Susan was born in Osceola, Iowa in 1862. Susan's children were (in order of birth): Joseph Denver "J.D." b. May 23, 1883; Charles Ainsworth "Sage" b. Nov. 22, 1884; Glencora Clora "Cora" b. Aug. 21, 1886; Lena Bernice b. Jul. 13, 1889. Jacob L. "Jake" b. Dec 10, 1890. Susan's parents were: Jacob Bolin (of Pennsylvania Dutch extraction) b. 1831 IN; Mary Ellen Beehee b. 1841 PA. They married in 1858 and reared 14 children. Susan's siblings (per 1880 Census) were: Ester (sibling, no age given); Charles (2yo); William (5 yo); Margaret (7 yo); Basha (9yo); George (11yo); Mary (12 yo); and Martha (16 yo). Five more siblings came later. Susan and William got hitched in early 1882 in Greeley CO, the year Joe was born, and moved to Kansas that same year. They left for Wyoming Sep. 20, 1890. William's two brothers, John J. and Thomas L., and his mother Sarah Wharton were already in the Parkman area, having gone there by covered wagon about 1887, then moving to Powder River south of Crazy Woman in 1900 (are in the Census at Buffalo that year), where they purchased land and ranched until they moved to WA. For the first five years, Susan and her family lived in a one-room dugout with a dirt floor, one door and one window (in the door). Some of the children came down with scarlet fever but managed somehow to survive it. They were eventually able to move into a three-bedroom home on a 120 acre homestead 1/2 mile north of Parkman in 1897 a year after they got to see the first train to run on the Burlington Northern RR track in Wyoming. There was a school near the Ohlman Stage Stop on 5-mile flat; all five kids went to school there; the teacher was Doc. Simpson. When they lived in the Abdereen section house, the children were unable to attend school for 18 months. Social activities were the usual dances, dinners, etc. and a once-monthly "Literary" which was supervised by a school teacher and featured singing, poetry recital, etc. The William/Susan Collins family's principle mode of transportation for many years was horse and buggy; the proverbial one "hoss" shay.
Susan was born in Osceola, Iowa in 1862. Susan's children were (in order of birth): Joseph Denver "J.D." b. May 23, 1883; Charles Ainsworth "Sage" b. Nov. 22, 1884; Glencora Clora "Cora" b. Aug. 21, 1886; Lena Bernice b. Jul. 13, 1889. Jacob L. "Jake" b. Dec 10, 1890. Susan's parents were: Jacob Bolin (of Pennsylvania Dutch extraction) b. 1831 IN; Mary Ellen Beehee b. 1841 PA. They married in 1858 and reared 14 children. Susan's siblings (per 1880 Census) were: Ester (sibling, no age given); Charles (2yo); William (5 yo); Margaret (7 yo); Basha (9yo); George (11yo); Mary (12 yo); and Martha (16 yo). Five more siblings came later. Susan and William got hitched in early 1882 in Greeley CO, the year Joe was born, and moved to Kansas that same year. They left for Wyoming Sep. 20, 1890. William's two brothers, John J. and Thomas L., and his mother Sarah Wharton were already in the Parkman area, having gone there by covered wagon about 1887, then moving to Powder River south of Crazy Woman in 1900 (are in the Census at Buffalo that year), where they purchased land and ranched until they moved to WA. For the first five years, Susan and her family lived in a one-room dugout with a dirt floor, one door and one window (in the door). Some of the children came down with scarlet fever but managed somehow to survive it. They were eventually able to move into a three-bedroom home on a 120 acre homestead 1/2 mile north of Parkman in 1897 a year after they got to see the first train to run on the Burlington Northern RR track in Wyoming. There was a school near the Ohlman Stage Stop on 5-mile flat; all five kids went to school there; the teacher was Doc. Simpson. When they lived in the Abdereen section house, the children were unable to attend school for 18 months. Social activities were the usual dances, dinners, etc. and a once-monthly "Literary" which was supervised by a school teacher and featured singing, poetry recital, etc. The William/Susan Collins family's principle mode of transportation for many years was horse and buggy; the proverbial one "hoss" shay.
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