Robert Hamilton Cooper

COOPER, GUTHRIE, SAVAGE

Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 6/27/2006 at 21:29:18

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, October 20, 1927

Death of R. H. Cooper

Was Civil War Veteran And Long Time Resident of Winterset

Robt. H. Cooper, one of the grand old men of this community, passed to his eternal reward Tuesday afternoon. Death came without pain or suffering. No illness to speak of, just wearing out of the machinery of life after 83 years of activity.

Mr. Cooper was active in many affairs of Winterset, but the work of the Presbyterian church and Sabbath school was nearest his heart. So devoted was his own life to the teaching of his Master, that he not only did not fear death, but was anxious to join his loving companion of many years, who preceded him just six months to the day, and almost the same hour.

He had lived in Winterset almost half a century, first engaging on the grain business, then in banking, from which he retired to enjoy old age among the people who loved and respected him.

He will be missed by those who had learned the inspiration of his good cheer and good counsel. His death leaves but a few of his old comrades of the Civil war and but a few of the stalwart men and women who were pioneers of Winterset and pioneers in the work of the old Presbyterian church.

Remaining members of the family are three sons, Judge W. S. and Dr. R. S. Cooper of Winterset, and Ralph W. Cooper of Boone. Also two daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Cooper Guthrie of Garden City, Kansas, and Miss Esther Cooper, a teacher in the Iowa State college at Ames.

Funeral services will be held from the Presbyterian church today, Thursday at 10:00 AM.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, October 20, 1927
Page 4

Robert H. Cooper, who died Tuesday, October 18, at his home on west Jefferson street, was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, January 11, 184_. He attended the public school until he was 15 years of age. At that time he began clerking in a general store, and did this until in June, 1862, when he enlisted in the Civil war.

At the close of the war, Mr. Cooper returned to his home in Pennsylvania, and engaged in merchandising with an uncle until in 1879, when he moved to Winterset. He was in the grain business for 10 years, and in 1889, he became the cashier of the Madison County Bank. He served here for sixteen years, and then was cashier of the Winterset Savings Bank for six years. At the end of this time he retired from active business engagements.

On April 16, 1872, he was married to Miss Anna Mary Savage, and they lived together for 55 years, she dying just six months before her husband.

Funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church, Thursday, October 20th, at 10 o’clock in the morning. They were conducted by the local pastor, Rev. Paul M. Fowler, and Rev. W. S. Harries, of Des Moines, who was here to speak of Mr. Cooper’s work in the Presbytery.

Burial was made in the Winterset cemetery. Mr. Cooper is survived by his three sons, Judge W. S. and Dr. R. S. Cooper, of Winterset, and Ralph W. Cooper, of Boone, and two daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Cooper, of Garden City, Kansas, and Miss Esther Cooper, at Ames.

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