GSHR_WILLIAM E. G. COOPER - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Hillsboro, Aug 12 – A very beautiful and very appropriate service was conducted in our little city, Sunday afternoon in memory of Lt. William EG Cooper, who was Killed In Action on the western battle front, July 20.  The Veedersburg and Hillsboro uniformed Liberty Guards numbering almost 150 strong, promptly at 3:00 assembled on the main down town street, led by the Waynetown band, they marched to the home of Lt. Cooper’s family and escorted them to the ME Church where the memorial addresses were made by Rev. Russell B. Kern and Rev. Harry A. Davis after which companies again assembled and escorted the family to Rose Hill Cemetery where the plot of ground is dedicated to the local boys who have lost their lives in this great fight for freedom after the benediction, the firing squad fired a salute to the fallen heroes, taps was sounded and the sorrowing relatives and friends wended their way from thence to their respective homes. This is the third Hillsboro boy to make the supreme sacrifice and it has indeed brought the war very close to this little town, for in some manner it has touched almost home, the loss of a relative or a friend to all or at least part of the household.  It indeed meant something to watch that vast throng as they lowly made their way from the cemetery for I was not a bunch of merry makers, but throng of serious minded, liberty-loving Americans, over which a terrible war has cast a gloom; yet whom thanked God that even then news was hourly arriving telling of the great successes of the American and allied arms and they felt sure at that brave soldiers they had just honored had not died in vain.