This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cooper Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Yl.2ADE/2339 Message Board Post: Eldon was the son of John and Rowena (Lair) Cooper -------- clipping from unidentified newspaper Oct. 2, 1916 COOPER Eldon Adali Cooper, aged 23, died Monday evening at 8 o'clock at the home of his father, J.P. Cooper, who resides on a farm one and a half miles west of Blue Grass. His death followed a long period of sickness. The deceased was born Jan. 1, 1893, and had taken up agriculture as his vocation four years ago. He is survived by his father, five sisters, Agnes Cooper of Fairmont, S.D.; Belle Bohnsach, Stockton, IA; Rose Pahl, Blue Grass; Mamie Stigers, Davenport; Viola Eis, Montpelier, IA; and three brothers, Virgil Cooper, Davenport; Charles, at home, and Perry Cooper, Blue Grass. Services will be held from the home at 1:30 and from the Blue Grass church at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon, in charge of the Modern Woodmen of America, of which he was a member. Interment will take place in Blue Grass cemetery.