FRANCES (HOOVER) COLEHOUR , 83, formerly of Mt. Carroll, died May 4 in Tucson, Ariz., following a long illness. Cremains were buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Mt. Carroll. Mrs. Colehour was born on June 3, 1903 in Elgin, the daughter of Thornton Johnson Hoover and Elizabeth Agnes McCormick. On June 2, 1923 she was united in marriage to Clarence Richards Colehour in Freeport. Mrs. Colehour was a licensed physical therapist since 1962 when she received a certificate from Northern Illinois University, after receiving a B.S. degree from NIU. From 1922-1923 she taught science in Chadwick High School. The deceased was also a Sunday school teacher, Red Cross first aid instructor, Girl Scout Leader, a member of the Carroll Chapter DAR, the OES Ola Chapter; P.E.O.; Wa-tan-ye, the American Legion Auxiliary, AAUW and a member of the Carroll County Historical Society and Council on Aging. Survivors include two sons, Frederick Thornton and Richard Owen; seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Contributed by Bill Colehour - The Daily Gazette June 10, 1987

Francis H. Colehour, a former Mt. Carroll resident died May 4 in Tucson, Ariz. The body was cremated and will be returned to Mt. Carroll for burial. Mrs. Colehour was a school teacher in Chadwick before marriage to C.R. Colehour of Mt. Carroll.
Contributed by Bill Colehour - Daily Gazette May 12, 1987

- A memorial service will be held Friday in Mount Carroll for Frances Colehour,83, a longtime civic leader who died May 4, 1987 in Tucson, Ariz. The service will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Mount Carroll First Baptist Church. The Rev. Scott Stapleton, pastor, will officiate. The body was cremated. Interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery, Mount Carroll. Memorials are designated for First Baptist Church. Frank Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Frances Colehour was a retired teacher and physical therapist. She was a graduate of Shimer College. Born June 3, 1903 in Elgin, she was the daughter of Thornton and Elizabeth (McCormick) Hoover. She married Clarence Colehour on June 2, 1923 in Freeport. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Mount Carroll and active in Carroll Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution, Order of the Eastern Start, PEO, American Legion Auxiliary, Wa-Tan-Ye Service Club, American Association of University Women, Mount Carroll Community Club and the Carroll County Historical Society. She served as a Girl Scout leader and was a first aid instructor for American Red Cross. Surviving are two sons, Frederick and Richard Colehour, both of Mount Carroll; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Her husband and a grandchild preceded her in death.
Contributed by Alice Horner

FREDERICK HENRY COLEHOUR , prominent Mt. Carroll business man passed away at a local hospital late last night following a brief illness. The body was taken to Mt. Carroll where funeral services will be conducted some time Friday, although the exact hour has not been set. Mr. Colehour was born at Mt. Carroll in September, 1865, (s/b 1866) the son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel P. Colehour. He had been engaged in the lumber and fuel and feed business there for many years. During recent years his two sons were associated with him. He was united in marriage in 1899 to Miss Mae Coleman, who passed away in March, 1932. He again married about six weeks ago to Miss Frances Coleman, sister of his first wife, who survives. There are also two sons, Theodore and Clearance Colehour, both of Mt. Carroll. The following brothers also survive; Dr. Samuel C. Colehour, Jesse Colehour, Mt. Carroll, Frank Colehour, Rockford.

Mr. Colehour was affiliated with the Masonic blur lodges and Long Commandery, Knights Templar, Mt. Carroll; Freeport Consistory and Thala Temple Shrine, Rockford. Funeral services will be conducted from the home Friday afternoon at 2 oclock. The Masonic fraternity will have charge of the services and interment will be made in Oak Hill cemetery at Mt. Carroll."
Contributed by Bill Colehour

