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Chamberlin Cemetery ~ Smith Collins ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Smith Collins
LAST NAME: Collins FIRST NAME: Smith MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 25 Dec 1803 DIED: 22 Mar 1870 BURIED:  (Chamberlin Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  Farmer
BIRTH PLACE:  Orange Co., Virginia
DEATH PLACE: Luckiamute Valley, Polk Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
1860 OR CENSUS - Smith Collins, age 56, occupation farmer, b. Virginia, is enumerated with E.E., age 48, b. Kentucky, along with W.W., male, age 17, b. Missouri, D.C., male, age 15, b. Oregon, A.H., male, age 13, b. Oregon, E.A., age 9, female, b. Oregon, A.S., male, age 7, b. Oregon, and W.J., female, age 5, b. Oregon.
 
BIOGRAPHICAL:
"Immigration of 1846"
Collins, Smith
Born in Virginia in 1804; came to Oregon and settled in the Luckiamute Valley, Polk County, where he still lives. He is a farmer. He married Emily Wyatt, in Missouri, in 1836. Children - Elizabeth T., James L., Frank M., Eliza M., Douglass W., William W., George W., David C., Alexander H., Emily A., Samuel A., and Mary.
Source - Lang, Herbert O., HISTORY of the WILLAMETTE VALLEY, Himes & Lang, 1885, pg 654 
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
N/A
OBITUARY: 
Died at the family residence on the Luckiamute, March 22, Smith Collins, aged 65 years, 2 months, and 26 days.
Father Collins is dead. No more will his patient voice be heard in council or warning in this world. His suffering spirit has passed to the other world, and we who are left behind tarry a little longer before our summons comes. 
Smith Collins was born in Orange county, Virginia, in December 1804. In 1828 he emigrated to Missouri, where he lived until he moved to Oregon in 1846. He arrived here, in the then wilderness, in the fall of that year, and early in the spring of 1847 settled on the land claim on which he resided up to the time of his death. In 1860 he was prostrated by a severe attack of rheumatism, since when he has been a helpless invalid. Through all his terrible suffering and pain he manifested a rare resignation to the rulings of the omnipotent, and patiently waited the calling of his God. 
Dallas Republican, Saturday, 26 Mar 1870
INSCRIPTION: 
Smith Collins
Died
Mar. 22, 1870
Aged 
66 Y's 2 M's 
28 D's
[shares marker with Eliza]
SOURCES: 
Branigar Survey
Saucy Survey & Photographs
1860 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Lane, FA #668)
Lang, pg 654
DR 26 Mar 1870
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