User Home Page Book: Jewish Cherokees: An Account of Some Sand Mountain Families, Part 2
| Prev Page | Prev Item | Contents | Index | Go to Page | Home Page | Next Item | Next Page |
Page 4 of 90
An Account of Some Sand Mountain Families, Part 2
Cooper, Gaines (1833-1870), railroader, another son of Isaac and Jane Cooper, bought land in Fractional Township in DeKalb County on Sand Mountain, Sec. 10, Twp. 5S, Range 9E, July 15, 1854. Gaines comes from the Blevins family and is a form of Goins (from Hebrew goyin "impure, Christian, convert").
Cooper, Harmon (1830-1879), railroader, married Maliah (Delia) Francis, the great-great-great-granddaughter of trader David Francis and Isaqueena, sometimes called the Carolina Pocahontas. Malea is a Hebrew name meaning "ripe, sweet." Died of scrofula at the age of 49, in Shellmound, Marion County, Tennessee, whereupon Malilah and family moved to East Texas. Harmon is a form of Hiram, the name of the Levite builder of the Temple in Jerusalem.
Cooper, Henry Labon (about 1745 - after 1830), wainswright, planter and land developer. During the Revolution, Henry served as a private in the 2nd Corps D'Elite of Green's Virginia Militia from the Watauga Country, under the name Henry Laban. Afterwards, listed as Enrico Labon Cooper (p. 26) his name appears in the "Mobile Names" of San Esteban de Tombecbe (Tombigbe, St. Stephens), and he was one of the North Carolinians on the surrender list of 1781 when the Spanish established control of the hinterlands of Mobile (Enrico Cooper), along with a William (Guilielmo) Cooper:Archivo General de Indias in Seville, previously Havana Cuba (Papelas de Cuba) 2359: 417-18. He took an oath of allegiance and served as corporal together with another Enrico, probably Houston Cooper, his son, and Samuel and William (Guilielmo), brothers, all appearing on a 1787 Spanish census of Second Creek (p. 105, Anglo Americans in Spanish Archives. Lists of Anglo-American Settlers in the Spanish Colonies of America. A Finding Aid, by Lawrence H. Feldman, Baltimore:Genealogical Publishing County, 1991). In 1789, Henry, Samuel & William Cooper were tobacco growers in Second and Sandy Creek, now TN/AL/MS tri-state area (List of Tobacco Growers, Spanish Natchez District, 1790). In one season alone, they grew 21,200 pounds. This became the Tri-state Mussel Shoals area between Corinth, Mississippi, Florence, Alabama and Waynesboro, Tennessee It is interesting that the Coopers seemed to choose ambiguous areas on state lines to settle; another such area favored by them was the Chattanooga area, and yet another was the Little South Fork area in Tennessee/Kentucky Before this he lived in Bute County, where he was a member of the Masonic Temple, and Caswell County, N.C., where he was overseer of roads and a wheelwright.
Henry Cooper is listed in Davidson County, Tennessee Register of Deeds 1798-1802 Vol. E (A-G): he was a resident of Sumner County and bought 640 acres on the west side of the Harpeth River at the mouth of the South Harpeth from John Nichols.Henry's granddaughter Delitha Cooper later married Wilson Nichols. Henry paid John Nichols $900 cash; the deed included "all advantages, ways, water courses, mines and minerals." Henry's daughter Nancy married a Nicholas, perhaps the same surname. Both Nichols and Nicholas are Sephardic Jewish and Melungeon surnames. There is a Nicholas Springs on Copper Ridge near Clinch Mountain.Grants south of Green River, DEED BOOK 1 p. 324, 325 Francis WYATTE to Henry COOPER 1795 Agreement. Later in life he moved to Wayne County, Kentucky where he patented 80 acres on Buffalo Creek. Still later, he hid with his grandson James in Rutherford County, Tennessee, near Black Fox's camp. He may have managed to flee with other family members to St. Tammany Parish near New Orleans.
