James Collier, (son of John and Cassandra Crook), was born in Madison County, Kentucky, January 24, 1798, and reached Washington County, Indiana, 1814, with his parents, when he was sixteen years old, having been with them in all their wanderings.  

He bore strong marks of the Crook blood from Cassandra, being slender and extremely dark.  He was a life long sufferer from asthma, which he bore very patiently.  A charter member of the Christian Church of Campbellsburg, Indiana, and a great Bible student, his old Bible still bearing the marks of his study on a almost every page.

Extremely honest, and careful about paying his debts.  It was a custom of his, to go to church before the first bell rung, and in attendance one night contracted a cold, this with asthma developed pneumonia, from which he soon died in his 74th year, 1872.

His last words, so characteristic of his life, were, “Owe no man anything.”  He, together with Sally Lockhart, his wife, lie buried in the Hop Cemetery, two miles north of Campbellsburg. 

​James Collier, (son of John Collier and Cassandra), married Sally Lockhart March 12, 1818, at Campbellsburg, Indiana.