Coble, Curtiss

Posted By: Leland Rice
Date: 20 November 2001

SOURCE: This should be in the Greenville Advocate sometime in early 1939.

CURTISS COBLE, 91, DEAD; RITES SUNDAY

Palestine Native passes Away at Daughter’s Home

One of Darke County’s oldest native residents, Curtiss Coble, 91, died at 2:15 p.m. Friday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Iona Biddle, at 712 E. Third street, Greenville, after an extended illness.

The deceased, a son of the late John Coble, one of the earliest settlers in the Palestine vicinity, was born in that village and lived there until 1912. His wife, Elissa (Eliza), died in that year.

After moving to Greenville, Mr. Coble lived retired, but for over 50 years previous to his retirement he had been engaged in farming pursuits.

He was a member of the Universalist church and Knights of Pythias lodge at Palestine.

The immediate survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Edna Miller of Richmond, Ind., and Mrs. Iona Biddle, Greenville; eight grand-children; 15 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be conducted from the Palestine Universalist church at two p.m. Sunday. Burial will be made in the church cemetry. The remains may now be viewed at the Biddle home.

NOTE: Curtiss had been helping his son-in-law, Orlando Biddle, build a fish-pond at the back end of the Biddle home lot. When it was almost complete, Curtiss was helping smooth the bottom cement, lost his balance and fell, head-first, fracturing his skull. The “extended illness” was that, a fractured skull.

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