hallows Church. Anne was still living at ‘The Barrel and Oyster’ when she made her Will, and where she was living when she passed away. That property was then handed down to daughter Hannah Lanier and her husband Clement. It seems logical that her son Richard may have been the eldest surviving son at the time of her death, since he was named as an overseer of her Will. An older son John was not mentioned, so he may have died prior to the death of his mother.

The name of John Collett of ‘The Barrel and Oyster’, is just one of twelve members of Livery Companies of Drapers (England) with the surname Collett – see 4^th September 1611. The full list is as follows, with only John contained within this family line. A search will be carried out to try to identify the families of the others.

Henry Collett new apprentice in 1532

Henry Collett new freeman in 1543

Henry Collett master of new apprentice in 1545

Henry Collett, citizen and master of new apprentice in 1547

Henry Collet and John Collett (father and son) new freemen by patrimony on 7^th January 1573

John Collett, Master of new apprentice on 13^th February 1576

John Collett Master of new freeman by servitude on 15^th June 1580

John Collett and James Collett (father and son) new freemen by patrimony on 4^th May 1608

John Collett new freeman by servitude on 4^th September 1611

John Collett master of Jacob new apprentice (7-year term) on 3^rd March 1613

John Collett and Jacob Collett (John, master of Jacob) new freeman on 16^th June 1620

John Collett master of new apprentice (7-year term) on 12^th October 1621

52A/G1

John Collett

Born circa 1609

52A/G2

Hannah Collett

Born circa 1610

52A/G3

Richard Collett

Born in 1618

52A/G4

William Collett

Born in 1622

52A/G5

Robert Collett

Born in 1623

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George Collett

Born circa 1625

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Valentine Collett

Born circa 1627

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Elizabeth Collett

Born circa 1628

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Mary Collett

Born in 1629

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Thomas Collett

Born circa 1630

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John Collett was born around 1609, and was possibly the eldest child of John and Anne Collett. It was on 22^nd May 1628 that he married Anne Higgins at the Church of St Alfege (Alphage) in Greenwich. All of the couple’s last four known children were also baptised at St Alfege, where one of them was also buried. John Collett, the husband of Anne Higgins, purchased the mansion house at Horton Kirby, Kent in 1681 which was eventually passed to his daughter Elizabeth Collett, who sold the property in 1698.

The burial of John Collett, the first child of John Collett and Anne Higgins, was recorded at All Hallows Church in Lombard Street on 5^th March 1629. John senior was not named in the 1647 Will of his re-married mother Anne Carter, following the death of John’s father in 1630.

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John Collett

Born in late 1628 or early 1629

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William Collett

Baptised on 27.09.1629 at Greenwich

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Richard Collett twin

Baptised on 27.03.1633; died 11.04.1633

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John Collett twin

Baptised on 27.03.1633 at Greenwich

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Elizabeth Collett

Born on 09.03.1634 at Margate

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Hannah Collett was born around 1610, the daughter of oysterman John Collett and his wife Anne. Her birth was included within the parish register at All Hallows Church in Lombard Street, London, where her parents were laid to rest. On 17^th April 1628 she married Clement Lanier by way of a licence out of the Faculties at St. Martin’s in Ludgate, London. Previously it was thought that they were married on 16^th March 1628 at the Church of St Margaret at Lee in Kent. Clement Lanier was born in London around 1587 and was the fifth son of Nicholas and Lucreece Lanier. They had twelve children (six daughters and six sons) some of whom had their baptism registered at Greenwich, with others at Lewisham. For those born after 1637, their baptisms were recorded in the Parish of St. Alfege, although three baptism dates are missing, those of John, Elizabeth, and Charles.

Clement was a musician and played the recorder and was a Gentleman of the King’s Chamber and played for both King James I and King Charles I. Clement also purchased some of the great art collection assembled for King Charles by his cousin, Nicholas Lanier, the son of John and Frances Lanier, when Oliver Cromwell was in power. When Charles the First was executed, the Lanier family suffered financial setbacks and hardship while supporting the Prince of Wales, who later became King Charles II, and his struggles to regain the throne. The family did recover some of their fortune after the Restoration.

Clement Lanier died on 6^th November 1661 and was buried at St Alfege's Church in East Greenwich, and his Will made during February 1658 was proved a month after his death on 3^rd December and was registered on 20^th May 1662. In the Will, Clement left his house to his eldest daughter Hannah Lanier, together with forty pounds. Other money was left to Nicholas, Lionel, William, and Frances, and to minors Elizabeth and Susanna when they became of age or were married. Curiously, two further sons, John and Robert, had already left the family home by 1658 and, in the Will, it was stated that they would only receive their money ‘when they shall come to demand the same of my Executrix’.

Hannah Lanier, nee Collett, died on 22^nd December 1653 and was buried in the churchyard of St. Alfege in East Greenwich. It is from Clement Lanier and his wife Hannah Collett that the Lanier family of Virginia and Barbados are descended. The following is the single line of descent from Hannah Lanier Collett to the aforementioned Margaret Drody Thompson in 2010.

The son of Clement Lanier and Hannah Collett, John Lanier, was born in October 1631 and he emigrated to Virginia in America where he married Katherine Ellinor Sampson. Katherine presented John was a son John in 1680 but five years later she died in 1685. John Lanier senior died in Virginia in 1719. The son of John Lanier and Katherine Sampson, John Lanier, was born in 1680 and he married Elizabeth Bird who was born in 1682, and their son Bird Thomas Lanier was born in 1703. John Lanier died in 1728 and was followed twelve years later by his wife Elizabeth who died in 1740.

Bird Thomas Lanier was born in Virginia in 1703 and he married Mary Madderson (Madison) who was born in 1704. Their son Benjamin Lanier was born in Virginia on 14^th December 1732. Bird and Mary Lanier both died in Virginia in 1798. Benjamin Lanier, who was born in 1732, married Susannah Green on 1^st January 1759. Susannah was born around 1736 and died in 1809, whereas Benjamin died eight years later on 2^nd August 1817 in Georgia. Their son John Lewis Lanier was born on 9^th March 1774 at Burke in Georgia.

In 1793 John Lewis Lanier married Hannah Mills who was born in 1776, and their marriage produced Elizabeth Jane Lanier who was born at Burke in Georgia in 1798. John died at Bullock County in Georgia in 1860, leaving his wife Hannah who later died in March 1870 at Jackson in Florida.

Elizabeth Jane Lanier married William Johnson on 14^th October 1816, William having been born in Georgia in 1799. One year after they were married Elizabeth presented William with their daughter Elizabeth Jane Johnson. William Johnson was in Florida when he died in 1851. Elizabeth Jane Johnson was born on 30^th August 1817 and she married Alexander McIver who was born on 13^th September 1810 in North Carolina. Their wedding took place on 15^th November 1835 and five years later their son John Lanier McIver was born. Alexander McIver died at Gadsden County in Florida on 3^rd March 1863.

John Lanier McIver was born on 1^st October 1841 and in April 1863 he married Elizabeth Delphi Floyd who was born in Florida on 25^th July 1849. John died on 31^st October 1909 and was followed by Elizabeth who died at Florida on 10^th September 1928. Their daughter Alice Viola McIver was born on 10^th December 1883. Alice Viola McIver married William Holmes Floyd (a likely relative of her mother) on 24^th June 1902 when she was eighteen years old. William was born in Florida on 12^th February 1879 and died on 17^th May 1919. Alice lived on for another thirty-four years, when she died on 6^th December 1953.

Alice’s and William’s daughter Bernice Alice Floyd was born on 1^st February 1912 in Florida. She married Harold Orson Drody on 8^th June 1930. Harold was born on 8^th August 1909 in West Virginia and he died in Georgia on 29^th November 1990, Bernice having died in Georgia thirteen years earlier on 16^th January 1977. And it was the daughter of Bernice and Harold, Margaret Louise Drody born on 21^st April 1931 at Jax in Florida who kindly provided all of this information about her ancestors. On 22^nd March 1952 Margaret married Kenneth Reed Thompson who was born in Georgia on 20^th February 1931.

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Richard Collett was baptised at All Hallows Church in Lombard Street on 28^th October 1618, the son of John and Anne Collett. He was also an overseer for the Will of his mother Anne Carter, formerly Collett, which was proved at Greenwich in 1647.

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William Collett was born in 1622 and was baptised at All Hallows Church in Lombard Street on 8^th April 1622, the son of John and Anne Collett. He was also named in his mother’s Will of 1647.

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Robert Collett was born in 1623 and was baptised at All Hallows Church in Lombard Street on 5^th May 1623, the son of oysterman John Collett and his wife Anne. He was not named in his mother’s Will of 1647, so may have passed away before then.

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Mary Collett was born in 1629 and was baptised at All Hallows Church in Lombard Street on 26^th April 1629, one of the daughters of John and Anne Collett. Sadly, it was also there where Mary Collett was buried on 17^th December 1630, just thirteen days after the burial of her father. The parish record confirmed that she was the daughter of Anne Collett.

APPENDIX TWO

In the British Library in London are the following letters from John Parrett Collett of Indianapolis, Indiana.

The Collett family chart that accompanied the book ‘Genealogy of the Descendants of John Collett’ published in 1929 was thought to be correct at that time. March 1931 brought us a letter from Mr Henry Collett of 64 Cornhill in London together with a copy of his book published in 1925 entitled Little Gidding and its Founder. The book contains the history of Little Gidding Church, his address delivered there on the 300^th anniversary of its founding, with biographical notes on the lives of several of the Ferrar and Collett family members.

