Collins - John Andrew - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Headquarters John Coshow Post, No. 513, Parkersburg, Ind., Feb. 16, 1901—Having been appointed by the commander of this post to write a short obituary of Comrade Collins, I find the descriptive book and other data show the following facts: The comrade was born in Scioto County, Ohio, April 27, 1829. The family moved to Madison County, Ind., and settled near Anderson. In 1842 they moved to northwest Missouri and on the first day of December 1861, he volunteered as a private in Co. A, 6th Kansas cavalry, and was honorable discharged from the same on the 18th of July, 1865, by reason of the close of the war, having served his country three years and eight months. The comrade never married. He became a member of this post Jan. 5, 1889. He was strictly honest and while some of the disabilities which he contracted while in the service prevented him from attending the post meetings as regular as some of his comrades, yet he was always prompt to pay his dues and the quartermaster’s book shows his dues paid to the 31st of December, 1901.

He died of heart trouble, complicated with other diseases, on the 11th of January and was buried at the Stokes Cemetery on the 12th by the members of the post at Roachdale. He was living with his sister, Mrs. Robert Lockridge, at the time of his death. The members of the family requested me to return their sincere thanks to all who so kindly assisted in laying him away. The post flag was ordered draped in mourning for thirty days.