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Date: Nov 5, 2007 2:30 PM
Subject: Fwd: 1917 Obit of Cooper Man
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THE PARIS NEWS, January 21, 1917, 
A LEADING COOPER MAN
CLAIMED BY DEATH--
   J.R. Albright, a prominent drygoods merchant and capitalist, died at 3
o'clock yesterday afternoon at his home in Cooper of pneumonia after an
illness of eight days.  He was forty-five years old and came to Texas from
Tennessee.  He had been a resident of Cooper for the past twenty years and
was one of the leading spirits of the town in every enterprise that made for
its growth and progress.
   Besides being connected with the Cooper Mercantile Company he was
interested in the Hudson-Davis company of Paris and the Pirtle Dry Goods
company of Deport.  He was also interested in the banking business, being
vice president of the Farmers National bank of Cooper at the time of his
death.  He was a member of the Presbyterian church, a prominent Mason, a man
of finde (sic) sense of honor, and ranked high in business and social circles.
   He was married in Cooper after going there from Tennessee and is
survived by his wife and two sons and a daughter.  His wife was Miss Mamie
McKinney, a sister of ex-County Attorney Chas. C. McKinney, and he was
brother-in-law of Dr. Walter McCuistion of Paris.
   The funeral service will be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon at Cooper
and will be attended by a number of his friends in Paris, who will go down
on a special train, leaving here at 12:30 o'clock.  Any person desiring to
go on the train as a regular passenger can do so by paying the regular
fare.  
   Transcribed by Debra Cornett Usry.