The present Governor of the Bank of England, Mr Montague Collett Norman’s mother was a Collett, a long-handed letter from him to us states the fact [see Appendix Four]. Henry Collett further writes, Sir Knight Charles Henry Collett was made Lord Mayor of London in October. [This was a reference to Sir Charles Henry Collett (Ref. 51P1) who was Lord Mayor of London in 1933, who features in Part 51 – The Descendants from the Gloucestershire Line]

Footnote to the above: The book ‘Genealogy of the Descendants of John Collett’ was written by John Dunlap Collett (Ref. 52P49) prior to his death in 1889 for his son John Parrett Collett (Ref. 52Q29), and it was he who published the work in 1928. See Appendix Three.

Another letter by John Parrett Collett dated December 1942, reads

In 1486 Sir Henry Colet (1435-1505), Lord Mayor of London, was granted the Colet Coat of Arms. These can be found in St Dunstan’s Church in Stepney where he is buried. Arms can also be seen upon a monument in St Martin’s Church at Chelsfield in Kent, to Peter Collett (1543-1607) where he is buried, and who is described as armiger and alderman of London. This Peter Collett was an uncle to John Collett who married Susanna Ferrar.

The arms can also be seen at Little Gidding Church, to John Collett (1578-1659) who was the husband of the said Susanna Ferrar, from whom we descended through their son John Collett (1604-1669) and his wife Ann Goldsmith who came to the American Colonies in 1650 at Baltimore in Maryland.

Through the Library at Terre Haute, I was able to make contact with a living descendent of John Collett. The County Historian, Mrs Dorothy Clarke gave me the address of the daughter of Emily Collett (1822-1886), the sister of Stephen S Collett (1829-1902). She told me that she lived just half a block away from a Collett Park, which was a gift to the City by the bachelor Josephus Collett (1787-1872) and his brother Stephen S Collett (1791-1843). As Mary Florence Cos was not well, it was in fact her married daughter Emily Gedrick of 21 Gateway Drive in Terre Haute who wrote on behalf of her family and confirmed their descent.

[Details of the aforementioned Sir Henry Colet can be found in Part 18 – The Suffolk Line]

APPENDIX THREE

This appendix comprises part of the book ‘Genealogy of the Descendants of John Collett’ by John Dunlap Collett (1862-1889) published by his son John Parrett Collett of Indianapolis, Indiana on 14^th November 1928.

TO MY SON JOHN PARRETT COLLETT THE ONLY EXISTING LINK, BY NAME, STANDING BETWEEN THE FOLLOWING GENEALOGY AND POSTERITY

FOREWARD

Reeves and Turner, Publishers of London, England, in 1871, published the writings of William Patterson, of Edinburgh, Scotland, upon the offspring of the refugees connected with Science, Law, The Legislature, and Literature, in Agnew's French Protestant Exiles, Volume eleven, Chapter 27, page 305, giving the following:

The Huguenot family of Colletts took refuge in England after the Edict of Revolution. They had been for a long time naturalized British subjects, when the emigrated to the American Colonies. There by industry, they made a fortune and became extensive proprietors of land. After the American Revolutionary War, the Republican Government confiscated their estates. The present English representative of the family is an English barrister, Mr. Chas. Hastings Collett, Esq.

Upon the recommendation of the Society of Genealogists, 227 The Strand, London, England, in reply to our request for their recommendation of some reliable, and efficient, English genealogist to bring up our work from the Little Gidding Colletts to 1770, American Colletts, the following was submitted to Mr. George Sherwood, Editor, The Pedigree Register, and Hon Treasurer, The Society of Genealogists, 210 The Strand, London, England, for checking and confirmation. His report received August 21, 1928, as of date of August 8th, 1928. The following work stands approved and attested in accord with the Genealogist National Society records of London, England, and three months general genealogical research work done by Mr. Sherwood, in proving some three or four minor changes made in or work to conform to the English genealogical records.

The American Colonial and early U.S. Government and State marriage records were not kept except by church records, many of which have been destroyed, lost, or otherwise unavailable. The data used herein has been taken from family Bible records, many early family letters that were found preserved by descendants, from Will Records, Probate Records, Deed Records, Miscellaneous Records, Archives of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Pioneer Societies, Historical Societies of Counties, or various States, as well as State Histories of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, all of dependable and reliable character, some recorded in separate work kept on the following data as being too voluminous to be herewith contained

From John Collett, of Little Gidding, down through all generations, each generation has been taught to first acquire a good education, be frugal, aggressive, and honourable; such are the records as recorded with but very few diversions found from this standard.

John D. Collett.

Indianapolis, Indiana.

November 14th, 1928.

On the next page is a map made in 1673 showing Chesapeake Bay, Baltimore, and Collett's Neck

APPENDIX FOUR

The Collett connection with the Governor of the Bank of England mentioned in the March 1931 letter from Henry Collett of 64 Cornhill, London to John P Collett of Indianapolis is as follows.

The John Corlett of Douglas on the Isle of Man married Anne Wilks was said to have been one of the Corletts of Ballamona, Ballaugh. Their first son was Robert Edgar Corlett who was born on the Isle of Man on 17^th April 1783. He later emigrated to America where he married Sophia Catherine Austin in New York on 30^th September 1815. Sophia was born at Chester in England during 1791 and she later presented her husband with four known children.

Like his brother James (below) Robert also changed his name from Corlett to Robert Edgar Collet prior to his marriage to Sophia. Their son Oscar Wilks Collet was born on 14^th August 1821 at Mona Farm near Alton, Illinois, and it was there also that his three siblings were born. They were Irwin Austin Collet, Robert Edgar Collet, and Emma Sophia Collet and, once the family had been completed, they moved from Illinois to St. Louis in Missouri. In 1833 Oscar Wilks Collet began his schooling at Saint Louis University at age twelve years and continued until he was eighteen, although the records do not show that he received a degree. After that he travelled to Europe during the years of 1841 and 1842. Eight years after he returned to America Oscar married Agnes R. Dunlap who had emigrated to America from Ireland in 1847. Agnes, who had been born during November 1827 to a Scottish father and an Irish mother, was married to Oscar in St Louis Cathedral by Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick on 2^nd November 1850.

The second son of John Corlett and Ann Wilks was James Collet who was born as James Corlett at Glentrammon, Douglas on the Isle of Man on 27^th July 1784. He was Captain in the Royal Navy and his name was legally changed to James Collet. He married Wendelina Elizabeth van Brienen at Archangel in Russia during 1812, the daughter of Abraham Van Brienen. Their marriage resulted in the birth of three children, one of whom was cotton merchant Sir Mark Wilks Collet, 1st Baronet, a Lieutenant for the City of London, and Governor of the Bank of England. He had by his first wife Susan Gertrude Eyre, a daughter Lina Susan Penelope Collet who, on 15^th November 1870 married Frederick Henry Norman, and it was their eldest son who became the Right Honorable Montagu Collet Norman, Privy Councillor, the Governor of the Bank of England from 1920 to 1944, whose face was featured on the front cover of Time Magazine in 1929.

According to the census of 1901 Mark W Collett, aged 84 and born at Islington, was living within the Paddington area of London, where he was described as ‘Director of the Bank of England’. Living there with him was his second wife Antonia Collett, aged 77, from Finsbury. Sir Mark Wilks Collet died four years later and it was just his widow Antonia Collet, aged 87, who was still living in Paddington in 1911. He died on 25^th April 1905 at 2 Sussex Square in London, although during the probate process for his Will he was described as being of St Clere, Kemsing in Kent [within the parish of Sevenoaks] and of Founders Court in London. His Will was proved on 20^th May 1905 and his personal estate was valued at £448,052 1 Shilling and 1 Pence. His son, Sir Mark Edlmann Collet was one of the three executives to the Will.

Their marriage had produced just one son, Mark Edlmann Collet who was born on 12^th January 1864 and baptised at St Mary’s Church on St Marylebone Road in London on 5^th February 1864. He was educated at Eton, as confirmed by the census of 1881, when he and his parents, supported by eight servants, were living at 2 Sussex Square in Paddington. Ten years earlier the family of three was residing in Croydon, where Mark (senior) was 54, his wife Antonia was 47, and Mark junior was just seven years old. In 1861 Mark Wilks Collet, aged 45, was a widower when he was living and working in the Garston and Wavertree district of Liverpool.

Apart from the census in 1901, all of the other records indicate that Mark Wilks Collett was born in the Highbury area of London. However, it was on 8^th May 1862 that he married Antonia Frederica Edlmann at Chislehurst in Kent, when Mark’s father was named as James Collet, and Antonia’s father was named as Joseph Edlmann.

Mark Wilks Collet and his first wife Susanna Gertrude Collett nee Eyre were living in Liverpool when their daughter Lina Susan Penelope Collet was baptised at St Catherine’s Church on 19^th July 1851, although the census return in 1881 gave her place of birth as New York and in the same year that she was baptised. Her husband Frederick Henry Norman was the son of George Warde Norman and Sibella Stone and he was thirteen years older than ‘Lena S P Norman’ in 1881, and his occupation was that of a banker and a barrister not in practice. By that time Lina had presented him with two sons and a daughter while they were living in London, although in 1881 the family was living at The Court in Hayes, Kent, where they were supported by eight servants. Her children were Gertrude Norman, Montagu Collet Norman (06.09.1871 - 04.02.1950), and Ronald Collet Norman (15.11.1873 – 05.12.1963). Lina Susan Penelope Norman nee Collet was almost one hundred years old when she died on 2^nd January 1950.

