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Niagara Gazette

RANSOMVILLE - A. Jerald McCollum. 62, a lifelong
resident of the -Town of Porter, died Wednesday
(Nov. 1, 1967) in Ransomville General Hospital where
he had been a patient tour weeks. He resided at 3569
Ransomville Road.
Mr. McCollum was a con-
rtruction worker and a mem-
ber of Ransomville Methodist
Church. He was the son of the
late A. D. and Minnie Austin
McCollum. who resided .in
Balmer Road.
Surviving are his wife. Beat-
rice, tax collector for the Town
of Porter; a daughter. Mrs.
A. (Twila) Move, Chicago; two
sons. CPO J. G. McCollum and
Richard D. McCollum. both of
Ransomville; two brothers, Melville
McCollum. Lockport: and
Kenneth McCollum,, Gasport; a
sister, Ms Roy Schul, San-
born; a foster sister, Mrs Ken-
neth Pidgeon,, Niagara Falls;
and two grandchildren.
The Rev. H. R. Goodrich,, of
the Weston Avenue Free Metho-
dist Church, Niagara Falls, will
officate at services Saturday at
2 p.m. at the Hardison Funeral
Home here. Burial will be in
North Ridge Cemetery.
Friends may call from 7 to 9
p.m.. today and from 2 to 5 and
7 to 9 p.m. Friday.

Abraham married BRADT, Beatrice on 21 Jun 1924 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. Beatrice (daughter of BRADT, Leonard D and Julia) was born on 3 Sep 1905 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY; died on 24 Mar 1968 in Ransomville, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 6/24/1924

The marriage of Miss Beatrice
Bradt of Lewiston and Abraham Gerald
McCollum of Youngstown was
solemnized at the Church of Christ
parsonage Saturday evening, at 7:30
o'clock, the Rev. Z. E. Bates: officiating.
They were attended by Miss
Thelma Weaver and Alexander Bradt,
brother of the bride. Mr. and Mrs.
McCollum will reside In Ransomvllle

1. MCCOLLUM, Twila
2. MCCOLLUM, J Grant
3. MCCOLLUM, Richard D

Notes:

Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 4/22/1964

GASPORT - An organizer of
the dairyman's League Co-operative
here, A. Day McCollum,
88, of the Slayton Settlement
Road, died Tuesday (April 21.
1964) at his home after a long
Illness.
The son of the late Abram and
Almyra Sanborn McCollum, he
was bom in the Town of Porter
Sept. 11. 1875.
He operated a farm on the
Balmer Road in Youngstown
where five generations of the
McCollum family had farmed
until the TNT plant came into
Model City in 1942 to buy up
the farm.
He subsequently moved to the
Slayton Settlement farm where
he continued breeding purebred
holsteins, a portion of his farming
career that took up 45 years.
Mr. McCollum married Minnie
Austin Dec. 9, 1903. Besides
activity in the Co-operative
movement, he was a charter
member of the Niagara
County Farm Bureau, and a
member of the Niagara County
Extension Service.
Surviving besides his widow
are a daughter, Mrs. Roy H.
Schul of Sanborn; three sons, A
Jerald McCollum of Ransomville,
Melville C. McCollum of
Lockport and Kenneth D. McCollum
in Gasport; a brother,
I. Lee McCollum of Lockport;
19 grandchildren and 10 great
grandchildren.
Friends may call at the
Bream Funeral Home, M a in
Street, Gasport, Wednesday
and Thursday from 2 to 4 and
7 to 9 p.m., where funeral services
will be held on Friday, with
the Rev. Hugh S. Tigner officiating.
Burial will be in North
Ridge Cemetery.

Abraham married AUSTIN, Minnie M on 9 Dec 1903 in North Ridge, Town of Cambria, Niagara County, NY. Minnie (daughter of AUSTIN, Edward) was born on 27 Aug 1879 in Town of Lewiston, Niagara County, NY; died on 14 Mar 1965 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Niagara Gazette

GA8PORT - Mrs, Minnie
McCollum, 85, of Slayton
Settlement Road, died Sunday
(March 14, 1965) in Mount
View Hospital. She was the
widow of A. D, McCollum,
prominent breeder of Holstein
cattle, who died last
April. .
Mrs. McCollum was; born
In the Town of Lewiston Aug.
27, 1879, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Austin. She
lived In the Lewlston urea
until 23 yeirs ago, when she
moved to the Gssport area.
Survivors Include a daughter,
Mrs, Thelma Schul, San-
born; three ions, A. Jerauld,
Ransomvllle, M e l v i l l e C,
Lockport, and Kenneth D.
McCollum, Gasport; a foster
daughter, Viola Pidgeon, Ni-
agara Falls; 19 grandchildren
and 13 great-grandchildren.

