On, February 17, 1857, he married Anna McKenna, a native of Fermanagh Parish, county Fermanagh, Ireland. Their children: John, Mary, Patrick Henry, Margaret Ellen and Susan Honore.
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Mapleton Press, March 31, 1910 - From Danbury Review
At an early hour Monday morning March 28, 1910 at his home in Danbury occurred the death of Patrick Collins, one of the pioneer residents of Woodbury County and Western Iowa. Mr. Collins had been sick for some weeks and his death was not unexpected.
Patrick Collins who was known far and wide by both old and young as "Uncle Pat" was born in 1831, in County Cork Ireland and came to this country with his parents in ____ and settled in New York near the town of Malone. The trip across the ocean then was not so _______ as it is now as the ____ weeks and sometimes ______. Only the lure of a ____ free America and escape from the domination of landlords was the sufficient incentive for such an undertaking.
In ____ with his brother Michael who survives him, "Uncle Pat came to look at the country further west by going down the Mississippi to St. Louis and up the Missouri by steamboat to Council Bluffs. From Council Bluffs they walked to Sioux City. Not finding work, Mr. Collins with the hardy spirit of the pioneer started for home on foot leaving his brother behind. With only a faithful dog for a companion he walked all the way to Waterloo. There he took a stage for Jesup and from Jesup the train to a point near his home.
However, after crossing the fertile prairies of Iowa, although then at almost unpeopled wilderness, he was not content to remain in the old home, and in 1863, hitching two team of oxen and a team of cows to a covered wagon he took his wife and four small children and started west. Their route brought them to fort Dodge and then southwest down the Maple Valley to where Danbury now stands. From here they went northwest a few miles to what afterward became known as the Cork Hill neighborhood where on the first day of June of that year on a pleasant Sunday evening they settled on the homestead that was their home for over twenty years or until they moved to Danbury.
In 1885 Mr and Mrs. Collins moved to Danbury and started a hotel on December 5 of that year, which they ran until March 1903. when they retired from active life.
To Mr. and Mrs. Collins were born five children all of whom are now living They are as follows: John W., Mrs. Thos. McGuire, Henry, Margaret and Mrs. M. O'Gorman, all of Danbury, except Mrs. O'Gorman whose home is at Onawa. Mr Collins also leaves two brothers, Michael and Cornelius, both of Danbury. and two sisters, Mrs. Michael Hogan and Mrs. Thos. Hogan of Corning, Iowa. Patrick Collins was a good citizen, serving with integrity and faithfulness in every place he was called to either in public or private and few men in the community were better known or more highly esteemed.
The funeral services were held Wednesday from Saint Patrick's church of which the deceased had from its organization been one of the faithful and earnest members, and was attended by a large number of people who came to pay their last sad tribute to the memory of one whom they had known and respected in life, and whose death marks the passing of that germination which had so much to do with the subduing of the prairie wilderness.
COURTESY OF LYNNM FAG CONTRIBUTOR.
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Mapleton Press, March 31, 1910 - From Danbury Review
At an early hour Monday morning March 28, 1910 at his home in Danbury occurred the death of Patrick Collins, one of the pioneer residents of Woodbury County and Western Iowa. Mr. Collins had been sick for some weeks and his death was not unexpected.
Patrick Collins who was known far and wide by both old and young as "Uncle Pat" was born in 1831, in County Cork Ireland and came to this country with his parents in ____ and settled in New York near the town of Malone. The trip across the ocean then was not so _______ as it is now as the ____ weeks and sometimes ______. Only the lure of a ____ free America and escape from the domination of landlords was the sufficient incentive for such an undertaking.
In ____ with his brother Michael who survives him, "Uncle Pat came to look at the country further west by going down the Mississippi to St. Louis and up the Missouri by steamboat to Council Bluffs. From Council Bluffs they walked to Sioux City. Not finding work, Mr. Collins with the hardy spirit of the pioneer started for home on foot leaving his brother behind. With only a faithful dog for a companion he walked all the way to Waterloo. There he took a stage for Jesup and from Jesup the train to a point near his home.
