Source: Crawfordesville Star, Nov 11, 1886 p 1
Mrs. Lyda Cooper died at her home in Alamo on Sunday vening, aged 71 years. She had been bed-ridden for 12 years and was a great sufferer. She was the the mother of Mrs. Ira Cadwallder and Mrs. Wm. Nutt, this city. Her funeral was on Tuesday morning. - kbz
Source: Saturday Evening Journal,
November 13, 1886
An old resident of Montgomery
county has passed away. Mrs. Lydia Cooper died at her home near
Yountsville, on Sunday, the 7th instant, after an acute illness of a little
over three weeks. For nearly twenty years she had been affiliated with
rheumatism, which rendered her unable to walk during the last nine days of her
life. Lydia Worl was born October 11, 1818, in Eaton, O., and was married
to Sylvester Cooper, June 10, 1832, in eastern part of Indiana, soon after
which they moved to this county, living most of the time on the farm where she
died. She survived her husband, who died January 28, 1878, and four
children, and leaves four other children; and , by a singular province, the
four who died before her were sons, James, Adelbert, Clinton and George, -
while the four survivors were daughters, Mary, Elizabeth, Martha, and
Maggie. Mary was married to Jonathan Nutt, who resides east of
Yountsville; Elizabeth was married to Ira Caldwallader, of Crawfordsville, and
Martha was married to William Nutt, also a resident of this city; while Maggie
remained at home with her mother, and, with rare faithfulness and devotion,
attended to one after another of the family, as they were prostrated by
disease, and succumbed to its power. Only the loving hands of such a
sister, and such a daughter, could lighten or make tolerable such, suffering
and affliction, and let them down gently and tenderly to the close of
life. Mrs. Cooper joined the Christian church in her youth, and the faith
and consolation of the gospel, were her support in the remarkable trials and
afflictions of her life, through all of which she passed with wonderful
patients, fortitude and endurance, never complaining, and always maintaining a
vigor and freshness of spirits seldom seen in persons so afflicted and so
advanced in years; which characteristics were due to the strong
constitution with which she was blessed. The funeral services were held
at the house of the deceased, on Tuesday morning, the 9th, instant, at 10
o'clock, conducted by Rev. J.R. Wood, and the remains were buried in the
Masonic cemetery at Crawfordsville, where three of the family are already
interred, and where the remains of her husband and one son, no buried in
Yountsville will be transferred - kbz
