Person:Jane Collins (13)

2nd cousin/niece of Tecumseh,

[from "A Pioneer History of Wirt County" by Tommie Sewell, in the Wirt County Journel, Vol 78 No 52, c 1978]

Our records on the Collins family are meager, due to lack of time for research, but Mrs. [Jane Collins] Full is thought to have been the daughter of one Rupe Collins who led a surveying party to the upper waters of the South Branch [of the Potomac] at an early date.

Many traditions relative to the ancestry of Jane Collins have been recited from generation to generation. These legends, strengthened by documentary evidence, come from various parts of the United States, and from as many branches of the Full family, carry the same interesting story, leading to the definite conclusion that the ancestry of Jane Collins were of those who carried the bow and arrow and weilded the tomahawk -- the first American citizens. These traditions bear information that her mother was of the Shawnee tribe and sister of the great chief, Tecumseh, being the eldest of a family of seven; one daughter and six sons.

From Odin, Illinois, James G. McKee writes, "Jane [Collins] Full was a niece to Tecumseh and the mother of Lewis Full's children. Uncle Joe Full never denied his Indian blood but seemed proud of it."

From Wirt County, WV Marriages 1848-1857:

1854 Nov. 2 Elisha Boice 30 (Farmer), single. Born in Pennsylvania. Residing in Wirt County. Parents: Thomas and Patience BOice. Married Mary E. Riohards 16, single. Born in Wood County Va. residing in Wirt County. Parents, Otho and R. Richards. Calvin Connor officiated.

1857 May 3: Abasolom Full ? (Farmer), widower. Born in Pendelton County, residing in Jackson County. Parents, Lewis & Clarissa Full. Married Mahala Sheppard 47, single. Born in Harrison County Virginia. Parents Robert & Ruth Sheppard. William Sheppard (Comissionere) Officiated.

Nov 18: Jesse Full 29 (Farmer) single. Born in Jackson County Va. Residing in Jackson County, Va. Parents Absolum & Ann Full. Married Rebecca Martin 25, single. Born in Morgan County Ohio. Residing in Wirt County Va. Parents Samuel & Katharine Martin. Samuel Sheppard officiated.

Nov. 2 (note: this marriage is listed twice, both for 1854 and 1857) Elisha Boice 30 (farmer), single. Born in Pennsylvania. Residinig in Wirt County Va. Parents Thos. and Patience BOice. Married Mary E. Richards16, single. Born in Wood County Va. Residing in Wirt County Va. Parents Otho and R. Richards, Calvin Connor officiated.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees. (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;)
   Database online.

   Record for Absolom Full

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Ancestry.com. 1830 United States Federal Census. (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;)
   Database online. Year: 1830; Census Place: , Wood, Virginia; Roll: 200; Page: 383A.

   Record for Asalum Full

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Ancestry.com. 1820 United States Federal Census. (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;)
   Database online. Year: 1820; Census Place: , Wood, ;Virginia; Roll: M33_138; Page: 184; Image: 204.

   Record for Lewis Full

4.   Harold Somerville "The History of Wood County, West Virginia,".