However, after crossing the fertile prairies of Iowa, although then at almost unpeopled wilderness, he was not content to remain in the old home, and in 1863, hitching two team of oxen and a team of cows to a covered wagon he took his wife and four small children and started west. Their route brought them to fort Dodge and then southwest down the Maple Valley to where Danbury now stands. From here they went northwest a few miles to what afterward became known as the Cork Hill neighborhood where on the first day of June of that year on a pleasant Sunday evening they settled on the homestead that was their home for over twenty years or until they moved to Danbury.
In 1885 Mr and Mrs. Collins moved to Danbury and started a hotel on December 5 of that year, which they ran until March 1903. when they retired from active life.
To Mr. and Mrs. Collins were born five children all of whom are now living They are as follows: John W., Mrs. Thos. McGuire, Henry, Margaret and Mrs. M. O'Gorman, all of Danbury, except Mrs. O'Gorman whose home is at Onawa. Mr Collins also leaves two brothers, Michael and Cornelius, both of Danbury. and two sisters, Mrs. Michael Hogan and Mrs. Thos. Hogan of Corning, Iowa. Patrick Collins was a good citizen, serving with integrity and faithfulness in every place he was called to either in public or private and few men in the community were better known or more highly esteemed.
The funeral services were held Wednesday from Saint Patrick's church of which the deceased had from its organization been one of the faithful and earnest members, and was attended by a large number of people who came to pay their last sad tribute to the memory of one whom they had known and respected in life, and whose death marks the passing of that germination which had so much to do with the subduing of the prairie wilderness.
COURTESY OF LYNNM FAG CONTRIBUTOR.
On, February 17, 1857, he married Anna McKenna, a native of Fermanagh Parish, county Fermanagh, Ireland. Their children: John, Mary, Patrick Henry, Margaret Ellen and Susan Honore.
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Mapleton Press, March 31, 1910 - From Danbury Review
At an early hour Monday morning March 28, 1910 at his home in Danbury occurred the death of Patrick Collins, one of the pioneer residents of Woodbury County and Western Iowa. Mr. Collins had been sick for some weeks and his death was not unexpected.
Patrick Collins who was known far and wide by both old and young as "Uncle Pat" was born in 1831, in County Cork Ireland and came to this country with his parents in ____ and settled in New York near the town of Malone. The trip across the ocean then was not so _______ as it is now as the ____ weeks and sometimes ______. Only the lure of a ____ free America and escape from the domination of landlords was the sufficient incentive for such an undertaking.
In ____ with his brother Michael who survives him, "Uncle Pat came to look at the country further west by going down the Mississippi to St. Louis and up the Missouri by steamboat to Council Bluffs. From Council Bluffs they walked to Sioux City. Not finding work, Mr. Collins with the hardy spirit of the pioneer started for home on foot leaving his brother behind. With only a faithful dog for a companion he walked all the way to Waterloo. There he took a stage for Jesup and from Jesup the train to a point near his home.
However, after crossing the fertile prairies of Iowa, although then at almost unpeopled wilderness, he was not content to remain in the old home, and in 1863, hitching two team of oxen and a team of cows to a covered wagon he took his wife and four small children and started west. Their route brought them to fort Dodge and then southwest down the Maple Valley to where Danbury now stands. From here they went northwest a few miles to what afterward became known as the Cork Hill neighborhood where on the first day of June of that year on a pleasant Sunday evening they settled on the homestead that was their home for over twenty years or until they moved to Danbury.
In 1885 Mr and Mrs. Collins moved to Danbury and started a hotel on December 5 of that year, which they ran until March 1903. when they retired from active life.
