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	about 1898 when they sold the homestead, buying an eighty acre farm two miles east of their homestead. In the latter home they spent their declining years. The children of Joseph and Betsy Crow included: LEONARD GRANVILLE Crow who was the father of Lena Irene Crow (Kuhlmann) and Roy Adolph Crow; HARMON MELVILLE Crow who was the father of Jesse and Harold Hasson Crow: FILA DELCINA Crow (Lott) who was the mother of Ernest Lott, Burton Lott, Walter Lott, Gertrude Anne Lott (Hamilton), Cornelius Lott and Edwin Henry Lott; ESTELLA JANE Crow (Lott) who was the mother of Myrtle, Bertha, Esther Lott (Peck), Florence Lott (Bacon), Phyllis Lott (Ewart), Joe Willis and an unnamed son who died in infancy: JASON PERCIVAL Crow who was the father of Ralph Shultice Crow, Winifred Crow (Hake), Wilma Elizabeth Crow (Barnes), Ura Vivian Crow (Eubank), Reba Crow (Johnson), Joseph Crow, Harriet Rowena Crow (Lindgren), and. Margaret Crow who died at the age of 12; JOSEPH ZALMON Crow who never married; HENRY WILSON Crow who was the father of Bernice Estella Crow(Friend); BERTHA Crow who died at the age of five; and WILLIAM Crow who was the father of Carroll Clifford Crow, Raymond William Crow, Dorothy Irene Crow (Peterson), Charles Henry Crow and Donna Elenor Crow(Giersch). Joseph and Betsy Crow had been married nearly 54 years when she died on May 8,1908, and he died on July 18,1910. Of their nine children, two sons and their wives observed golden anniversaries. Harmon and lda Hasson Crow celebrated in September, 1935, and Will and Alma Shultice Crow in June, 1948. Ten of their grandchildren and spouses celebrated 50th anniversary dates. They included: Lena Crow and C. F. Kuhlmann, September 1954; Esther Lott  and Guy Peck, August 1958;. Burton and Della Cherry Lott, March, 1959; Ernest and Joy Lash Lott, August, 1959; Walter and Mabel Kehl Loll, June, 1960; Harold and Alliance Kirk Crow, April, 1961; and Roy and Alice Foster Crow, July, 1961. COLE FAMILY Charles Cole and wife, Matilda Chapman Cole, came to Ottawa County from White-Cloud, Michigan. With them were their five children: Leona, Ervie, Jay, Charley and Rena. Mr. Cole was a native of Pennsylvania and Mrs. Cole was born in Eley, England. The family settled on a farm northeast of town. The children attended ''Sleepy Hollow" school. At one time when Eleven Wilson was teacher as many as forty pupils crowded into the small one room school house. The children spent many happy Sunday afternoons with their cousins, the Boster, Chapman and Clark children. The. Cole children all married: Leona married Orlando Benedict Ervie married Edith Broom Jay married Ollie Boardman Chatley married Nellie Lindgren Otto married Naomi Boyle Lottie married Ray May Rena married Alec Barber Perley married Ivy Monk Mrs. Cole; a widow of many years, died in 1916. There are twelve grandchildren in the Cole family. THE JAMES COLLINS FAMILY By Phyllis (Collins) Watts, a granddaughter James Collins was one of six children born to Thomas F. and Mary Ann (Neil) Collins, and was born December 27,1862, near Ripley, Ontario, Canada. In the 1880's they came to Kansas and homesteaded near Solomon. There he secured work from Andrew Wolfe on the farm where he met and married Julia Margaret Wolfe (Andrew's daughter) on February 24,1896. They moved onto a farm south of Niles, Kansas (now owned by Mrs. Henry Gans). Later they bought a farm seven miles east of Bennington on Coal Creek; here they built a new house in 1898. It was here their son, Earl, was born. Later they moved to Solomon, Kansas, where he ran a butcher shop. Their son, Roy, was born while they resided at Solomon. They then moved from Solomon to Bennington where they ran a livery barn for a few years. In 1910, a fire destroyed the livery barn, later after the fire, he rebuilt it. It was located where the Bennington Elevator Inc. now has their grain treating RETURN NEXT