COLLINS FUNERAL IS AT THE M.E. CHURCH SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Was Last Living Charter Member of Local Church
Mrs. Louisa E. "Mother" Collins died at her home in Kearney Friday morning after an illness of about two weeks, the direct result of a fall sustained on the back steps of her residence. Mrs. Collins was in her ninety-second year, having been born September 25, 1932 (in Ohio). She came with her family to Buffalo County in May, 1871 from (Red Oak) Iowa where her husband, Rev. Asbury Collins, had been a Methodist minister. He had suffered a serious breakdown of his health, but having recovered in large measure, he joined D. N. Smith, who had been given the job by the Burlington railroad of locating stations on their lines. The party reached Grand Island by train on the Union Pacific, then drove to Fort Kearney. Moses Sydenham, a well known character of that as well as of a later time, piloted them from the fort to the north side of the river, the present location of the city of Kearney. The nearest settlement was at Buda, then called Kearney station. Mr. Smith decided that at this place, now called Kearney, the Union Pacific and the Burlington were to "join hands".
The home of the Collins family became the social, religious and recreational center of Kearney. For many years Rev. Asbury Collins did the work of a pioneer minister in Kearney and other places in central and western Nebraska (Loup City, Ord, North Loup, Chadron, Nonpareil and Ogallala).
Mrs. Collins survived all of her family. In 1875 the oldest son, Milton M. Collins, twenty-four years of age, was shot to death by a drunken cowboy (Jordan P. Smith) who was part of a cattle herding outfit returning South Dakota where they had disposed of their herd to the Sioux Indians. The killing took place on what is now Kearney's main street and was according to eye witnesses unprovoked. In 1882 another son, David F. Collins, a law graduate from Iowa University met death suddenly from a gun accident.
Mrs. Collins in 1875 was elected first vice president of the Nebraska W.C.T.U. That same year she organized the fourth W.C.T.U. in the state at Kearney. When the West Nebraska conference was organized, Woman's Home Missionary Society was also organized and Mrs. Collins was made corresponding secretary, and later became president and organizer. It is said that she organized fifty local societies in in the towns of western and northwe4stern Nebraska. The Methodist church at Kearney, developing from the little group of Methodist people led by Rev. Asbury Collins and Mrs. Collins, has become a church of a thousand members. One year ago in September the church and the community celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the church and the ninetieth birthday of Mrs. Collins.
"Mother" Collins as everyone called her, was a woman of large mentality with great force of character. She made a trip to Omaha this September to attend the annual conference of the Methodist church and to see "her boys" as she called many of the preachers who had in the earlier days looked to her and her husband for encouragement and help in their initial years in the ministry.
The funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at half past three o'clock from the Methodist church of which she was the sole surviving charter member. The services will be in charge of the minister of the church, Dr. Oliver Kave, assisted by the ministers of the city.
Kearney Daily Hub, December 16, 1922, page
Another article about Mrs. Collins can be found in the June 7, 1948, Kearney Hub on page 36
Was Last Living Charter Member of Local Church
Mrs. Louisa E. "Mother" Collins died at her home in Kearney Friday morning after an illness of about two weeks, the direct result of a fall sustained on the back steps of her residence. Mrs. Collins was in her ninety-second year, having been born September 25, 1932 (in Ohio). She came with her family to Buffalo County in May, 1871 from (Red Oak) Iowa where her husband, Rev. Asbury Collins, had been a Methodist minister. He had suffered a serious breakdown of his health, but having recovered in large measure, he joined D. N. Smith, who had been given the job by the Burlington railroad of locating stations on their lines. The party reached Grand Island by train on the Union Pacific, then drove to Fort Kearney. Moses Sydenham, a well known character of that as well as of a later time, piloted them from the fort to the north side of the river, the present location of the city of Kearney. The nearest settlement was at Buda, then called Kearney station. Mr. Smith decided that at this place, now called Kearney, the Union Pacific and the Burlington were to "join hands".
