Cleota Collins

Cleota Josephine Collins (September 24, 1893 — July 7, 1976) was an American soprano singer and music educator.

[1] Cleota Collins studied music at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, and abroad in France and Italy, as the student of Emma Azalia Hackley,[2] with further studies in New York.

[11][12] In 1932, sculptor Henry Bannarn created a portrait bust of Cleota Collins; it was his earliest known work.

[14] She married William Johnson Trent Sr., the president of Livingstone College, as his fourth wife, in 1953.

[15][16] She may have married a third time, as her grave marker is for "Cleota Collins Moore."