Charlevoix County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Cole, Ilah S. 
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Cemetery:           Brookside Cemetery
Name:               Ilah S. Cole

Date Of Photograph: July 9, 2009
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Ilah S. Cole
1901-1919

NOTE:  The dats on the tombstone are incorrect.  Ilah was born 1900 and died 1918.

Ilah's Obituary
Charlevoix Courier June 12, 1918

GUNWOUND PROVES FATAL

ILA COLE DIED THURSDAY AT PETOSKEY HOSPITAL

Was Conscious Until Death Claimed Her — Funeral Held Saturday From Methodist Church

Miss Ila Cole, the 17-year-old Beaver Island girl, who was badly wounded by a
set gun at the entrance of the Wiidwood Inn, Beaver Island, mention of which was
made In the Courier last week, died at the Petoskey hospital early Thursday
morning.

The young woman was conscious until death claimed her and her sufferings were
intense. Upon reaching the hospital it was found that her clothing had been
blown into the wound in her leg, being at the time the charge of shot struck her
but a short distance from the muzzle of the gun. On Wednesday her leg was
amputated in a final effort to save her life, which proved of no avail, her
death taking place the following morning.

The remains were brought to this city Friday and placcd in See's undertaking
rooms. Funeral services were held from the Methodist church Saturday at 2:00 p.
m., interment at Brookside cemetery.

Her mother, who was in Chicago at the bedside of a sick relative at the time of
the shooting, arrived in Petoskey in time to see her daughter alive. A sister,
Mattie, living at Chicago, also arrived before her death. Two other sisters and
other near relatives were at the funeral services.

Thomas Boyle, the man who set the gun which caused the girls death, is in the
county jail, and the charge lodged against him will undoubtedly be changed to
murder. Relatives state that the gun was set for Garret Cole, father of the dead
girl, and that Boyle says that he also has another set gun stationed in some
unknown place on the island to "get" another party.

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