Ada M. Coleman died at her home in this city on Tuesday afternoon, April 12, 1921 at 4:30 after an acute illness of several weeks. Miss Coleman was born in Macoupin County, Illinois on September 1, 1868 and was at the time of her death 52 years, 7 months and 11 days of age. She moved to Iowa when a baby with her parents and after the loss of her mother a couple years later, came with an aunt Mrs. J. E. Skelton, when 13 years old, to Stromsburg. Five years later she accompanied this aunt to California where she spent 2 years and then moved to Colorado, there joining her father. After a couple of years the family of three moved back to Stromsburg in 1891 and have made their home here since that time.
In 1892 the Headlight was purchased and Miss Ada Coleman became the editor. After five years spent in the office her health failed and she retired from business and since that time it has been her pride to make a home for her father in his declining years and for her sister.
She had been a semi-invalid for the past 25 years, but she had such an indominable will that she never gave up and carried the burden of the home long after most anyone else would have given up the task as an impossibility, and for the past few years she made a desperate fight to out live and care for her father, who is nearly 80 years of age. Despite her failing health she had a keen intellect and though her sight had become seriously impaired, was a great reader of good literature, and especially delighted in history and travels. She had a tenacious memory and seldom forgot anything she had heard, consequently was a great source of information for her friends, who called on her on many occasions, and it was a delight to her to be able to furnish them with information on almost any subject asked.
It is with great sorrow that we record the death of the only sister we have ever had. The disease from which she suffered was a great handicap and we had watched through the long tedious years, ever realizing that every ambition and desire of her life must be given up. She was ambitious to do her work well and especially wished to travel and visit scenes she so much enjoyed in books, had her health so permitted but it was not so willed and her disappointments and handicaps of life came to a peaceful and as she passed into the beyond where a just and loving God takes unto Himself the heavy ladened.
She leaves to mourn her death her aged father J. H. Coleman, her sister Chattie Coleman, and a host of friends. She was a member of the Daughters of American Revolution and Eastern Star of this city. The funeral will be held tomorrow with burial in the Stromsburg Cemetery.
In 1892 the Headlight was purchased and Miss Ada Coleman became the editor. After five years spent in the office her health failed and she retired from business and since that time it has been her pride to make a home for her father in his declining years and for her sister.
She had been a semi-invalid for the past 25 years, but she had such an indominable will that she never gave up and carried the burden of the home long after most anyone else would have given up the task as an impossibility, and for the past few years she made a desperate fight to out live and care for her father, who is nearly 80 years of age. Despite her failing health she had a keen intellect and though her sight had become seriously impaired, was a great reader of good literature, and especially delighted in history and travels. She had a tenacious memory and seldom forgot anything she had heard, consequently was a great source of information for her friends, who called on her on many occasions, and it was a delight to her to be able to furnish them with information on almost any subject asked.
It is with great sorrow that we record the death of the only sister we have ever had. The disease from which she suffered was a great handicap and we had watched through the long tedious years, ever realizing that every ambition and desire of her life must be given up. She was ambitious to do her work well and especially wished to travel and visit scenes she so much enjoyed in books, had her health so permitted but it was not so willed and her disappointments and handicaps of life came to a peaceful and as she passed into the beyond where a just and loving God takes unto Himself the heavy ladened.
She leaves to mourn her death her aged father J. H. Coleman, her sister Chattie Coleman, and a host of friends. She was a member of the Daughters of American Revolution and Eastern Star of this city. The funeral will be held tomorrow with burial in the Stromsburg Cemetery.
Ada M. Coleman died at her home in this city on Tuesday afternoon, April 12, 1921 at 4:30 after an acute illness of several weeks. Miss Coleman was born in Macoupin County, Illinois on September 1, 1868 and was at the time of her death 52 years, 7 months and 11 days of age. She moved to Iowa when a baby with her parents and after the loss of her mother a couple years later, came with an aunt Mrs. J. E. Skelton, when 13 years old, to Stromsburg. Five years later she accompanied this aunt to California where she spent 2 years and then moved to Colorado, there joining her father. After a couple of years the family of three moved back to Stromsburg in 1891 and have made their home here since that time.
In 1892 the Headlight was purchased and Miss Ada Coleman became the editor. After five years spent in the office her health failed and she retired from business and since that time it has been her pride to make a home for her father in his declining years and for her sister.
She had been a semi-invalid for the past 25 years, but she had such an indominable will that she never gave up and carried the burden of the home long after most anyone else would have given up the task as an impossibility, and for the past few years she made a desperate fight to out live and care for her father, who is nearly 80 years of age. Despite her failing health she had a keen intellect and though her sight had become seriously impaired, was a great reader of good literature, and especially delighted in history and travels. She had a tenacious memory and seldom forgot anything she had heard, consequently was a great source of information for her friends, who called on her on many occasions, and it was a delight to her to be able to furnish them with information on almost any subject asked.
It is with great sorrow that we record the death of the only sister we have ever had. The disease from which she suffered was a great handicap and we had watched through the long tedious years, ever realizing that every ambition and desire of her life must be given up. She was ambitious to do her work well and especially wished to travel and visit scenes she so much enjoyed in books, had her health so permitted but it was not so willed and her disappointments and handicaps of life came to a peaceful and as she passed into the beyond where a just and loving God takes unto Himself the heavy ladened.
She leaves to mourn her death her aged father J. H. Coleman, her sister Chattie Coleman, and a host of friends. She was a member of the Daughters of American Revolution and Eastern Star of this city. The funeral will be held tomorrow with burial in the Stromsburg Cemetery.
In 1892 the Headlight was purchased and Miss Ada Coleman became the editor. After five years spent in the office her health failed and she retired from business and since that time it has been her pride to make a home for her father in his declining years and for her sister.
She had been a semi-invalid for the past 25 years, but she had such an indominable will that she never gave up and carried the burden of the home long after most anyone else would have given up the task as an impossibility, and for the past few years she made a desperate fight to out live and care for her father, who is nearly 80 years of age. Despite her failing health she had a keen intellect and though her sight had become seriously impaired, was a great reader of good literature, and especially delighted in history and travels. She had a tenacious memory and seldom forgot anything she had heard, consequently was a great source of information for her friends, who called on her on many occasions, and it was a delight to her to be able to furnish them with information on almost any subject asked.
It is with great sorrow that we record the death of the only sister we have ever had. The disease from which she suffered was a great handicap and we had watched through the long tedious years, ever realizing that every ambition and desire of her life must be given up. She was ambitious to do her work well and especially wished to travel and visit scenes she so much enjoyed in books, had her health so permitted but it was not so willed and her disappointments and handicaps of life came to a peaceful and as she passed into the beyond where a just and loving God takes unto Himself the heavy ladened.
She leaves to mourn her death her aged father J. H. Coleman, her sister Chattie Coleman, and a host of friends. She was a member of the Daughters of American Revolution and Eastern Star of this city. The funeral will be held tomorrow with burial in the Stromsburg Cemetery.
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