Mrs. Elizabeth Adams Collings Obituary
Taught in New Ipswich
No Date Listed
ASHBURNHAM
Death of Mrs. E. A. Collings
Word has been received here of the death at Claremont, Calif., of Mrs. Elizabeth Adams Collings, sister of Mrs. Emma A. Clark of this town. Mrs. Collings was a native of Fitzwilliam, N. H., daughter of William Dana and Marinda (Adams) Locke. When she was 11 years old the family moved to New Ipswich, N. H., where she was graduated from Appleton academy.
She started her teaching career at Windham, Vt., in 1862. She afterward taught at New Ipswich, Mason and Marlboro, N. H., and at Ashby. In 1865 she went west to become associate principal of the Rock Island, Ill., high school. From 1866 to 1871 she was a teacher in Chicago, where she was married to Perley E. Collings, who died in 1914. She went to New Mexico in 1881 and taught there 46 years under many handicaps. Since she retired she had lived at Claremont.
Besides a daughter, Laura W., of Claremont, and her sister in this town she leaves two nieces, Miss Marinda A. Locke of Ashburnham and Miss Mabel E. Tucker of Baldwinsville. Burial was at Claremont.
New Ipswich WW2 Veterans
Memorial Day will be observed in New Ipswich on Sunday, May 19, 2024.
James Roger diary entry
5th May 1913
Misty morning; fine day; wind S.W. to west. David went for grain in forenoon, and W. Hardy and him at Spoffords’ in afternoon. Mother complained of having diarrhea during the night and does not feel well but brightened up in the afternoon.
Elizabeth Collings died July 19 1933
Mrs. Collings taught school in Vt in 1862, then New Ipswich till 1865, then Illinois, and then went to New Mexico in 1881 to teach for another 46 yrs! So she had a teaching career that spanned 65 yrs!!