Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameLillie M. Collins
BirthOct 1877, Delaware
CensusApr 1930, Long Branch, Monmouth Co, NJ
Memoroll#1371, pg 17
Death31 Oct 1938, Long Branch, Monmouth Co, NJ
MemoHazard hospital
BurialOld First Methodist Church Cem, West Long Branch, Monmouth Co, NJ
Misc. Notes
Daughter of Jacob P. and Laura E. Collins.
Found information on her in the cemetery listing and 1910 census.
In 1930, she is living in Long Branch, NJ as a widow (50, DE) working as a clerk in a dry goods store with her son Russell (20, PA) who was working as a clerk in the Post Office.
[Obituary] Asbury Park Press - Monday, 31 October 1938, pg 2
Mrs. Lillian M. Conrow LONG BRANCH.
Mrs. Lillian Conrow, 82, of 121 Cottage place, deid this morning at the Hazard hospital where she had been ill for 10 days. She was born in Millsboro, and is the widow of Frank Conrow. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Willis Woolley Funral home. Interment wil be in the West Long Branch cemetery. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Joseph Walker, Brooklyn; one son, Russell Conrow, two grandchildren, three brothers, Horace Collins, White Plains, Frank Colilns, Philadelphia, and Scott Collins, and a sister, Mrs Harold Trelease, Bloomfield.
Spouses
BirthMay 1871, Monmouth Co, NJ
Death1929
BurialOld First Methodist Church Cem, West Long Branch, Monmouth Co, NJ
FatherLuke Conrow (1839-1905)
MotherLavinia Woolley (1843-1929)
Misc. Notes
He served as a Private with Co B, 1 US Volunteer Engineers in the Spanish American War, and applied for pension benefits as an invalid in 1899.
He is listed in 1910 with is wife, Lillie of 3 yrs, along with dau Ethel G. (2, PA) and son Russell W. (9 mos PA). By 1920 they had moved (back?) to Pennsylvania where he was working as a book-keeper (48, NJ) for a coal company.
Following his death, his wife applied for widow pension benefits on 24 April 1929.
Marriage1906, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co, PA
ChildrenEthel G. (1907-1970)
 Russell Woolley (1909-1980)
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