Coker v. Cooper's Estate

The consideration of this case carries us back to antebellum days, and gives us a partial view of life among the slaves “way down on the Suwanee river”; for there on the verdant banks of that seductive stream abode one Creecy Brandon, a damsel of dusky hue, who at that time found favor in the sight of one H. C. Cooper, another slave. After emancipation, Cooper joined the army and marched away in the uniform of a soldier, never again to return; for he settled at Houston, Tex., where he lived to a ripe old age. But the record shows that his heart “was turning ever” to Georgia’s song-famed…