Lydia Manifold Collins

Born:  September 20, 1771
Died:  March 18, 1855

Father:  Joseph Manifold (????-????)
Mother:  Ellen Cougle Manifold (????-????)

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Sister:  Mary Manifold Wallace (????-????)

Husband:  William Collins (1762-1822)
    Married: 1795

Daughter:  Elizabeth D. Collins Galloway (1796-1885)
Daughter:  Mary Collins Galloway (1798-1872)
Son:  William Collins (1800-1879)
Son:  Joseph S. Collins (1802-1885)
Son:  Samuel S. Collins (1804-1858)
Daughter:  Grace Collins Ruff (1806-????)
Son:  John Henry Collins (1808-1849)
Daughter:  Eleanor Collins Kyle (1810-1899)
Son:  James C. Collins (1812-1895)

From the 1936 Collins Family Tree.
William Collins and Lydia Manifold, both of York County, Pennsylvania, were married in 1795. They moved to Xenia, Ohio, in 1816. He was a farmer.

Lydia was blind the last four years of her life. "She was a much loved woman. After her husband's death she lived with her unmarried son, John Henry, until his death. Then from her own choice she made her home with her youngest daughter, Mrs. Duncan Williamson, but made long visits around among the other children. We grandchildren were so delighted when it came our turn to have her in our home." - Mrs. Elizabeth Kyle Raney.

Lydia's mother, Ellen Cougle Manifold, (Mrs. Joseph), who was also the grandmother of Eleanor Wallace (Mrs. Archibald Collins) was a Quakeress, the other members of the family being Presbyterians. "She was a most kind and hospitable old lady, and highly esteemed in the neighborhood. She made her visits on foot and knitted as she walked along the road." - Purdy. It is said that when her daughter Lydia and her family moved to Xenia in covered wagons, she went part way with them, but walked the eighteen miles "because she pitied the poor horses." She believed that she could live one whole hour without sin, and if one hour, why not a day, and if a day, why not every day." Her husband, Joseph, was a private in Captain Moffit's Company in the Revolutionary War.

Lydia's sister Mary (Mrs. David Wallace, the mother of Mrs. Archibald Collins) lived to be 89 years of age and was never ill. On the last day of her life she spent the forenoon hoeing in the garden and died suddenly when she had finished her work their, and up to the end of her life she took delight in tending her bees and her garden. She was a widow for 28 years and spent her last years in the home of her son, Rev. James Wallace, of Huntsville, Ohio, and is buried near there.

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