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Christopher Columbus Collier was born in Mantua, Ohio November 21, 1840. This is just south of the Geauga County line. After serving enlistments during the Civil War in both the 138th Indiana Inf. and the 11th Michigan Inf. Regiments he spent the rest of his life in or near Munson Twp., Geauga County. He worked as a carpenter most of his years. He outlived wife Sarah by nearly 40 years, dying at the home of a daughter in Chardon, Ohio on February 25, 1923.
Sarah O. (Stephenson) Collier was b. in Geauga County - probably Munson Township - October 25, 1842. She married Christopher Collier August 20, 1865, again probably in Munson. They had 5 children, the second being my grandfather “Randolph,” who was born October 29, 1872. Sarah died March 6, 1883. aged 40 + according to the date of birth I have. (Her tombstone in Munson states age 43, however.) Sarah’s mother Jane Woodward Stephenson is pictured elsewhere on this page.
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