Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Cooper, Fayette 1912
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Carson City Gazette, 31 May 1912

Fay Cooper was drowned in Maple River last week Thursday morning about nine 
o’clock, his body being recovered soon after noon the same day.  He was 39 
years of age and leaves a widow and two children, a boy and a girl.  Hasson 
Buck of this place is a nephew.

It seems that Mr. Cooper had been assisting Rev. E. Mudge in working over a 
barge belonging to the latter and which was partly submerged.  They were on the 
point of abandoning their work temporarily and get the boat into an overflowed 
field when the swift current caught it and carried it rapidly down stream under 
a bridge, where it was capsized.  Mr. Mudge, being able to swim, made his way 
to safety, but Mr. Cooper was drowned before assistance could reach him.

[Transcriber's Note:  There is a notation on the obituary card that he was 
buried in West Side Cemetery in Hubbardston.]


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