Samuel and Sarah Elizabeth Collard, son James, and daughter Maggie, came from Duchess county, New York State, in 1885, by train to Dazey and on to the Dr. Vidal farm (known as the Glance farm in later years and is mile northwest of Roy Becker's buildings who operates it now). They lived on Dr. Vidal's farm for a while and worked for Nick Flagler (the present Myron Sizer farm). In a few years they lived on their own farms - what is now owned by Irvin Albright.
Sarah Collard took up plants, bushes, and small trees from the creek southeast of Dazey and soon had her own lovely yard and garden like at home in New York state. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Collard were Quakers, very strict and very severe in dress, and I never saw my grandma Collard smile and joke. Sam Collard enlisted in the Volunteer Army of the North in New York state to fight in the Civil War. He was in it from "start to finish and never got a scratch." Grandma Sarah's first husband, Tom Griffith, died in Andersonville Prison of the South of starvation and neglect. He was captured in one of the early battles of the Civil War. Sam Collard died in May of 1898; Sarah's daughter, Fanny Griffith, in New York state in 1880; Sarah in April of 1923; and daughter Maggie Collard Russell in March of 1898. Grandma Sarah's favorite prayer was: "O Thou whose bounty fills my cup with every blessing meet. I give Thee thanks for every drop, the bitter and the sweet."
Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 49