The home of the Collins family became the social, religious and recreational center of Kearney. For many years Rev. Asbury Collins did the work of a pioneer minister in Kearney and other places in central and western Nebraska (Loup City, Ord, North Loup, Chadron, Nonpareil and Ogallala).
Mrs. Collins survived all of her family. In 1875 the oldest son, Milton M. Collins, twenty-four years of age, was shot to death by a drunken cowboy (Jordan P. Smith) who was part of a cattle herding outfit returning South Dakota where they had disposed of their herd to the Sioux Indians. The killing took place on what is now Kearney's main street and was according to eye witnesses unprovoked. In 1882 another son, David F. Collins, a law graduate from Iowa University met death suddenly from a gun accident.
Mrs. Collins in 1875 was elected first vice president of the Nebraska W.C.T.U. That same year she organized the fourth W.C.T.U. in the state at Kearney. When the West Nebraska conference was organized, Woman's Home Missionary Society was also organized and Mrs. Collins was made corresponding secretary, and later became president and organizer. It is said that she organized fifty local societies in in the towns of western and northwe4stern Nebraska. The Methodist church at Kearney, developing from the little group of Methodist people led by Rev. Asbury Collins and Mrs. Collins, has become a church of a thousand members. One year ago in September the church and the community celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the church and the ninetieth birthday of Mrs. Collins.
"Mother" Collins as everyone called her, was a woman of large mentality with great force of character. She made a trip to Omaha this September to attend the annual conference of the Methodist church and to see "her boys" as she called many of the preachers who had in the earlier days looked to her and her husband for encouragement and help in their initial years in the ministry.
The funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at half past three o'clock from the Methodist church of which she was the sole surviving charter member. The services will be in charge of the minister of the church, Dr. Oliver Kave, assisted by the ministers of the city.
Kearney Daily Hub, December 16, 1922, page
Another article about Mrs. Collins can be found in the June 7, 1948, Kearney Hub on page 36
COLLINS FUNERAL IS AT THE M.E. CHURCH SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Was Last Living Charter Member of Local Church
Mrs. Louisa E. "Mother" Collins died at her home in Kearney Friday morning after an illness of about two weeks, the direct result of a fall sustained on the back steps of her residence. Mrs. Collins was in her ninety-second year, having been born September 25, 1932 (in Ohio). She came with her family to Buffalo County in May, 1871 from (Red Oak) Iowa where her husband, Rev. Asbury Collins, had been a Methodist minister. He had suffered a serious breakdown of his health, but having recovered in large measure, he joined D. N. Smith, who had been given the job by the Burlington railroad of locating stations on their lines. The party reached Grand Island by train on the Union Pacific, then drove to Fort Kearney. Moses Sydenham, a well known character of that as well as of a later time, piloted them from the fort to the north side of the river, the present location of the city of Kearney. The nearest settlement was at Buda, then called Kearney station. Mr. Smith decided that at this place, now called Kearney, the Union Pacific and the Burlington were to "join hands".
The home of the Collins family became the social, religious and recreational center of Kearney. For many years Rev. Asbury Collins did the work of a pioneer minister in Kearney and other places in central and western Nebraska (Loup City, Ord, North Loup, Chadron, Nonpareil and Ogallala).
Mrs. Collins survived all of her family. In 1875 the oldest son, Milton M. Collins, twenty-four years of age, was shot to death by a drunken cowboy (Jordan P. Smith) who was part of a cattle herding outfit returning South Dakota where they had disposed of their herd to the Sioux Indians. The killing took place on what is now Kearney's main street and was according to eye witnesses unprovoked. In 1882 another son, David F. Collins, a law graduate from Iowa University met death suddenly from a gun accident.
