[or-roots] Re: Cooper's, Cooper's, and more Cooper's
Marsha Bradley-Luthy
pmml at wvi.com
Mon Nov 3 15:46:15 PST 2003
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From: Marsha Bradley-Luthy
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Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 3:43 PM
Subject: Cooper's, Cooper's, and more Cooper's
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
page 7.
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