Frances Coulter

COULTER

Posted By: Beverly Gerdts (email)
Date: 5/25/2021 at 06:39:42

Columbus Gazette, Columbus Junction, Iowa
Thursday, November 17, 1898
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After a hard struggle for her life for two weeks, poor little Frances, the two and one-half year old baby girl of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Coulter passed away to enter her heavenly home, last Saturday afternoon, just a few minutes after 12 o'clock. She was taken first with a sore throat and this developed into pneumonia, which finally took her away from her earthly home and her sorrowing parents. Little Frances we have often noticed in her play and she was always sweet and charming. It seems sad that she should be taken just at the time when she had become a necessity to the happiness of her parents and friends, but such partings have always been a source of mourning since the world began. This case is unusually sad, as Mr. and Mrs. Coulter lost a little baby girl a year and a half old in the same hotel, three years ago last July. These were the only children they have been blessed with. The remains were laid in the Cedar Bethel cemetery, by the side of her little sister, on Sunday afternoon. A short service was held at the hotel before the burial.