COOPER, JAMES HENRY - Crosby County, Texas | JAMES HENRY COOPER - Texas Gravestone Photos

James Henry COOPER

Ralls Cemetery
Crosby County,
Texas

February 8, 1910 - June 6, 1958

*Obituary

RALLS (Special) - Funeral services for James Henry Cooper, 48, Hobbs, formerly of Ralls will be conducted at 3 p.m. here today.

Services will be in the chapel of Carter Funeral Home with the Rev. Marvin Fisher, Lorenzo Methodist minister, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Tommy Allen, pastor of the First Baptist church of Ralls. Nephews will be pallbearers.

Burial will be in the Ralls Cemetery.

Cooper died instantly Friday when a 16-gauge shotgun discharged in a hunting accident near here. He was struck in the neck. He was found lying in a field on the farm of a brother-in-law, C. M. Woodard, about 20 miles southeast of here.

An inquest verdict of accidental death was returned by Justice of the Peace, W.H. Nickson of Crosbyton. Woodward, a Crosby county farmer, said he found Cooper lying in the field, a trouser leg caught in a fence.

Survivors include his wife; a son, James; and a daughter, Linda; four brothers, T.A., W.A. and D.O., all of bloomington, Calif., and A.B. of Dodson, Tex.; two sisters, Mrs. T.R. Smallwood, Muleshoe, and Mrs. C.M. Woodard, Ralls.

Contributed on 7/24/21 by texasfindagraver
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Submitted: 7/24/21 • Approved: 7/24/21 • Last Updated: 7/27/21 • R440438-G0-S3

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