History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 708.
[Harrison County]  [Rutland Precinct]

LEWIS COLLINS, farmer, P. O. Rutland, is a native of Jessamine County,
Ky., where he was born Oct. 16, 1826, near Keene on Sinking Creek; his
grandfather, John Collins, was born in Orange County, Va., and in company
with Mr. Allen, the maternal grandfather of our subject, was in the
battle of Bunker's Hill, where both were wounded; he was also at the
surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, having served through the entire war,
he often related to his family the joke that a darkey passed on the noted
English commander at the time of the surrender.  Upon being told that
Cornwallis had surrendered, he replied: "He no more Cornwallis, Massa; he
Cob-wallis now."  After the Revolutionary war he came to Kentucky, passing
over the Alleghenies, and continuing his journey down the Ohio River in a
flat boat; he landed at May's Lick; came through to Central Kentucky;
their party camped at the Lower Blue Licks two or three days after the
at that place, which decided the fate of so many of the Kentucky brave
pioneers.  He and his son William were detailed as a guard at this place
while the others slept; they passed through Lexington when it consisted
of only a few log cabins, and settled on South Elkhorn in Fayette County;
he leased 200 acres of land from Col. Bowman, and was offered a title to
it for a wagon and team, but refused; he worked it during his lifetime,
and had it in good condition, but his lease expiring with his life, his
family could reap no benefit from his labor; he died in Fayette County
in the sixty-sixth year of his age, and was buried in the graveyard of
the old Baptist Church at South Elkhorn.  Whitfield Collins, son of John
and father of Lewis, was born in Orange County, Va., April 16, 1782; he
was about six years old when his father moved to Kentucky.  When a small
boy, he and his brother went to Ryman's Mill; being compelled to remain
over night, their horses were placed in a lot adjoining the mill, while
they stood guard from the mill window.  When about twenty-four years of
age he entered the ministry of the old style Baptist Church, in which he
labored until his death, Feb. 18, 1871.  His career as a minister was a
noted one, extending for a period of sixty-four years, having as his
associates Ambrose Dudley and his son Thomas P., Matthias Gossett,
William Conrad, and others.  Like most of the pioneer preachers of his
time, his work was scattered over a large territory, embracing churches
in most of the counties of Central Kentucky.  On the 1st of February,
1804, he married Sarah, daughter of David Allen, of Pennsylvania, by whom
he had thirteen children, and with whom he lived for more than sixty years,
she dying Jan. 5, 1865, in the eighty-second year of her age.  Lewis
Collins, the subject of this sketch, came to Harrison County with his
father when three years of age, and settled at Rutland where he now
resides.  His brother, Meredith Collins, twenty-one years his senior, was
the first resident of Rutland.  Lewis worked with his father till [sic]
he was twenty-seven years old, when he married Martha Ann, daughter of
Samuel and Rachel (Boyers) Eckler, receiving from his father at that time
thirty-seven acres of land, a part of his present farm; his early
education was quite limited, and after his marriage, while erecting the
house in which he now lives, he was taught at night by Joseph Miller,
the stonemason who assisted him in his work; he has a family of seven
children, the oldest, Samuel, born July 21, 1854, an active member of
the Cynthiana Commandery of Knights Templar; his second child, Sarah, has
been afflicted since here eleventh year, and is now confined to her bed
all the time, and has not spoken a work for three years; Eliza, born Dec.
17, 1857, married to William Hannah; Mary Elizabeth, Jan. 19, 1859;
Lewis W., Dec. 15, 1861; Alice G., July 1, 1864; and Martha Ann, April
28, 1870.  He stood three drafts for the late war; was ordered into the
ranks by Col. Landrum during the first battle of Cynthiana.  Himself and
wife are both members of the Mill Creek Baptist Church; in politics he
is a Republican.

Collins Allen Dudley Gossett Conrad Boyers Eckler Hannah
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Jessamine-KY Fayette-KY Orange-VA

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