Lydia Peters’s account gives Maria Louisa’s marriage as 29 December 1831 and describes the couple dying on successive days, 25 and 26 March 1864, after brief illnesses. It places their burials together at the Mound burying ground near Piketon.

The 1864 dates are retained as the account’s reported chronology. The earlier page’s 1865 wording is not repeated as a separate established event. No cause of death is inferred, and no children are identified in the reviewed family material.

Lydia and John’s family included ten children, six reported to have died in infancy or childhood. The two Jane Elizabeths are separate daughters. The household references below are correlated with the family account, rather than treated as explicit census statements of kinship.

James’s indexed age of 33 in 1850 suggests birth about 1817; the family account instead gives 1 November 1815. Both readings remain visible. His marriage to Adah Jane Cole is reported as 13 September 1849; the account gives his death as 17 May 1856.

The account describes James as a lawyer in Piketon. Adah, also called Ada or Jane, is reported to have lived until 1903. The fourth child below is preserved as an attributed entry rather than silently omitted or merged with the elder Nancy.

The account places the younger Nannie’s birth before the elder Nannie’s reported death. That overlap remains unresolved. The later Lang and Philips marriages are published-history leads, not newly verified marriage records.

Minerva’s marriage is placed in January 1841: the former page gives the 25th, while the typed family account gives the 26th. Their named daughter was Nancy Sargent. The account gives Nancy’s birth as November 1841 and death as 1 August 1846; the former page instead gives 1844–1846. The birth year remains unsettled.

The earlier typed account names one child; the later WPA copy says two children, both dying young. That variant does not establish a second child’s identity. Snowden B. Sargent is not included: the marriage-record finding recorded on the existing page names his parents as Henry W. Sargent and a mother surnamed Berry.

Charles’s reported second marriage, to Elizabeth Ward Berry in Coles County, Illinois, on 10 February 1850, created a blended household. The later children William and Kate belong to that marriage, not to Minerva. Minerva’s reported death year remains 1847.

The original return begins with 1 January 1807 and states that William Collins of Adams County and Precila Guthrie of Ross County were joined in marriage that day. The minister’s closing certification is dated 19 February 1807.

These are different dates within the same record. February is not a competing ceremony date, and the wording does not identify it as a license or filing date. No calendar conversion is involved.

Priscilla’s stone names her as William Collings’s wife and gives 21 October 1874. The older 1878 pension-index reading is superseded for the working death date. The faint age inscription has not been used to calculate her birth date, and the memorial index is not an independent second death record.

The Pike County Court of Common Pleas record identifies Priscilla as William Collings’s widow and records an allotment of fifty acres as her dower. The commissioners’ report includes a surveyor’s plat and a return dated 29 September 1834.

The proceeding concerns estate land in section 5, township 1, range 22, including fifty- and fifty-eight-acre parcels. Their combined appraisal was $864, subject to dower. Priscilla’s fifty-acre allotment was not an outright inheritance of the entire 108 acres.

The copied proceedings describe attempts to sell land to meet estate debts. In April 1836 the court approved a sale to William Sargent, subject to Priscilla’s dower, and directed the administrator to execute a deed and take mortgage security. The sale does not establish that Priscilla had relinquished her rights.

The reviewed pages establish the marital connection but do not enumerate all six children. The separate Lawrence-family case beginning below the Collings case on page 42 supplies no additional Collings heirs.

Pike County Court of Common Pleas, April term 1836, pp. 39–42; FamilySearch film 008714337, images 45–46 of 780. Earlier actions are copied into the 1836 record and retain their own dates.

1820, Seal Township: William Collings’s index lists two males under ten and one aged 26–44; one female under ten, two aged 10–15, and one aged 26–44. The total is seven, with one agricultural worker. These age groups do not independently identify every resident.

1830, Seal Township: the indexed head is Priscilla Collings. The household has one male aged 5–9, one aged 10–14, and females aged 10–14, 20–29, and 40–49. The younger male remains unidentified. This is not a household headed by William after his death.

1850, Piketon: dwelling and family 433 lists James Collings, 33; Ady P. Collings, 24; Priscilla Collings, 68, born Pennsylvania; and Jane E. Chestnut, 15. Priscilla’s age suggests about 1782, without displacing the family account’s specific 1783 birth date. Kinship comes from correlation with other evidence, not a relationship column.

The former descriptions of Priscilla living with Maria Sargent in 1850, 1860, and 1870 are not carried forward. The reviewed 1850 household differs, and the later schedules have not been verified; Maria’s reported death also precedes 1870.

War of 1812: the index names William and his widow Priscilla Guthery Collings, with service dates 28 July–9 September 1813. Retrieval references are WO16749 / WC26783, publication M313, roll 20. The full file may add testimony and supporting documents; its contents, military unit, and any particular land patent are not established by the index alone.

• Ross County, Ohio, marriage return: William Collins and Precila Guthrie, marriage 1 January 1807; certification 19 February 1807. Original image reviewed; associated index film 000281637.
• Priscilla Collings gravestone: photographed inscription, Mound Cemetery, Piketon, Ohio; associated Find a Grave memorial index 136505018. The inscription supports 21 October 1874.
• Pike County Court of Common Pleas: William Collings estate, dower and sale proceedings, April term 1836, pp. 39–42, reciting events in 1834–1836; FamilySearch film 008714337, images 45–46 of 780.
• U.S. census indexes: William Collings, Seal Township, Pike County, 1820; Priscilla Collings, Seal Township, 1830; and the James Collings household, Piketon, 1850, dwelling/family 433.
• War of 1812 pension application index: William and Priscilla Guthery Collings; WO16749 / WC26783, M313, roll 20. The complete pension file has not been examined.
• Lydia Guthery Peters’s account, April 1872: later typed copy, pp. 83–84, for the mill, marriage, children, and descendants. The Wyoming State Archives WPA compilation, Bio 385, supplies provenance but contains wording differences; neither copy is the original newspaper.
• Mary Gray May, The History of Lieutenant-Colonel John Guthery of Greene County Pennsylvania and of Allied Families (1956), p. 16, naming Priscilla and six children.
• Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers, A History of Adams County, Ohio (1900), pp. 179–182, George Collings biography and family background.
• Nelson W. Evans, A History of Scioto County, Ohio, Together with a Pioneer Record (1903), pp. 132–133, William Collings biography. Later historical source; its conflicting Priscilla dates do not override the reviewed evidence.
• Priscilla in the Guthrie Research Tree, descendant profiles, and the existing page’s reported record findings. Unverified descendant details remain identified as reports or leads.