Sarah (Collins) Summersford (1868 - 1950)

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Sarah (Collins) Summersford & Alfred Benjamin Summersford

1887

Sarah (Collins) Summersford

Alfred Benjamin Summersford

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Alfred Benjamin Summersford

1867 - 1902

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Louise Denise (Johnson) Collins

Louise Denise (Johnson) Collins

Richard F. Collins

Helen L Collins

Lloyd Collins Jr

Stella (Collins ) Boggs

Walter C Collins

Mattie Collins

Immogene collins

William Thomas Collins

Mary E (Collins) Stebbins

Mary E (Collins) Stebbins

Jamel L Collins

Grover E Collins

Ollie Mae (Collins) Murphy-Strickland

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In 1868, in the year that Sarah (Collins) Summersford was born, on May 30th, Memorial Day was observed as a day to decorate the graves of Union soldiers with flowers. General John A. Logan, of the Grand Army of the Republic, had declared the 30th "Decoration Day".

In 1885, at the age of 17 years old, Sarah was alive when on June 17th, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor. Two hundred thousand people and hundreds of boats greeted the statue. It had to be assembled but that had to wait until the pedestal was completed the following April.

In 1893, when she was 25 years old, on November 7th, the women of Colorado were given the right to vote via a state referendum. Fifty-five percent of voters turned out and the referendum passed with 35,798 voting in favor and 29,551 voting against.

In 1921, Sarah was 53 years old when the silent film The Sheik, directed by George Melford and starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres (also featuring Adolphe Menjou) debuted on October 21st. Critics weren't enthusiastic but the public loved it - in the first few weeks 125,000 people had seen the movie - and it eventually exceeded $1 million in ticket sales. And Rudolph Valentino, an Italian American, became the heartthrob of a female generation.

In 1950, in the year of Sarah (Collins) Summersford's passing, in February, Joe McCarthy gave a speech alleging that he had a list of "members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring" who worked in the State Department. He went on to chair a committee that investigated not only the State Department but also the administration of President Harry S. Truman, the Voice of America, and the U.S. Army for communist spies - until he was condemned by the U.S. Senate in 1954.