Maud Mae Sewell was born in Illinois on 2 July 1892 to Benjamin Franklin Sewell and Alia Alice Vaughn Sewell. Maud had one younger brother, Walter Sewell,who was born before their father died in 1894.
After the death of Benjamin Franklin Sewell, Alia Alice Vaughn Sewell married her second husband, Charles R. Bell.
Maud Mae Sewell married James S. Cooper ca 1906 and there were three children born of their union before Maud's death on 7 March 1921. Maude Mae Sewell Cooper was buried on 9 March 1921 in the Rose Hill Cemetery.
The Petersburg Observer, March, 1921, Vol. 47 No. 10
MRS. COOPER KILLED BY HUSBAND
MURDERED EARLY MONDAY MORNING AT HOME OF HER MOTHER EAST OF CITY;
James S. Cooper of Pekin stabbed his wife Maud Cooper to death at the home of her mother, Mrs. Charles R. Bell, three miles east of Petersburg. Mrs. Cooper, who was about 29 years old, had for four weeks been confined to a hospital in Springfield and had submitted to an operation for appendicitis. She had been out of the hospital a week, and had been staying at her mother's home until she gained back sufficient strength to go back to her home in Pekin, and care for her family. Cooper, who is owner of a broom factory in Pekin drove down in his car Saturday afternoon, bringing their two sons, fourteen and twelve years old and Ora Daniels, a boy who works for him, along. He came with the expectation of taking Mrs. Cooper back with him. About six o'clock Monday morning, Cooper went to the room where his wife and ten year old daughter Loraine were sleeping and asked Mrs. Cooper if she was going home with him. She replied "I don't know." Cooper then went to another room and after being gone only a few moments, came back, again asked her if she would accompany him home, and upon receiving the same reply, drew a knife and stabbed her through the right breast, the knife penetrating the lung, and causing her death in a few minutes. He is said to have struck two or three blows at the little daughter, but she was unhurt. After striking his wife, Cooper turned upon her brother Walter Sewell, and attacked him with the knife, inflicting eight wounds before he was overpowered by a step-brother Jesse Bell, who came to Walter Sewell's assistance. None of Sewell's wounds are thought to be serious, but he was taken to a hospital so that he might be given proper care. Cooper was tied and the Sheriff and Dr. H. P. Moulton summoned. Mrs. Cooper was dead when Dr. Moulton arrived, and Sheriff Granstaff brought Cooper to this city, where he was lodged in the County jail until Tuesday morning, when the inquest was held.
After the death of Benjamin Franklin Sewell, Alia Alice Vaughn Sewell married her second husband, Charles R. Bell.
Maud Mae Sewell married James S. Cooper ca 1906 and there were three children born of their union before Maud's death on 7 March 1921. Maude Mae Sewell Cooper was buried on 9 March 1921 in the Rose Hill Cemetery.
The Petersburg Observer, March, 1921, Vol. 47 No. 10
MRS. COOPER KILLED BY HUSBAND
MURDERED EARLY MONDAY MORNING AT HOME OF HER MOTHER EAST OF CITY;
James S. Cooper of Pekin stabbed his wife Maud Cooper to death at the home of her mother, Mrs. Charles R. Bell, three miles east of Petersburg. Mrs. Cooper, who was about 29 years old, had for four weeks been confined to a hospital in Springfield and had submitted to an operation for appendicitis. She had been out of the hospital a week, and had been staying at her mother's home until she gained back sufficient strength to go back to her home in Pekin, and care for her family. Cooper, who is owner of a broom factory in Pekin drove down in his car Saturday afternoon, bringing their two sons, fourteen and twelve years old and Ora Daniels, a boy who works for him, along. He came with the expectation of taking Mrs. Cooper back with him. About six o'clock Monday morning, Cooper went to the room where his wife and ten year old daughter Loraine were sleeping and asked Mrs. Cooper if she was going home with him. She replied "I don't know." Cooper then went to another room and after being gone only a few moments, came back, again asked her if she would accompany him home, and upon receiving the same reply, drew a knife and stabbed her through the right breast, the knife penetrating the lung, and causing her death in a few minutes. He is said to have struck two or three blows at the little daughter, but she was unhurt. After striking his wife, Cooper turned upon her brother Walter Sewell, and attacked him with the knife, inflicting eight wounds before he was overpowered by a step-brother Jesse Bell, who came to Walter Sewell's assistance. None of Sewell's wounds are thought to be serious, but he was taken to a hospital so that he might be given proper care. Cooper was tied and the Sheriff and Dr. H. P. Moulton summoned. Mrs. Cooper was dead when Dr. Moulton arrived, and Sheriff Granstaff brought Cooper to this city, where he was lodged in the County jail until Tuesday morning, when the inquest was held.
