Oregon, IL newspaper-January 1881

DIED in Pine Creek, Ogle County, Ill., January 21, 1881, Elizabeth Cooper, aged 74 years, 5 months and 10 days.

The deceased was a member of the Freewill Baptist Church and has led a faithful Christian life. She was one of the "old settlers" having emigrated from Maryland to this place about forty years ago. The funeral services were held in the F. W. B. Church, conducted by Rev. C. N. Dawson, pastor of the Pine Creek U. B. Church and attended by a large number of friends and acquaintances. She leaves an aged husband with children and grandchildren to mourn her departure but their loss is her eternal gain.

(Wife of Jonathan G. Cooper)

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