Frank S Cooper
Frank S. Cooper Found Dead On Last Tuesday
Prominent Young Man Victim of Asthma
Was sick only a few days
BURIAL THURSDAY
Frank S. Cooper, age 40, son of Mr and Mrs C M Cooper of this city was found dead in his room at the home of his parents at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon. Mr Cooper was employed by the C & O Railroad at the local depot worked on Monday but Tuesday he was very sick and a physician made four trips to see him during the day. His mother and members of the family had left his room when he was sleeping for a few minutes and when they returned he was dead.
For years he had been suffering of asthma and for the past two years his health had been failing gradually and his condition was a worry to family. This last attack was of a serious nature and Tuesday morning his condition was alarming.
Mr Cooper was a graduate of law and for many years practiced his profession with the late Henry Howes. He accepted a few years ago a responsible position with the railroad company which he filled with satisfaction.
His father, C M Cooper one of the city's leading citizens has been confined to his home for the past few years with what is seemingly an incurable disease. His mother is also in poor health.
He leaves his parents, one sister, Miss Olga Cooper, wife and three sons. The funeral and burial will take place this Thursday service being conducted at the home and burial in the Wells-Buckingham Cemetery
Sept 30, 1926
Frank S Cooper
Frank Spradlin Cooper was born at Paintsville, Ky September 26, 1886. He was the son of Cassius M and Genoa Spradlin Cooper. He died Sept. 28, 1926. He is survived by his father and mother, and his only sister, Olga Cooper.
He was educated in the Paintsville Public Schools and in the Sandy Valley Seminary, which is now the John C C Mayo College. He was graduated from the high school department of the Sandy Valley Seminary with the class of 1908. The following year he graduated from the Nelson Business College of Cincinnati, Ohio. He entered the college of law in the University of Virginia. After his graduation from the College of law he began the practice of his profession in partnership with the late Henry S Howes, Paintsville. The honorable, Mr. Howes said of him, "He can find the court decisions and the law hearing on any given case quicker than any man I have ever known." His graduation from this standard institution, founded by Thomas Jefferson, is ample proof of his preparation and efficiency.
At the Kline revival held in the Mayo Memorial Church January 1914, he converted and joined the M E Church, South.
June 1915 he was married to Corrine Dempsey of Inez, Ky., who was then a teacher in the Sandy Valley Seminary. To this union were born Frank Dempsey, Cassius M and Robert Lewis. His wife and children survive him.
After his marriage he discontinued the practice of law and accepted employment in the auditing department of the C & O Railroad Company. Hi legal training and accurate mind equipped him to distinguish himself in this work. Just previous to his death he submitted sic consecutive reports on which there was not a single change made, In this exacting department with its varying estimates of tariff rates such a record is an outstanding one. This single instance is submitted as an example of his brilliant ability,
Frank Cooper was devoted to his family and his father and mother and his only sister. Love is the greatest blessing God has ever bestowed on the human race. Love brings the greatest joy and the keenest grief. Out of the devotion of love there has come to this family through the death of Frank Cooper a grief that only God can assuage.
The possibilities of a life with the training that Mr. Cooper had can never be known. The brilliant career that was before him will never be filled. But those who knew him best and loved him dearest will always know that a longer tenure of life would have only given him an opportunity to do more completely the work that he was so well equipped to do.
Time is
Too slow for those who Wait,
Too swift for those who Fear,
Too long for those who Grieve.
The Paintsville Herald
October 28, 1926