Mark Edlmann Collet who was born on 12^th January 1864, the only son of 1^st Baronet Sir Mark Wilks Collet and his second Antonia, became 2^nd Baronet Sir Mark Edlmann Collet and was married to Nina Emma Caroline Theobald, Lady Collet who died in 1922. Sir Mark Edlmann Collet, Baronet of Ballamanaugh, of Lezayre on the Isle of Man, died on 24^th September 1944 and it was just over a year later that his Will was proved at Llandudno on 3^rd October 1945. Those named as executors of his estate in England valued at £18,150 8 Shillings and 9 Pence were the Right Honourable Montague Collet Norman (1^st Baron Norman) D.S.O. banker, Ronald Collet Norman farmer, Dame Violet Frances Collet widow, and William Gosselin Trower solicitor.

APPENDIX FIVE

A letter from C T Collett dated 28^th July 1953 and written on paper headed ‘Southern Pacific Lines, 310 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago’ was sent to Ove Gulberg Hoegh Collett in Oslo (Ref. 24P41) and had attached to it a document entitled Historical & Biographical Sketch of the Collet(t) Family. The letter and the attachment were discovered by Peter Collett of Oslo (Ref. 24P47) in early 2014 and forwarded onto Brian Collett in England. The first two pages of the attachment include lots of details of the Colletts already shown in this family line. However, details of others of the name are randomly included on pages 3 and 4, with one section being the ancestor of the aforesaid C T Collett, albeit without any qualifying dates. These details are therefore included in this fifth appendix in the hope they might be identified at a later date. The first of them is #1 Noah Webster Collett 1862-1928, the second is #2 Alonzo M Collett, while the third of them is #3 John Caskie Collett.

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James Collett was born in 1735 and he died in 1808, having been the husband of Eleanor and the father of Ezekiel. His Will, made on 13^th January 1807, included the name of his wife and six of their children, which read as follows: “In the name of God Amen, I, James Collett Senior of the County of Randolph in the State of North Carolina, being sick and weak in body but perfect mind and memory, thanks be given unto God, calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, that is to say principally and first of all, I give and recommend my soul into the hand of the almighty God that gave it, and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in decent Christian burial at the discretion of my Executors. Nothing doubting, but at the general resurrection, I shall receive again by the mighty power of God. And as touching such worldly wherewith it has pleased God to bless me with in this life, I give demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form

First, I give and bequest unto Ellinor {Eleanor} my dearly beloved wife, all my gold to be at her own disposal, one Negro man named Bing, one Negro woman named Clary and one Negro girl named Abigail. Two breeding mares, six cows of her own choosing and twenty-four hogs as she thinks fit to choose. Two beds and furniture, ten sheep of her own choice, two hundred and fifty bushels of Indian corn and thirty bushels of wheat and all the kitchen furniture, bridle and saddle and all the salt and iron I have in stock and the plantation tools and two barrels of brandy, one wagon and harness and five hundred weight of bacon and my dwelling plantation with full liberty as she thinks fit during her life or widowhood and at her decease or marriage to be equally divided between my children and to take care of the Old Negro and see her well provided for so that she shall not suffer for support of body as long as it shall please God she shall live

I give also the still and still-tubs and cider crocks and barrels. The moveable property to be divided, and not the Negros that I gave to my wife and the still and still-tubs and cider crocks to my son, James Collett at his mother's decease or widowhood. I also give to my sons and sons-in-law, all my cash that I have by me, that is to say, silver and paper currency and all that is due on notes, bonds or open accounts to be collected, equally to be divided. I give and bequest to my son Ezekiel Collett the plantation and all the tracts of land belonging to it to him, his heirs and assigns forever and one Negro Abraham. I give and bequest to my son Samuel Collett the track of land that he now lives on to him and his heir and assigns and one Negro Bing after his mother's decease or widowhood. I give and bequest to my son James Collett after his mother's decease or widowhood, four hundred acres of the track of land where my dwelling plantation is, to be laid off at the north end to him, his heirs and assigns forever and one Negro boy named Samard and the remainder of the tract I give to my grandson, James Collett King on the east end of the aforesaid track to him, his heirs and assigns forever and one Negro boy named Jonas.

I give and bequest to Abraham Gossett, my-son in-law one Negro lad named Isaac. I give and bequest to John King, my son-in-law one track of land that I bought off Joseph Hoggett containing 160 acres and another track that I bought off Burlto containing 120 joining Benjamin Kendall and one Negro girl named Harriet. I give and bequest to my granddaughter, Mary King, one Negro girl named Tibbina and her increase. I give and bequest to my grandchildren, Eleanor, Sarah, and Ann King one Negro girl named Roda and her increase. I give & bequest to my daughter Ann King, after the decease or widowhood of her mother, the two Negros Clary and Abigail with their increase during her natural life and after her death to be equally divided to her children lawfully begotten of her body. I give and bequest two Negros named Grace and Turk and three tracks of land lying in Rowan County to be sold, and the monies arising to be equally divided between Ezekiel, Charles, and Samuel Collett and Abraham Gossett's children that he has by my daughter.

I constitute Abraham Gossett, Ezekiel, Charles, and Samuel Collett and John King my sole executors of this last Will and Testament and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and every other former testaments, wills, legacies, bequests and executors by me in any ways before named willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament in witness and whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 13^th day of January in the year of our Lord 1807.”

The Will was signed by the hand of James Collett and was proved at Rowan County in North Carolina on 29^th October 1811, three years after his death, when the signatories were John King, Abraham Gossett, Charles Collett, Ezekiel Collett and Samuel Collett. With no signatory for his son James, and with no mention of him in the Will, it must be assumed that he had already died by 1807.

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Charles Collett

Born in June 1765

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Nathaniel Samuel Collett

Date of birth unknown

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Ezekiel Collett

Born in 1773

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Elizabeth Collett

Date of birth unknown

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Nancy Ann Collett

Date of birth unknown

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James Collett

Date of birth unknown; died before 1807

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Charles Collett was born during June 1765 the eldest child of James and Eleanor Collett. He was married twice in his life, on the second occasion to Sarah, although it is not known whether or not there were any children arising from either marriage. Charles Collett was reputedly 68 years and 8 months old when he died on 9^th February 1834, according to his headstone. Sarah survived him by twenty-eight years when she passed away in 1862. Her separate headstone, adjacent to that of her husband, confirmed that Sarah, the second wife of Charles Collett died on 25^th October 1862 at the age of 81 years 4 months and 7 days, making her date of birth 18^th June 1781.

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Ezekiel Collett was born in Maryland during 1773, but died while he was residing at Davidson County in North Carolina in 1828. He married Gizzeal Ward who was born in 1778 and who also died in 1828. At some time in his life, he was a planter at Thomasville Township, while it is understood that he had thirteen children, some of whom were born at Davidson County and only two of them are named below.

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James Offerd Collett

Born in 1807 at Davidson County

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Charles Offerd Collett

Born in 1815 at Davidson County

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Elizabeth Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was one of the daughters of James and Eleanor Collett, and she married Abraham Gossett who was named in her father Will of 1807.

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Nancy Ann Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was another daughter of James and Eleanor Collett. She married John King and their children included their son James Collett King and daughters Mary, Eleanor, Sarah and Ann, all of them named in her father’s Will of 1807.

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James Offerd Collett was born in Davidson County in North Carolina during 1807 and he died in 1875. It was also in Davidson County that he married Margaret Taggart on 12^th December 1828, Margaret also having been born in 1807 and she died eight years after James in 1883. During their life together they had eight children.

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Rebecca Collett

Born in 1832 at Davidson County

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Abigail Collett

Born in 1834 at Davidson County

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John Collett

Born in 1835 at Davidson County

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Rachel Collett

Born in 1838 at Davidson County

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Jacob Collett

Born in 1840 at Davidson County

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William Collett

Born in 1842 at Davidson County

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Phoebe Collett

Born in 1848 at Davidson County

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Miranda {Anna} L Collett

Born in 1858 at Davidson County

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Charles Offerd Collett was born in 1815 and that may have been at Davidson County. All that is currently known about him is that he was married, had eight children, and died in 1889.

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John Collett was born at Midway Township in Davidson County, North Carolina on 4^th April 1835. John married Sarah Elizabeth Green (1839-1884) on 30^th March 1859 and they had seven children. John Collett died at midway on 5^th June 1898. It is of interest that the obituary for their son James Pearson Collett in 1953 listed his three surviving siblings as his sister Mrs J Arthur Lindsay, and his two brothers as J Jerome Collett and Walter L Collett, neither of whom are listed below. However, it is established that John Jerome Collett was later married and had a son of the same name, who was born at Thomasville on 31^st July 1932.

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Ladora E Collett

Born in 1860

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Noah Webster Collett

Born in 1862 at Midway Township

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James Pearson Collett

Born in 1867 at Davidson County

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Emily J Collett

Born in 1869 at Davidson County

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J E Collett

Born in 1870 at Davidson County

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Robert B Collett

Born in 1873 at Davidson County

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Fanny H Collett

Born in 1877 at Davidson County

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Ladora E Collett was born in 1860, the first of the seven children born to John Collett and Sarah Elizabeth Green. She was also recorded as Dora E Collett who, when she married, became Dora E Stone who died in 1932.

