DUFFIELD, Va. - Grover Cleveland Collins, 81, (formerly of Fort Blackmore) died Wednesday (Oct. 17, 2001) at Holston Valley Medical after a lengthy illness.
He was born in Scott County, Va. on July 2, 1920 and was the son of the late Bill and Arlene Collins. He retired from Westmoreland Coal and was a farmer.
Mr. Collins was a member of Valley Creek Church.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, Fannie Akers.

Surviving are his wife, Brilla Begley Collins, Duffield, Va.; daughter, Nancy Gibson, Church Hill; son-in-law, Ralph Gibson, Gate City, Va.; special granddaughter, Jessica Hull, Church Hill; sister, Bonnie Cook, Lebanon, Va.; brothers, Charlie Guy, Michigan and Willard Guy, Maryland.
Calling hours are from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Colonial Funeral Home, Weber City, Va.
Services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday in the funeral home chapel with the Rev. Walker Darnell and the Rev. Otto Gibson officiating.
The Lee Smith Singers will provide the music.
Burial will be at the Starnes Family Cemetery in Clinchport, Va.
Family and friends will serve as pallbearers.

I am searching for any information I can find for my wife on her father .He was part Indian and as a young boy he lived with a family named Collins and took on the name of Grover Cleveland Collins. He was born about 1893 in or around Logan or Lexington, Kentucky. Places he may have lived is Williamson, Delorme or Matewan W. V. His first wife's name unknown. Some of their children's names are Ted , Mac, Less, Jess, Katherine, Bessie, Annie, and possibly more. His second wife was Leona Robinette. Their children were Loney, Virginia, Hannah, Charles, Birchie, Cora, Shirley, and Grover Cleveland Oscar. Any information will be greatly appreciated.

I just listed it, don't really know about him.

I am the granddaughter of a Grover Cleveland Collins. I was told that he was half Cherokee, but am not sure since I have not been successful in tracing his family. I do know that he was married before he married my grandmother, and I was told that he had a daughter and a son with a woman in Detroit. This man seems to have dropped in from outerspace because I sure can't trace very much about him. Not sure my Grover is the one you are looking for, but if so, I at least have his parents names, and a few of his siblings.