[or-roots] Cooper's, Cooper's, and more Cooper's

[Marsha Bradley-Luthy]

Centennial souvenir 
          Seven 
Cooper Brothers
 and three 
sisters
Children and descendants of 
Elder E. E. Cooper
and 
Nancy Cooper
1812 to 1813
1912 to 1913

Elbert's mother's maiden name was Patience Back.  When he was fifteen years of age his father died and left him the eldest of seven children, to 
assist his mother in providing for and educating them.  Working at home and abroad at such occupations as were offered.  He was married August 8,1833 to Miss Nancy Wann, daughter of William and Lydia Stockton Wann, in Meigs County, Tennessee.  Later they settled in Bradley County, in that state, beign then in the Cherokee Nation.  In this primitive home 
three children were born: 
 William Henry Cooper
Daniel Jackson Cooper 
Elizabeth Ann Cooper

The little growing family then moved to Missouri in 1839 and settled on 
a land claim in Rock Prairie, near where is now Halltown, Lawrence County where is now Halltown Lawrence County, where nine more children were born to them:
James Shelby Cooper
Louisa Ellen Cooper 
Jacob Calvin Cooper
Sarah Jane Cooper
Riley Davis Cooper
Lydia Margaret Cooper
John Emerson Cooper
Elbert Woods Cooper 
Nancy Patience Cooper 

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