Obituary of Samuel Phillip Colehour
Newspaper: Sterling Daily Gazette (IL)Published Date: 11 Aug 1953
Rites for Dr. Samuel P. Colehour Wednesday
MT CARROLL - 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.
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