Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cooper, Charles C., 1952 

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Flash Burns 
Are Fatal to 
Surry Man 

  Charles C. Cooper, 83, one 
of Surry's oldest citizens, died 
Monday afternoon after suffer- 
ing from severe burns when his 
clothing caught fire from a 
brush fire in his yard. 
  Trial Justice C. G. Rowell saw 
the accident and with the aid of 
two colored men, Isham King 
and John Lane, wrapped the 
aged man in a blanket and sub- 
dued the brush fire.  Dr. B. H. 
Knight was summoned but Mr. 
Cooper died after failing to re- 
spond to treatment. 
  The deceased came to Surry 
after 20-odd years ago [sic] from the 
Rocky Hock community and op- 
erated Cooper's sawmill until 
retirement a few years ago. 
  Surviving by are four sons: F. S. 
Cooper, of Wakefield; C. L., V. 
W. and C. D. Cooper, of Washing- 
ton; one daughter, Mrs. L. W. 
Brittle, of Washington, and one 
brother, J. W. Cooper, of Amelia, 
Va. 
  Funeral rites were held at 
the Traylor & Purviance Funer- 
al Home at Wakefield at 3 o'- 
clock Wednesday afternoon with 
burial in the family cemetery 
near Carsley. 
  Pallbearers were Willie Pitt- 
man, Joe Green, Joe Seward, 
Roy Edwards, of Surry; R. M. 
Pond, S. A. Whitmore, Garland 
Goodrich and C. M. Ellis, Sr., 
of Wakefield. 


Charles C. COOPER, retired sawmill operator, formerly of Rocky Hock, 
burnt & died 5 May 1952, at home, Surry Co., age 83, 
interred in the family cemetery*, near Carsley, 7 May 1952, 
donated obit, publication unknown [May 5- '52 in pencil] 

*location not known (Apr 2016) to the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project. 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Carolyn Keen (VAHistoricHouses@aol.com), 
and transcribed by File Manager Matt Harris. 

file at: 
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