Cooley, Josephine – Died 1895

COOLEY

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/22/2024 at 16:07:26

Source: Decorah Republican Aug. 15, 1895 P 3 C 2, 3

Sudden Call of Death.
Cresco Plain Dealer:—Tuesday morning Mrs. Josephine Cooley called her husband, Grant Cooley, stopping temporarily at the Van Slyke house, to go out and do some errands for her, which he did, leaving her apparently well in her room. Returning at about 7 o’clock he inquired if she had come down to breakfast and a reply in the negative being given, he went to call her. Finding a chair put to the door to fasten it, he pushed his way in, failing to arouse her, to find her dead. Medical aid was summoned, Dr. Bowers appeared there quickly after, but he pronounced death’s work certain and irrevocable. The coroner, Dr. Clemmer, was summoned, and a coroner’s jury selected and after a thorough examination and autopsy of the body without finding any evidence of violence or injury upon the body or any indication that poison had been administered or taken, the jury returned its verdict that the cause of her death was unknown. From the appearance and color of the face the coroner and physicians think the indications point unmistakably to heart failure as the cause, the testimony of her mother and husband that she had been subject to such trouble, tending to confirm the theory.