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Roxie was two when George died and as an adult did not know about her older brother until Mary Glass found the following newspaper article in the 1970s.  George also appears in 1896 birth records and the 1900 census.  The family never spoke of him during her childhood.

Tribune-Telegraph

  

Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio,  Wednesday, July 16, 1902

A Fatal Accident

A Little Syracuse Boy Run Over and Killed by a Wagon this Evening

A six year old son of Thomas Cooper met with a fatal accident at the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Blake, at Syracuse this evening. The child, it is supposed, was climbing up on the wheels of a wagon, that was standing at the side of the road on the top of a hill near the house, when the wagon started down the steep grade, throwing the child under the wheels. Its neck was broken and death was almost instantaneous.  (transcription from microfilm by Mary Glass)

George was twelve days away from his sixth birthday.  George Cooper: 28 July 1896 – 16 July 1902

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