Temperance E. Maxson was born in Truxton, Cortland Co., N. Y., Nov. 3, 1818, and died at the home of her son, in Portville, N. Y., April 4, 1902.
She was the eldest of a family of seven children. Seventy-one years ago her parents, Zaccheus R. and Temperance Coon Maxson, settled in Little Genesee, N. Y., with their family. But for ten years spent in Nebraska she has resided in the vicinity of Little Genesee. In 1841 she was married to Horace Collins, who passed from life Jan. 3, 1892.
She is survived by two daughters and one son. She united with the First Genesee church sixty-four years ago, with which church she has ever been a consistent member. She was a woman full of charity and good works. The funeral services and interment took place at Little Genesee, April 6, 1902. D. B. C.