James Collard and Emma Brueske were married in December, 1898. They had four children - Henrietta (Mrs. Herman Rose of Wimbledon), Allan (Bud) who died of pneumonia in April of 1924, Audrey in Winona, Minnesota, and Gladis Hadden, in Long Beach, California.

James Collard at one time operated a large farm and also did custom threshing. He had 28 work horses, Red Poll cattle, and 8 fine driving horses in the 1900's. In one of those early years, he lost one thousand acres of good wheat by hail. He had an Oldsmobile in 1904. It didn't have any sides or doors and Ma wouldn't let us ride in it! She did, however, when he got his Reo in 1908. Pa Collard could play by ear any instrument and any tune.

In September 1924, after Allan's death and losing the farm, they moved to Wimbledon and lived there until Mrs. Collard died in August 23, 1932. Herman and Henrietta Rose had moved to the Collard farm in September 1924, and James Collard came to live with them in 1936, living there for eight years. James Collard died in Bethany Rest Home in Fargo, January 16, 1959, at age 91.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 49