Cooper, Isaac (about 1775 - about 1845). A son of Henry Cooper, Isaac is first attested in the List of Taxes and Taxable property in the bounds of Capt. (William) Bean's Company, returned by William Stone, Esquire, 1799. This was in Cherokee country along the Holston River and Clinch Mountain in Tennessee, later Grainger County, also known as the Watauga Settlement, or State of Franklin. William Bean Sr.'s was the first white cabin in those parts. 1800 May 20:Grainger Deed from Elizabeth Bean and Robert Blair for one hundred acres proven in open court. Let it be registered for Isaac Cooper. (WPA) Grainger County Court Minutes 1796-1801, p. 170. The original indenture is dated Oct. 11, 1799 and was registered July 9, 1800 (Grainger Register of Deeds, Vol. A-B:Sept. 1796-1811, Vol. A, p. 273). It conveyed 100 of an original parcel of 200 acres adjoining his land on German Creek to Isaac Cooper. This was near the second Bean's Station on the saddle of land leading over the ridge of Clinch Mountain called Copper Ridge (prob. after William Cooper, Isaac's grandfather). Two years later, Isaac resold the land to Stephen Brundige (Bunch?) at a handsome profit (Vol. A, p. 259). Elizabeth Bean was the widow of William Bean, Jr. who died in Grainger County in 1798. Her maiden name was Blair; she remarried to a Shaw. Capt. William Bean was a son of the famous Mrs. Lydia Russell Bean whose life was saved by the Beloved Woman of the Cherokee, Nancy Ward; his first marriage was with Rachel Ball. He married Elizabeth Blair in Tennessee in 1782. The Bean-Blair-Cooper deed was all "within the family," as these are related Sephardic Jewish and Melungeon lines. By 1810, Isaac had moved again. He is listed in the Wayne County, Kentucky 1810 census: COOPER, Isaac 21010-21010-00. In 1814, he was granted a certificate that later entitled him to 4x50 acres (200 total) of land in Wayne County, Kentucky, pursuant to the treaty with the Cherokee Indians at Tellico (Treaty of Oct. 25, 1805). The land was on the Little South Fork in Tellico Bounds, on Lonesome Creek. The survey for his tract was dated June 10, 1815. Beginning about the same time, he gradually bought parcels of land in Sumner County, near Gallatin. In 1820, as the Cherokee continued to be squeezed south, he left Wayne County, Kentucky for Jackson County, Alabama, and in 1830 he is found living on the Sumner County land. None of these stratagems worked out, possibly because of Nancy, his wife, a full-blood and the daughter of Chief Black Fox. The paper trail Isaac and Nancy chose over the Trail of Tears ends in Monongalia County, Virginia/W.Virginia, 1834-45, where he was involved in a series of land transactions and then disappears from view.
Cooper, Isaac (about 1804-1847) was a mixed blood Cherokee-Choctaw and Jewish railroader from Kentucky who died during the Mexican War in Vera Cruz, MexiCounty He is probably buried in or near the Church of San Francisco, built 1775, once part of a Franciscan convent, then used as a hospital by the American army during the 1847-1848 occupation of Vera Cruz. It is located in the port area, near the Plaza de la Reforma. He married Mahala Jane Blevins of the Long Hunter Blevins family, and she received a widow's pension.
Isaac Cooper bought 50 acres of land on Beaver Creek in Wayne County around 1824. The survey was dated Jan. 29, 1824. He then bought land in Marion County, Tennessee, in the 1830s. He had moved there about 1825. He is counted in the 1830 census on page 58. There were seven in his household: 3 males under 5, 1 male 5-10 years old (Jackson Cooper?), 1 female under 5 and his wife 20-30 years old (Jenny Blevins?). He is mentioned as a landholder on Sequatchie Creek, Marion County Deed Book, p. 319. In 1831, he sold land in district four to Mary Porter and her family for $100. About 1838, he settled in Deerhead Cove, Dade County, Georgia, on the Alabama line (DeKalb County)
Isaac Cooper also evidently served in the Cherokee Wars during the latter part of the 1830s. There is a private by that name in Dossett's Company of 3rd Battalion of the Tennessee Infantry, also in Powell's County of Lindsay's Regiment of 1st Tennessee Mounted Volunteers. Many "friendly" Indians and halfbreeds joined the army and helped remove the Cherokees, often as scouts. Isaac would probably have been considered a Choctaw quarter-breed and not a Cherokee. See Index to Volunteer Soldiers in Indian Wars and Disturbances 1815-1858, by Virgil D. White (1994), based on NARA Microfilm M629 ("Cherokee War 1836-1839").
