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R E S O L U T I O N
?xFT-72REAS, an all wise providence has seen fit to remove from our midst
our beloved and esteemed citizen and former City iltttorney, Ashley
Cockrill, and
=EREAS, Mr. Cockrill departed this life on April 4th, 19' 2 at the age
of fifty -nine _-ears, and
"'fT7171 ^. '+.Tr. Cockrill was connected with the City of Little Pock from
1902 to 1906 as City Attorney, and
'7_ -TRy 5, he v,,as the legal advisor of the City of Little Rock for said
period and advised the City upon many important matters and conducted
many important law suits to a successful conclusion, and
?�;I'EREASI he had lived a very useful life in the Co �snunity and was part
of its civic life, his great - grandfather, Chester Ashley, beirg one of
the oricinal parties who laid out the City of Little Rock, and was
instrumental in securing -the removal of the Seat of Government from
the Post of Arkansas more than a century ago, and
ihMEREAS, he had devoted three years of his life to the Public School
Board of the City of Lit le Rock, and had always been an active church
man, a leader in the Civic, social and legal life of the City and State;
1MREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, That the City of Little Rock has lost a
valuable citizen, the Church a sincere member, t -e legal profession a
wise counsellor, his family a devoted husband and father and his mother
a dutiful and considerate son; that the City Council express to them
through this resolution its sympathy, and as an evicence thereof
that this resolution be spread upon the records of this Council, and
further, that a properly attested copy of this resolution be presented
to his wife and family and to his mother.
Adopte Yiay 9, 1932 Committee.
Attest: Approved:
City °rk. ��._ Mayor.
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