People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1897 — Had a Host of Relatives. [ARTICLE]

Had a Host of Relatives.

Ninety “blood relatives” followed to the grave the body of Samuel Cooper of Pottawatomie county, Kansas, and one son, with twenty descendants, was absent. The surviving descendants number 150. The old man died singing a Methodist hymn. No btr J of prey has the gift of song.