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Note: Louise Marie Wilson Colman [Obituary]
From The Advance, July 18, 1912.
Louise Wilson Colman, on July 6, 1912, beloved wife of Rev. George W. Colman, 655 North Central Av., Chicago, Ill, mother of Jennie Louise Colman, Mrs. Abby P[itman]. Hancock, Williams H. Colman and Alexis J. Colman. Mrs. Colman has been widely known in Illinois since her coming here from Pittsfield , Mass., in 1871. She was born in Ovid, New York, April 21, 1837, and married Rev. Geo. W. Colman, Sept. 16, 1862. In a few weeks more they would have celebrated their golden-wedding anniversary. Rev. Colman�s strong and winsome personality was felt in the pastorates he held in Neponset, Sheffield, Buda, Park Ridge, Ill., and Pilgrim, Bowmanville and Brainerd churches, Chicago.
Mrs. Colman was a near relative of the missionaries, John and Elbert Nevins [I think this is a typo and the name is really Nevius, her mother�s maiden name. Elbert was a prominent missionary in China. ---VMD]; her sister Mary, and her daughter Jennie both laboring for years at Allahabad, India. Her interest in all missionary work was notable and constant. The later years of her life were clouded with a blindness which became total Jan. 1, 1904. Her last illness was due to an attack of la grippe, followed by neuritis. Her suffering was not acute, and she enjoyed good company almost to the last. But when medicines were of no avail, and food failed to nourish, she well knew the closing scene could not be far distant. But for her death had no sting. God was her refuge and strength---a very present help in time of trouble. On one of the early April days she said, �When I wake I think of that verse:
� �One sweetly solemn thought Comes to me o�er and o�er--- I am nearer my home today Than I have ever been before.� � And in this confidence of faith, this comfort of a reasonable, religious and holy hope, this communion of the Christian church, she passed away to the better land.
Funeral services were conducted on Monday, July 8, by Rev. A. J. Francis, pastor of Pilgrim Church, Park Ridge, where, for five years, she had lived as the pastor�s wife, and in which two of her children were married.
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