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Noah Webster Collett Senior (#1 - the first named ancestor of C T Collett) was born at Midway Township in Davidson County, North Carolina on 7^th May 1862, although an alternative unverified source claims the birth took place at Abbots Creek in North Carolina. He was the son of John Collett and Sarah Elizabeth Green. In the North Carolina census of 1870 Noah W Collet was seven years old when he was recorded with his family which comprised his father and mother, John Collet who was 35 and Sarah who was 30, and his three siblings. They were his older sister Ladora who was nine, Jimmie who was three and Emily Collet who was a few months old. Every member of the family had been born in North Carolina, including male servant Zan Carr who was 17.

Sometime during the following decade, the family settled in Thomasville in Davidson County, North Carolina, as confirmed by the census in 1880, by which time the couple’s eldest child was married. John Collett was 45, Sarah E Collett was 41, and their four sons were N W {Noah Webster} Collett who was 18, J {James/Jimmie} P Collett who was 12 and Robert E Collett who was seven, plus daughters J E {Emily} Collett who was 10 and Fanny H Collett who was three years of age. Staying with the family was their married daughter Ladora E Stone who was 20. Noah had attended the rural schools in the area and on leaving completing his education he assisted his father on the family farm.

On attaining the age of majority Noah entered the employment of the Richmond & Danville Railroad Company, where he worked for eight years, first as a fireman and during the last four years as an engineer. It was on 4^th November 1890 at Burlington in Alamance County, North Carolina, when Noah was 28 that he married (1) Mamie F Hayes who was 20 and from South Carolina, the daughter of Michael and Mary Hayes. Over the next few years Mamie presented Noah with two children, although it would appear that she did not survive the birth of the second child. Following the premature death of his first wife, Noah married (2) Lucretia Hughes on 20^th October 1897. Lucretia, who was known as Lulie, was the daughter of Cicero Hughes and had been born in 1873. By the time of the census in 1910 Cicero Hughes, Noah’s father-in-law, was living with the family.

In the early census of 1900 Noah and his young family were living at Athens City in Clark County, Georgia. N W Collett was 38 and his wife Lulie from South Carolina was 27. The children living with the couple were Erma Collett who was nine and born in North Carolina, Hayes Collett who was five and born in South Carolina and an unnamed daughter who had only just been born at Georgia, the first of two children of Noah and Lucretia.

At the time of the next census in 1910 the family was residing at Salisbury in Rowan County, North Carolina, where Noah W Collett was 46, Lindia (sic) Collett was 34, Mary J Collett was 18, John H Collett was 14 and Flora Collett was nine. Completing the household was Cicero Hughes who was 69, with all six members of the family born in North Carolina. Two years later Lucretia gave birth to another son, Noah Webster Collett junior, and while no census record of the family has been found for 1920, the census in 1930 for Salisbury only listed Noah Webster Collett junior, aged 17, living there with his widowed mother Lulie Collett aged 56. It was two years earlier that Noah Webster Collett died at Baltimore on 2^nd September 1928.

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Erma {Mary J} Collett

Born in 1891 at Burlington, North Carolina

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John Hayes Collett

Born in 1895 in South Carolina

The following are the children of Noah Collett by his second wife Lucretia Hughes:

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Flora Collett

Born in 1900 at Athens City, Georgia

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Noah Webster Collett Junior

Born in 1912 at Salisbury in North Carolina

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James Pearson Collett, who was known as Jimmie, was born at Davidson County in North Carolina on 28^th August 1867, the son of John Collett and Sarah Elizabeth Green. He later married Fannie Cornelia Temple/Tempie Craven who was born during August 1869, who died in 1961. Eight years earlier James Pearson Collett died on 16^th December 1953 at Trinity in Randolph County, North Carolina.

The photograph on the right shows the couple later in their life together.

The family was recorded in the Trinity Township census of 1900 as James P Collett, a farmer at 32, his wife Tempie Collett who was 30, Vera V Collett who was seven, Ava F Collett who was five, John C Collett who was four, and Thelma L Collett who was one year old.

According to the next census in 1910, the Collett family still living at Trinity Township comprised James P Collett aged 42 and Temple Collett aged 39, and their children Vera V Collett who was 17, Frances A Collett who was 15, John C Collett who was 14, Thelma L Collett who was 11, Hallie K Collett who was nine years old, and Louise Collett who was four months of age. Head of the household James was a farmer and an employer, who had his son John as one of his employees. Every member of the family had been born in North Carolina, with the census return confirming that Fannie (Temple) had given birth to six children (all living) who, two years later, gave birth to the couple’s seventh and last child.

Twenty years later the family was reduced in size to just to farmer James who was 62, wife Temple who was 59, and their two youngest children Louise Collett who was 20, and James P Collett junior who was 17.

The record of the death of James P Collett stated that he was 86 years old, born on 28^th August 1867 in Davidson County North Carolina, the son of John Collett and Sarah Green, a married farmer residing at Route 1 in Trinity, who was buried at Mount Pleasant Church on the Old Greensboro Road to the north of Thomasville, Davidson County, on 17^th December 1953. Curiously, within his obituary published in the Greensboro Daily News, his occupation was stated to be that of a teacher. It began by acknowledging his parents were John Collett and Sarah Green, and his wife as Temple Craven. The others named therein included three of his siblings Mrs J Arthur Lindsay, J Jerome Collett, and Walter L Collett, and seven of his children. They were Mrs Allen Jones, Mrs W Lee Meredith, Mrs Sam Hite, Mrs John Easter, Miss Kelso Collett, J Craven Collett, and James P Collett jnr.

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Vera Venus Collett

Born in 1892 at Trinity Township, NC

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Frances Ava Collett

Born in 1894 at Trinity Township, NC

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John Craven Collett

Born in 1895 at Trinity Township, NC

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Thelma Loris Collett

Born in 1899 at Trinity Township, NC

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Hallie Kelso Collett

Born in 1900 at Trinity Township, NC

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Louise Collett

Born in 1909 at Trinity Township, NC

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James Pearson Collett Jnr

Born in 1912 at Trinity Township, NC

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Noah Webster Collett junior was born at Salisbury in Rowan County, North Carolina in 1912, the youngest child of Noah Webster Collett by his second wife Rainey Hushes who was known as Lulie. It was as Webster N Collett aged 17 that he was recorded in the Salisbury census of 1930 when he was the only person living with his widowed mother Lulie Collett. During the next decade Noah married Elizabeth G Manning and in 1943 their son Robert Webster Collett was born at Salisbury in Rowan County. Early that same year Noah had enlisted with the military for the Second World War. That took place at Camp Croft in South Carolina on 5^th March 1943. The entry record confirmed that he enlisted for the duration of the war or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law, that he was a married man who had attended high school for three years, and that he was appointed with the rank of private. Noah Webster Collett appears to have been a victim of the war, since it has been recorded that he died during 1944.

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Robert Webster Collett

Born in 1943 at Salisbury, NC

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Vera Venus Collett was born at Trinity Township, Randolph County, during November 1892, the first of the four children of James (Jimmie) Pearson Collett and Fannie Temple Craven. She was seven years of age in 1900, and 17 years old in 1910, on both occasions living with her family at Trinity Township. Seven years later, it was there also that she married farmer Allen Jay Jones, when their wedding day was recorded at Randolph County register office on 27^th January 1917. Over the following five years Vera presented Allen with two children. They were Frances Lorene Jones born on 6^th July 1920, and Allen Collett Jones born on 8^th January 1922. It was as Vera Venus Jones aged 69 that she died at High Point, Gilbert County, North Carolina, on 29^th July 1962 and was buried there, at Floral Garden Cemetery, on 31^st July 1962. She was a widow whose home address was on Route 5 in High Point, and her parents were confirmed as James Pearson Collett and Fannie Temple Craven.

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Frances Ava Collett was born at Trinity Township in July 1894, another daughter of James and Fannie (Tempie) Collett. She was recorded as Ava F Collett, aged five years, in the Trinity Township census of 1900, and was 15 in 1910, still living there with her family. Twelve years later she married John Web Meredith on 12^th October 1922, their marriage recorded at Randolph County in North Carolina. On the occasion of the death of her father in 1953, and on the death of her youngest brother James (below), she was listed in both obituaries as Mrs W Lee Meredith. Her marriage produced two known children, William Lee Meredith Junior on 20^th September 1923, and J Odell Meredith on 16^th June 1935 who died on 30^th October 1974, both born at Trinity Township with their births also recorded at Randolph County. Frances Ava Meredith died on 30^th April 1976, when her parents were confirmed as James P Collett senior and Tempie Craven.

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John Craven Collett was born at Trinity Township on 5^th November 1895, the eldest son of James Collett and Fannie Craven. He was four years old in 1900 and was 14 in 1910. He later married his sister-in-law Elizabeth (Lizzie) Meredith who was born in 1901, who died in 1987, with whom he had three children. The record of their wedding day at the register office in Davidson County on 28^th March 1923 at Thomasville, named the couple as John Craven Collett and Sarah Elizabeth Meredith. She was the younger sister of John Web Meredith who married John’s older sister Frances Ava (above). The Trinity census in 1930 listed the four members of the family residing at High Point Street as John C Collett aged 34 and a farmer, Elizabeth Collett who was 28, Nancy M Collett who was five, and J C Collett Junior who was five. Just over four years later, daughter Nancy was around ten years old when she died on 6^th January 1935 at Gaston County in North Carolina, when she was recorded as the child of J C Collett and his wife Lizzie Meredith.

