Lake County IL Archives Obituaries.....Courson, Caroline A. Metts October 25, 1905 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Kathy Stinson findingthepast@comcast.net December 4, 2013, 11:34 pm Waukegan Gazette October 26, 1905 Mrs. Courson First of Family To Pass To Great Beyond Mother of Ten Living Children and Last of Old Metz Family Died Yesterday at Daughter's Mrs. Courson, the last of the family of Metz and the first to pass away in her own immediate family died yesterday afternoon near 2 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bessie Samuels, at 468 North Sheridan Road. Mrs. Courson was 61 years old, and died of a lingering illness that she has suffered all summer. She was the mother of ten children, all of whom, with her husband are survivors. Mrs. Bessie Samuels, Mrs. Emma Jackaway, Mrs. Eliza Schwarm, Mrs. Mary Quick and Mrs. Charles Stripe, Jeff Courson, the engineer at the water works , Adam, Denver, the second engineer at the water works, Austin and George. The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock from the house; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/lake/obits/c/courson397ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ilfiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb