cause of death: heart disease
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(The Gospel Advocate, February 4, 1915, page 104)

Cooper, Emmeline Dorris

Mrs. Emmeline Dorris Cooper died Wednesday night, September 16, at her home, 200 Sixth Avenue, South, aged sixty-eight years. At supper she was apparently as well as usual, but soon after the evening meal she was discovered to be breathing deeply and before medical assistance could be summoned expired in her chair. She was the wife of William T. Cooper, deceased, and a daughter of Dr. William D. Dorris. Her father and mother were among the original members of the old Church Street Christian Church, and Mrs. Cooper joined the same church when a girl and was baptized by Alexander Campbell. She was the treasurer of the Vine Street Christian Church Ladies' Aid Society for eighteen years and of the old Nashville Relief Society (now the United Charities) for seventeen years. She organized a Christian Church at Monterey. With the exception of one sister, she had outlived all her brothers and sisters. She came of a large family.

Elder C. A. Moore conducted the funeral services at the College Street Christian Church.

The foregoing notice, taken from one of our city dailies, shows that Sister Cooper was a devoted, earnest, Christian woman. She engaged actively in Christian work from her earliest connection with the church. When young, she fell in with the customs of the age and worked in the less objectionable societies that had been adopted in the churches. In later years, seeing the dangerous extremes to which these innovations were run, she rejected them all and sought to serve God through his appointed organization alone. She believed it right for Christians to work to feed and clothe the poor and to send the gospel abroad, but she thought it should be done by the churches of Christ, and not by human organizations.

She was always a regular attendant at the services of the church and took an active part in any work done by the church. As a means of supporting herself, she learned stenography and became an expert in this art. She helped many young people by teaching them and waiting until they were able to earn the money to pay for their tuition.

In the latter years of her life, by the rise in value of some real estate in the city, she became possessed of greater means, and was always as ready to use her money in every good work as she was her personal efforts. Her charitable deeds and gifts were always unostentatious, and, if it were possible, her name was unknown to the recipient. She was interested in young people and had them with her on frequent occasions, and always sought to improve, elevate, and make them Christians.

When the Nashville Bible School was begun, she and her husband were interested in the work and helped it forward in many ways. After her husband's death, she continued a warm friend of the school till her own death, and, after providing in her will for her afflicted sister, she left the remainder of her property to it.