Fifteen years after losing their daughter, the family was still living in Trinity Township, at Buck Yard Road, where farmer John was 54, his wife Sally E Collett was 48, son John C Collett was 22, and daughter Jayn M Collett was 18. John Craven Collett senior, a farmer, died in North Caroline on 9^th May 1961 and was buried at Trinity Cemetery in Trinity, Randolph County, aged 65. His obituary was published in the Greensboro Daily News on 10^th May 1961 in which was named members of his family as follows. His father was James P Collett junior, his mother Mrs Temple Collett, his wife Mrs Elizabeth Meredith Collett, his son J C Collett junior, and his daughter Mrs Chapp Brown. His four sisters were confirmed as Mrs Vera Collett Jones, Mrs Ava Collett Meredith, Mrs Loris Collett Hite, Miss Kelso Collett, and Mrs Louise Collett Easter.

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Nancy Maxine Collett

Born in 1924; died 1935

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John Craven Collett

Born in 1927 at Trinity Township

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Jayn Marie Collett

Born in 1931 at Trinity Township, NC

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Thelma Loris Collett was born at Trinity Township in February 1899, the fourth of the seven children of James and Fannie Collett, who was one year old in 1900 and was 11 in 1910. Thelma was forty-eight years old when, as Loris Collett, she married Sammie Hite on 1^st June 1948, their marriage recorded at Randolph County in North Carolina, when the bride’s parents were recorded as Jim Collett and Tempie Collett. On the occasion of the death of her father in 1953, and on the death of her youngest brother James (below), Thelma was listed in both obituaries as Mrs Sam Hite and Mrs Loris Hite, respectively.

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Hallie Kelso Collett was born in Randolph County on 20^th September 1900, the daughter of James and Fannie Collett. She was nine years of age in 1910, when she was living with her family at Trinity Township. She never married and at the time of her death on 29^th August 1991, aged 90, she was recorded as Hallie Kelso Collett, following which she was buried at Holly Hill Memorial Park, Thomasville, Davidson County in North Carolina. Her obituary only named her two married sisters, Mrs Loris Hite (above), and Mrs Louise Easter (below).

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Louise Collett was born at Trinity Township in Randolph County on 11^th December 1909, and was four months old in the 1910 census when she still living there with her family, the sixth child and youngest daughter of James and Temple Collett. It is established from her father’s obituary in 1953 that she had married John Easter, which was also confirmed in the 1991 obituary of her unmarried sister Hallie Kelso Collett (above). Louise was 20 years old in 1930 when she and her younger brother James (below) were the only children still living with their parents at Trinity Township. Four years later, 24-year-old Louise Collett married John C Easter, aged 26, at Trinity Township on 30^th June 1934. She died on 11^th May 2008 at Winston-Salem in Forsyth County, North Carolina and was buried at Trinity Cemetery in Trinity Township.

Louise was 99 years old when she passed away, after which her obituary was published in the High Point Enterprise on 16^th May 2008, which included the following family names. First off, it named her parents as James P Collett senior and Temple Craven, next was were husband John C Easter, and then their children, who were Janese McDuffie, Mary Lynne Albright, John Easter Junior. Their spouses were named as Dale McDuffie, Jim Albright, and Mary Easter. It was six years after they were married, that Louise gave birth to the first of the couple’s three children. They were daughters Janese Easter, Mary Lynne Easter, and John Easter Junior.

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James Pearson Collett Junior was born at Trinity Township in Randolph County on 30^th April 1912 the last child of James Pearson Collett Senior and his wife Temple Craven. He was still living there with his family in 1930 aged 17. It was during the next three years that James Pearson Collett Junior married Martha Rothrock at Davidson County and shortly thereafter their daughter Doris Gray Collett was born. The North Carolina census in 1940 identified the family residing at 17 Old Lexington Road, High Point Township in Guildford County, where James P Collett was 27 and a carpenter and a building contractor, Martha G Collett was 23, and daughter Doris G Collett was five years old. All three of them had been born in Davidson County.

Ten years after that day, the family was again recorded living at High Point Township, by which time 38-year-old James P Collett was a bus driver for a public utility power company, working 55 hours each week. His wife was described as Martha R Collett who was 33, when daughter Doris G Collett was 15.

At the time of the death of James Pearson Collett in 1965, the record of his passing confirmed the following details. That he was born at Trinity Township, Randolph County in North Carolina, that he was living at Thomasville when he died on 21^st March, the son of James Pearson and Temple Craven Collett. Two days later he was buried at nearby Holly Hill Memorial Park in Thomasville, Davidson County, six miles west of Trinity, where his sister Hallie (above) was later buried. The same record also stated that he was 52, having been born of 30^th April 1912, a farmer whose wife was Martha Rothrock Collett.

The obituary for James Pearson Collett Junior, a farmer, was published in the Greensboro Daily News on 22^nd March 1965 and included a reference to the following members of his extended family. They were his wife Martha Rothrock Collett, their daughter Mrs Robert Apple, together with four of James’ sisters Mrs W Meredith (sister Francis Ava), Mrs Loris Hite (sister Thelma), Miss Kelso Collett, and Mrs John Easter (sister Louise).

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Doris Gray Collett

Born in 1934 at Davidson County, NC

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Robert Webster Collett was born at Salisbury City in Rowan County, North Carolina on 10^th October 1943, the only known child of Noah Webster Collett junior and Elizabeth G Manning. In the first decade of the twenty-first century Robert Webster Collett of Salisbury City was known to have been residing in Atlanta, Georgia, and Ocean Isle Beach on the coast in Brunswick County, North Carolina.

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John Craven Collett Junior was born at Trinity Township on 8^th July 1927, the only known son of John Craven Collett and Sarah Elizabeth Meredith. It was also at Trinity Township that he died on 16^th January 2002, after which he was buried at Trinity Cemetery. In the census of 1930 he was two years old when still living in Trinity Township with his parents and his older sister Nancy Maxine Collett who suffered a premature death a couple of years later.

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Jayn Marie Collett was born at Trinity Township in 1932, nine months after her parents John Craven Collett and Sarah Elizabeth Meredith were married. She was still living at Trinity Township when, at the age of 24, she married 32-year-old Chapp Marshall Brown, of High Point Township, at Asheboro in Randolph County on 31^st March 1956, when she was confirmed as the daughter of John Craven Collett and Elizabeth Meredith. None of the three witnesses at the marriage appear to have been related to either the bride or the groom – whose father was widower William L Brown.

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Doris Gray Collett was born at Thomasville Township in Davidson County, North Carolina on 4^th October 1934, the only child of James Pearson Collett junior and Martha Rothrock. It was at 17 Old Lexington Road, High Point Township, in Guildford County, that five-year-old Doris G Collett was living with her parents in 1940, and again in 1950 when she was 15. She was just of twenty years of age when Doris Gray Collett married Robert M Apple on 30^th December 1954 at Davidson Town in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, when Robert was 25 years old.

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John M Collett was born in Kentucky around 1819 and he later married Julia A Well from Indiana. It was also in Indiana where the couple settled and where all their children were born. According to the census in 1870 the family was still living in Indiana where John M Collett was 51 and Julia A Collett was 50. Living with the couple on that day was their unmarried son Jesse A Collett who was 12, but also their married son William H Collett who was 30 and his wife Sarah C Collett who was 24. Completing the family was granddaughter Effie L Collett who was three, grandson Alonzo Collett who was one year old and Julia’s mother Mary A Wells aged 72 from North Carolina. Joseph Fesler aged 20 was helping John on the farm, while Julia was supported by servant Lydia Gliton aged 18.

It seems highly likely that other children were born to John and Julia between 1840 and 1858. During the next decade the whole family left Indiana and by 1880 the census that year confirmed they were residing in Marmaton in Allen County, Kansas. Farmer John M Collett was 61, Julia A Collett was 60, their son William H Collett was 40 and his wife Sarah Clementine Collett was 34, while their two children were named as Eva {Effie} L Collett who was 14 and Alonzo M Collett who was 11. John and Julia Collett died during the next twenty years, as did their son William, since in the census of 1900 his wife was a widow who was living with her unmarried son Alonzo.

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William H Collett

Born in 1840 in Indiana

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Jesse A Collett

Born in 1858 in Indiana

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William H Collett was born in Indiana around 1840, the son of John M Collett from Kentucky and his wife Julia A Wells from Indiana. He married Sarah Clementine in the early 1860s and their two children were born before the end of the decade.

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Eva {Effie} L Collett

Born in 1867 in Indiana

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Alonza M Collett

Born in 1869 in Indiana

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Alonzo M Collett (#2) was born in Indiana during May 1869 and was living there in 1870 when the census that year confirmed he was one year old. On that occasion he and his parents William and Sarah Collett were living with Alonzo’s grandparents John and Julia Collett. During the following years his parents moved the family to Kansas where Alonzo entered the Kansas Normal School at Emporia from where he graduated in 1890. Ten years earlier the census in 1880 confirmed that Alonzo M Collett aged 11 was working with his father and grandfather on the family’s farm at Marmaton in Allen County in Kansas. After that he worked there as an instructor for the next two years, following which he became a laboratory assistant in the Department of Botany at Harvard University where he remained for a further two years. When that finished, he took up the post of teacher of natural sciences at East Denver High School.

