James Wallace Collins

Portrait of James Wallace Collins. An older gentleman with receding white hair, white beard and mustache. He is dressed in a dark suit, white shirt, and a trim dark bow tie. 
Born:  December 9, 1837
Died:  November 10, 1921

Father:  Archibald Collins (1796-1882)
Mother:  Eleanor Wallace Collins (1796-1880)

Sister:  Mary Wallace Collins Anderson (1819-1907)
Brother:  Rev. Samuel Collins, D.D. (1821-1905)
Brother:  Rev. David Wallace Collins, D.D. (1823-1898)
Brother:  John Collins (1824-1902)
Sister:  Nancy Collins (1826-1920)
Sister:  Eliza Jane Collins (1827-1828)
Brother:  Rev. Joseph Alexander Collins, D.D. (1829-1910)
Sister:  Lydia Collins (1831-1968)
Brother:  Thomas Boston Collins (1833-1834)
Sister:  Eleanor Collins (1835-1839)
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Brother:  William Henry Collins (1840-1841)

Wife:  Ruth Anne Kyle Collins (1837-1900)
    Married:  October 3, 1865

Daughter:  Eleanor Edith Collins Cleland (1867-????)
Son:  Archibald Ralph Collins (1868-1935)
Son:  Foster Kyle Collins (1879-1939)
Daughter:  Mary Alma Collins McConnelee (1873-????)
Daughter:  Grace Collins Campbell (1876-1910)
From the 1936 Collins Family Tree
James Wallace Collins was a farmer in Xenia, Ohio. During the civil war he served in the 154th O.V.I. (Ohio Volunteer Infantry) He was an elder in the Second (Presbyterian?) Church in Xenia, Ohio.

According to his grandson, John Oliver Collins
James Wallace Collins frequently visited his son, Archibald Ralph Collins, and his family when they were living in Ohio, Canada, and Texas.

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