Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: James COURTIER ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, June 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Died--July 8, 1887, at the home of his father-in-law, Mr. Jesse D. Aller, Mr. James Courtier aged 64 years of consumption. The diseased although a cripple for many long years (without feet) has been a very hard working industrious farmer accumlating quite a handsome little property and raised four good industrious sons, one of which is married and works his grandfather Aller's farm the other three with their mother, we suppose remain upon their own homestead. The funeral was held at Mr. Aller's house about two miles east of this place on Sunday last, REv. F. L. Warton officiating clergyman and Mr. H. Potter undertaker, the remains being interred in our Evansville cemetery and thus passeth away one of our most industrious and highly respected farmers to his rest which should be the best. July 16, 1887, The Tribune, p. 1, col. 3, Evansville, Wisconsin