Sarah J. Collins
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: 15 Sep 1858 - Elm Springs, Washington Co., Ar 1 Christening: Death: 1949 2 Burial: in Hickory Grove Cemetery, Delaware Co., Ok 3 Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Joshua Collins (1825-1913) Mother: Elizabeth "Betsy" Mirah Essex (1830-Bef 1900)
Spouses and Children
1. *Ewing Lamar ( - Bef 1 Sep 1902) 4 Marriage: 9 Nov 1881 5 Children: 1. Annie Elizabeth Lamar (Abt 1885-1903) 2. Franklin Taylor Lamar (Abt 1888- ) 3. Vaudie Lee Lamar (1889-1934) 4. Maudie Mae Lamar (1889-1979) 5. James Riley Lamar (Abt 1894-1930)
Notes
General:
INTERVIEW:
At
https://digital.libraries.ou.edu/cdm/ref/collection/indianpp/id/4944
you can read an interview with Sarah Lamar of Fairland, Oklahoma dated June 2, 1937 done by the Works Progress Administration as part of the Indian-Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma. It is said to be "from memory and her parents". Most of the 14 pages of text deals with rural life in the 19th century. The genealogical information is copied below. The interview was a WPA project; thus 1937 is a reasonable date.
However, several statements indicate that it took place earlier, perhaps in 1927. Sarah says her father died "13 years ago last Thanksgiving". He died November 21, 1913. Thus "last Thanksgiving" is November 1926. Sarah says that her mother died "32 years ago". Her father is a widower in the 1900 census. If Sarah's mother died before 1900 and 32 years before the interview, then the interview took place before 1932. Finally Sarah says that her husband died "twenty-five years ago the 9th day of this August". Card 10213 in the 1900 Dawes Rolls lists the 5 children of Sarah and her husband, and a note says that their father is dead. The ages of the children correspond to 1900, but the index in "U.S., Native American Enrollment Cards for the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914" at ancestry.com says that the enrollment date was 1 Sep 1902. If the interview took place in the summer of 1927, then "twenty-five years ago the 9th day of this August" would be August 9, 1902.
It MIGHT be that what she says about her mother and father and husband was written down a decade earlier, in 1927, and then incorporated into the 1937 interview without updating the time lapses.
Whenever the interview took place, Sarah was confused about certain dates and ages. She says she was born September 15, 1860. However, the 1860 census taken August 8, 1860 says that she is 2 years old. She was probably born September 15, 1858. Her tombstone says "1858--1949". Sarah says that her oldest sister Nancy Ann is 90. Nancy Ann was born in July 1855 according to the 1900 census and was thus 82 when she died in May 1938. Sarah says that her youngest sister is 70. That sister was born about 1871 and was thus 70 in 1941. '1871' is based on the 1880 census and may not be fully accurate. Sarah's estimate of 70 in 1937 would be fairly close to correct.
The following is from the interview:
My father, Joshua Collins, was born and reared in midd1e Tennessee, his father being an Englishman. My mother Elizabeth Essick, was born and reared in Kentucky, being half Cherokee and half Dutch. Later she came to Tennessee where my parents were married, and they came west, settling at Elm Springs, Arkansas, which is between Bentonville and Fayetteville. Mother passed away thirty-two years ago at my home and is buried at Hickory Grove Cemetery, which is in the northern part of Delaware County, father passing at the home of a daughter in California, thirteen years ago last Thanksgiving. I, Sarah Collins Lamar, was born at Elm Springs, September 15, 1860. I had six brothers and three sisters and all of us except three brothers are living yet. My oldest sister, who is 90 years old (Nancy Ann Collins Evans), lives in California, as does my youngest sister who is 70 years o1d.
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My grandmother was a little woman and couldn't speak English. I once stayed with her quite a while when I was small and learned to speak Dutch, so after I went home if I got mad at any of the folks, I would "cuss" them in Dutch and they wouldn't tell what I was saying, but father soon stopped that.
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My sister Nancy Ann had married and was living near Aurora, three miles south of Fairland. She came home to weave some blankets and I came home with her to stay till Christmas.
I was supposed to marry my sweetheart in Arkansas in the spring and he insisted that we marry before I came.
I met my husband at a protracted meeting being held at the Aurora school-house, when my sister's little girl wanted a drink and I took her to get water. He told me afterwards that he admired my hair which was (and is) very black and cur1y. A couple of days later he got a lady friend to get me to go home with her and stay till the next night's meeting and he came over that day. My folks didn't happen to be at church that night so he took me home.
So, on November 9, 1881, I married Ewing Lamar, a Cherokee who had been born and reared near the Aurora schoo1 house and had attended schoo1 at Hickory Grove. He was one year older than I.
My husband owned four farms and our home was a nice four room house, good barns, wells, etc. He had a good span of horses and a new buggy and we went to church and Sunday school every Sunday. Here we raised our family of five. They were: Annie Elizabeth; the twins, Maudie May and Vaudie Lee; Franklin Taylor and James Riley. My children went to Hickory Grove to school to John Chandler.
Here we lived till my husband died twenty-five years ago the 9th day of this August. My brother made one crop for me, but he became dissatisfied and so I sold out and came to Fairland to live and last year I was the oldest settler at the annual picnic.
PREVIOUS MARRIAGE:
The marriage records of Washington Co., Arkansas indicate that Sarah J. Collins, 16, married John R. Stuart, 26, on September 19, 1875. In the interview cited above she does not mention such a marriage. It may or may not have taken place.
1 Sarah Lamar, Interview with Sarah Lamar, Fairland, Oklahoma, about 1927, pg 1.
2 Cemeteries and Burial Places of Delaware County, Oklahoma, Vol II, pg 10. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
3 "Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 5488864.
4 Sarah Lamar, Interview with Sarah Lamar, Fairland, Oklahoma, about 1927, pg 14.
5 Sarah Lamar, Interview with Sarah Lamar, Fairland, Oklahoma, about 1927, pg 13.
6 Cemeteries and Burial Places of Delaware County, Oklahoma, Vol II, pg 17. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
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Cemeteries and Burial Places of Delaware County, Oklahoma, Vol II, pg 24. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
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