Caroline Rollo Beer
Jan. 24, 1839-May 9, 1926
Niles Daily Star, Tuesday, May 11, 1926, page 4, col. 4&5, microfilm Niles District Library
DAUGHTER OF PIONEER ROLLO FAMILY IS BURIED IN NILES
The body of Mrs. Caroline Rollo Beer, who died on Sunday afternoon at the home of her nephew, Chester R. Hodgkins, at Quincy, Illinois after several weeks illness with pneumonia, arrived in Niles this morning at 11 :00 o'clock, and was taken to the Rutherford Funeral Home. Burial was made in Silver Brook cemetery this afternoon at 3: 00 o'clock. No services were held here as services had been held in Quincy.
Mrs. Beer was a member of the pioneer Rollo family of Niles, and had many friends in the city. She spent practically all of her childhood and early womanhood here. She was the daughter of late Chester and Fannie Rollo, deceased. She was born in Ypsilanti, January 24, 1839. A few years later the family moved to Niles. She was a consecrated member of the Niles Presbyterian church and was prominent in the work of that church.
In 1864, she was married to George M. Coan, at one time organist of the Presbyterian church, and lived here until his death in 1881; after which she went to make her home at Rushford, Minnesota. She was married there to W.W. Beer, who died in 1912. Since Mr. Beer died she had been making her home with her nephew, C. R. Hodgkins, at Quincy, Ill. No children survive her, her nearest living relatives being Mr.and Mrs. Hodgkins and their daughter, Mrs. H.D. Lapp, of Chicago, who accompanied the body to Niles.