John Jasper COLLARD

                         Information for this family was taken from (1) Thompson, Histor y of Pike
county, Illinois), (2) Collard family records owned by Evelyn Collar d Fidelle,
deceased, of Portland, Oregon, (3) family Bible of Jennie Brant Yocu m of
Pleasant Hill, Illinois.
       John J. Collard was a veteran of the Civil War and served as Fir st
Sergeant in Company C of the Tenth Regiment of Missouri Volunteers . He was one
of the first school teachers of Pleasant Hill township.  He was a Not ary Public
in 1873.  He was also county clerk in Pittsfield, Pike County, Illino is for
several terms.  (correspondence with Jennie Brant Yocum)
       John Jasper Collard fathered a line of school teachers.  Four o f his
children became teachers:  namely, Mary Elizabeth, Eliza Jane, John R ay, and
Ora Emma Collard.  (Thompson, chap 182)
       John Jasper Collard and family were living in Pike county, Illin ois in the
1860 census.
       In the Pike county court records is an affidavit which begins, " I, John
Jasper Collard, being first duly sworn, etc," the same being signed " John J.
Collard."  John was born in Christian county, Kentucky,  Sept 7, 1817 .  He was
only a few months old when his parents set out from near Hopkinsville , Ky., to
found a home in Missouri Territory in what is now Lincoln county, Mo . He was
not yet a year old when his father was killed.  His mother later marr ied Isaac
L. Thurman and John was reared partly in his step-father's home in Mi ssouri.
(Thompson, chap 179).
       John J. Collard, on Oct 3, 1839, at the age of 22, married Mar y Elizabeth
Barton, the 15-year-old daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Barton, native s of
Botetourt county, Virginia and emigrants from Ramsey Creek in Pike co unty, Mo.,
to the Bay Creek country southeast of Pleasant Hill in 1826.  John G . Sitton .
. . was the officiating justice at this Bay Creek wedding. . .
       The Collards resided in Fairfield until 1844.  Two children, Lyd ia Rebecca
and Eliza Jane, were born during this period.  John J. Collard and hi s elder
brother, Felix Alver Collard, engaged in merchandising in Fairfield i n the
pioneer days of the town, being among the earliest merchants in tha t section.
       On Feb 29, 1844, John J.  Collard sold his property at Fairfield . . . We
then find him locating at Bayville, in a settlement which had grown u p along
the bank of Bay Creek. . . Here, at Bayville, Collard engaged in scho ol
teaching and merchandising.  Here also, two more children were born,
namely, Elijah Barton Collard and Mary Elizabeth, the latter of who m married
John Hancock Brant. . . Collard in his pioneer store at Bayvill e . . . sold
everything from violins to tea and nails and lead for molding bullets.
(Thompson, chap 181)
       Further history of this family is found in Thompson, chapters 18 0, 182,
and 183)