Matilda Louise (Young) Colling (1855)

Born 1855 in Seneca, Haldimand, Canada West

Ancestors

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Biography

Matilda's sister, Catherine, married David's brother, William. When Catherine died at the age of twenty-two, William married their sister, Fanny.

David and Matilda were the subject of a biographical sketch in the "Portrait & Biographical Album of Genesee, Lapeer & Tuscola Counties" (Chapman Bros., 1892, pp. 416 - 419). According to this record, in October 1876 David and Matilda emigrated to Columbia Township, Tuscola County, Michigan. At that time David took a grant of 160 acres on Section 21. In 1891 David was "elected Justice of the Peace on the ticket of the Industrial Party, although he was formerly a Republican". The names of the three children of David and Matilda Louise are given in this document; and the author commented that, "Mrs. Colling is an active and useful member of the Presbyterian Church and an honored member of society". The 1880 census for Columbia Township recorded that David (a farmer) and Matilda were residing there with their two sons, and David's brother William. David, Matilda, and their two youngest children were also residing in Columbia Township, Tuscola County, Michigan during the 1900 census. This record confirms their date of immigration as 1876, records that David was a farmer, and further that Matilda to that point Matilda had given birth to 3 children, all of whom were alive.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Dr. David K. Faux: Descendants of John D. Young

Acknowledgments

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