OBIT:  COLLINS, Sarah; Ebensburg, Cambria Cnty., PA; 1911

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, 3 Feb 1911
Volume 45, Number 5


Miss Sarah Collins

Miss Sarah Collins, widely known in this county, died Wednesday at her 
home at Bellefonte where she had resided for the last 20 years, aged 74 
years, 6 months and 19 days.  Death was due to general debility and a 
complication of diseases and came after an illness of several weeks.  The 
end had been expected by her friends for the last few days.  Funeral 
services will be held at Bellefonte Friday morning after which the remains 
were brought to Ebensburg for interment.

The deceased was the last of the Collins family which was at one time 
famous in this vicinity.  She was a daughter of Peter and Sarah Meloy 
Collins and was born at Munster, this county.  When the railroad was 
constructed to Ebensburg the family moved to this place and her father and 
two brothers, Philip and Thomas, became famous as railroad contractors.  
The two sons were in charge of the famous Brazilian railroad project which 
met disaster a third of a century ago. In the Collins family, which, while 
in Ebensburg, resided at the place where Hotel Bender now stands, there 
were seven sons and five daughters as follows:  Philip; James; Thomas; 
Cornelius; John, who died in infancy; Peter; John; Elizabeth; Catherine; 
Mary, wife of James Henry; Ellen, wife of Edward Shoemaker; and Sara, the 
last to pass away.