To Mr. and Mrs. Collins were born five children all of whom are now living They are as follows: John W., Mrs. Thos. McGuire, Henry, Margaret and Mrs. M. O'Gorman, all of Danbury, except Mrs. O'Gorman whose home is at Onawa. Mr Collins also leaves two brothers, Michael and Cornelius, both of Danbury. and two sisters, Mrs. Michael Hogan and Mrs. Thos. Hogan of Corning, Iowa. Patrick Collins was a good citizen, serving with integrity and faithfulness in every place he was called to either in public or private and few men in the community were better known or more highly esteemed.
The funeral services were held Wednesday from Saint Patrick's church of which the deceased had from its organization been one of the faithful and earnest members, and was attended by a large number of people who came to pay their last sad tribute to the memory of one whom they had known and respected in life, and whose death marks the passing of that germination which had so much to do with the subduing of the prairie wilderness.
COURTESY OF LYNNM FAG CONTRIBUTOR.
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Mapleton Press, March 31, 1910 - From Danbury Review
At an early hour Monday morning March 28, 1910 at his home in Danbury occurred the death of Patrick Collins, one of the pioneer residents of Woodbury County and Western Iowa. Mr. Collins had been sick for some weeks and his death was not unexpected.
Patrick Collins who was known far and wide by both old and young as "Uncle Pat" was born in 1831, in County Cork Ireland and came to this country with his parents in ____ and settled in New York near the town of Malone. The trip across the ocean then was not so _______ as it is now as the ____ weeks and sometimes ______. Only the lure of a ____ free America and escape from the domination of landlords was the sufficient incentive for such an undertaking.
In ____ with his brother Michael who survives him, "Uncle Pat came to look at the country further west by going down the Mississippi to St. Louis and up the Missouri by steamboat to Council Bluffs. From Council Bluffs they walked to Sioux City. Not finding work, Mr. Collins with the hardy spirit of the pioneer started for home on foot leaving his brother behind. With only a faithful dog for a companion he walked all the way to Waterloo. There he took a stage for Jesup and from Jesup the train to a point near his home.
However, after crossing the fertile prairies of Iowa, although then at almost unpeopled wilderness, he was not content to remain in the old home, and in 1863, hitching two team of oxen and a team of cows to a covered wagon he took his wife and four small children and started west. Their route brought them to fort Dodge and then southwest down the Maple Valley to where Danbury now stands. From here they went northwest a few miles to what afterward became known as the Cork Hill neighborhood where on the first day of June of that year on a pleasant Sunday evening they settled on the homestead that was their home for over twenty years or until they moved to Danbury.
In 1885 Mr and Mrs. Collins moved to Danbury and started a hotel on December 5 of that year, which they ran until March 1903. when they retired from active life.
To Mr. and Mrs. Collins were born five children all of whom are now living They are as follows: John W., Mrs. Thos. McGuire, Henry, Margaret and Mrs. M. O'Gorman, all of Danbury, except Mrs. O'Gorman whose home is at Onawa. Mr Collins also leaves two brothers, Michael and Cornelius, both of Danbury. and two sisters, Mrs. Michael Hogan and Mrs. Thos. Hogan of Corning, Iowa. Patrick Collins was a good citizen, serving with integrity and faithfulness in every place he was called to either in public or private and few men in the community were better known or more highly esteemed.
The funeral services were held Wednesday from Saint Patrick's church of which the deceased had from its organization been one of the faithful and earnest members, and was attended by a large number of people who came to pay their last sad tribute to the memory of one whom they had known and respected in life, and whose death marks the passing of that germination which had so much to do with the subduing of the prairie wilderness.
COURTESY OF LYNNM FAG CONTRIBUTOR.
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Dennis Collins
1833–1869
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Ellen Collins Miller
1835–1912
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Thomas Michael Collins
1837–1923
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Timothy Collins
1839–1861
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John Collins
1841–1881
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Mary Collins Hogan
1842–1916
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Bridget Collins Daly
1844–1903
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Catherine Collins Hogan
1846–1915
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Margaret A. Collins Harrigan
1848–1885
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Cornelius "Con" Collins
1850–1930
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