After further research, I found that Amy’s maiden name WAS Collins and that she was the daughter of Stoel Collins, Sr., a blacksmith, and his second wife, Elizabeth Wilkes, who died in 1842 at the age of 26. Stoel Collins, Jr. and Louisa Wilcox were her brother and sister-in-law, but it looks like the entire family migrated from Concord (Springville) in Erie County, NY, to Taylors Falls in Chisago County, MN. Stoel, Sr. was married and widowed several times. According to an early history of Erie County, Amy had a sister who drowned in Springville as a child.
I am researching Stoel Collins, Sr. Do you have any information on him such as parent’s names or siblings? I believe he may have been the brother to Sophia Collins, born 1799, who married Caleb Nichols of Sardinia, Erie, New York. Would appreciate any information you have on him.