Mrs. Collins in 1875 was elected first vice president of the Nebraska W.C.T.U. That same year she organized the fourth W.C.T.U. in the state at Kearney. When the West Nebraska conference was organized, Woman's Home Missionary Society was also organized and Mrs. Collins was made corresponding secretary, and later became president and organizer. It is said that she organized fifty local societies in in the towns of western and northwe4stern Nebraska. The Methodist church at Kearney, developing from the little group of Methodist people led by Rev. Asbury Collins and Mrs. Collins, has become a church of a thousand members. One year ago in September the church and the community celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the church and the ninetieth birthday of Mrs. Collins.
"Mother" Collins as everyone called her, was a woman of large mentality with great force of character. She made a trip to Omaha this September to attend the annual conference of the Methodist church and to see "her boys" as she called many of the preachers who had in the earlier days looked to her and her husband for encouragement and help in their initial years in the ministry.
The funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at half past three o'clock from the Methodist church of which she was the sole surviving charter member. The services will be in charge of the minister of the church, Dr. Oliver Kave, assisted by the ministers of the city.
Kearney Daily Hub, December 16, 1922, page
Another article about Mrs. Collins can be found in the June 7, 1948, Kearney Hub on page 36
Was Last Living Charter Member of Local Church
Mrs. Louisa E. "Mother" Collins died at her home in Kearney Friday morning after an illness of about two weeks, the direct result of a fall sustained on the back steps of her residence. Mrs. Collins was in her ninety-second year, having been born September 25, 1932 (in Ohio). She came with her family to Buffalo County in May, 1871 from (Red Oak) Iowa where her husband, Rev. Asbury Collins, had been a Methodist minister. He had suffered a serious breakdown of his health, but having recovered in large measure, he joined D. N. Smith, who had been given the job by the Burlington railroad of locating stations on their lines. The party reached Grand Island by train on the Union Pacific, then drove to Fort Kearney. Moses Sydenham, a well known character of that as well as of a later time, piloted them from the fort to the north side of the river, the present location of the city of Kearney. The nearest settlement was at Buda, then called Kearney station. Mr. Smith decided that at this place, now called Kearney, the Union Pacific and the Burlington were to "join hands".
The home of the Collins family became the social, religious and recreational center of Kearney. For many years Rev. Asbury Collins did the work of a pioneer minister in Kearney and other places in central and western Nebraska (Loup City, Ord, North Loup, Chadron, Nonpareil and Ogallala).
Mrs. Collins survived all of her family. In 1875 the oldest son, Milton M. Collins, twenty-four years of age, was shot to death by a drunken cowboy (Jordan P. Smith) who was part of a cattle herding outfit returning South Dakota where they had disposed of their herd to the Sioux Indians. The killing took place on what is now Kearney's main street and was according to eye witnesses unprovoked. In 1882 another son, David F. Collins, a law graduate from Iowa University met death suddenly from a gun accident.
Mrs. Collins in 1875 was elected first vice president of the Nebraska W.C.T.U. That same year she organized the fourth W.C.T.U. in the state at Kearney. When the West Nebraska conference was organized, Woman's Home Missionary Society was also organized and Mrs. Collins was made corresponding secretary, and later became president and organizer. It is said that she organized fifty local societies in in the towns of western and northwe4stern Nebraska. The Methodist church at Kearney, developing from the little group of Methodist people led by Rev. Asbury Collins and Mrs. Collins, has become a church of a thousand members. One year ago in September the church and the community celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the church and the ninetieth birthday of Mrs. Collins.
"Mother" Collins as everyone called her, was a woman of large mentality with great force of character. She made a trip to Omaha this September to attend the annual conference of the Methodist church and to see "her boys" as she called many of the preachers who had in the earlier days looked to her and her husband for encouragement and help in their initial years in the ministry.
The funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at half past three o'clock from the Methodist church of which she was the sole surviving charter member. The services will be in charge of the minister of the church, Dr. Oliver Kave, assisted by the ministers of the city.
Kearney Daily Hub, December 16, 1922, page
Another article about Mrs. Collins can be found in the June 7, 1948, Kearney Hub on page 36
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