FREDERICK T.COLEHOUR - Funeral services will be at 11:30 a.m. Monday at Frank-Law-Jones Funeral Home, Mount Carroll, with the Rev. Douglas Searles of the First Baptist Church, Mount Carroll. Inurnment will be at a later date. Visitation will be from 2-6 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers a memorial has been established. Mr. Colehour was born Aug. 12, 1924, in Sycamore, the son of Clarence R. and Francis C. (Hoover) Colehour. He married Roberta Garvey on July 1, 1950, in Mount Carroll. He later married Wylma Todtz on May 26, 1972, in Savanna. He served in the United States Air Force during World War II. He was employed as president of Colehour Elevators Inc., Mount Carroll. He was a member of the First Baptist Church, Mount Carroll, Carroll County Historical Society, National Rifle Association, Ducks Unlimited, Mount Carroll Rotary Club, Masonic Lodge #188 of Mount Carroll, Freeport Consistory, Tebala Shrine Temple, Rockford, American Legion Post #67 of Mount Carroll, and former member of the Mount Carroll City Council and the Mount Carroll Fire Department. He enjoyed golfing, bowling, and the nature, especially hunting and fishing. Survivors include his wife of Mount Carroll; two daughters, Linda K. Hitchins of Scottsdale, Ariz., Candice L. (Greg) Nieman of Freeport; one son, James W. (Kay) Colehour of Mount Carroll; four grandchildren, Patrick Simpson, Michael Simpson, Warren Colehour and Alexis Colehour; two step-grandchildren, Jacqueline Nieman and Jered Nieman; two great-grandchildren; and one brother, Richard O. (Evelyn) Colehour of Mount Carroll. He was preceded in death by one daughter, Georgia Ann Colehour.
Contributed by Bill Colehour

GRAHAM THORNE COLEHOUR , 29, Mount Carroll, father of four children, died Thursday of crushing injuries suffered when a 30 foot radio tower toppled onto him while he was erecting it here. Colehour, a radio and television salesman and repairman, was on top of the tower when a guy wire clamp slipped free and the tower began to fall. A second Mount Carroll man, Larry Roberts, standing at the foot of the tower, said he yelled a warning and Colehour began to slide down. The tower, however, caught him before he reached the roof and crushed him.

Colehour, according to Roberts, was at the tip section of the tower with his safety belt on when the accident occurred. The tower was being installed by the men on the roof of the old Keen Canning Co. building, Montery St. Hook and ladder equipment was used by firemen to tie the injured man to a stretcher and lower him on a ladder from the roof of the building. He was taken to Freeport Memorial Hospital in an ambulance. He died at the hospital an hour after his accident, at 5:15 p.m.

Colehour and Roberts were employed by the J and M Electronics, Freeport, to install the tower. It was reportedly a two-way radio system. Gene Burke, Stephenson County Coroner said death apparently was caused by crushing injuries to the chest and head. The inquest has been continued. Included among his survivors are his widow, Mary; two sons, Michael and John, and two daughters, Mary Jane and Patricia, all at home: his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Colehour, Mount Carroll; and one brother, Theodore, Mount Carroll.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Frank Funeral Home with the Rev. Wilbur Fogg, of the Savanna Episcopal Church, officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery, Mount Carroll. There will be no visitation. Graham Thorne Colehour was born Nov. 24, 1933 in Freeport and married Mary McCombie on Dec. 16, 1951.
Contributed by Bill Colehour - Sterling Daily Gazette August 16, 1963

GEORGIA COLEHOUR , 40, of Tucson, Ariz., formerly of Mount Carroll, died of cancer Wednesday January 5, 1994 in Tijuana, Mexico. She worked in management and sales for a large electrical contracting firm in Tucson. She attended school in Mount Carroll before moving to suburban Chicago her freshman year, graduating in 1971 from Willowbrook High School. Born Sept. 12, 1953 in Savanna, her parents were Frederick and Roberta Colehour. Surviving are her father and stepmother, Fred and Wylma Colehour, Mount Carroll; her mother, Roberta Rusk of Tucson; two sisters, Linda Hitchins of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Candace (Greg) Nieman of Freeport; one brother, Jim (Kay) Colehour of Mount Carroll; maternal grandparents, Lorraine Garvey of Tucson and C. Warren Garvey of Lighthouse Point, Fla.; one niece and three nephews. Her paternal grandparents preceded her in death. Memorial services will be Jan. 15 in Tucson and at a later date in Mount Carroll. Inurnment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery, Mount Carroll. A memorial fund has been established for the American Cancer Society.
Contributed by Alice Horner

