Allard Family
Ella Allard
Parents - Albert A. Allard; Ann Elizabeth Wilson
Husband - Charles Edward Collins
Children - Francis Wilson Collins
Ella
Allard was born in Baltimore, Maryland on 29 September 1872. She
was the fifth of seven children of Albert A. Allard and
Elizabeth Ann
Wilson Allard. Her siblings all had a middle name or initial, but
Ella has never been found in records with a middle name or initial.
1880 Census - Baltimore 7th Ward - 299 East Biddle Street, Baltimore,
MD - 2 June 1880
Albert A. Allard, age 48, born in Vermont, mother/father Vermont, can
maker
Ann E, wife, age 45, born in Maryland, mother/father Ireland, keeping
house
Ida A, daughter, age 20, born in Maryland, works in shoe factory
Emma J, daughter, age 18, born in Maryland, works in shoe factory
Edward, son, age 14, born in Maryland
Augustus, son, age 12, born in Maryland
Ella, daughter, age 7, born in Maryland
Maggie, daughter, age 4, born in Maryland
Frankie, son, age 2, born in Maryland
Samuel Wilson, boarder, age 42, born in Maryland, father/mother Ireland,
plasterer
1900 Census - Baltimore, Maryland 10th Ward - 1411 E. Biddle St.,
Baltimore, MD
Albert A. Allard, age 69, born May 1831 in MA, father MA, mother VT
Albert A. Allard Jr., son, age 32, born Jan 1868 in MD, father MA,
mother MD, collector
Ella Allard, daughter, age 27, born in Sept 1872 in MD, father MA,
mother MD
Maggie Allard, daughter, age 24, born in Dec 1875 in MD, father MA,
mother MD, dressmaker
Francis C. Allard, son, age 22, born in Dec 1877 in MD, father MA,
mother MD, clerk
Samuel Wilson, brother-in-law, born in Jan 1843 in MD, father/mother
Ireland, plasterer
[Albert married 40 years. All other listed as single.]
Ella Allard first married at age 35. This is late age for marriage during this era. Some of her siblings also married at a late age.
Marriage - 11 October 1905 - Minister Walter Rhodes at residence in
Baltimore.
C. Edward Collins age 35, white, single to Ella Allard, age 33, white,
single
This was also her husband's first marriage. Charles Edward Collins was age 35 at the time. Charles Edward Collins was born 4 July 1870 in East New Market, Maryland. He was the son of Samuel Edward Collins and Guliaelena Wilson Turpin Collins.
Charles Edward Collins and Ella Allard Collins lived with Ella's family for the first two years after they were married. They had their fist child, Francis Wilson Collins, on 20 September 1906, a little less than a year after they married. He was known as Frank.
1906 Baltimore City Directory
Albert A. Allard - 1411 E. Biddle St.
Francis C. Allard - 1411 E. Biddle St., The Sun
C. Edward Collins - meat cutter, 1411 E. Biddle St.
Samuel Wilson - 1411 E. Biddle St.
1907 Baltimore City Directory
Albert A. Allard - 1411 E. Biddle St., can maker
Francis C. Allard - 1411 E. Biddle St., The Sun
Charles E. Collins - 1411 E. Biddle St., butcher
Samuel Wilson - 1411 E. Biddle St., plasterer
1908 Baltimore City Directory
Charles E. Collins - 1823 N. Port St., painter
1909 Baltimore City Directory
C. Edwd. Collins - 1318 N. Washington St., painter
Samuel Wilson - 1318 N. Washington St.
On 29 January 1909 another son was born, Charles Edward Collins Jr.
Later that year Ella's husband Charles Edwin Collins died on 5 April 1909 at age 39. He had a new born son and a 2 year old son at the time of his death. The cause of death listed on his death certificate was exhaustion. [more to be added, looking for my Collins notes]
Baltimore Sun - 7 April 1909 - C. Edward Collins
Mr. C. Edward Collins, 38 years old, 1314 North Washington Street, died
Monday morning from tuberculosis. He was a native of New Market,
Dorchester Count, and had lived in Baltimore for four years. He
was employed as a painter by the Baltimore Bridge Company. Mr.
