Andrew Perry Collins (1835 - 1910)

Born 20 Aug 1835 in West Lodi, Seneca, Ohio, United States

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Died 17 Mar 1910 at age 74 in Riverside, Riverside, California, United States

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Biography

1st Lieutenant Andrew Collins served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: Dec 19 1861
Mustered out: 07 Jan 1865.
Side: USA
Regiment(s): Company K, Michigan 12th Infantry

1st Lt Commission from Gov Austin Blair (MI) dtd: ? Oct 1861

Name: Andrew P Collins

Age at Enlistment: 26

Enlistment Date: 30 Sep 1861

Rank at enlistment: 1st Lieutenant

State Served: Michigan

Was POW?: Yes

Survived the War?: Yes

Service Record: Enlisted in Company K, Michigan 12th Infantry Regiment on 19 Dec 1861.Mustered out on 07 Jan 1865.

Ref: Book: Beyond the Lines or A Yankee Loose in Dixie by CPT J.J. Geer Available on-line: Details of author's escape from temp POW prison, w/ assistance of slave. LT A.P. Collins escaped together and were shackled together. Their experiences, recaptured. Threatened w/ being hung as spies, if they weren't the escaped Yankee prisoners. The author gives some sermons about abolition and the evils of slavery before he gets back to the story line. They were later exchanged prisoners. c. 1864 and available on-line.

12th MI Voluntter Infantry USA

NPS Soldiers & Sailors of the Civil War (website)

This Collins line goes back to the Withrop Fleet.

Had orchard and home on High Grove, Riverside, CA

I have digital picture of sons, daughters and wife Sarah Andrew

Buried: Evergreen (historical) cem, Riverside, CA

Sources

• Year: 1870; Census Place: Solomon, Saline, Kansas; Roll: M593_442; Page: 44A; Family History Library Film: 545941 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCJB-ZG8)

• Year: 1880; Census Place: Solomon, Saline, Kansas; Roll: 396; Family History Film: 1254396; Page: 173B; Enumeration District: 298 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF52-SWJ)

• Year: 1900; Census Place: Salina Ward 3, Saline, Kansas; Roll: 498; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 0122; FHL microfilm: 1240498

• Kansas State Historical Society; Topeka, Kansas; 1875 Kansas Territory Census; Roll: ks1875_18; Line: 27

• Iowa Department of Public Health; Des Moines, Iowa; Series Title: Iowa Marriage Records, 1880–1922; Record Type: Textual Records

• Book Title: Beyond the lines, or, A Yankee prisoner loose in Dixie : Geer, John James; Clark, Alexander. Philadelphia, J. W. Daughaday. Archive.org.Andrew Perry Collins as a prisoner of war.

• Book Title: The Clapp memorial. Record of the Clapp family in America, containing sketches of the original six emigrants, and a genealogy of their descendants bearing the name. With a supplement, and the proceedings at two family meetings. Clapp, Ebenezer. Boston, David Clapp and Son. Archive.org

• Collins Fam Bible: copy on file w/DAR

• Book Title: Descendants of John Collins, of Charlestown, R.I. : and Susannah Daggett, his wife. Collins, George Knapp. 1901. Baldwinsville, N.Y.: Gazette Print. Archive.org.

• Historical Data Systems, comp. U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009. 1st lieutenant Enlisted in Company K, Michigan 12th Infantry Regiment on 19 Dec 1861. Mustered out on 07 Jan 1865.

• "California Death Index, 1905-1939," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK91-DZXH), Andrew P Collins, 17 Mar 1910; citing 7210, Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Department, Sacramento.

• Burial, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America, Evergreen Memorial Park and Mausoleum Find A Grave: Memorial #14417590

• "Andrew Perry Collins." Riverside Daily Press (Riverside, California) Monday, Mar 21, 1910. Page 3. GenealogyBank.com.

• A.P.Collins CW NARA pension file # XC 283922 VA. Lists CW service, wife Sarah, her re-marriage and having to reapply for her husband's pension after 2nd husband's death.

• Death VR Riverside, CA
• Photocopies of Family letters

• Note: Andrew Perry Collins m. Sarah Elizabeth Blair may be on file with Dept of Veterns Affairs, ltr dtd: June 29, 2001 Pension File #XC2839228