In 1833, while her husband Zack was away at war, Mrs. Cooper, said to be extremely beautiful, was raped while at her job by the railroad foreman, a McDaniel. Mariah Ann Cooper was born nine months later and raised as the Coopers' own daughter. In the Civil War, Mariah Ann was sent for safety to Ashe County, N.C. She never married. She died in 1927 and is buried in Bondtown Cemetery, Coeburn, Virginia
In 1840, Isaac Cooper appears to have been in Muscogee County, Georgia, perhaps in Columbus, a railroad hub. The household consisted of 1 male 10-15 years old, and 4 females ranging from under 5 to 15-10 years old, together with a female 30-40 years old (=Linny Blevins Cooper). He is listed as part of a whole page of men engaged in manufactures and trades; three of his household apparently worked for the railroad, which must have included his wife, Mahala Jane.
Isaac Cooper bought land on cash sales from the Lebanon land office in Dekalb County, Alabama, Sec. 27, Tsp. 3S, Range 10E (next to James Blevins, apparently right across the state line from Deerhead Cove, Dade County, Georgia) on two occasions:June 1, 1845 and April 10, 1847 (80 and 40 acres). In August of 1847, he enlisted in the army.
According to Billie Groening, Isaac Cooper joined the army August 5, 1847, in Dade County, and was a private in Calhoun's Battalion (D Company, Calhoun's Mounted Battalion, Georgia Infantry--his brother William was in the same outfit as a scout). He may also have served in Company J 1st Tennessee Mounted Infantry, enlisting in Alexandria and being discharged in New Orleans in 1847. Evidently, he was part of the gunnery, because of his metal-working and mechanical skills. He entered the hospital in Vera Cruz November 7, 1847 and died December 23, 1847. Gen. Winfield Scott, the conqueror of Mexico, was from KentucKentucky
According to Isaac's grandson Peter Cooper, "My grandmother Jane Cooper always said that the Indian Chief Fox always claimed to be akin to Grandfather Isaac Cooper" (Peter Cooper ECA docket).Peter Cooper also said, "They, Father and Grandfather, were recognized as white folks when they lived. They lived with white people. Never heard of them living with the Indian tribe except that they were in this state when the Indians left. They did not leave when the Indians left. I don't know why the Indians left." (Peter Cooper Testimony in care of George A. Cooper ꁾ supplementing Application 䲅, July 1, 1908). Isaac was called Zack by the family and his wife was known as Linny. Peter Cooper's ECA was rejected, appealed, and rejected again.
Cooper, John, Capt. (about 1771-1839), plantation owner and captain of the Choctaw Indians. He lived in Perry, Davidson and Lincoln County, Tennessee He also lived on Knappa Creek, Mississippi (in 1831), on the north side, and frequently visited relatives in Tishomingo County In 1836, he lived in Perry County on the west side of the Buffalo River near Linden in Tennessee. His family went over the Trail of Tears several times.
- "A man who cultivated his land, raising food for his family and livestock, Captain Cooper was surprised and shocked when the soldiers came in midwinter, January of 1836, and commanded an immediate removal of his family to the Indian Territory. They had only time to gather and pack a few necessities which the soldiers allowed to be tied on their horses' and mules' backs. They rode away toward their new home leaving behind their house, a structure of four rooms, a verandah separating the house from the smokehouse. They also left six cribs of corn and other important foods for their survival.
- When they arrived at the Mississippi River the ship or boats which they had been promised in writing were not there to take them across this very cold water. The soldiers, who were driving them had not been told of this promise. They used their only means of crossing, riding their swimming animals across. Many of their party drowned and they also lost most of their food and other necessities.