His father died before the end of the century and by the time of the census in 1900 unmarried Alonzo M Collett, who was 31 and from Indiana, was living in Denver City in Arapahoe County in Colorado. Living with him was his widowed mother Sarah C Collett, plus a lodger Charles A Potter aged 40 from Illinois. Although not proved, it possible that Alonzo was later married, since Alonzo B Collett was born in 1918.

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Alonzo B Collett

Born in 1917

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Alonzo B Collett was born in Kentucky on 13^th January 1917 and may have been the son of Alonzo M Collett who would have been forty-nine years old when he was born. Curiously no record of him or his family has been discovered in 1920 and 1930. By 1940 it would appear his father, who would have been 70, had passed away because Lonzo Collett aged 23 was living with J R and Sarah Johnson in Bell County, Kentucky. However, despite being recorded as their grandson, it seems more likely that Sarah was his mother who had remarried since she was only 57.

It was not long after that when Alonzo married Evelyn Howard who presented him with a son. He had not been married very long when he enlisted with the army for military service. That took place at Cincinnati, Ohio on 18^th April 1942 and confirmed that he was married, had been born in Kentucky during 1917, had received a grammar school education, and that his occupation on entry was that of a semi-skilled miner and mining machine operator. Alonzo B Collett was 73 and still a resident of Bell County when he died on 3^rd January 1990 and was buried at Collett Cemetery in Bell County, Kentucky. Also buried in Collett Cemetery is Frances Carol Collett who was born on 15^th February 1966 who died on 25^th February 1967, aged one year. It is possible she was the granddaughter of Gabriel Ray Collett, Alonzo’s only known child.

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Gabriel Ray Collett

Born in 1944 at Bell County, Kentucky

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Gabriel Ray Collett was born at Bell County in Kentucky on 8^th March 1944, the only known child of Alonzo B Collett and Evelyn Howard. He later married Sharon Sue Childers, the daughter of Arthur Charles Childers and Ruby C Cox. Their marriage produced three sons for the couple.

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Charles Gabriel Collett

Born on 01.06.1970 at Pontiac, Michigan

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Jonathan Cain Collett

Born on 19.01.1974 at Bell County, Ky

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Jeremy Len Collett

Born on 21.12.1977 at Bell County, Ky

The third ancestor of C T Collett was #3 John Caskie Collet, while this section of Appendix Five commences with his great great great great grandfather Abraham Collet. The fourth and last of them was #4 George Richard Collett from Michigan (1872-1942) whose family has been identified within Part 69 – Other Cambridgeshire Families, so his details, previously included here, have now been removed to Part 69.

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Abraham Collet was born in North Carolina around 1743, although an alternative source states that he was born in Scotland, so perhaps he settled in North Carolina after arriving in America. He later married Margaret Wakefield with whom he had four children. Abraham Collet was in Washington County, North Caroline where he died on 19^th July 1782.

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William Collet

Born in 1762 at Rowan, North Carolina

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Betsey Collet m Thomas Church

Date of birth unknown

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Rachel Collet became R Ingmon

Date of birth unknown

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Charles Collet m Amelia Parks

Date of birth unknown

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William Collett was born at Rowan County in North Carolina around 1762 and he married Susannah Bellew with whom he had a son. William Collet died at Clay County in Kentucky in 1820.

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William Collet

Born in 1791 in Wayne County, Ky

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William Collet was born at Wayne County in Kentucky around 1791 and was 59 in the Monroe, Iowa census of 1850. His wife Frances Collet (formerly Frances Elizabeth Vaughn from Virginia) was 50 and on that day their three children were listed as Anton Collet who was 17, Elizabeth Collet who was 15 and John Collet who was 12, all three of them born in Missouri. William Collet died at Norton County in Kansas during 1881.

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Anton Collet

Born in 1833 in Missouri

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Elizabeth Collet

Born in 1835 in Missouri

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John Robinson Collet

Born in 1837 in Missouri

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John Robinson Collet was born at Adair in Missouri on 25^th October 1837 and was 12 years old in the Monroe, Iowa census of 1850 where he was living with his parents William and Frances Collet. It was on 22^nd December 1855 that he married to Lucy Marila Smith, who was born on 16^th June 1838, with whom he eight known children who were born Chariton County, Missouri. According to the Missouri census in 1870 John R Collet was 32, as was Lucy M Collet, by which time their four children were William A Collet who was 12, Benjamin R Collet who was 11, Ekura {Ezekiel} H Collet who was seven and James A Collet was one year old. Every member of the family had been born in Missouri.

Ten years later the census in 1880 recorded the family at Bee Branch in Chariton County, Missouri, as farmer John R Collet who was 42, Lucy M Collet who was also 42, William A Collet who was 23, James A Collet who was 12, Mary A Collet who was nine, Nancy C Collet who was five and Rosa {Rose Etta} Collet who was two years old. Staying with the family was Frances M Hardin who was eight years of age and John’s niece. The family home was still at Bee branch when John Robinson Collet died on 22^nd December 1902, while his widow passed away on 24^th October 1922. A single headstone marks their grave, one of around twenty situated in the middle of a pasture meadow on the Bartholomew Farm on the outskirts of Bynumville, which is inaccessible to the general public.

The obituary for Lucy M Collet nee Smith who died on Tuesday 24^th October 1922 at the age of 84 years, the widow of John Robinson Collet read as follows:

“Mrs Lucy M Collet, mother of J. A. Collet of this place died at the home of her son, E. H. Collet, near Brunswick on Tuesday night at 9:30 following an illness of about six weeks, due to cancer of the stomach. Funeral services were held Thursday morning at 11 o’clock at Mount Zion Baptist Church west of Bynumville, of which deceased had been a member for more than half a century. The services were conducted by Reverend B F Heaton, pastor of the Baptist Church here. Four sons and four daughters survive her and all were here except W A Collet of Minco, Oklahoma. Lucy M Smith was born on a farm near Bynumville June 16, 1838, and spent all her life with the exception of a few years, in this county. She was married to John R Collet December 22, 1855. Her husband died on their wedding anniversary, December 22, 1902. Of her family, the eight surviving children are W A Collet of Minco, OK, B R Collet of Keytesville, E. H. Collet of Brunswick, J. A. Collet of this place, Mrs M A Decker of New Cambria, Mrs L N Kimrey of Pawnee, OK, Mrs R J Owens of Keytesville and Mrs Wm Moxley of Howard County. She leaves 36 grandchildren and 32 great grandchildren.”

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William A Collet

Born in 1858 at Chariton County, Missouri

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Benjamin Robinson Collet

Born in 1860 at Chariton County, Missouri

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Ezekiel Henry Collet

Born in 1862 at Chariton County, Missouri

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James Anderson Collet

Born in 1868 at Bynumville, Missouri

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Mary Ann Eveline Collet

Born in 1871 at Bynumville, Missouri

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Nancy Callie Collet

Born in 1875 at Bee Branch, Missouri

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Rose Etta Collet

Born in 1878 at Bee Branch, Missouri

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Ora May Collet

Born in 1881 at Bee Branch, Missouri

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William A Collet was born in Missouri on 12^th July 1858 and he was 12 in 1870 and ten years later, when he and his family were living on their farm at Bee Branch in 1880, he was 23. He later married Margaret, although they had no children. At the time of the death of his mother in 1922 William and Margaret were living at Minco in Oklahoma. William A Collet died in 1934. Margaret had been born in 1854 and died in 1937.

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Benjamin Robinson Collet was born in Chariton County during 1860. He married Elizabeth May Heaton and they had eight children, although only six of them were still living with the family at Cockrell Township in Chariton County in 1900. The census that year listed the family as farmer Benjamin Collet aged 41, who had been married to Elizabeth, aged 39, for nineteen years. Their six children were William F Collet who was 17, Clarence E Collet who was 12, both of them born in Kansas and both working with their father on his farm. The couple’s youngest four children had been born in Missouri, and they were Benjamin R Collet who was nine, Florence Collet who was seven, Grace Collet who was five, and John B Collet who was four.

It was at Keytesville in Chariton County that Benjamin was living from 1917 onwards, where he was still living in 1922 when his mother died. He and Lizzie were recorded living at 133 Ash Street, Keytesville Township in 1940, when Ben Collett was retired at 81, as was Lizzie Collett who was 79. It was there too, that Benjamin Robinson Collett was still living eleven years later, when he died on 8^th July 1951. Elizabeth May Collett nee Heaton was also born in 1860, on 26^th November, and she died nearly three years after being widowed, on 14^th June 1954, after which she was buried at Bennett Cemetery in Keytesville, Chariton County, Missouri. When their son Clarence Earl Collet died in 1944 at the age of 55, he was married and living at 617 Clefty, Harriman, Roane County in Tennessee, an operator working in the construction industry, and was buried at Oakview Cemetery in Rockwood on 3^rd December 1944. His widow was recorded as Flora Mae Cole Collet.

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William Franklin Collet

Born in 1882 at Musselfork, Chariton Cty.

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Richard Collet

Born circa 1884; infant death

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another Collet child

Born circa 1886; infant death

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Clarence Earl Collet

Born in 1888 at Chariton County, Miss.

