Spencer Collins
Life
- c. 1840Bornc. 1840-42, Missouri
Aged 10, born Missouri, in 1850; 14, born "North Carolina" (an error), in 1856.
documentedprobable - 1850Lived
- 1856Lived
- 1864Died3 Nov 1864, Vera Cruz, Douglas County, Missouri
Killed in action. The identification rests on the name, the regiment and Springfield; the card's age of 44 is read as a slip for 24.
documentedprobable - —Buried
Family
- Father
- Jesse Collinsinferredprobable
- Mother
- Mary Reedinferredprobable
Pedigree
Spencer Collinsc. 1840–1864
Jesse Collinsc. 1804–1847
Mary Reedc. 1804–c. 1852
Meredith Collinsc. 1760–1841
Polly Hollowayc. 1780–bef. 1840
James Reedc. 1766–bef. 1845
Susannah Reedb. c. 1770
Notes
The youngest of Jesse and Mary’s children. In 1856, orphaned, he was living with the Hendon family, a mulatto household of landowners in Wells Township. Enlisted at Springfield, Missouri, 17 Aug 1864, in Company H, 46th Missouri Infantry (Capt. Alsup); mustered in 9 Sep 1864; killed in action eight weeks later. Parsons Cemetery is also the burial place of Isaiah “Cuppy” Collins, of the Branch A Collins family, and he may have joined distant Collins kin in that region [?].