HANNAH (RICHARDS) COLEHOUR - Word came to our city Sunday by telegram from Detroit City, Minn (Detroit Lakes, Becker Co) , that Hannah R. Colehour had died at the home of her daughter, Susan R. Jacobsen. The cause of her death was general debility resulting from her extreme age. She being 92 years and 12 days old. She was born in Norristown, Penn., Oct. 5, 1805, and was married to Henry Colehour in 1828 and moved to Willistown, Chester County, where they continued to reside until 1853 when they came to this city where they lived until they moved on the Colehour farm west of this city. She was the mother of seven children, four of whom survive her. Samuel living on the old homestead, Charles in Chicago, James and Susan in Minnesota, Lieut. David B. Colehour of the 92nd Ill. died in the army. Hiram died in this city in 1864. Will died two years ago. Her husband died in this city in 1855. Grandmother Colehour and her husband were baptized in 1835 and joined the Baptist Church at Norristown, PA., and when they came to this city they united in organizing the Baptist church here, where her membership was at the time of her death. Living a true, faithful and devoted christian life. A life consecrated by prayer and faith. Her death was the unfolding of her clearer vision of eternal life through Jesus Christ. As mourners at her funeral were children, grand children and great grandchildren, many of whom enjoy the christian hope of everlasting life, and to the others they can realize the "beckoning hands" of a dear old saint. The remains were brought here Tuesday evening and Wednesday short services were held in the Baptist church conducted by Rev. Philips; reading select passages of sacred writ; prayer and singing, "Christians home in Glory;" a short obituary address, singing, "Sweet bye and bye." The pall bearers were four of the grand sons. The floral design was the cross and anchor made of fragrant flowers. The funeral cortege took up the line of march to Oak Hill Cemetery, where the mortal remains of grand mother Colehour was deposited to await the morn of the first resurrection. We venture to refer to the personal appearance of the dear old saint that we never saw a more beautiful picture of innocence and sweetness on the face of a corpse. Such an expression might without sin be converted by the living. Our people condole with the mourners in their said, and to christians, not sad bereavement.
Contributed by Alice Horner

JANE (GRAHAM) COLEHOUR , 76, died Monday morning at the Big Meadows Nursing Care Center, Savanna. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday at the Frank Funeral Home, Mt. Carroll. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. Mt. Carroll. Visitation will be held from 8 a.m. till service time on Wednesday at the funeral home. The Rev. Dana Martin, pastor of the Baptist Church in Mt. Carroll, will officiate. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society. Jane Colehour was born on July 28, 1908 in Chicago, the daughter of George and Maude Boyer Graham. On June 7, 1932 she married F. Theadore Colehour in Savanna. She was a member of the Martha Circle, and the First Baptist Church, Mt. Carroll. Surviving are one son. Theadore Jr., Mt. Carroll: seven grandchildren: and six great grandchildren. Preceding her in death were her husband, one son and one brother.
Contributed by Bill Colehour

JESSE COLEHOUR , resident of Preston Prairie, succumbed at East Moline Saturday at 9 a. m., following an extended illness. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the home, in charge of the Rev. R. H. Seitner, and interment was made in Oak Hill cemetery. Jesse Colehour, third son of Samuel and Mary Wood Colehour, was born on the Colehour homestead, just west of Mt. Carroll, on December 22, 1867, and died April 21, 1934, at the age of sixty-six years, three months and twenty-nine days. He was united in marriage to Myrtle Bashaw, May 24, 1899, at Freeport, Illinois. To this union was born one daughter, Jessie M. whom death claimed in infancy. Survivors are his wife, a foster daughter, Mrs. Spencer Henderson, and a son, Robert Colehour, both of Mt. Carroll, two brothers, Dr. S. P. Colehour of this city and Frank E. Colehour of Rockford, besides numerous nephews, nieces and other relatives. Mr. Colehour's father, mother, and three brothers, John, George and Fred preceded him in death. Mr. Colehour had been an invalid for the past six years and death came as a release from years of suffering. The deceased always followed the occupation of farming, except for a few years, when he was employed in a Chicago post office. He was a retiring, unassuming personality, and firm in his convictions, for what he believed to be right." His cause of death was chronic myocarditis.

2nd Obit: Jesse Colehour of Mt. Carroll passed away at 9 o'clock Saturday night at a East Moline hospital at the age of 66 years. He was born in Mt. Carroll in the year 1868 and spent his entire life there. Surviving are the widow, two brothers, Dr. S. P. Colehour of Mt. Carroll and F. E. Colehour of Rockford. Funeral services will be held from the home, west of Mt. Carroll, Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, with the Rev. Seitner, pastor of the Baptist church officiating. Burial will be in the Oak Hill cemetery. (Contributed by Bill Colehour - Sterling Gazette April 23, 1934)

Funeral Notice: Funeral services for the late Jesse Colehour were held at the home west of Mt. Carroll Tuesday afternoon. The Rev. R. H. Seitner of the First Baptist church officiated, burial being made in the Oak Hill cemetery. Those attending the casket were Charles Petty, Charles Bickelhaupt, Howard Petty, Loomer Downing, Will Christian and Sam Fulrath.
Contributed by Bill Colehour - Sterling Gazette April 24, 1934

