Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Carrie J. COLEMAN ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ OBITUARY AND RESOLUTIONS ON THE DEATH OF MISS CARRIE J. COLEMAN Scarcely a sadder casualty could have been announced in our midst than that which floated upon the still air of Friday morning, March 19, 1886, announcing the death of Miss Carrie J. Coleman, one of the teachers of the Seminary, which took place at the parental home at one o'clock on the morning of one of the finest days of March. Miss Coleman was born in the town of Perry, Wyoming County, N. Y. April 27th, 1857, and would have been 29 years old on the 27th day of April next. She came to Evansville in the fall of 1881 and had, up to her death, taught three years and one term. One year she attended school at Providence, R. I., and the rest of her time she had lived in her brother's family, assuming many of the cares and responsibilities of the school. It is unnecessary to say that she had a wide circle of friends, besides those immediately connected with the school for, "None knew her but to love, and none loved her but to praise." She was sick about two weeks -- first attacked with pluro-pneumonia, and was nursed with all the skill and care that could be brought to her aid and many of her symptoms seemed to give hopes of relief, and up to 7 o'clock Thursday night, her brother, Prof. J. E. Coleman, sat by her side and talked with her, although conscious, she was almost gasping in death. Soon after she began to sink away, became unconscious, and died, the devoted christian woman she had lived. Her father arrived from Seattle, W. T., just one and a half hours after her death, while her spirit was hovering over her lovely form to hear the message hence. "Requiescat in pace." Funeral services were held in the M. E. church Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, sermon by Rev. W. G. Hammer. March 26, 1886, p. 2, Evansville Review, Evansville, Wisconsin