Washington, Mar. 15—Lee M. Cooper of Georgetown, S.C., well known and very popular in this city, was instantly killed Saturday afternoon about 5 o’clock when the automobile in which he was a passenger turned turtle about 16 miles from Charleston, S.C., near Goose Creek. C.P. Young, the driver, was uninjured. The accident occurred in a blinding wind storm and the sand clay road on which they were riding was slippery. It is thought that the ill-fated car skidded on the slick road and finally turned over.
Cooper was born and raised at Old Ford, near this city, but for several years has been manager of the Wedgfield plantation, one of the show places of South Carolina. He would have been 26 years old in May. He and Young had started for Charleston from Georgetown, where the plantation is located, when the tragedy happened.
Lee is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.A. Cooper, two brothers, Robert Nash of this city and Frank, who is connected with the British American Tobacco Co in Africa, and one sister, Mrs. R.G. Thompson of Mebane. The young man was well known in this city and news of his death brings deep regret to a number of friends here.
The funeral services were held at the home of his parents, which is on the Williamston and Washington highway, yesterday afternoon, and interment was made in the family cemetery at Old Ford.
From the front page of The Enterprise, Williamston, N.C., Tuesday, March 16, 1926
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