Cooper Family
The Cooper Family of Overton County
This page is archived, so e-mail links are likely dead. However, the Internet Archive will take you to linked pages. Click here.
Descendants of Nathaniel Cooper
This information is from a Bell Family Web site containing descendancy details on multiple surnames. Click here to view the site via the Internet Archive.
Cooper-Greene Co.,Tn.>Overton/Jackson/White Co., Tn.>Hamilton Co., Ill.>Mo., Ark.>Tex.>Wash.
Nathaniel Cooper b. abt 1765
m.
(1) unknown
(2) Christiana Hughes 1 Aug 1791 in Greene Co., Tn.
(3) Sally Montgomery 13 Oct 1846 in White Co., Tn.
Child of first marriage:
a. William Cooper m. Sarah Borden
Children of second marriage:
b. David Cooper m. Parthena __________
c. Kennedy Cooper m. Susannah Keesie
d. Sarah Cooper m. William Poteet
e. Keziah Cooper m. Wilson Wilmoth
f. Thomas Cooper m. Catherine Rogers
g. James Cooper m. Susanna Travis
Notes on this family:
The Coopers left Greene County, Tennessee about 1814 and settled in Overton County, Tennessee. A large number of descendants still live there today. Most were farmers while others became wheelwrights, blacksmiths and Baptist Ministers.
More information on this family can be found at [old link with Bible transcriptions, now dead except via Internet Archive. See next section.]
Bible of John Cannady Cooper
(transcriber unknown; available via the Internet Archive only)
Marriage:
John C. Cooper and Rhoda Patton–Apr. 17, 1834 by Richard F. Cook, Esq., Jackson County, Tennessee
Births:
John Cannady Cooper b. Dec. 17, 1814, Overton Co., Tn.
Rhoda Patton b. Sep. 17, 1816
James Monroe Cooper b. July 19, 1835, Jackson Co., Tn.
Sarah Emeliza Cooper b. Jan. 27, 1837, Overton Co., Tn.
William Thomas Cooper b. July 4, 1839, Jackson Co., Tn.
Mary Jane Cooper b. Mar. 28, 1841, Jackson Co., Tn.
David Franklin Cooper b. Aug. 21, 1845, Jackson Co., Tn.
Martha Ann Cooper b. Apr. 11, 1849, Jackson Co., Tn.
Smith Webb Cooper b. July 24, 1851, Jackson Co., Tn.
Alexander Smith Cooper b. Apr. 28, 1853, Jackson Co., Tn.
Susan Priscilla Cooper b. Feb. 17, 1855, Jackson Co., Tn.
Deaths:
Smith Webb Cooper d. Aug. 8, 1851, buried in Col. Smith’s family burying ground.
John C. Cooper d. Mar. 24, 1865
Bible of Madison Lafayette Cooper
(transcriber unknown; available via the Internet Archive only)
Marriages:
Madison L. Cooper md. Hettie Hatfield on Aug. 3, 1862
Madison L. Cooper md. Amanda M. Hatfield on Apr. 17, 1892
John N. Abbott md. Sarah Tennessee Cooper on Oct. 22, 1893
Births:
Madison L. Cooper b. May 21, 1844
Hettie Cooper b. Feb. 18, 1844
Amanda M. Cooper b. Sept. 15, 1858
C.W. Cooper b. Oct. 30, 1810
Elizabeth Cooper b. Dec. 25, 1822
Roena E. Cooper b. May 27, 1863
Martha A. Cooper b. June 29, 1865
Louisa A. Cooper b. May 1, 1868
Nancy J. Cooper b. Feb. 10, 1871
Infant b. dead Apr. 15, 1872
Louis W. Cooper b. Apr. 11, 1873
Sarah T. Cooper b. Jan. 14, 1877
Arthur T. Cooper b. Aug. 1, 1879
Deaths:
Hettie Cooper d. Sep. 10, 1882
Nancy J. Cooper d. Feb. 13, 1871
Arthur T. Cooper d. Jan. 13, 1880
C.W. Cooper d. July 6, 1887
Martha A. Bell d. Mar. 20, 1890
Elizabeth Cooper d. Apr. 11, 1910
Louis Cooper d. Jan. 2, 1915
Amanda M. Cooper d. Feb. 27, 1917
Bible of Louis Dice Cooper
(transcriber unknown; available via the Internet Archive only)
(one page missing)
William Cooper b. May 19, 1786
d. Sept. 20, 1856
Sarah Cooper b. Aug. 18, 1785
Caleb Witt Cooper b. Oct. 31, 1810
m. #1–on Oct. 5, 1831 to Nancy Cooper b. Oct. 28, 1811
Ch. 1. Sarah C. Cooper b. Aug. 4, 1832