- "[Capt.] Cooper's wife [Nancy Ann Piles], who was ill when forced to start on the perilous journey, was physically unable to continue. A few miles from the Mississippi River in the state of Arkansas, the soldiers permitted the sick woman and their old mother [probably Molly Huston Cooper, wife of Henry Cooper] to be left in the wild and rugged country with her two daughters, Delitha and Narcissa. Gen. [sic] Cooper and his son and sons-in-law were made to continue their journey westward, driving their remaining cattle. There remains today a crossing in southeastern Oklahoma called Cooper's Landing, which was named for the courageous and faithful Choctaw husband and father. As soon as possible they escaped from the soldiers and made their way back to where the old mother and daughters were left. The mother had died two days after being abandoned. Delitha and Narcissa had survived by eating bark of trees and other plants and animals.
- "John Cooper was an educated Indian - spoke and wrote the English language. He fought in the war of 1812 with Andrew Jackson. The two men made a gentlemen's agreement that the Choctaws of Perry and Maury County, Tennessee were not to be moved to the Indian Territory until the spring of 1836. The two men continued to correspond and Andrew Jackson verified 'their promise in writing.' Our grandfather, John Cooper was deceived by this Democrat. He asked [page torn:that no one in the family would every vote for a Democrat again. They became staunch Republicans.]" (Pioneers of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Hist. Socy.).
- When they arrived at the Mississippi River the ship or boats which they had been promised in writing were not there to take them across this very cold water. The soldiers, who were driving them had not been told of this promise. They used their only means of crossing, riding their swimming animals across. Many of their party drowned and they also lost most of their food and other necessities.
Cooper, John (1847-1905). John Cooper bought 80 acres of land in Jackson County, 2 October 1885, E1/2 of NE1/4 of Section 29 T4S R9E, 7 acres residue part of SE1/4 of SE1/4 and 37 acras part of NE1/2 of SE1/4 of the same section, altogether 124 acres, plus on the same date a residue in S30 of DeKalb County On March 20, 1886 he bought more acreage in Sec. 30 Tsp. 4S Range 9E. All this lay between Rosalie in Jackson County and Pea Ridge in DeKalb. Some of the land was apparently purchased under the Homestead Act; Cooper's certificate was ཿ.He deeded 40 acres to his son James J. Cooper on November 4, 1901.His neighbor was Daniel Shrader. Other land owners were Zilmon Williams (his son's brother-in-law), William B. Kerby (his step-son) and Henry Blevins (cousin). This area was called Fractional Township and straddled the county line. Shrader's mill was located there, near the source of Bryants Creek, which flowed into Johnson Creek in nearby Pisgah, and the Wills Valley Railroad came through after the Civil War. Rosalie was the closest "place." It was a combination of meadow land and sandy loam, perfect for farming. On August 20, 1894, John Cooper deeded 80 acres in DeKalb County for $100 to his wife, Nancy E. Cooper (E 1/2 NE 1/4 S30 T4S R9E --Reverse Deed Book 3, page 69). Nancy Cooper had bought 40 acres in the same Section on June 2, 1884, and other land there under the Homestead Act on Nov. 20, 1884. John Cooper had entered into ownership October 2, 1885 (certificate 3967). She died shortly after the reverse deed. In 1891, some, if not, all the Cooper land was repossessed by the government (Suspended Land Entries vol. II, page 2284--78 acres Sec. 20 Tsp. 4N Range 9E).
Cooper, Jackson (1824-about 1879). According to Lily Wigley, nee Cooper, in 1907, "Grandfather Jack Cooper was enrolled, so I am informed. He, it is said, was of Cherokee blood." John Floyd Sizemore, Mary Ann Cooper's brother, mentions Jackson Cooper in a letter written to William C. Sizemore from Camp Springs, Tennessee, May 7, 1863:"Tell Stoner and Jackson Cooper to write to me and not be so dull no more." Jackson Cooper cannot be found in the 1860 census, though his large family does appear in the Alabama 1866 census, living in Fractional Township 4, Range 9 E in Jackson County (Sand Mountain). They were also counted in the same township in DeKalb County as J. Cooper. Their neighbors were Henegars, Thompson, Sizemores and Schraders. Their land straddled the county line. Lily Wigley's ECA 42035, along with those of her siblings and cousins, was denied. Jackson Cooper lived with his wife Mary Ann Sizemore and others, including Blevinses and Holloways in Shellmound, Tennessee He is listed as blind on the 1870 census.
