Mina Frances Collins
Married November 16, 1906 near Denver, Boone County, Arkansas
Notes: black hair, brown eyes
Sweet, unselfish, and modest, she raised 2 small children after her husband died. She was very religious (she would not utter a curse or say the Devil's name (Satan, Devil, Lucifer, and etc.) and true to her values. She could recite many little stories and rhymes, but could be profound. On her death bed "The throes of death are no worse than those of childbirth."
Her family lived alternately in Kansas, near her mother's family, and in Putnam County, Missouri, hear her father's family. In 1891, at the age of four, her family, including all of the other 'Collins/Franklin clan," migrated from Missouri to Arkansas by covered wagon. It was siad that they herded a large flock of geese through downtown Kansas City, along the way. To cross one large river, they took their best and tightest wagon, caulked it with pitch, and used it as a boat to ferry everything across. After her husband Maud's death, she lived with her parents and worked at odd jobs. She would do the chores, sew for others, making childrens clothing, then walk to Denver and clerk in a store, then come home again. Mina Never re-married! It was rumored that a nice young man asked her to marry, but her mother siad she shouldn't. A man named Rafferty was also a possiblility, but her father told her that he came from a rough family. Perhaps neither were "of the church." After her parent's died, she sold everything and moved to Washington, to be near her son Ray, and to help with his young family. Norma, her daughter, later followed her to Washington.
"My mother was only 26 when, after 6 years of marriage my father contracted pneumonia and passed away. My mother came back to her parent's home, where Ray and I grew up. Ida Jane and I - also my brother Ray, and Uncle Keach's children attended shcool at Flin Hill. Aunt Laura or mamma would come to meet us with coats or umbrells, if it rained. A little neighbor girl said: My folds never come to meet us." (Norma Collins Williams Simmonds)
from 'Collins Family' book
Married November 16, 1906 near Denver, Boone County, Arkansas
Notes: black hair, brown eyes
Sweet, unselfish, and modest, she raised 2 small children after her husband died. She was very religious (she would not utter a curse or say the Devil's name (Satan, Devil, Lucifer, and etc.) and true to her values. She could recite many little stories and rhymes, but could be profound. On her death bed "The throes of death are no worse than those of childbirth."
Her family lived alternately in Kansas, near her mother's family, and in Putnam County, Missouri, hear her father's family. In 1891, at the age of four, her family, including all of the other 'Collins/Franklin clan," migrated from Missouri to Arkansas by covered wagon. It was siad that they herded a large flock of geese through downtown Kansas City, along the way. To cross one large river, they took their best and tightest wagon, caulked it with pitch, and used it as a boat to ferry everything across. After her husband Maud's death, she lived with her parents and worked at odd jobs. She would do the chores, sew for others, making childrens clothing, then walk to Denver and clerk in a store, then come home again. Mina Never re-married! It was rumored that a nice young man asked her to marry, but her mother siad she shouldn't. A man named Rafferty was also a possiblility, but her father told her that he came from a rough family. Perhaps neither were "of the church." After her parent's died, she sold everything and moved to Washington, to be near her son Ray, and to help with his young family. Norma, her daughter, later followed her to Washington.
"My mother was only 26 when, after 6 years of marriage my father contracted pneumonia and passed away. My mother came back to her parent's home, where Ray and I grew up. Ida Jane and I - also my brother Ray, and Uncle Keach's children attended shcool at Flin Hill. Aunt Laura or mamma would come to meet us with coats or umbrells, if it rained. A little neighbor girl said: My folds never come to meet us." (Norma Collins Williams Simmonds)
from 'Collins Family' book
Mina Frances Collins
Married November 16, 1906 near Denver, Boone County, Arkansas
Notes: black hair, brown eyes
Sweet, unselfish, and modest, she raised 2 small children after her husband died. She was very religious (she would not utter a curse or say the Devil's name (Satan, Devil, Lucifer, and etc.) and true to her values. She could recite many little stories and rhymes, but could be profound. On her death bed "The throes of death are no worse than those of childbirth."
Her family lived alternately in Kansas, near her mother's family, and in Putnam County, Missouri, hear her father's family. In 1891, at the age of four, her family, including all of the other 'Collins/Franklin clan," migrated from Missouri to Arkansas by covered wagon. It was siad that they herded a large flock of geese through downtown Kansas City, along the way. To cross one large river, they took their best and tightest wagon, caulked it with pitch, and used it as a boat to ferry everything across. After her husband Maud's death, she lived with her parents and worked at odd jobs. She would do the chores, sew for others, making childrens clothing, then walk to Denver and clerk in a store, then come home again. Mina Never re-married! It was rumored that a nice young man asked her to marry, but her mother siad she shouldn't. A man named Rafferty was also a possiblility, but her father told her that he came from a rough family. Perhaps neither were "of the church." After her parent's died, she sold everything and moved to Washington, to be near her son Ray, and to help with his young family. Norma, her daughter, later followed her to Washington.
"My mother was only 26 when, after 6 years of marriage my father contracted pneumonia and passed away. My mother came back to her parent's home, where Ray and I grew up. Ida Jane and I - also my brother Ray, and Uncle Keach's children attended shcool at Flin Hill. Aunt Laura or mamma would come to meet us with coats or umbrells, if it rained. A little neighbor girl said: My folds never come to meet us." (Norma Collins Williams Simmonds)
from 'Collins Family' book
Married November 16, 1906 near Denver, Boone County, Arkansas
Notes: black hair, brown eyes
Sweet, unselfish, and modest, she raised 2 small children after her husband died. She was very religious (she would not utter a curse or say the Devil's name (Satan, Devil, Lucifer, and etc.) and true to her values. She could recite many little stories and rhymes, but could be profound. On her death bed "The throes of death are no worse than those of childbirth."
Her family lived alternately in Kansas, near her mother's family, and in Putnam County, Missouri, hear her father's family. In 1891, at the age of four, her family, including all of the other 'Collins/Franklin clan," migrated from Missouri to Arkansas by covered wagon. It was siad that they herded a large flock of geese through downtown Kansas City, along the way. To cross one large river, they took their best and tightest wagon, caulked it with pitch, and used it as a boat to ferry everything across. After her husband Maud's death, she lived with her parents and worked at odd jobs. She would do the chores, sew for others, making childrens clothing, then walk to Denver and clerk in a store, then come home again. Mina Never re-married! It was rumored that a nice young man asked her to marry, but her mother siad she shouldn't. A man named Rafferty was also a possiblility, but her father told her that he came from a rough family. Perhaps neither were "of the church." After her parent's died, she sold everything and moved to Washington, to be near her son Ray, and to help with his young family. Norma, her daughter, later followed her to Washington.
"My mother was only 26 when, after 6 years of marriage my father contracted pneumonia and passed away. My mother came back to her parent's home, where Ray and I grew up. Ida Jane and I - also my brother Ray, and Uncle Keach's children attended shcool at Flin Hill. Aunt Laura or mamma would come to meet us with coats or umbrells, if it rained. A little neighbor girl said: My folds never come to meet us." (Norma Collins Williams Simmonds)
from 'Collins Family' book
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