Typed as spelled and written - Lena Stone Criswell
THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number Missing
Marlin, Texas, Tuesday, May 30, 1931
SERVICES CONDUCTED FOR
MRS. COOLEY at CHILTON
Last Rites Held in Baptist Church
With Burial in Carolina
Cemetery
Last rites for Mrs.
Rebecca Cooley, widow of the late G. W. Cooley, who died suddenly at her in
Chilton Friday, were held at three o'clock this afternoon.
Services were
conducted in the Baptist church at Chilton by Dr. W. H. Matthews, Presbyterian
pastor of Marlin. Burial was in Carolina cemetery.
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THE DAILY
DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 104
Marlin, Texas, Tuesday, September 1, 1931
Obituary
Mrs. G. W. Cooley, age 64, died at her in Chilton, May 29, 1931. She was
born in Bell county, and at the age of six years moved to the Chilton community
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Eakin. Her husband, G. W. Cooley,
died at Chilton, July 31, 1928.
She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. W. H.
Gates, and two sons, Calvin and Roy--all of Chilton; also five grand children,
one sister, Miss Amanda Eakin, R.M., J. C., W. S., J.L., S. L. C.C., Eakin, and
sixteen nephews and nine nieces.
Her people were pioneer settlers of the
Chilton community and leaders in all movements for the public good. Also
she was a member of the Chilton Baptist church from childhood.
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