Caroline Julie Poths
1858-1938
Born: Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
Died: Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
1858-1938
Born: Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
Died: Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
My great grandmother told me when her mother Caroline Poths Williams was a child in kindergarten, she went down to the railroad tracks with her class to throw rose petals at Mr. Lincoln's Funeral Train as it went by.
My Grandmother Elsie Williams told me that her Husband's Mother Caroline Poths as a child played with other Indian Children. When she was about 13 years old her father saloon and boarding House where they lived was burnt down in the Chicago Fire. They escaped with the pet goat and a bag of old laundry(thought was food)to the River or Lake.Jacob sold his lots to Marshall Field for 300 hundred Dollars.