Idaho County ID Archives Obituaries.....Collins, Solomon Cealsbury July 4, 1924
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Idaho County Free Press, Grangeville, ID, July 10, 1924


           SAMUEL C. COLLINS DIES AT AGE OF 86

  SOLOMON CEALSBURY COLLINS, 86, one of the oldest residents of Grangeville 
died last Friday morning at 5:30 in the home of his daughter, Mrs. Laura 
Whitney, at Wawawai, Wn.  Mr. Collins had gone to Wawawai three weeks prior to 
his death.  
  The body, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Whitney, arrived in Grangeville 
Saturday night and was taken to the Hancock parlors where funeral services 
were held Sunday afternoon at 3:00, W.N. Knox, officiating.  Burial was in 
Prairie View Cemetery.
  Mr. Collins was born in Ozark county, Missouri, February 18, 1838.  When 
about 21 years old, he left Missouri for Texas, where he spent five years, 
then going to Kansas where, on July 9, 1872, he was married to Miss Mary E. 
Goss.  To them were born seven children, five of whom survive.
  Leaving Kansas in 1884, Mr. Collins and family removed to Missouri, staying 
there ten years, and then going to Nebraska.  During these many years he 
followed farming and railroad work, during the ten years on the frontiers of 
Kansas and Texas participated in Indian wars as a scout.
  Mr. Collins and family came to Grangeville from Nebraska, arriving here July 
19, 1900.  This place has since been his home.  In February, following their 
location in this community, his son, Forest, a veteran of the Spanish-American 
War, died, and then days later, Mr. Collins wife passed away.  One son, 
Lonnie, died in December 1922.
  Mr. Collins is survived by five children; Mrs. Laura Whitney, Wawawai, Wn.; 
Eugene Collins, Ten Sleep, Wyo.; Orville Collins, Woodland, Cal.; Mrs. Lulu 
Williams, Seattle, Wn. and William Collins, Tacoma, Wn.  He is also survived 
by 11 grandchildren.


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