Ch. 2. Sintha S. Cooper b. May 12, 1834
Ch. 3. Pirlina J. Cooper b. Apr. 21, 1836
Ch. 4. Thomas R. Cooper b. Apr. 27, 1838
Ch. 5. James A. Cooper b. Sept. 20, 1840
m. #2–on March 24, 1842 to Elizabeth Cooper b. December 25, 1822
Ch. 1. Madison L. Cooper b. May 21, 1844
Ch. 2. Louisa S. Cooper b. Sept. 27, 1846
Ch. 3. Calvin C. Cooper b. June 19, 1850
Ch. 4. Louis Dice Cooper b. June 11, 1853
Ch. 5. Marion S. Cooper b. Aug. 21, 1854
Deaths:
Nancy Cooper d. Sept. 22, 1841
Marion Cooper d. Nov. 4, 1857
Jane _______? d. Oct. 18, 1885
Thomas Cooper d. Oct. 30, 1885
Caleb W. Cooper d. July 6, 1887
Louis D. Cooper d. Feb. 21, 1931
Hettie Cooper d. Sept. 10, 1882
Mary _____ d. Feb. 19, 1888 killed in cyclone–baby not hurt
Other births and deaths:
__________ Cooper b. May 21, 1893 d. May 27, 1894
Minnie Cooper b. Apr. 7, 1894
Ada (Lorene) Cooper b. Dec. 2, 1895
Mary Bell Yarbrough b. July 4, 1877 d. Apr. 29, 1958
Flossie Bell Cooper b. Sept. 23, 1900 d. July 10, 1982
Lola May Cooper b. Apr. 20, 1903 d. Mar. 17, 1988
Nola Fay Cooper b. Apr. 20, 1903 d. June 23, 1914
George Ray Cooper b. Sept. 3, 1907 d. Feb. 1942
Daisy Myrtle Cooper b. Feb. 10, 1909
Hattie Cooper b. Sept. 7, 1912 d. June 15, 1914
Opal Doris Cooper b. Mar. 30, 1917
Bible of Thomas Wit Cooper, son of James Anderson Cooper
(transcriber unknown; available via the Internet Archive only)
William Cooper b. May 19, 1786
Sarah Cooper b. July 18, 1785
Caleb Wit Cooper b. Oct. 31, 1810
Nancy C. Mathews b. Oct. 28, 1812
Elizabeth West b. Dec. 25, 1822
James Anderson Cooper b. Sep. 20, 1840 d. Nov. 20, 1900
Harriet Hatfield b. Sept. 28, 1842 d. Oct. 16, 1930
Thomas Wit Cooper b. at Liberty, Casey, Ky. on Feb. 9, 1867 married Martha Jane Edwards on Dec. 3, 1885 at Keighley, Kans.
Harry Ulyssus Cooper b. at Leon, Kans. on Sept. 29, 1886 d. at Enterprise, Ore. on Jan. 1, 1919 md. Mabel E. Haverland at Eltopa, Wash. on Apr. 18, 1909
Maudie May Cooper b. at Leon, Kans. on Apr. 9, 1889 md. Clinton Chapman on July 12, 1906
Lena Agnes Cooper b. at Daisy, Wash. on May 22, 1891 md. Ira Compton at Baker, Ore. on Feb. 13, 1911
Charles Anderson Cooper b. at Daisy, Wash. on May 9, 1896 md. Olive Herrick at Daisy, Wash. on Jan. 1, 1915
Joseph Wit Cooper b. at Daisy, Wash. on Apr. 10, 1898 md. Ferne Unabel Duthie at Dinuba, Calif. on Mar. 21, 1920
Mary Marie Cooper b. at Daisy, Wash. on Dec. 5, 1900 md. Ivan Burkett at Reedly, Calif. on Oct. 11, 1920
Bible of Carl Cooper
(transcriber unknown; available via the Internet Archive only)
Carl Cooper born Jan. 22, 1898 at Taylorville, Ill.
Merrill Eugene Cooper born Nov. 27, 1900 at Bloomington, Ill.
Aulcie Wilburn Cooper born Nov. 27, 1900 at Bloomington, Ill.
Alice Louise Cooper born Jan. 10, 1904 at Riverton, Ill.
James H. Cooper born Feb. 12, 1903 died July 2, 1903
Alicia Louise Cooper was born on Friday, Nov. 9, 1928
Mary Elizabeth Cooper was born on Monday, Jan. 11, 1932
Jerry Gene Cooper born Monday, May 20th 1940 at McLeansboro, Hamilton County
Migration to/from Overton County
Contributed by Virginia Marie Flowers
Eng to USA 1700’s – NY early 1700’s PA, mid -late 1700’s KY, early 1800’s TN mid 1800’s to mid 1900’s GA mid 1900’s NC late 1900’s to pres time
Currently there are only two adult males and one teenage boy and young lad from this direct Cooper line to continue – one young lady and a grandgirl.
This family is also related to some of the SMITH family HAMBY, COX on the maternal side. We are linked in with the YORKs, MITCHEL and have a long research dating way back over seas.