The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-04-21
ROBERT LOVE COOPER.
MEMORIAL EXERCISES HELD
FRIDAY IN HIS HONOR.
Tho Resolutions of Respect Adopted
speeches by Members of the Bar
Court Adjourned Sine Die.

OF the Court of Common Pleas was
discontinued for the purpose of doing
honor to the memory of the late Rob-
ert Love Cooper. the senior member
of the Sumter Bar Association.
Hon. e. C. Haynsworth offered the
following resolution. and moved that
1t be entered upon the minutes Of the
Court:
Robert Love Cooper, senior men,
Der of the Sumter Bar, departed this
life on the 10th day OF October, 1908.
aged g. years.
He was educated at the South Car
olina Military Academy and while a
cadet, took part in the military oper-
ations in Charlestonh arbor. Upon
his graduation in 1868, he enlisted in
the Confederate army as a private.
Flo was soon, however, appointed
lieutenant in the First Regiment of
South Carolina regular artillery and
was engaged in all the subsequent
operations of that command chiefly
around the City OF Charleston.
Upon the close of the war, he
studied law in the office of his BROTH
er-in-law, the late Judge T. B. Fra
ser, and was after his admission to
the Bar. a member Of the firms of
Fraser, Haynsworth and Cooper.
Haynsworth & Cooper, and ut the
time Of his death was the senior men,
be~ of the firm of Cooper & Fraser
AS soldier of the Confederacy. his
gallantry was so marked, that he was.
on several occasions, commended In
general orders for distinguished BRAY
cry. To his last hour he cherished
profound affection for the memory
Of the Confederacy which he had
fought to establish.
{ AS a lawyer, he had been trained
In the old school of conservatism with
minute care for the exacting details
Of the profession, and he stood for
It's highest ideals.
Those doing business with him al
ways had the most perfect assurance
that all affairs, however weighty, that
might be entrusted to him, would re-
ceive the closest attention and be
concluded with the most exact cor
rcctness.
Both in his professional life and as
citizen, he was the soul of honor
and was an exemplar of all that is
high and noble in Southern gentle
man.
His patriotism was broad and deep
and while he shrank from any con-
spiouous part in public affairs, his in
fiuence for the right was Of great
weight
He loved the beautiful In both ma
ture and art. His memory for beau
tiful passages gathered from wide
reading was encyclopaedia, and he
was remarkably gifted in illustrating
his conversation with striking quota
tions from authors I'm his own and
| other languages. He was one Of those
who illustrated in these latter days,
the culture and refinement of the old
| South.
He was a devout and consistent
| member, and at the time of his death
an officer, of the Episcopal church
| Therefore, be it Resolved, That IN
the death Of Mr.. r. L. Cooper the
Bar Of Sumter has lost member who
stood for all that was highest and
| best in the professional life and his
State has lost citizen unexcelled II
all civic virtues.
That page in the minutes Of this
Court be suitably inscribed to his
memory and that copies Of these Res
| Olutions be suitably engrossed anC
| transmitted to his family and that the
Court do, as a further mark of re-
spect to his memory, be adjourn. {
sine die.
| 'ioh' " ~ Lee, ITeSiucnt Ol the TO-
cal Ear Association, Mai. Marion Mo
ise, Judge r.. o. Purdy, Mai. II. Frank
Wilson, Mark Reynolds, ESQ, and III
G. Haynsworth, ESQ. spoke to the
resolution offered, paying most beau
tiful tributes Of respect tn the If,
character, worth and memory of the
accomplished lawyer. patriotic c.ti-
zen, and noble gentleman whose
memory they sought to honor. y
the conclusion Of the addresses. as
further mark of respect, Judge Gar.
ordered the Court adjourned sine die