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Most of the pages on this web site contain historical information about the development of the families of the people of the United States of America.   No one person can claim credit for all of the research which has been required to collect the data which I have analyzed and am disseminating on this web site.  Other than my personal research, inherited information which my parents researched, and sometimes information from the books of the Sigler Family Organization edited by Robert Howard Sigler and Gregory L. Watson, I have given credit for my sources.  If an author does not give credit to his or her sources then the author not only takes credit for the source's correct information but also for the source's mistakes.  That would be unfair to both the source and the author.  This is our history and is meant to be read and disseminated by anyone who desires to do so.  However, if material from this web site is copied, printed, and/or published on other web sites, in books, or in research papers it would be very much appreciated if I and this web site were given credit as being the most immediate source for the material. A link to this web site would also be appreciated.

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Chester's and Nora's Page

Pictured are Chester D. Collins and Nora Urton with Roy Wilburn, Lewis Clifton, and Alice Eloise. This photograph was taken in 1918.  Rubye Louise was born in 1919.

Chester Dair Collins was the first of eleven children born to William Robert Collins and Alice Jane Smith.  After Chester was born, William and Alice had three more sons and seven daughters.....Mattie Louise, William Daniel, Lillie Kate, Bertha M, Nellie E, Corda D, Roy Raymond, Mary Laurine, Rubye Lee, and Hazel.  Chester was born in Union County, Kentucky, on April 5, 1881, and moved with his family to Graves County, Kentucky, sometime between 1889 and 1892.  His mother was one-fourth Cherokee.  Chester worked various jobs and traveled somewhat before getting married ten months after his 32nd birthday celebration.

Nora Urton was the fourth of nine children born to John Urton and America Alice Collins.  When she was born, Nora had two other sisters.....Ollie and Lula Kate.   A third sister, Elenor Bell, died before she was born.  After Nora was born, John and America had three sons and two more daughters.....Alvin Huston, William Herbert, Sophia Agnes, Olivia, and John Ruby.  Nora was the scholar of the family.  She attended and graduated from a business school in either Morganfield or Henderson.  It is assumed that she worked for several years before getting married eleven months after her 30th birthday celebration.  Some things are passed on from generation to generation.  All of her descendents of an appropriate age have graduated from high school.  Almost all of them have been students in a junior college, college, or university.  Many of them have earned bachelor's degrees.  Some have gone on to earn master's degrees and at least two of them have degrees beyond the masters degree level.  One of them has earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Harvard.  The list keeps growing.

Chester and Nora were married on January 21, 1914, in Vanderberg County, Indiana, not far from Union County, Kentucky.  They bought a farm on which to raise their family, but financial conditions would not allow them to keep it.  They found a home on the Davis  farm near Dekoven, Kentucky, in Union County between Sturgis and Shawneetown.   Rebecca Caudill, a relative of the Davis family, wrote a children's book, The House of the Fifers, about the farm and the surrounding area.   Rubye Louise took care of the children while Rebecca wrote the book.  At the end of 1914, their first child was born.  Another son came along in 1916 and a daughter was born in 1918.  She died during her first year of life.  Another daughter was born in 1919.  Nora's father died a year and a half before she and Chester were married, but her mother lived on until 1933.  Chester's father died in 1927 and his mother died two years and eight days later in 1929.  Before World War I I started, Chester and Nora gained a daughter-in-law, Helen Couch, when Lewis Clifton married on January 8, 1940 and gained a son-in-law, Robert Henry Sigler, when Rubye Louise married six months later on June 29, 1940.  Roy Wilburn was drafted into the army and served as an airman on a B-17 in Europe and did not marry Marjorie Hailey until October 14, 1945, after he returned home near the end of the war.  Chester died on April 20, 1943, and Nora died ten months later on February 21, 1944.   Chester had two grandchildren when he died and Nora had three grandchildren when she died.  Chester and Nora were buried in the cemetery which was given to the community by their ancestors, who were the original European landowners.