Caroline Elizabeth (Smith) Coulter (1857 - 1926)

Born 18 Apr 1857 in Steamboat Rock, Hardin, Iowa, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Oscar Velroy Coulter — married 31 Oct 1877 in Center Point, Atchison Co, Missouri

Descendants

Died 6 Jun 1926 at age 69 in Rifle, Garfield, Colorado, United States

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Biography

An obituary was published in 1926 when Carrie died. Since it is free from copyright restrictions, the full text is below:

Carolyn Elizabeth Smith Coulter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ephriam J. Smith, was born at Steamboat Rock, Hardin county, Iowa, on April 18th, 1857 and passed to the Great Beyond on June 6, at her home north of Rifle, ...goitre causing her death. She had reached the age of 69 year, one month and 18 days.

At the age of 10 years she moved from Iowa to Nebraska and two years later to Missouri.

She was united in marriage to Oscar V. Coulter on October 30, 1877, at Center Point, Mo., To this union ten children were born. One of the children died in infancy, one at the age of 10 months, and on June 25, 1920, Harold B., age 21, passed away. Seven children survive her. They are Otto V., Guy R., Mrs. Ofa [Orra] F. Kennedy, Ray E., Rose B., Claude F., and Ted M., all of Rifle. Besides her husband and children she is survived by four grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth [Elida] A. Zook of Buffalo, N.Y., and Mrs. Mary J. Wood of Long Beach, California.

Mrs. Coulter received her education in the public schools, except her training for teaching, which was taken in a school for teachers. She taught school for two years at Center Point, Mo., one year in Iowa and about two years in Paxton, Nebraska. During her teaching period at Paxton her son, Otto, was one of her pupils.

Mr. and Mrs. Coulter moved to Fort Collins, Colo., in 1893 and in 1896 to Steamboat Springs, and to Rifle in 1897. In 1900 they bought the ranch which has been their home since 1901.

Mrs. Coulter, when a girl of 14, became a member of the Christian church at Center Point, Mo. Some time before she won a bible as a prize for having committed to memory more Bible verses than any other in the Sunday school. She took the great principles of the Book of Books with her through her long, rich life. She was a great lover of her home--she was industrious and ever put forth an untiring effort for the benefit of her loved ones. She always tried to make the world happier and better. She was a lover of flowers and birds, in fact of all nature. She thoroughly loved and appreciated beautiful Colorado. She often expressed her love for the mountains, even the roughest of them.

• Fact: Census (1860) Clay Township, Hardin, Iowa, United States
• Fact: Census (1870) Tarkio, Atchison, Missouri, United States
• Fact: Census (1880) Tarkio, Atchison, Missouri, United States
• Fact: Census (1900) Precincts 1, 11-12, 14 Austin , Garfield, Colorado, United States
• Fact: Census (1910) West Rifle, Garfield, Colorado, United States
• Fact: Census (1920) West Rifle, Garfield, Colorado, United States

Sources

• 1860 Census: "United States Census, 1860," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M82K-NMM : accessed 29 July 2015), C E Smith in household of E G Smith, Clay Township, Hardin, Iowa, United States; from "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing p. 52, household ID 358, NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 803,323.

• 1870 Census: "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4X3-GMC : accessed 29 July 2015), Carrie Smith in household of E J Smith, Missouri, United States; citing p. , family 98, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,255.

• 1880 Census: "United States Census, 1880," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M66C-X64 : accessed 20 January 2015), Carrie Coulter in household of Vilroy Coulter, Tarkio, Atchison, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district 11, sheet 448D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0672; FHL microfilm 1,254,672.

• 1900 Census: "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQMH-K2G : accessed 29 July 2015), Carrie E Coulter in household of Oscar V Coulter, Precincts 1, 11-12, 14 Carbondale, Battlement, Divide Creek, Austin Carbondale town, Garfield, Colorado, United States; citing sheet 14A, family 241, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,123.

• 1910 Census: "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MK47-NZH : accessed 29 July 2015), Carrie E Coulter in household of Oscar V Coulter, West Rifle, Garfield, Colorado, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 48, sheet 9B, family 191, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,374,133.

• 1920 Census: "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX2T-6B1 : accessed 29 July 2015), Larrie E Coulter in household of Oscar V Coulter, West Rifle, Garfield, Colorado, United States; citing sheet 16B, family 364, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,164.

• Burial: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK1D-FJT4 : 11 July 2016), Caroline Elizabeth Smith Coulter, 1926; Burial, Rifle, Garfield, Colorado, United States of America, Rose Hill Cemetery; citing record ID 142872644, Find A Grave: Memorial #142872644.

• Death: Obituary, presumably from The Rifle Telegram (issue is no longer available in print or microfilm). The publication, date and page numbers were not recorded on the obituary.