Pioneer Woman Resident Dies of Pneumonia Attack - The funeral of Mrs. Rachel Coombs, for forty-two years a resident of Seattle, who died Monday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. W. Watson, 402 Eleventh avenue north, will be held this afternoon, at 1 o'clock, from the undertaking parlors of Bonney-Watson. Mrs. Coombs came to Seattle in 1858 in a sailing vessel, via the Isthmus of Panama. She was born in St. George, N.B. (sic), seventy-nine years ago. Her husband, Samuel Coombs, died about three years ago. When they arrived on Puget sound, in 1859, they first located at Port Madison, where they remained a few years. Later they removed to Seattle. She is survived by two sons–Mortimer Coombs, secretary of the Marine Engineers' Association, and Ray Coombs, a painter, both of whom reside in Seattle. (The Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Wednesday, February 22, 1911).
Pioneer Woman Resident Dies of Pneumonia Attack - The funeral of Mrs. Rachel Coombs, for forty-two years a resident of Seattle, who died Monday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. W. Watson, 402 Eleventh avenue north, will be held this afternoon, at 1 o'clock, from the undertaking parlors of Bonney-Watson. Mrs. Coombs came to Seattle in 1858 in a sailing vessel, via the Isthmus of Panama. She was born in St. George, N.B. (sic), seventy-nine years ago. Her husband, Samuel Coombs, died about three years ago. When they arrived on Puget sound, in 1859, they first located at Port Madison, where they remained a few years. Later they removed to Seattle. She is survived by two sons–Mortimer Coombs, secretary of the Marine Engineers' Association, and Ray Coombs, a painter, both of whom reside in Seattle. (The Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Wednesday, February 22, 1911).
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