San Diego County CA Archives Obituaries.....Couts, Ysidora Bandini De  May 24, 1897
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San Diego Union, May 25, 1897
                     DEATH OF YSIDORA B. DE COUTS
		She Had Lived in this County All Her Life

	Mrs. Ysidora Bandini de Couts, one of the best known residents of San 
Diego county, died yesterday morning at the home of her sister, Mrs. A.B. de 
Baker, in Los Angeles, after a lingering illness, the cause of death being 
diabetes. The remains will be brought to this city on the noon train today, 
accompanied by reletives and friends and the funeral services will take place 
tomorrow morning at 10 o;clock at St. Joseph's Catholic church, where a solemn 
requiem mass will take place. Rev. Father Ubach officiating.
	Mrs. Couts was born at Old San Diego in 1829, and was the third 
daughter of Don Juan Bandini who was one of the most prominant men of 
California. He sympathized with the Americans during the troubious times of the 
Mexican war. Mrs. Couts, then Miss Bandini, with her two sisters, made the 
first American flag ever raised at Old San Diego, using for that purpose their 
own silk shawls. The flag is now among the valued relics in Pioneers hall San 
Francisco. Soon after the admission of California into the union Miss Bandini 
was married to Col. Cave J. Couts, formerly of Tennessee, and a graduate of 
West Point military academy, who served in the Mexican war, and in 1856 left 
Old San Diego to take up her permanent on Col. Couts large estate a few miles 
from the present town of Oceanside. Col. Couts was educated by his uncle, Cave 
Johnson, who was secretery of the treasury under Polk.
	In 1874 Mrs. Couts was left a widow with the care of eight children and 
the large estate. Her wonderful tact stood her in good stead, hoever, all her 
children being carefully raised and the property intrests looked after in a 
manner that reflected great credit upon her. In 1887 she disposed of the San 
Marcos ranch to a colonization company, retaining the old home at Guajome and 
Buena Vista ranches. Eight of her ten children are living, and will be present 
at the funeral services tomorrow. They are Mrs. Chalmers Scott, William B. 
Couts, Cave J. Couts, Mrs. Ysidora Gray,Mrs. Parker Dear, Robert Lee Couts,John 
F. Couts, and Mrs. J.B. Winston.
	The death of Mrs. Couts will be universally regretted by a wide circle 
of friends. She was a lady of unusual intelligence and noble qualities. The 
deceased will be buried beside the remains of her husband at the Catholic 
cemetery in this city.


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