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- WFT #1178Vol2: m.25 Nov 1802 Madison County, Kentucky Amelia (Milly or Millie) Oldham (B 32 May 1781 North Carolina d 21 Mar 1864 Madison County, Kentucky) was the daughter of Richard and Ann Pepper Oldham. Also the sister of Ann Oldham See Joseph Collins. Buried in Madison Co. Kentucky. Husband was a Christian Minister
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The Richmond Register
April 22, 2014
In search of the last resting place
Register, community uncover clues about displaced grave markers
By Crystal Wylie
Register News Writer
RICHMOND ? At a popular illegal dump site off Bybee Loop in Waco, two marble grave markers were among some items found there by Pat and Ronnie Aldridge, residents who live about 250 yards from the area.
The markers were leaned up against a building on their property and as other items piled up around them, they remained forgotten for the past seven or eight years, Pat said.
The Aldridges collected several discarded propane tanks recently and while they were cleaning up around their property, they recovered the grave markers. Madison County Solid Waste Coordinator Scott Tussey agreed to pick up the items Tuesday and immediately began searching for the families or cemetery to which the markers belong.
The larger marker, approximately 38 inches by 15 inches, is engraved with the name Milly Collins, wife of Josiah Collins. She was born May 21, 1781, and died March 21, 1864.
Engraved in the smaller marker, approximately 21 inches by 13 inches, is ?Our Little Babe; child of W.H. & Anna Sale; born dead Dec. 20, 1861.?
The Richmond Register uncovered a thread on Rootsweb, an Ancestry.com community, that connected the two grave markers. The dead infant of W.H. & Anna Sale is the grandchild of Josiah and Milly Collins.
The first post by username Thehensons@aol.com was publish April 2006 and labeled Josiah Collins/Amelia Oldham.
Josiah Collins was born Nov. 7, 1778, in Halifax County, Va., according to the post. He traveled with his parents, Stephen Collins and Catherine McHendree Collins, to Kentucky around 1779.
Amelia ?Milly? Oldham was the daughter of Richard and Ann Pepper Oldham.
Josiah married Milly in Madison County on Nov. 25, 1802, and the couple had nine children: Joel Collins, born 1803; Albert G. Collins, born 1804; Paulina Collins, born 1808, married Richard Davis; William C. Collins; Louisa Collins; Jeremiah V. Collins, born 1814; Elizabeth ?Betsy? Collins, born Oct. 1, 1817; Ann Collins, born 1821; and Milly Collins, born 1829.
Josiah was a minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), was a slave owner and farmer. He died April 18, 1871, in Madison County, and Milly died March 21, 1864.
The poster indicated that most of this information came from the French Tipton Papers and ?The Collins Book? by Richard A. Prewitt. In the post, the user asked if anyone knew the dates of marriage or spouses of the Collins children and if anyone knew the names of the other children in the Richard Oldham/Ann Pepper family.
Linda and John Glenn responded to the thread with a post titled ?Oldham & Collins children.? The poster, who is not identified as either Linda or John, said the Collins? oldest son, Albert G. Collins, and his wife Permelia Foster, were their great-great-grandparents.
The post revealed the connection between the two grave markers.
One of Josiah and Milly?s youngest daughters, Ann Collins, married Joseph Huls on Sept 25, 1839, in Madison County, according to the Glenns. But after his death in 1850, Ann married Webber Sale around 1855. They were the ?W.H. & Anna Sale? on the smaller marker found in Waco.
There is a possible connection to the Chenault family of Madison County, they said. Martha E. Collins, one of Albert and Permelia?s daughters, married James Chenault in Dallas on July 15, 1858. Two of the Collins children and two Chenault children are buried in what is known as the Collins-Chenault cemetery.
The post continued with the marriages of the rest of the Collins children: Joel Collins married Elizabeth Palmer on Jan. 24, 1831, in Clark County; Paulina Collins married Richard Davis on March 16, 1826, in Madison County; Louisa Collins married Sterling Wood on Jan 25, 1831, in Madison County; Jeremiah Collins married Frances Reid on Aug. 1, 1839, in Madison County, and after her death married Polly Ann Lane on Sept. 25, 1848, in Clark County; Elizabeth ?Betsy? Collins married Robert D. Kidd on Oct. 8, 1832, in Madison County; and Milly Collins married Robert Watts on March 28, 1845, in Madison County.
Tussey searched both volumes of ?Cemetery Records of Madison County? by Bill and Kathy Vockery of Richmond and could not find the deceased names or original locations for the markers.
Both markers could not be found in the records at the Richmond Cemetery, said office manager Anita Curry.
David Greene, who has worked 13 years in the Madison County Deed Vault, has also joined in the search and is reaching out to his contacts.
The Richmond Register also has emailed the posters on Ancestry.com and are awaiting their response.
Tussey will keep the grave markers until they are claimed and a follow-up story will be written as more details are uncovered.
If anyone has information that can lead to the return of the grave markers to their burial sites, please contact Crystal Wylie at cwylie@richmondregister.com or 623-1669, Ext. 6696.
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Oldham Family History
1781 - 1864 (82 years)
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