Mary Martin 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: Abt 1750
    Christening: 
          Death: 8 Jan 1848 - (Cleveland Co., North Carolina) 1
         Burial: in Collins Cem., Earl, Cleveland Co., North Carolina
 Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children 
1. *Jacob A. Collins (Abt 1750 - 1 May 1795)
       Marriage: 
       Children:
                1. William Collins (Abt 1775-      )
                2. Elizabeth Collins (1781-1871)
                3. Mary Collins (Abt 1884-      )
                4. Jacob Collins (1788-      )
Notes
General:
According to a 1938 WPA project Mary and Jacob are buried in the

COLLINS CEMETERY
The cemetery is located in No. 3 Township, Cleveland County, N.C. about 150 yards east of Lavender Road leading from Highway, Shelby-Patterson Springs road to Grover on Sam McSwain's land. It is about 300 yards northwest of Buffalo Creek, being about one-fourth an acre in size.
Owner of Cemetery: Sam McSwain
Approximate number of marked graves: 2
Before 1914: 2
After 1914: None
Unmarked graves: 9
Earliest marked grave: Jacob Collins, d. May 1, 1795
General condition of cemetery: Very bad condition
Date of survey: Oct. 13, 1938
Workers: B. E. Weathers and A. G. Melton
Inscriptions:
Collins, Mary Collins, Jacob
D. Jan. 8, 1848 D. May 1, 1795 in his
Aged: 80 years 45th year

Many years later Ann C. Merritt, her busband Logan and a cousin embarked on a project to find the cemetery and the gravestones. They succeeded. Subsequently in an 8/29/2009 e-mail message to me Logan says about Mary's tombstone

"the tombstone was printed wrong, with the inscription: 'In memory of Mary Collins who died June 18, 1845 aged 98 years.' The 9 appears backwards, but could also be and upside-down 6."

All 3 elements of the date as well as the age are different from the 1938 reading. In the e-mail message just cited Ann says that the stones were found under about 6" of dirt and that they were 15-20 feet apart.

Today (March 2022) there is a photograph at Find-a-Grave Memorial # 84590824, added 6 Feb 2012. "Jany 8 1848" is pretty clear although "Jany" might be "July". Only the "J" is completely unambiguous. "8" appears 4 times and is made the same way each time. The age appears to be "98" with the "9" being backwards.
picture

Sources

1 "Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 84591293.

2 Jeffrey Lee Martin, "http://www.angelfire.com/tx/lineage/Collins.html."

3 "http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com db: hendrictim."

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