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Surnames: Truax, Collins, Berry, Branson, Crandall, Hales
Classification: Query
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Message Board Post:
I have been told that Mary Elizabeth Truax is from Huguenot stock. She has gone by Mary
Truax and also Elizabeth Truax (census'). She married John B. Collins on 30 Sep 1830
in Miami Co., Ohio. She died 16 Jan 1877 in Starke Co., Indiana. She had several children
in Ohio and several in Indiana. She and her husband moved to Indiana about 1840 from Ohio.
They were among the pioneer settlers of Starke Co. and located there before the
organization of the county government. John B. Collins was of scotch-irish ancestry. The
Collins home was one of the first civilized inhabitations in the vicinity of Bass Lake.
At some point, John B. Collins sold his land near Bass Lake and moved his home to
California Township, Starke Co., Indiana. After Mary Elizabeth died, he moved to Knox,
Starke Co., Indiana where he died. Their son George Collins married in Center Township,
Starke Co., Indiana a Lora Stephenson b 10 Jan 1863 in Indiana.
Does anyone know this family?
Thank you,
Cyndi