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Benjamin Ray Collet

Born in 1890 at Eccles, Chariton County

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Florence Collet - later Wagner

Born in 1892 at Chariton County, Miss.

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Grace Collet – later Shewmaker

Born in 1894 at Chariton County, Miss.

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John Bland Collet

Born in 1896 at Chariton County, Miss.

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Ezekiel Henry Collet was born in Chariton County on 19^th September 1862. And it was there also that he died on 8^th January 1948. However, in 1922 when his mother passed away, he was residing at Brunswick in Chariton County.

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James Anderson Collet was born at Bynumville in Chariton County, Missouri on 11^th August 1868 and he died in Oklahoma City on 10^th December 1947. He married Mary Elizabeth Miller on 16^th May 1895 who was also born in Missouri, but in 1867, and she passed away in 1921. Their marriage produced four children for James and Mary, the second known to have been born when the family was residing in Keytesville in Chariton County, Missouri. The census of 1900 revealed that the family was still living at Keytesville when James A Collet was 32, as was Mary E Collet, and their three children on that day were Lucy who was four, John who was two and James Anderson Collet junior who was only a few months old.

Ten years later the family was residing in Mendon in Chariton County, 20km to the north of Keytesville, at the time of the US census of 1910. By then James A Collet was 41, Mary E Collet was 42, Lucy Collet was 13, John C Collet was 11 and Frederick A Collet was seven years old. The same family group was living at Salisbury in Chariton County, to the east of Keytesville on Route 24, in 1920. With James A Collett and his wife Mary who was 50, were unmarried Lucy Collett who was 23, Caskie Collett who was 21 and Fred Collett who was 17

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Lucy Collet

Born in 1896 at Keytesville, Missouri

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John Caskie Collet

Born in 1898 at Keytesville, Missouri

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James Anderson Collet

Born in 1900 at Keytesville, Missouri; died 1900

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Frederick Anderson Collet

Born in 1902 at Keytesville, Missouri; died 1922

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Mary Ann Eveline Collet was born in Chariton County, Missouri on 4^th April 1871. She later married Mattison Decker and they had five children. Mary Ann Eveline Decker nee Collet was living at New Cambria in Macon County, Missouri in 1922 when her mother passed away, and sadly it was there also, just over two years after, that Mary Ann Eveline Decker nee Collet died on 26^th February 1925.

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Nancy Caroline Collet, known as Callie, was born on the family farm at Bee Branch on 7^th December 1875, where she was living with her family in 1880 at the age of five years. Nancy eventually married Louis Napoleon Kimrey and they had five children. She was living at Pawnee in Oklahoma when her mother died in 1922 and it was at Pawnee where Nancy Callie Kimrey nee Collett passed away thirty-three years later on 15^th September 1955. Louis N Kimrey was born on 28^th March 1874 and he died on 15^th July 1956.

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Rose Etta Collet, who was known as Rosa, was born on the family farm at Bee Branch on 2^nd January 1878. It was as Rosa Collet aged two years, that she was listed with her family in the Bee Branch census of 1880. She later married Robert Jasper Owens and they had 10 children. In 1922 Rosa Owens and her family were living at Keytesville, as confirmed by the obituary for her mother. The death of Rose Etta Owens was recorded on 22^nd May 1968 at Clifton Hill in Randolph, Missouri.

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Ora May Collet was born on the family farm at Bee Branch on 23^rd February 1881, the youngest of the eight children of John Robinson Collet and Lucy Marila Smith. She later married William Moxley and in the autumn of 1922 Ora and William were noted as living at Howard County in Missouri in her mother’s obituary. It would appear that she spent the whole of her married life at Howard County, since it was there that Ora May Moxley nee Collet died during November 1972 when she was ninety-one years of age.

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William Franklin Collet was born at Musselfork Township in Chariton County, Missouri on 21^st July 1882, the eldest child of Benjamin and Lizzie Collet who, in 1900, was working on the family’s farm at Cockrell Township. He later married Hattie Mae Jackson, although no record of their wedding day has been found. It would appear that they had eight children, all born in Missouri. The first appearance of the young family was in the 1910 census for Keytesville, Chariton County, when the family comprised William F Collet 27 and a farmer, Hattie Collet 25, Lena Collet who was six, William Collet who was two, and baby Collett (Elmo) who was ten months old.

Apart from this, and the census in 1930, very little is known about the family. At that time, they were residing at 376 East Second Street in Salisbury Township in Chariton County, where William F Collet was 48 and a cook at a local school. His wife Hattie was 45, and their four children were Elmo who was 20, Marvin who was 16, Genevieve who was seven, and Dorothy who was five. William said he had been born in Kansas, while every other member of the family had been born in Missouri.

Hattie Mae Jackson was born in Missouri on 9^th January 1885 and as Hattie Mae Jackson Collett she died on 30^th November 1967 at Salisbury Township and was buried there with her husband at the Salisbury Cemetery. Three years earlier, William Franklin Collett died on Sunday 19^th December 1964 and was buried at Salisbury Cemetery in Chariton County two days later. The notice of his passing was published on Wednesday 22^nd December 1964, as follows:

“William Franklin Collet, 82, died Sunday on the way to a hospital after suffering a stroke at his home a short time before. Born July 21, 1882 in the Musselfork community, he was the son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Heaton) Collett. He was a retired railroad employee. Surviving are his wife, the former Hattie Mae Jackson, three sons, William in St. Louis, Elmo in Excelsior Springs, and Marvin, Rudd in LA, four daughters, Mrs HD (Neoma) Garnett of Keytesville, Mrs Austin (Mabel) McCollum of Sedalia, Mrs Maurice (Genevieve) Sammons of Eufaula, Okla, and Mrs. Frank (Dorothy) Spanbauer of Rockford in Illinois, one brother, Richard Collet of Keytesville, two sisters, Mrs. Grace Shewmaker of Monticello, Illinois, and Mrs Florence Wagner of Prairie Clay, LA, and 12 grandchildren. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Salisbury Baptist Church by the Reverend James A Adams, pastor. Burial was in the Salisbury Cemetery.”

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Lena Collet

Born in 1904 at Keytesville Township

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William Collet

Born in 1907 at Keytesville Township

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Elmo Collet

Born in 1909 at Keytesville Township

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Mabel F Collet – later McCollum

Born in 1911; died in 2005

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Marvin Collet

Born in 1913 at Keytesville Township

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Neoma Collet – later Garnett

Date and place of birth unknown

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Genevieve J Collet – later Sammons

Born in 1922; died in 2013

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Dorothy Collet

Born in 1924 at Keytesville Township

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Clarence Earl Collet was born in Chariton County on 11^th November 1888, possibly the fourth child of Benjamin Robinson Collet and Elizabeth May Heaton. In 1900, at the age of just 12 years, he was already working with his older brother William (above) on their father’s farm at Cockrell Township in Chariton County, Missouri. It would appear from later records that he was more commonly referred to as Earl Collet, as he was in the Keytesville census in 1920. By then he was 32 and still a farm, his wife was Grace Collet aged 26, and their two children were Caskie Collet who was five, and Velma Collet who was just over two years of age. On the day, Grace was with-child and was preparing for the birth of the couple’s third and last known child. Ten years later, the family of five was again residing in Keytesville Township, where farmer Earl Collett aged 42 was owning and managing his general farm, valued at $4,600. Grace was 36 and had married Earl when she was 17, and he was 22. Their three children that day in 1930 were Caskie 16, Velma 12, and Avanel Collett who was 10.

Earl eventually gave up farming and, by 1940, he was a chauffeur for a private family at the age of 52. Grace was 46, and the only one of their children still living with them was their married daughter Velma Moore who was 22, her husband Charles Moore, 27 and a truck driver hauling gravel, and their daughter Beverly Moore who was under one year old. Four years later, Clarence Earl Collett died on 30^th November 1944 at the age of 56. His wife Grace Edith Cash was born on 20^th May 1893 and, when she passed away on 3^rd July 1967, she was buried with husband at Bennett Cemetery in Keytesville.

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Caskie Collet

Born in 1915 at Keytesville, Missouri

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Velma Collet

Born in 1918 at Keytesville, Missouri

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Avanel Collet

Born in 1920 at Keytesville, Missouri

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Benjamin Ray Collet was born at Eccles in Chariton County, Missouri, on 5^th August 1890, another son of Benjamin Robinson Collet and Elizabeth May Heaton. The census in 1900 identified Benjamin and his family living at Cockrell Township, when he was nine years old and one of the six surviving children, two siblings not alive by that day. On 5^th June 1917 his military registration card was completed and signed that day, which contained the following details. Benjamin was 26 and living in Keytesville, where his father was living and where they were both working on the family’s farm. His place and date of birth was as reported above, and he was already married with two children. It is possible, although not proved, that the mother of those two children may have been Benjamin’s first wife, who died shortly after 1917 – see below.

It was on 11^th November 1919 when the marriage of Benjamin Ray Collet and Rilda F Phelps Murphy was recorded at Montezuma, Iowa, when he was 29 and she was 26. The groom’s parents were confirmed as Benjamin Robert (sic) Collett and Lizzie Heaton. Rilda had been born at Salisbury, Missouri, the daughter of Francis Marion Phelps and Laura Florence Percival. The census conducted during the following year placed the family living at 913 Main Street in Grinnell Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, where Ray Collet was 29 and a factory labourer. His wife Rilda was 26, and living with the couple were three children, Frances Collet who was five, Helen Collet who was three years and two months, as was Alberta Murphy, who was described as Ray’s stepdaughter. All members of the household had been born in Missouri.

