Born: 1894
Died: 1975
Married: Chester Tolbert
Children: John Tolbert
Elizabeth C. Tolbert bought the Whitman Cottage in 1922 and operated it as a rooming house. In 1925 Mr. and Mrs. Tolbert and their son John occupied the house along with fifteen lodgers — ten men and five women. Only one of these was a patient: 21-year-old John McBride who was here from Ireland with his cook, Anne McCran.
In 1982 John P. Tolbert owned the house, which had been converted to apartments. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Mr. Tolbert kept a horse in the stable behind the house. Hitched to a sulky or light carriage, he drove picturesquely on Park Avenue, evoking the quieter lifestyle of an earlier day.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, October 6, 1975
Elizabeth C. Tolbert
SARANAC LAKE Elizabeth C. Tolbert, 80, died at Uihlein Mercy Center in Lake Placid early today.
Mrs. Tolbert was born in Parishville, a daughter of Charles and Mary Keegan Coulon, and had lived in Saranac Lake for 65 years before entering Uihlein.
She had owned and lived at the apartment house at 51 Woodruff St. [sic] She and her late husband. Chester H. Tolbert, were known for their abilities as hunters and her picture had often appeared in area newspapers with the buck which she shot each season.
Surviving are: a son, John, of Saranac Lake; a granddaughter, Mrs. Brian (Janet) Howard of Cohoes; and a sister, Mattie Gushea of Potsdam.
Mrs. Tolbert was a member of the Third Order of St. Francis.
Friends may call at the Keough and Son Memorial Chapels today from 8 to 9 p.m. and Tuesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 There will be a Third Older of St. Francis Scriptural Service at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. A Mass of the Resurrection will be held at St. Bernard's Church. Interment will be in St Bernard's Cemetery.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, November 12, 1952
Veteran Huntress Gets Annual Buck
Mrs. Elizabeth Tolbert, of 50 Woodruff st., has bagged her annual deer. This time she was rewarded with an eight-point buck which weighs approximately 160 pounds.
She hears there are a few bear in the slopes of Shingle Bay, which is her hunting area, and if the weather stays nice enough she intends to go after one of them to add to her larder.
A veteran of some 30 years of hunting, last year she shot a 14-point buck which fell into a hole. Not willing to leave her prize, she stayed at a nearby camp and early the next morning came to the village for help. A block and tackle was used and the buck, once rescued, provided, many a tasty meal in the Tolbert household.
The Sun, November 16, 1922
Mrs. Chester Tolbert of Saranac Lake, shot a buck near Big Square Pond which weighed 177 pounds. Her husband killed a large buck earlier in the season.
On the Pontiac Theatre page, on August 6, 2012, a reader wrote:
"My grandmother, Elizabeth (Coulon) Tolbert, played the violin to provide music for the silent movies at the Pontiac."
Elizabeth C. Tolbert (1894-1975) is buried in St. Bernard's Cemetery. This is the 1952 deer hunter, and is the same as the Whitman Cottage Tolbert.
