Long Fork of Jenny’s Creek
In Johnson County, Kentucky,
Near Riceville.
    
Documented by Sheila “Collins” Dunbar
with the assistance of Reverend Powell Collins
    
From the 23 South bypass of Paintsville, take the 825 West exit to Riceville. You will travel
about seven miles staying on 825 until you get to the Riceville exit to the left and crossing
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway tracks onto Riceville Road. It will take you from 825 on past
the little area of Riceville. Stay on Riceville Road and continue on up the paved, one laned
road up the hollow of Long Fork. The road is named Riceville Road, but we always called it
“going up Long Fork.” The creek you travel by is the Long Fork of Jenny’s Creek. You will
continue  on up the road past Brushy Branch and Fitch Lick. After traveling about 2.5 miles up
Riceville Road, you will pass on the left a little cemetery that is the Sanford Collins/Oliver
Collins Cemetery.
       
The Sanford Collins family and many of their  descendents are buried in this cemetery on the
Long Fork of Jenny’s Creek. The following information is a combination of cemetery
documentation completed by Roy Preston in April, of 1984, obtained from the Magoffin County
Historical Society and my own family research with the help of Collins family living Collins
family members. This information is to the best of my knowledge correct.

RED: ADDITIONS ADDED TO THE ORIGINAL LISTING.
 : Personal Photographs Submitted by Gary Collins Sep 2003
  
   
COLLINS, Sanford              Mar.25 1844     Jan.07 1928     
Sanford was  a Civil War Veteran who served in the 45th Kentucky Mounted Infantry. Sanford
fought for the Union at the Battle of Cynthiana, Kentucky, and was wounded; as a result, he
received a government pension for the rest of his life.  Sanford was a son of George Collins
and brother to John Wesley Collins, James R. Collins, George Collins, Manda/Amanda Collins,
RoseElla Collins, Melvina/Vinie Collins, and Margrete Collins. Sanford’s wife was Elizabeth
“George.”  [Submitted as another sibling to Sanford Collins is Clarinda Collins this info
submitted Apr.30 2005 by: " Jodi Wright [email protected] " ggg-granddaughter of Clarinda.]
   
COLLINS, Elizabeth (George)   May 22 1854     no death date
Note: After Sanford’s death the old Sanford Collins house burned down,  Elizabeth lived
with Garfield over at Green Rock. I think she may be buried wherever Garfield Collins is
buried. This could be in the “Joshua Collins Cemetery” on Line/Collins Branch.
  
COLLINS, Shell                       1883            1931     s/o-Sanford & Elizabeth (George) Collins
the grandson of George and Polly “Blair” Collins. He was married to Eva (Whitaker) Collins.
  
COLLINS, Eva (Whitaker)              1891            1967     w/o-Shell Collins.
  
COLLINS, Oralee                        1922            1922     d/o-Shell & Eva (Whitaker) Collins
  
COLLINS, Cynthia Ann                   1902            1903     d/o-Sanford & Elizabeth (George) Collins.
  
COLLINS, May (Mary?)                   1874            1877     d/o-Sanford & Elizabeth (George) Collins
  
COLLINS, Charles W.                    1877            1877     
[Uncertain who this is but may have been child of Sanford and Elizabeth “George”.]
  
COLLINS, McLennen “Clell”              1876?           1903     Died a young man and never married.




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