MARGARET (LABARGE) COLEHOUR , a former Mount Carroll resident, died Monday in the home of a son in Anamosa, Ia. Funeral services were held Wednesday in Springfield, Ia., where she had lived until recently after leaving here 35 years ago. Burial was in Oak Hill Cemetery in Mount Carroll. Her husband died 20 years ago. He was a cousin of the late Fred Colehour and Dr. S. P. Colehour of Mount Carroll. Mrs. Colehour is survived by two sons and a daughter.
Contributed by Bill Colehour - Sterling Gazette 2 Dec 1954

MYRTLE (BASHAW) COLEHOUR , daughter of Thomas Bashaw and Flora (Haynes) Bashaw, was born near Mount Carroll October 4, 1876 and passed away on Wednesday evening July 24, 1946 aged 69 years, 9 months. She was married to Jess Colehour May 24, 1899. He preceded her in death, having died in 1934. She was also preceded in death by an infant daughter, Jessie, born in 1904.

She leaves surviving her a foster brother, Charles Bashaw, and two foster children, Mrs. Spencer Henderson and Robert Colehour, and a host of friends. Mrs. Colehour was for many years a faithful and valuable member of the Methodist Church, a leader in the Sunday School, both in Mount Carroll and at the Hickory Grove Church. During her last sickness she was cared for by her daughter, Mrs. Henderson. Mrs. Colehour was very greatly loved and respected in this community. Her heart and her home were ever open to all, and few there are whose lives have not been enriched by some _expression of her love. Funeral services were conducted Saturday in the Methodist Church in Mount Carroll, with the pastor, the Rev. Frank Countryman in charge. Interment was in Oak Hill Cemetery. Arrangements were in charge of the Frank Funeral Home.
Contributed by Alice Horner
Myrtle is on the right in this photo with her friend from childhod, Eva Belle (Bickelhaupt) Downing on the left

RICHARD OWEN COLEHOUR , age 79, of Mount Carroll, Illinois, passed away Saturday, November 19, 2005 at FHN Memorial Hospital, Freeport, Illinois. Funeral Services will be held 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, November 23, 2005 at the First Baptist Church in Mt. Carroll, Illinois with Reverend Robert Ziebarth officiating. Burial will take place in Oak Hill Cemetery, Mt. Carroll, with full Military Rites. Friends may call from 5:00 – 9:00 p.m., Tuesday, November 22, 2005 at the Frank-Law-Jones Funeral Home, Mt. Carroll. Memorials may be given in Dick’s name for the First Baptist Church. Dick was born January 13, 1926 in Genoa, Illinois, the son of Clarence and Francis (Hoover) Colehour. He attended Mt. Carroll Schools and graduated from the East Rockford Senior High School, Rockford, Illinois with the Class of 1944. Dick then enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served in the South Pacific aboard the LST 586 during WWII. After the war Dick graduated from the Chicago School of Business in 1948. On June 5, 1955, Dick married Evelyn Haines at the East Jordan Church near Polo, Illinois. Dick joined the family Grain Elevator Business, Colehour Elevator, of Mt. Carroll, in 1948. He loved his family and his work. He enjoyed farming and being part of the Mt. Carroll Community. Most of all Dick enjoyed dancing, and instructing dance, with his wife Evelyn. Dick was a member of the First Baptist Church of Mt. Carroll, the Mt. Carroll American Legion, the Savanna Moose Lodge, the Son’s of the American Revolution, the Mt. Carroll Cyrus Masonic Lodge #188 and the Tebala Shrine, Freeport. Dick will be deeply missed by his wife, Evelyn Colehour of Mt. Carroll; two daughters, Cathleen F. (Hugh O’Neill) Colehour of Peterborough, Ontario and Susan (Michael) Johnson of Fort Collins, Colorado; his son, Charles R. (Tressie) Colehour of Sharpsburg, Georgia; and a sister in-law, Wylma Colehour of Mt. Carroll; a granddaughter, Nicole Johnson of Fort Collins, Colorado. Dick is preceded in death by a daughter at birth, Elizabeth Ann, his brother, Fred, and both parents.