Within a few months of the census in 1920, Rilda gave birth to another daughter (not named) at Grinnell Township, who was born on 30^th March 1921, but probably Virginia Collet, the child of Ray Collet and Rilda Phelps. During the following years the family moved to Des Moines County in Iowa, where three sons were added to the family, their parents in each case confirmed as Benjamin Ray Collett and Rilda Florence Phelps, making a total of six children, with one presumably not surviving. Previously written here was mention of only five children, for whom no details were recorded, while we now know there was a total of seven, the three sons and four daughters. Not long after son Keith was born, the family returned to Keytesville Township in Missouri, where the couple’s last child was born. Tragically, just over two months later, Benjamin Ray Collet, aged 45, died at Keytesville on 23^rd April 1936, and was buried there at Bennett Cemetery. Within a short while, Rilda married Burgess Conrad, with whom she and five of her children were living in 1940.

On the census day that year, Burgess Conrad was 67 and a farmer, his wife Rilda Conrad was 47, and her children were Clarence Collet aged 15 and a farm hand, as was Kenneth Collet aged 14, Keith Collett who was seven, and Marilyn S Collet who was four. The other child was Rilda’s married daughter Virginia Gheens, aged 19, who had with her, her husband Ralph Gheens, 23, and their daughter Lana Lou Gheens who had only just been born. Rilda Florence Phelps was born on 13^th March 1893 and it was as Rilda Florence Phelps Conrad that she died at Keytesville Township on 24^th April 1959, after which she was buried at Asbury Methodist Cemetery. The last of the couple’s seven children was later married and, when she died at Mexico in Audrain County, Missouri, on 22^nd October 2015, she was named as Marilyn Sue Collett Genthon aged 79.

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Frances Collet

Born in 1915 at Keytesville, Missouri

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Edith Helen Collet

Born on 07.12.1917 at Cedar Cty, Iowa

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Virginia Collet – later Gheens

Born on 30.03.1921 at Grinnell, Iowa

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Clarence Estell Collet

Born on 07.10.1924 at Burlington, Iowa

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Kenneth Heaton Collet

Born on 30.03.1926 at Middletown, Iowa

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Keith Wayne Collet

Born on 22.12.1932 at Burlington, Iowa

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Marilyn Susan Collet – later Genthon

Born on 14.02.1936 at Keytesville

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John Bland Collet, who was known as Dick, was born on 14^th March 1896, another son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Collet. He married Grace May Berry (1893-1967) by whom he had two sons. Sadly, both boys predeceased their father, who died on 13^th October 1987, when two grandsons, the two children of son Elmo Collett, were pallbearers. Many years earlier, the family of John Bland Collett was residing at Keytesville Township in Chariton County, Missouri, in 1920, 1930 and 1940. In the first of them Bland Collett was 23 and a farmer, having a general farm, Grace M Collett was 20, and their son George B Collett one month short of his second birthday. In the second of the three census returns, again as simply Bland Collett, he was 34 and a farmer (still with a general farm), Grace was 31, Benjamin was 12, and Elmo was eight years old. By 1940, Bland Collett was 44 years old and working as a bus driver for a high school, his wife Grace was 41, and their two sons were Benjamin who was 22 and Elmo who was 18, neither of them credited with an occupation.

The report of his passing was published as follows. “Visitation and funeral services for a former Keytesville resident, John Bland (Dick) Collet, were held Saturday 17^th October 1987 at Berry Chapel. Mr Collet died at Chariton Park on 13^th October after residing there for some time. He died at age 91. He was the son of Benjamin R and Lizzie (Heaton) Collett and was born on 14^th March 1896. His wife and two sons, Elmo and Benjamin, preceded him in death. Survivors include a sister, Florence Wagner of Prairie City in Iowa, a daughter-in-law Bonnie Collet of Kansas City, two grandsons, Doug Collet of Kansas City and Don Collet of Independence, and two great granddaughters. The Reverend Gerald Wass conducted the service, music was provided by the Rev. and Mrs Wass, and the pallbearers were Doug and Don Collet, Calvin Brown and John Reinmiller. Burial was in the Bennett Cemetery.”

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George Benjamin Collet

Born in 1918; died in 1941

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Elmo Collet

Born in 1922, at Chariton Cty, Missouri

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John Caskie Collet was born at Keytesville in Chariton County, Missouri on 25^th May 1898, the second child and eldest son of James Anderson Collet and Mary Elizabeth Miller. John was two years old in the Keytesville, Chariton, census of 1900 and was 11 years of age in 1810 when he and his family were recorded at Mendon in Chariton. He was later educated at the public schools in Missouri and was a student of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri and later, during the First World War, he served with the US Army Air Corps from 1917 to 1918. After the war John was admitted to the Missouri bar in 1920. Towards the end of the next year, he married Hazel E Bosworth (1896-1987) of Salisbury in Missouri on 9^th November 1921. From 1922 to 1924 he was a City Attorney in Salisbury in Chariton County and then a County Prosecutor for Chariton County from 1925-1929.

According to the Salisbury census in 1930 J Caskie Collet was 32 and his wife Hazel was 34, while their son William A Collett was five years of age. It was around that time when he was Assistant Counsel to the Missouri State Highway Department, a position he held from 1930 to 1933, after which he was appointed as Chairman of the Missouri Public Service Commission and was then made a member of the Missouri Supreme Court in 1935, for which he was elected for a ten-year term in 1936.

In 1937, President Franklin D Roosevelt nominated John Caskie Collet for the post of federal judge on the US District Courts for both the Western District and Eastern District of Missouri. By the time of the next census in 1940 the enlarged family was residing at Jefferson City in Cole County, Missouri. John C Collet was 42 and a judge at the supreme court, Hazel was 44, William A Collet was 15 and John C Collet was seven, the family being served by domestic servant Inez Schilb who was 30. Seven years later, President Harry S Truman nominated John to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Judicial Circuit, where he served until he died in Kansas City on 5^th December 1955. During his life John was a Member of Salisbury Lodge No. 208 and was exalted to Royal Arch in the Salisbury Chapter No. 133 on 22^nd March 1923.

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William Anderson Collett

Born in 1925 at Moberley, Missouri

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John Caskie Collett junior

Born in 1933 in Missouri

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Elmo Collet was born on 6^th June 1909, a son of William Franklin Collett and Hattie Mae Jackson. He was married twice in his life, neither marriage producing an issue. It was in the 1940 Census that he and his first wife were residing at Salisbury Township in Chariton County, Missouri. The childless couple were both service station operatives, employed by ESSO (Standard Oils), when they were renting the dwelling in which they were living. Elmo Collet was 30, and (1) Jane Julia Collet was 27, both born in Missouri. He was forty years old and living at Moberly in Randolph County when he married (2) Genelle Blansett of Higbee in Randolph County on 20^th June 1949. It was at Higbee that he was living, when he died at Moberly, Randolph County, on 26^th July 2002 and was buried at Log Chapel Cemetery in Howard County, Missouri. He was 93 and his obituary was published in the Moberly Monitor newspaper on 30^th July 2002

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Elmo Collet was born in Missouri in 1922, the younger of the two sons of John Bland Collett and Grace May Berry. He was eight years of age in 1930 and was 18 in 1940 when, on both occasions, Elmo and his family were living in Keytesville Township in Chariton County, Missouri where, in the latter, his father was a bus driver for the local high school, the same school which Elmo may have been attending. He later married Bonnie with whom he had two sons, prior to Elmo suffering a premature death, which pre-deceased the passing of his own father. Upon the later death of her father-in-law in 1987, Bonnie Collett and her two sons, Doug and Don, were residents of Kansas City, when her sons were the pallbearers at his funeral in Keytesville, Missouri.

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Douglas Collet

Date and place of birth unknown

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Donald Collet

Date and place of birth unknown

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William Anderson Collett was born at Moberley, Randolph County in Missouri, on 4^th January 1925, the first of the two children of John Caskie Collett and Hazel E Bosworth. In the census of 1940, he was 15 when living with his family at Jefferson City in Cole County, Missouri, by which time his father was a supreme court judge. Four years later he entered service with the U S Navy.

His later Notice of Separation from the U S Naval Service was rubber-stamped on 12^th July 1946 at Fulton, Callaway County, Missouri. His position in the navy was electronic technician’s mate, and his home address was 200 West 54^th Street, Kansas City. He had entered the service on 12^th September 1944 and had served one year nine months twenty-eight days, and his character was honourable. The same form stated that he wanted to be a lawyer, and attend the University of Harvard for a law degree.

On 14^th February 1952, William Anderson Collett, aged 27 and of 200 West 54^th Street, Kansas City, applied for a licence to be married to Nancy Jane Chapman, aged 24 who was born on 12^th April 1927 at Kansas City, where she was living. Six days after that, they were married on 20^th February 1952 at Jackson County, Missouri.

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John Caskie Collett junior was born on 22^nd April 1933 another son of John Caskie Collett and Hazel E Bosworth, who was seven years of age in the Jefferson City census of 1940. No record of him has been found after that day, except for the recorded of his death on 15^th May 2021, when he was buried at Forest Hill Cemetery in Kansas, Jackson County, Missouri.