From Memorial and Genealogical Record of Dodge and Jefferson Counties, Wisconsin, publ. 1894 - Page 133-134 MRS. EMILY ELKINS. This estimable woman and old settler of Dodge County, Wis., was born in Haverhill, N.H., December 5, 1819, a daughter of David and Emily (SARGENT) ROLLINS, the former a native of one of the New England States and the latter of New Hampshire. After their marriage Mr. ROLLINS engaged in farming in New Hampshire, and removed from that State to Michigan in 1834, and settled in St. Joe County, at White Pigeon, in the vicinity of which place he bought a farm and tilled the soil for a few years., then sold out and came to Wisconsin, taking up his abode at Beaver Dam where he spent the last years of his life, dying in March, 1875, at the age of eighty-four years. His first wife died in New Hampshire when their daughter, Mrs. ELKINS, was a miss of twelve years, and Mr. ROLLINS afterward married again, his last wife dying in Michigan. Mrs. ELKINS grew to womanhood in the State of her birth, and there gave her hand in marriage to H. H. ELKINS, in White Pigeon, Mich., February 2, 1837. He was born and reared in Grafton County, N.H., removed to Michigan in early manhood and there worked at his trade of shoemaking. After his marriage he removed to Rushville, Schuyler County, Ill., where he worked at his trade for about three years, and in 1841 came to Dodge County, Wis.; entered forty acres of land and while opening up his place lived in the primitive log cabin of pioneer days. He afterward entered eighty acres more, which he also improved, and erected excellent buildings of all kinds on the place, which added greatly to the value of his property. In the fall of 1850 he lost one of his arms in a threshing machine, and the next year he went to Horicon where he erected a business house and engaged in merchandising, a calling which occupied his attention for a number of years. He then sold his building and stock and returned to the farm, which he conducted successfully until his death, which occurred November 3, 1885. His marriage resulted in the birth of five children: David, who died at the age of thirty-nine years; Emily, widow of Ed. BARNARD, resides in Grand Meadow, Minn.; John was a soldier in the Twenty-ninth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Company K, during the Civil War; after his return home he married and settled in Waupun where he was engaged in business for about twenty-five years and died there in 1887; Hattie, died after reaching womanhood; and Harrison is a traveling salesman of Minnesota, is married and has a family. Two of her children died in early childhood. Mrs. ELKINS has twelve grandchildren, two of whom are married and have families of their own. Her grand-daughter, Mary H. ELKINS, resides with her. Mrs. ELKINS has resided in this county for fifty-three years, and it can with truth be said that no one is more highly esteemed than is she. She has always endeavored to follow the teachings of the golden rule, and in the love and respect which has been accorded her she has received a portion of her reward in this world. Submitted by Carol