OBITUARY OF FRANCES ANN DAVI(E)S COOPER

Submitted by Sarita Cooper Snipes, June 22 1999



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Note from the submitter:  This Obituary was in our Cooper family bible. Frances Ann Davi(e)s

Cooper was born November 20, 1818 in Washington City, D.C.  For more info: please contact

Sarita Cooper Snipes at csnipes@jps.net.



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Mrs. Frances Ann [Davi(e)s] Cooper died at Topeka, Kansas, July 25th, 1884 after a painful

illness cause by cancer of the stomach. -------- Mother bore her sufferings without a murmur and

waited through weary days and nights for her gracious Savior to come with his sweet release

from the sufferings of earthlife, and introduction into that blissful estate of the saints of God

for which she had hoped for years. She was the mother of eleven children, seven of whom are

still living, and all but one were with her in her last sickness, to render what kind offices were in

their power,a nd relieve, as far as possible, her severe sufferings. Father and mother removed

from Illinois to Kansas twelve years ago, to start anew in an effort to procure a home for their old

age. But reverses met them here, as elsewhere, and finally, that dreadful disease, small-pox, fell

upon the family, carrying off the husband and father, and leaving mother broken in her

constitution. But these calamities only seemed to intensify her devotion to the children,

and to the last she kept the children together and --- late and early , as she had done through her

life, to make home pleasant and attractive. Much respect is due to Leroy Cooper, a single son,

who has stayed by mother through these latter years of her widowhood and faithfully looked to

her comfort and happiness. Mother has gone, and no family ever parted with one dearer, nor will

she ever lose her place in the hearts of those for whom she spent her life. Mother was born in the

year fo our Lord 1818, was married in 1839 and was past sixty-six years at her death. She was a

member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Topeka.











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