Coop, David L. 1830-1905

COOP, BURROUGHS, LAMBERT, SPENCER

Posted By: Debbie Nash (email)
Date: 2/4/2004 at 21:37:42

"DEATH OF A PIONEER. In the death of David L. Coop, Jefferson County loses one of its earliest settlers. He was born in Illinois in 1830 and came to Iowa with his parents in 1836, being the eldest son of W.G. Coop and wife. He was married in 1852 to Malinda Burroughs. They were blessed with two children, Mrs. Arminda Lambert and Will L., both of this county, and with the aged mother remain to mourn. . . . Mr. Coop. . . . .arose Monday morning feeling unusually well and accompanied his son-in-law and little grandson to a timber to cut telephone poles. He cut one pole and fell dead. . . . Mr. Coop was an unusually strong and vigorous man for his age and was an inveterate and untiring worker. Funeral services were conducted from the Lambert home Tuesday afternoon by Rev. Horton Spencer a comrade of the deceased in boyhood days, and the remains laid to rest in Antioch cemetery. Mr. Coop was a unique character, a man of extraordinary costitution, a big heart, and a most kind disposition. . . . ."

The Fairfield Tribune
Wed., March 22, 1905, 10-5.