Evening journal., 1899-07-15
COL. COOPER BURIED.
Great Outpouring of the
Friends of the Deceased.
FUNERAL A REMARKABLE ONE


T. COOPER AT WYOMING YES
TERDAY.
wyoming, Del. July 15.-Hundreds
Of representative men from all parts
Of Delaware assembled here yesterday
and thronged the main street to pay
their last tribute of respect to Colonel
Ezekiel T. Cooper
The main street, which leads to the
town Of Camden, was lined with dou-
Bile row Of carriages of every descrip-
tion, from the handsome turnouts of
wealthy men to the humber and more
crude vehicles Of those OF the common
er walks of life. In fact, all Delaware
seemed to bemoan the fate Of Ezekiel
r. Cooper. At o'clock when the last
sad rites began in the cottage of his
sister, Mrs. Charles II. Jolls, rich and
poor, Democrat and Republican, stood
with clasped hands around his bier and
wept with an overwhelming sorrow.
In the procession, which left at 2
o'clock for the Cooper family burial
plot on their Willow Grove home farm,
were state and county officials. Assem-
blymen, editors. lawyers, bankers and
workingmen from almost every hamlet
in Delaware. A United States senator
sat weeping beside a group Of sorrow-
ing workingmen. Political leaders who
were sworn enemies on the stump
wept together as the minister told of
the sufferings of the brilliant young
Delawarean who died a prisoner. heart
broken at the thought of not being
able to obtain a pardon.
Senator Stephen Slaughter, of Dover,
took the place of United States Senator
Kenney as an active pall-bearer, Sen
ator Kenney's father having died
Thursday evening at Laurel. The pail
bearers were Recorder James Lord, of
Camden; Senator S. John Abbott, Of
milford; DR.. Beniah L. Lewis. Of Har-
lrington; former Clerk of Peace Will
liam Dickson, Of Willow Grove; Gen
eral Garrett J. Hart, of Wilmington,
and Senator Stephen Slaughter, of Do
ver.
Among the prominent Delawareans
lin attendance. a number Of whom
were honorary pall-bearers. were for
mer Governor Robert ]. Reynolds, Of
Willow Grove; Hon. Levi c. Bird, Of
Wilmington; United States Marshal
John Cannon Short, of Bridgeville;
President of the Senate c. Harry Sal
mons, OF Summit Bridge; Speaker
Hezekiah Harrington, of Harrington;
former Representative w. F. Davis. Of
Smyrna; Andrew c. Gray, former Reg
lister John X. Bradford, ex-Judge David
IT. Marvel, former Postmaster Enoch
Moore, Of Wilmington; former Register
H. Wilkins Cooch, of Cooch's Bridge;
former Representatives Nicholas John
son, Hon. ]. W. Harrington, of Farm
ington; Solicitor John Biggs, of the
2 Pennsylvania railroad Clerk ]. Thomas
Baxter, of the Senate; Superindent E.
P. Stacey, of the Baltimore and Della
ware Bay railroad; Deputy Collector
of the Port of Wilmington W. Alex
ander Comegys, of Middletown; J.
: frank Biggs, former Clerk of New
Castle County William p. Biggs, OF
Middletown; Joseph T. Hoffecker, J. G.
Jones, William Penn Shockley, Editor
Thomas f. Dunn, of the Index; Editor
lWilliam Salisbury, of the Delawarean;
Colonel w. H. Stevens. editor of the
Seaford News. Henry e. Cain. Post
master John w. Jolls, of Middletown.
Supervisor of the Census Rev. Jona-
than S. Willis, of Milford; County
= Chairman G. A. Millington. Of Kont;
D County Chairman e. D. Hearne of Sus-
sex; Colonel Armon D. Chaytor, OF
. Wilmington; Magistrate Peter L. Coop
: er, Senator Robert H. Lewis, Presi-
, Dental Elector D. Miffin Wilson, for
y mer Secretary of State John D. Haw-
= kins, Detective n. H. Hutchins, of tn,
delaware railroad; Ezekiel Cooper, o.
the Farmers Bank, all of Dover.
Secretar.- of State James H. Hughes
. of Dover; former State Treasurer vii
/, lbur L. Burnite, of FELTON,; former Clerl
: Of the Souse Geopge W. Spicer, o.
Marshallton; Acting President JOIN
- Hum. o. the First National Bank; Sec
i retary 3. N. Brown, of the Delaware
, State Agricultural Society; DR.. E. w
- Cooper. president of the State Board o
- Medical Examiners; Editor Calel
ls Freeman, of the Middletown New Era
:, Paymaster c. c. Clifton, and Chief su
pervisor John Mahoney, of the Della
ware railroad; DR.. w. II. Cooper, col
lector nf the port of Wilmington
N President William A. Scott, of the Lev,
% Court of New Castle county; Registra
10 in Chancery Colen Ferguson, of Black
n bird.