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Lockport NY Union Sun Journal - 12/10/1953

Recalling a heavy snow storm on their wedding day 50
years ago, Mr. and Mrs. A. Day McCollum of the Slayton Settlement
Road celebrated their 50th wedding annivenary
day at their home.
A. Day McCollum of the Balm-
er Road, Youngstown. and Minnie
M. Autin oi Dickersonville Road.
Ransomville. were united in Mar*
riage Dec. 9. 1903 at the M. E.
parsonage at North Ridge. After
a short wedding trip, the couple
resided on the McCollum farm on
the Balmer Road.
They lived on thai farm, which
was a part of the original Holland
Land Grant and was in the family
for five generations, until the
government purchased It as part'
of the tract of land acquired for
a government project in 1942. At
that time they purchased a farm
on the Slayton settlement Road,
where they now reside.
PROGRESSIVE FARMER
Besides being a progressive
dairy farmer, Mr. McCollum was
for many years a member of the
Ransomville Grange, Ransomville
Men's Club. director of the
L. F., president of the Dairymen's
League Local and member
of the Farm Bureau.
He was one of the first tanners
to practice conservation of soil In
his area, and has a modern farm
fully equipped and stocked with
100 head of registered holstein
Fresian cattle. Which is a partnership
with his youngest son, Kenneth
Day McCollum. who owns a
farm nearby.
15 GRANDCHILDREN
The couple have two other sons.
A Jerald McCollum of Ransomville
and Melville C. McCollum of
the Upper Mountain Road, and a
daughter,, Mrs. Roy M. Schul of
Cambria Road,, Sanborn. They al-
so have 15 grandchildren.
A recetion for relatives and
friends was held in the evening
with refreshments served from a
table covered with a lace cloth
and centered by a hree-tiered an-
niversary cake. Mrs.. Lester Rob-
zein and Miss Edith Pearson
poured.
The couple received many gifts.
The bigget thrill of the evening
for Mr.. and Mrs. McCollum was
a long distance call from their
eldest grandson, J. Grant McCol-
lum,, who i serving with the U.S.
Navy and is stationed at Havana,
Cuba.

Notes:

McCollum, Abram M., was born in Porter, October 29, 1842, a son of Abram Howe and Susanah (Zittle) McCollum. His father was born in Tuscarora Valley in 1820, son of Joseph McCollum, born in Pennsylvania in 1775, and in 1820 came to Porter, settling on a farm where he lived and died in 1853. The maternal grandfather, Conrad Zittle, was born in Germany in 1765, and came to the United States with his mother in 1774, who died in Pennsylvania. Mr. Zittle came to Porter about 1809 or 1810 and settled on the farm at Tourer's Corners by the Four-mile Creek; he sold to Peter Tower and settled at Zittle's Corners about 1816 or 1817, where he lived and died April 11, 1850. Abram M. McCollum was reared on a farm, and educated in the common schools. He is a farmer and owns 120 acres of land and works about 200 acres. In 1869 he married Almyra S. Sanborn, daughter of Israel Sanborn of Orleans county, aud niece of Hon. L. R. Sanborn of Sanborn, Niagara county. Mr. and Mrs. McCollum had seven children Anna W., May (who died at four years of age), Evangeline, Abram D., Israel L., Lulu and Grant. Mr. McCollum is a Republican in politics, and in 1863 enlisted in Co. F, 8th N. Y. Heavy Artillery, serving under Col. Peter A. Porter until the battle of Cold Harbor, Va., June 3, 1864, where he was disabled by a bullet striking the shoulder and lodging in the left side of his head, which caused him to lay on the field unconscious for ten or twelve hours; after coming to he had lost so much blood from the shattered arm, that he was unable to help himself, and as no flag of truce u-as accepted from either side, was left laying on the field for two days, and then taken to Fairfax Seminary, Va., from which he was honorably discharged October 10, 1864. He is a member of Melville C. McCollum Post of Ransomville, N. Y., and its present commander, said post being named in honor of a brother. Mr. McCollum's father was a lifelong Whig and Republican; he was a leader in his town and county and served for a time in the regular army. He enlisted in the volunteers, serving for a time in a light battery, when he received an honorable discharge from the governor of his State, telling him he could do more good recruiting. He spent hundreds of dollars for the benefit of the government during the Civil war for recruiting, and in the Christian and Sanitary Commission for the benefit of wounded soldiers and their families that were left at home. Any one coming for aid was never turned away. Patriotic to a fault was the father of Abram M. McCollnrn.

From:
Landmarks of Niagara County, NY
Edited by William Pool
D. Mason & Company, Publishers, 1897

Abram married SANBORN, Almyra S in 1869 in New York. Almyra (daughter of SANBORN, Israel G and Anna) was born in Jan 1848 in New York; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abram + ZITTLE, Susanna. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Israel + Anna. Anna was born about 1825 in New York; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]