Maud Mae Sewell was born in Illinois on 2 July 1892 to Benjamin Franklin Sewell and Alia Alice Vaughn Sewell. Maud had one younger brother, Walter Sewell,who was born before their father died in 1894.
After the death of Benjamin Franklin Sewell, Alia Alice Vaughn Sewell married her second husband, Charles R. Bell.
Maud Mae Sewell married James S. Cooper ca 1906 and there were three children born of their union before Maud's death on 7 March 1921. Maude Mae Sewell Cooper was buried on 9 March 1921 in the Rose Hill Cemetery.
The Petersburg Observer, March, 1921, Vol. 47 No. 10
MRS. COOPER KILLED BY HUSBAND
MURDERED EARLY MONDAY MORNING AT HOME OF HER MOTHER EAST OF CITY;
James S. Cooper of Pekin stabbed his wife Maud Cooper to death at the home of her mother, Mrs. Charles R. Bell, three miles east of Petersburg. Mrs. Cooper, who was about 29 years old, had for four weeks been confined to a hospital in Springfield and had submitted to an operation for appendicitis. She had been out of the hospital a week, and had been staying at her mother's home until she gained back sufficient strength to go back to her home in Pekin, and care for her family. Cooper, who is owner of a broom factory in Pekin drove down in his car Saturday afternoon, bringing their two sons, fourteen and twelve years old and Ora Daniels, a boy who works for him, along. He came with the expectation of taking Mrs. Cooper back with him. About six o'clock Monday morning, Cooper went to the room where his wife and ten year old daughter Loraine were sleeping and asked Mrs. Cooper if she was going home with him. She replied "I don't know." Cooper then went to another room and after being gone only a few moments, came back, again asked her if she would accompany him home, and upon receiving the same reply, drew a knife and stabbed her through the right breast, the knife penetrating the lung, and causing her death in a few minutes. He is said to have struck two or three blows at the little daughter, but she was unhurt. After striking his wife, Cooper turned upon her brother Walter Sewell, and attacked him with the knife, inflicting eight wounds before he was overpowered by a step-brother Jesse Bell, who came to Walter Sewell's assistance. None of Sewell's wounds are thought to be serious, but he was taken to a hospital so that he might be given proper care. Cooper was tied and the Sheriff and Dr. H. P. Moulton summoned. Mrs. Cooper was dead when Dr. Moulton arrived, and Sheriff Granstaff brought Cooper to this city, where he was lodged in the County jail until Tuesday morning, when the inquest was held.
After the death of Benjamin Franklin Sewell, Alia Alice Vaughn Sewell married her second husband, Charles R. Bell.
Maud Mae Sewell married James S. Cooper ca 1906 and there were three children born of their union before Maud's death on 7 March 1921. Maude Mae Sewell Cooper was buried on 9 March 1921 in the Rose Hill Cemetery.
The Petersburg Observer, March, 1921, Vol. 47 No. 10
MRS. COOPER KILLED BY HUSBAND
MURDERED EARLY MONDAY MORNING AT HOME OF HER MOTHER EAST OF CITY;
James S. Cooper of Pekin stabbed his wife Maud Cooper to death at the home of her mother, Mrs. Charles R. Bell, three miles east of Petersburg. Mrs. Cooper, who was about 29 years old, had for four weeks been confined to a hospital in Springfield and had submitted to an operation for appendicitis. She had been out of the hospital a week, and had been staying at her mother's home until she gained back sufficient strength to go back to her home in Pekin, and care for her family. Cooper, who is owner of a broom factory in Pekin drove down in his car Saturday afternoon, bringing their two sons, fourteen and twelve years old and Ora Daniels, a boy who works for him, along. He came with the expectation of taking Mrs. Cooper back with him. About six o'clock Monday morning, Cooper went to the room where his wife and ten year old daughter Loraine were sleeping and asked Mrs. Cooper if she was going home with him. She replied "I don't know." Cooper then went to another room and after being gone only a few moments, came back, again asked her if she would accompany him home, and upon receiving the same reply, drew a knife and stabbed her through the right breast, the knife penetrating the lung, and causing her death in a few minutes. He is said to have struck two or three blows at the little daughter, but she was unhurt. After striking his wife, Cooper turned upon her brother Walter Sewell, and attacked him with the knife, inflicting eight wounds before he was overpowered by a step-brother Jesse Bell, who came to Walter Sewell's assistance. None of Sewell's wounds are thought to be serious, but he was taken to a hospital so that he might be given proper care. Cooper was tied and the Sheriff and Dr. H. P. Moulton summoned. Mrs. Cooper was dead when Dr. Moulton arrived, and Sheriff Granstaff brought Cooper to this city, where he was lodged in the County jail until Tuesday morning, when the inquest was held.
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