Augusta Emelia Bohman Collings

Augusta was not quite two and a half years old when her parents brought their family to Zion.  She was so ill most of the way across the ocean that her parents feared she might die.

They crossed the Plains with the John F. Sanders Wagon Company and arrived in Salt Lake Valley in September 1863.  They spent a year in Fairview, Utah.

In October, 1864, they were among the first settlers of Monroe, 
Sevier County, Utah (then called Alma).  They were driven out by the Indians and lived in Gunnison for five years before they returned to Monroe in 1872.

August did well with her studies and when she was fifteen years of age, she was asked to be an assistant teacher.  She had to give up teaching in order to help her mother because she had so much spinning to do for the United Order.

On December 28, 1887, Augusta married William Richard Collings.  They traveled three hundred miles round trip in a team and wagon in the middle of the winter in order to get married in the St. George Temple.

In 1894, Augusta became afflicted with rheumatism which continued until by the time she was forty nine, it was impossible for her to stand on her feet.  She spent her remaining twenty one years confined to her bed most of the time.

Augusta was a most patient person and a woman of remarkable personality.  She made the best of her condition in order to make her home as pleasant as possible for her husband and children.  

It is stated that she died in Ephraim, Utah at the age of seventy years on January 27, 1931.

She had been a widow for twelve years.  She was buried in the Monroe Cemetery next to her husband.

Children:

Earl B., 23 September 1888

Nita Joy, 28 October 1890

Sylvia Delight, 11 October  1893

(Source: Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude, Volume I A to E, International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers p.640)