Elijah COLLARD

                         The Illustrated Historical Atlas of Lincoln county, Missouri (Ed wards
Brothers, Phila, 1878) states on page 11 that the first grand jury o f Lincoln
county in 1819 included Elijah Collard.  On page 12 it states that the
assessment list of  1821 includes Elijah Collard.

       Elijah Collard's older children were born in Kentucky.  Shortl y after the
birth of the fourth child, J. S. Collard, the family left Kentucky an d came to
the "District of Louisiana", now Missouri, locating on the Cuivre riv er, which
empties into the Mississippi opposite Point Precinct in lower Calhou n county,
Illinois.  There the other children of Elijah Collard's were born.  A fter the
birth of the last child, the Elijah Collard family emigrated to the t hen
Mexican province of Texas and settled on Ware League, Montgomery coun ty, moving
later to Gourd Creek, where Elijah Collard died and is buried.  He di ed of what
was then known as winter fever, probably pneumonia.  The Collard sett lement was
prior to the Texas war for independence.

       Four of Elijah Collard's sons, John Stark, Lemuel, Job, and Jame s Harrison
Collard, obtained large land grants from the Mexican government in th e Texas
province.  John S. and James H.  were both land surveyors.  Stephen F . Austin,
founder of the first  colony of Texas, was settling the country on th e old
land grants, and these two Collard brothers engaged in the buying an d selling
of land all over the state of Texas.  James H. Collard was also a Met hodist
preacher and conducted protracted and camp meetings in the early colo nies
throughout Texas.  The four Collard brothers named above participate d in the
Texas war of independence under General Sam Houston.

       W. E. Collard,  son of James H. and grandson of Elijah of the Mi ssouri
border, served for years in the supreme court of civil appeals for Te xas and
became so eminent as a jurist that his decisions are still widely quo ted in the
Lone Star.  Mary Collard, second of Elijah's children, married John T olbert.
They went to Texas with the other Collards.  He died there, leavin g a large
family.  Mary married again to Samuel Lindley.

       Mary Stark had three brothers, Jesse, Jonathan and Job, and on e sister.
(Thompson, History of Pike county, Illinois, chapter 162)

       Elijah Collard lived on Cuivre River in Lincoln county, Missour i near
where the town of Troy now stands and he and his family were frequent ly forced
into the "block houses" at Wood's Fort.

       Many pre-revolutionary German and Irish settlers received grant s of land
on what was called the King's bounty; that is emigrants obtained boun ty
warrants (if I recollect right) of 100 acres for the head of a famil y and 50
acres for each child.  These were also often called head rights.  Eli jah
Collard had a head right on the San Jacinto River below Willis, Texas , although
he never lived on it.  (Letter from Dr. Jonathan R. Collard of Salem , Oregon)

       Elijah Collard and his family were living in Lincoln county, Mis souri in
1830.  Their household included the family as shown on the family gro up
together with two females age 10 to 15.  (U. S. census of 1830)

       Elijah Collard was a captain in the third regiment of St. Charle s county,
Missouri, in the War of  1812.  (Mo. 27, 3:103)

       Elijah Collard came from Kentucky to Lincoln county.  He was a r anger in
the War of 1812.  He went to Texas.  (Illustrated Historical Atlas o f Lincoln
county, MO., Edwards Brothers, Phila, 1878 page 13)

       In War of 1812, ssettlers in the fort at Troy included Elijah Co llard and
his father, Joseph Collard.  (Lincoln county Herald, Troy newspaper , 23 Feb
1876)

       Elijah Collard Senior resided in Christian county, Kentucky wher e Jonathan
was born; emigrated from there to Lincoln county, MIssouri, where al l the
younger children were born (Joseph, Lemuel, Job, James, Eliza H., Eli jah Jr.,
and Emily), thence to Montgomery county, Texas.  His headright leagu e is on San
Jacinto River below Willis, though he never lived on it.  He first se ttled, on
coming to Texas, on Ware League, about old Woodson place--did not liv e there
long--moved on Gourd Creek and is buried there.  He died of what wa s called
mountain fever, evidently pneumonia.

       Joseph died in infancy.  Margaret (This should be Mary.-- J. R.
Gillis) Collard I never saw. She died
in Missouri.  Her posterity, both girls named Green, came to Texas . These girls
were left orphans and wards of our father (Jonathan) before he ever m arried.
They were 12 or 14 years of age and father went over land from Texa s to
Missouri after them in 1840.  One of the girls married Nelson Lindley , son of
old Joe Lindley, and the other married Anthony Gibson.  Mary (This
should be Margaret.-- J. R. G.) Collard, daughter
of Elijah Sr., married first to John Tolbert.  Tolbert and family cam e to
Texas with the Collards.  Tolbert died, leaving a large family.  Mar y married a
second time to Samuel Lindley.  Eliza Collard married Jacob Shepherd . Eveline
Collard married Wiley Dunn.   Emily Collard married William Whitley . (extracts
from a letter to Dr. Felix R. Collard Jr., from his father in 1904 . Felix R.
Collard Sr. was the son of Jonathan Stark Collard and Nancy Reding.)