Frances Catherine Butler and Edward James Collins

EDWARD JAMES COLLINS was born November 6, 1890 in Northfield, Washington, Vermont,³⁹⁸⁵ and died March 3, 1949 in Punxsutawney, Jefferson, Pennsylvania.³⁹⁸⁵ He is buried in Marshall Cemetery, Fauquier County, Virginia.⁴⁵⁶

He married FRANCES CATHERINE BUTLER on October 24, 1917 in Gallia County, Ohio,¹⁷⁸⁶ daughter of MARY MCGEORGE HUME and ORMOND BUTLER. She was born May 15, 1892 in Marshall, Fauquier, Virginia,^{56, 8010} and died February 11, 1976 in Portage County, Ohio.^{456, 56, 90} She is buried in Marshall Cemetery, Fauquier County, Virginia.⁴⁵⁶

• Descendant Reports
  • William Scott Descendant Report (Ancestor of Frances C. Butler)

Children of FRANCES CATHERINE BUTLER and EDWARD JAMES COLLINS:

1. MARIANA COLLINS, b. May 2, 1919, Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama;⁴⁵³² m. JOHN POWELL ALCOCK on April 4, 1942 in Richmond, Virginia⁶⁰⁴³; d. November 1, 2007; bur. Harrison Family Cemetery, Marshall, Fauquier, Virginia.⁴⁵⁶
2. MARGARET COLLINS, b. December 24, 1924, Chicago, Cook, Illinois;⁷⁴ m. ARTHUR WILLIAM KREAGER; d. June 28, 2007, Saint Louis Park, Hennepin, Minnesota;⁷⁴ bur. Dawn Valley Memorial Park, Bloomington, Hennepin, Minnesota.⁷⁴

News and Advertiser, March 24, 1949⁹¹¹³

Edward Collins Dies

Word has been received here of the sudden death in Punxsutawney, Pa., on Mar. 3 of Edward J. Collins, a native of Northfield and a 1914 graduate of Norwich University. He was a resident Army engineer in charge of flood control work in that city, a post to which he was assigned two years ago. Burial was in Marshall, Va.

Surviving besides his wife, the former Frances Butler, and two daughters, are three grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. John Brown of Springfield, Mass. The latter for a number of years was a Northfield school teacher.

The Punxsutawney Spirit published the following letter written by a friend of Mr. Collins:

"Having read with feeling your editorial comments on such local residents whose passing away calls for a more personal tribute by you than the news columns can give, I wish, without the same happy facility of expression, to remark on the death, in our midst, of a comparative stranger.

"Ed Collins, whose lot it was as an engineer to work all over the face of the earth, left his mark wherever he went, among the people who came to know him, even more than by his engineering achievements, which themselves are a tribute to his knowledge and character. In the two years he spent in this town, quietly going about his business, he made a host of friends. He was a large man with a ready smile, inflexible in his insistence that things be done correctly, easy going and as comfortable in personality as a well-broken-in shoe—the comparison fits, for he was a simple man who expressed himself in simple language. His devotion to his family was no less exemplary than his honesty in giving his best to his job.

"Whether respect for his character of love for his personality dominates, those of us who came to know him can hardly say whether we are more sorry that his is gone, or more glad that we had a chance to know him."