Collins leaves a widow, two small children, three brothers William,
Thomas, and John Collins all living at East New Market; two sister Mrs.
John Dick and Mrs. G. Connard of Philadelphia, and a half-sister, Mrs.
Samuel Lecompte, of Baltimore. The funeral will be held this
afternoon.
Their second son, Charles Allard Collins died a few months later.
Baltimore Sun - 19 June 1909 - Mortuary Notice -
On June 18, 1909 C. Allard Collins, aged 4 months and 19 days, youngest
child of Ella and the late C. Edward Collins. Funeral from his
mother's residence, No. 1318 N. Washington Street, on Sunday afternoon
at 2 o'clock. Interment (private) at Oak Lawn Cemetery.
Ella Allard Collins, uncle Samuel Wilson, son Frank
W. Collins
1818 North Collington Avenue, Baltimore, MD
1910 Census - Baltimore, MD 8th Ward -
1818 N. Collington Avenue, Baltimore, MD
Ella Collins, age 37, widow, born in MD, father/mother MD, 2 children, 1
living
Frank W. Collins, son, age 3, born in MD, father/mother MD
Samuel Wilson, boarder, age 67, born in MD, father/mother Ireland
1910 Baltimore City Directory
Mrs. Ella Collins - 1818 N. Collington Ave.
Samuel Wilson - 1818 N. Collington Ave., plasterer
1911 Baltimore City Directory
Mrs. Ella Collins - 1818 N. Collington Ave.
Samuel Wilson - 1818 N. Collington Ave., plasterer
1912 Baltimore City Directory
Mrs. Ella Collins - 1818 N. Collington Ave.
Samuel Wilson - 1818 N. Collington Ave., plasterer
1913 Baltimore City Directory
Mrs. Ella Collins - 1818 N. Collington Ave.
Samuel Wilson - 1818 N. Collington Ave., plasterer
It is believed that Ella Allard Collins lived with her uncle Samuel Wilson from the time she was born until he died on 22 April 1913.
1914 Baltimore City Directory
Mrs. Ella Collins - 1818 N. Collington Ave.
1915 Baltimore City Directory
Mrs. Ella Collins - 2009 E. Federal Street
Ella Allard Collins died on 14 September, 1915 at age 42 of what was
likely a heart attack. According to her death certificate, she had
aortic sclerosis which is a thickening of the aortic value which could
lead to heart attack.
Maryland Death Certificate
September 14, 1915
Ella Collins
2009 E. Federal
age: 42 years, 11 months, 15 days
born in Baltimore September 29, 1872
widowed
died of Aortic Sclerosis, also exhaustion
buried Oak Lawn
Baltimore Sun - 15 September 1915 -
On September 14, 1915 at 11 A.M., Ella, aged 43 years, beloved wife of
the late C. Edward Collins. Funeral from her late residence at
2009 East Federal Street, this Friday morning at 10 o'clock.
Interment in Oak Lawn Cemetery.
Charles Edward Collins and Ella Allard Collins are buried at Oak Lawn Cemetery in Baltimore. Currently their graves are not marked.
After the death of his mother, a month before his ninth birthday, Frank W. Collins was raised by his aunt, Margaret Jennett Allard Reinhart and her husband Percy Reinhart.
Frank W. Collins was told stories about his father that he had mentioned to his wife, Helen Wolfe Collins. Helen had been a widow for over 25 years when shared what she remembered in the early 1990s. She recalled her late husband telling her that his father Charles Edward Collins had once worked on waterways as an oysterman. His father was a drinker and a cigarette fiend. He also had one leg shorter than the other. She did not know much more other than Charles Edward Collins was from "East New Market".