Cooper, Oren

A suit by Mrs. Emily Cooper against the Walker Mining Company. Her husband was working at the bottom of a shaft when hit on the head and killed in December, she says. She asks $25,000 for his death.

Commerce, Sep 16 Funeral services for Oren Cooper, ground foreman for the Lawyers Mining Company, who was killed in an accident at the Lawyers Mine No. 2 yesterday, will be held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Christian church. The Rev. Rolla Grim will officiate. Burial will be in the Carterville Missouri cemetery under the direction of the Mitchelson undertaking company...He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mabel Cooper; five children, Frederick Cooper, Hulda Cooper, Oren Silas Cooper, Ruth Cooper and Delores Cooper; five brothers, Bert Cooper, Charles Cooper, Merl Cooper and Fern Cooper, all of Commerce, and Arthur Cooper of Big Creek California, and one sister, Mrs. Myrtle Shapley of Joplin Missouri. Pallbearers will be: Chuck Robertson, J. Shepherd, Ray Sikes, Charles Poteete, Willis Crowe and G. McWethy.

Oren Cooper, 45 years old, of Commerce, was instantly killed about 8 this morning at the Lawyers Mine No. 2, northwest of Picher Oklahoma, when caught beneath a falling slab. Cooper, who was employed as general ground foreman by the Lawyers Mining Company, was making an inspection of the mine at the time of the accident. Commerce, Sep 17. Burial will be in Carterville Missouri cemetery