ROBERT C. LOVEJOY COLEHOUR , Funeral services for Robert Colehour, who died of a heart attack about 1 p.m. Saturday while working at the Tautz Lumber Mill near here, will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Frank Funeral Home. Officiating will be Rev. Lowell Allen, pastor of the Thomson Methodist Church, and burial will be in the Oak Hill Cemetery. The deceased was born on June 26, 1898 in Valley City, Ill., the son of Calvin and Nellie Wells Lovejoy. At the age of six he moved to Mount Carroll and made his home with Jesse Colehour. He has since used the Colehour name. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Lloyd Becker, and a son John, Fort Worth, Texas. Also surviving is a sister. He was preceded in death by three brothers. He and his wife made their home on Route 1, Mount Carroll.
Contributed by Bill Colehour - Sterling Daily Gazette November 21, 1960

RUTH (PETTY) COLEHOUR , 91, of Mount Carroll, died Tuesday, August 22, 1989 at Freeport Memorial Hospital. She was a member of the Hickory Grove United Methodist Church and was a charter member of the Preston Prairie Club. Born on August 7, 1898 in Mount Carroll, she was the daughter of Albert and Mary (Humbert) Petty. She married Robert L. Colehour on December 17, 1921 in Freeport. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Lloyd (Roberta) Becker of Mount Carroll; seven grandchildren; eighteen great-grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren; and a sister-in-law, Mrs. Julia (Pat) Colehour of Fort Worth, Texas. She was preceded in death by her husband, a son, a brother and two sisters.

Service will be 11 a.m. Friday at the Hickory Grove United Methodist Church, rural Mount Carroll. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery, Mount Carroll. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the Frank Funeral Home, Mount Carroll. A memorial fund has been established in her name.

Contributed by Alice Horner /   Colehour Family History

SAMUEL P. COLEHOUR , one of three medics honored here a year ago for their more than 50 years of service to the community died at 11:30 a.m. Monday at his home. The body was removed to the Christian Home where funeral arrangements are pending while awaiting the arrival of a son, James, from Pensacola, Fla.
Contributed by Bill Colehour - Sterling Daily Gazette August 10, 1953

Dr. Samuel P. Colehour, 77, medical doctor and life long resident of Mt. Carroll, passed away at his home here at 11:30 a.m. Monday following a short illness. Dr. Colehour had practiced here since graduating in 1899 from National Medical College, Chicago, except for two years during World War I when he served in the army medical corps in France and Germany. He has held the rank of colonel in the retired medical corps reserves since World War I. On September 7, 1952, Dr. Colehour and two other local doctors each of whom have practiced medicine for over 50 years were honored at a Doctor's Day celebration held here. In 1949 he was awarded a 50-year pin by the Illinois branch of the American Medical Society. Doctor Colehour was the first commander of the local Mt. Carroll American Legion Post 67. He was born November 27, 1875, at Mt. Carroll, the son of Sam and Mary Jane Wood Colehour. On June 12, 1905, he was married to the former Myrtle Kinney, who preceded him in June 1950. He is survived by two sons, Phillip of Knox City, Texas and James of Pensacola, Florida: a brother, Frank, of Rockford. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Christian Funeral Home, and burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. Mt. Carroll American Legion Post will have charge of the military rites.
Contributed by Bill Colehour - 11 August 1953 Sterling Gazette

THEODORE FREDERICK COLEHOUR , former fire chief, dies. Former Mount Carroll fire chief and long-time businessman Theodore Colehour Sr., 79, died Friday afternoon, Dec. 25, in his home of an apparent heart attack. Mr. Colehour was in the feed business for many years and was a member of the Mount Carroll Volunteer Fire Department, serving as chief. He was born Jan., 13, 1902, in Mount Carroll, the son of Frederick H. and May (Coleman) Colehour. He married Jane Graham June 7, 1932 in Savanna. Surviving are his wife; one son, Ted Jr. of Mount Carroll; and seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, one son, one brother and one sister. Funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Monday in the Frank Funeral Home, Mount Carroll, with the Rev. Dana Martin, pastor of the- Mount Carroll Baptist Church, officiating. Burial was in Oak Hill Cemetery, Mount Carroll. A memorial in his name has been established for the Campbell Center Gymnasium Fund."

Another Notice: Theodore Colehour, 79, died Friday in his home. Funeral services were held Monday at 2 p.m. at the Frank Funeral Home in Mount Carroll. The Rev. Dana Martin, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Mount Carroll, officiated. Burial was in Oak Hill Cemetery. Mr. Colehour was born Jan. 13, 1902 in Mount Carroll, the son of Fred and Mary (Coleman) Colehour. He was united in marriage to Jane Graham on June 7, 1932 in Savanna. He was in the feed business for many years and was the former fire chief of Mount Carroll. He is survived by his wife, Jane of Mount Carroll; one son, Theodore Jr., Mount Carroll; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, one son, one brother and one sister.
Contributed by Bill Colehour

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