Melinda Ellen Collins b. 4 Feb 1841 Miami County, Ohio, USA d. 15 Mar 1918 Sedan, Chautauqua County, Kansas

1841 - 1918 (77 years)

Name	Melinda Ellen Collins [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
Born	4 Feb 1841	Miami County, Ohio, USA [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10]
Gender	Female
Died	15 Mar 1918	Sedan, Chautauqua County, Kansas
Buried	Cedar Vale, Chautauqua County, Kansas, United States of America [11]
Person ID	I200052373845	Miller & Lounsbury
Last Modified	10 Aug 2021

Father	Jacob Collins, b. 12 March 1793, Virginia , d. 21 Apr 1859, Delaware County, Indiana, USA (Age 66 years)
Mother	Elizabeth Fisher, b. 16 August 1801, Montgomery County, Virginia, USA , d. 23 September 1879, Delaware County, Indiana, USA (Age 78 years)
Family ID	F5878	Group Sheet

Family 1 Aaron E Smith, b. 10 Feb 1839, Muncie, Delaware, Indiana, USA , d. 26 Jun 1886, Cedarvale, Chautauqua County, Kansas, USA (Age 47 years)

Married 16 Jul 1860 Carroll County, Indiana, USA [9, 12]

Children

+	1. William Jacob Smith, b. Sep 1862, Indiana , d. 1938 (Age ~ 75 years)
	2. Matthias H Smith, b. 1864, Indiana
+	3. Samuel Vaughn Smith, b. Nov 1868, Indiana , d. 1954 (Age ~ 85 years)
+	4. Elizabeth Jane Smith, b. 12 Mar 1872, Kansas , d. 14 Jul 1888, Cedarvale, Chautauqua County, Kansas, USA (Age 16 years)
+	5. Dora Aredella "Della" Smith, b. 4 Nov 1875, Indiana , d. 24 Dec 1952, Los Angeles County, California, USA (Age 77 years)
+	6. Aaron Matison Smith, b. 30 Oct 1878, Delaware County, Indiana, USA , d. 1961 (Age 82 years)

Last Modified 10 Aug 2021

Family ID F7965 Group Sheet

Family 2	Jackson Dillard, b. Abt 1820, Indiana , d. Bef. 1900 (Age ~ 80 years)
Married	16 Aug 1888	Chautauqua County, Kansas, USA [10]
Last Modified	10 Aug 2021
Family ID	F7966	Group Sheet

Family 3	Daniel Crabtree Guffey, b. 8 Sep 1826, Loudon, Loudon, Tennessee, USA , d. 15 Dec 1919, Caney, Montgomery, Kansas, USA (Age 93 years)
Married	21 Jun 1902	Perry County, Arkansas, USA [1]
Last Modified	10 Aug 2021
Family ID	F7964	Group Sheet

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Notes

Daniel Guffey married Ellen Smith Dillard and they lived in North Vincents. He helped build a Methodist Church at Wauneta, Kansas. A Pastor came to Caney and they went to live with the Pastor, their old friend from Wauneta. Later they moved to Arkansas where some of his brothers lived. There Daniel went blind and grandma walked with a cane and the Guffeys said she was mean to him and hit him with her cane, so probably around 1917 or 1918 they moved him back to Caney and grandma went to live with her daughter, Della, who may at that time have lived in Chandler, Oklahoma. Later she moved to Stroud, Oklahoma. I suppose that grandma may have died in one of those places.
Daniel Guffey built a rock house east of Sedan Cemetery about 1900 and Vaughn and his family lived in this house when the children were young. A picture taken on Guffeys 80th birthday (around 1908) included Vaughn Smith and Jake Smith so it is possible that they married between 1900 and 1908.
He was 91 years old when he died so would have been born about 1828 (The Smith children said he was very good to grandma).
From Bethel Rose Hamlin

Sources

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