History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 538. [Bourbon County] [North Middletown Precinct] S. WESTBERRY COLLINS, farmer; P. O. North Middletown, son of Foster and Elizabeth (Matheney) Collins, and was born in Bourbon County, Feb. 12th, 1817. Foster COllins emigrated from Orange County, Va., in the year 1797 and settled temporarily on the Maysville road in Bourbon County, between Paris and Millersburg; he afterward bought a farm on Cane Ridge, at a point about equidistant from the two towns above mentioned, where he located permanently; he married Elizabeth Matheney, a native of Maryland, who emigrated with her father to this State during the pioneer period of its history; the result of this marriage was ten children reared to maturity, five sons and five daughters. The third son, S. Westberry, who is the subject of our sketch, was married on the 12th of Sept. 1839, to Elizabeth H., daughter of Wm. Hansford, of Bourbon; this union was blessed with one child, Mary E., who is now the wife of Robt. W. Owen, near North Middletown, on Sept. 12, 1840, just one year from the date of his marriage, Mr. Collins buried his wife, and from that time to the present, a space of forty-one years, he has lived a single life, centering his heart and affections upon his only child, with whom he now lives in his old days; he has retired from an active life and is enjoying some of the fruits of his past labors. He is a Democrat in politics. Collins Matheney Hansford Owen = Orange-VA MD http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/bourbon/collins.sw.txt