REUBEN COULTER - A telephone message early Saturday morning to Mrs. Lee Hulse of Barry, revealed the news of the death of her brother, Ruben Coulter, which occurred at ten minutes after two Saturday morning in Hamburg, Calhoun county, and due to the high water for several weeks Mrs. Hulse could not make the hazardous trip to Hamburg to see her brother, who had been ill for about seven years. A Barry undertaker was called and he made the drip down into Calhoun county as far as Baytown in his ambulance and from there on to Hamburn, a distance of seven miles, was made by motor boat. The boat was secured to the front porch at the Coulter residence and the body of Mr. Coulter was taken into the boat and down the river to Baytown where the ambulance was waiting, thence on to Barry. Mr. Coulter's wife had been operating the telephone exchange in Hamburg for several months, and during the recent flood the Illinois river has been from eighteen to twenty inches deep in the first floor of their dwelling, which also housed the telephone office and switchboard. It had been necessary to raise the switchboard up from the floor quite a distance to keep it out of the water. Mr. Coulter was born in Derry township thirty-five years ago and was a son of William and Nettie Coulter. He grew to manhood in the vicinity of his birth, his mother having died when he and his sister, Olive, were quite young. His father has also been dead for many years. He was married to Ora Sidwell of El Dara and she with two children survive. The children are: Charles and Corrine. He also leaves a half-brother, Clarles Coulter of Pittsfield, and a number of half-sisters. The funeral services were held from the Barry Methodist church...Monday afternoon in charge of Rev. T. H. Ballarby, former El Dara pastor, assisted by Rev. C. W. Hamand of the Barry church. Burial was made in Park Lawn cemetery.
Contributed by Virginia Gorton Bonne [Barry Adage, Wed, 1 May 1929, p1]

Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947 about Reuben William Coulter
Name: Reuben William Coulter
Birth Date: 17 Feb 1894
Birth Place: Eldra, Illinois
Death Date: 27 Apr 1929
Death Place: Hamburg, Calhoun, Illinois
Burial Date: 29 Apr 1929
Burial Place: Barry, Pike, Illinois
Death Age: 35
Occupation: Day Labor
Race: White
Marital Status: M
Gender: Male
Father Name: William C Coulter
Father Birth Place: Eldra, Illinois
Mother Name: Hannah Manetta Nettie Hornback
Mother Birth Place: Eldra, Illinois
Spouse Name: Ora May Sidwell
MARRIAGE: 15 Feb 1916 - Pike, Illinois, USA
Comments: Residence: 8m
FHL Film Number: 1643031