Cornelius cash-claimed 120 acres in 18, 1N 42W in 1890 - about three miles south of Laird.
ONE POSSIBLE
In 1887 Denver, Cornelius Collins is a painter, living at 1437 12th.
In 1897 Denver, Cornelius Collins is a painter for H. M. McManus.
ANOTHER
In 1880 Morris County, Kansas, Cornelius is a blacksmith, 35, born in Missouri, with Catharine 34, Thomas 9, Margaret 8, Dora 1. Brother Jesse D. 31 is a carpenter, and brother Chas W. 27 is farming.
Catherine Collins dying December 26, 1882 buried in Atchison Kansas # 54224583 might be his wife.
In 1885 Morris County, C.I. is 39, T.L 15, Maga 1 3, Dora 6, and Charles 3.
Margaret J. Collins married Llewlyn Hampton, and they're in Wyandotte County Kansas in 1895, Lewellyn 28, Maggie 23, and Dora Collins 16 with them. Dora and Lewwellyn are together in another census., and then married.
and then he married Dora Collins.
Thomas L. Collins is farming in Wise County Texas in 1900, born August 1870 in Kansas, with Effie June 1871 Illinois. Ethel 7 Kansas, Lewis 4 Texas, and Charles 2 Kansas
Charles Collins August 1881 in Kansas, is a farm aborer for the Ferguson household next door.
ANOTHER
May 22, 1923 " The Denver newsptpers have the announcement of the death
of Mrs. Guy Fitzsimmons, of 195 South Downing street. She was the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Collins and sister of Mrs. F. M. March
of Fort Collins, Cornelius Collins of Hebron, Nebr.
The funeral services were held Monday aftevnoon with burial at Fairmount cemetery . . "
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