Cooper, James (about 1795-1848) Isaac and Nancy Cooper's first-born, considered to be Cherokee-Choctaw of the Paint Clan, but moving primarily in the white world, deposed his brother Isaac Cooper on October 8, 1821 at his home in Jackson County, Alabama. At that time, the Tennessee River formed the boundary with Cherokee Lands, which included Sand Mountain.His home and improvements "on Wills Creek across the ridge from Copelands Mill" adjoining Eli Cooper was assessed in the fall of 1833 or spring of 1834 in accordance with the 1828 treaty with the Cherokee Nation. It consisted of 1 house (18 x 16) made of hewn logs with a board roof and plank floor "neated sealed with boards nailed on inside...1 door well cased and faced with plank, small window faced, joists and board loft...chimney well walled with Stone and Stone hearth." Outbuildings included a log kitchen, smokehouse, corn crib, two other cribs, hog lot, yard lot and garden lot "well fenced" (Valuations under the Treaty of 1828, Special Collections, Library, University of Tennessee Knoxville, No. 44, pp. 355-56).In the meantime, James Cooper received 50 acres on the Little South Fork of the Cumberland River, Wayne County, Kentucky, March 12, 1823, augmented by 50 more acres, Feb. 2, 1825. His daughter Jenny was born in Kentucky in 1824; she later married John Andrew Craze of a family that lived near the Keyses on Craze Bend inthe Fabius area of Sand Mountain. In 1832, he was in Marion County, Tennessee and by 1833, Rutherford County, where Edith, his daughter, was born, after a brief stay in Meigs County Previously, he had been authorized "to hawk and peddle" in Campbell County in 1823 (--Acts of Tennessee).Also, he had been appointed in Campbell County to the Powells Valley, Jacksborough and Knoxville Turnpike County (174.16). His daughter Martha G. Cooper married Granville C. Carter, son of Charles Wesley Carter and Hannah Berry. She was apparently born in Virginia in 1836. In the early 1840s, James Cooper acquired land on Sand Mountain from Gaines Blevins, his brother-in-law but this was later sold or forfeited. James and Creecy's youngest child, Julia Cooper, was born about 1842. James Cooper moved to the Limestone area of Marion County, Arkansas with the Adair family about 1843, their route westward taking them through Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. James Cooper died there about 1848, leaving a widow and six children.
Cooper, James (born 1822, Wayne County, Kentucky) married his brother William's wife after William died, in accordance with Levirate law.The Burkes were related through Nancy Cooper, daughter of Isaac Cooper, Sr. James Cooper was a member of Company C in Dekalb County, Alabama, called the Sulphur Springs Company. He appears to have died in the Civil War, for his children are found living with his mother Jane Cooper in Shellmound during the 1870 census (Gaines, Polly A., and Minnie).
Cooper, John, Capt. (about 1824 - after 1886), 3rd Arkansas Union Cavalry, married Susannah (Dockery) Sizemore in DeKalb County, Alabama, September 6, 1869. This was in keeping with Jewish Levirate law as she was his widowed sister-in-law. They then moved to Arkansas. They may have kept their marriage secret in order not to complicate Susannah's widow's pension on behalf of her deceased husband William Sizemore. Probably the John Cooper of John Cooper Associates who had previously bought land in S 10 T5s R4E (Sand Mountain) in Oct. 9, 1852. John Cooper was known in later life as a Baptist minister who, according to Steve Adkins, performed marriages for many of Ezekiel Adkins' children. He was still alive in April 30, 1886 when the Yellville (Arkansas) Mountain Echo reported from the Hampton Creek community:"J. C. Cooper, by an accident, had most of his fence destroyed by fire the other day." Suffered from deafness.
Cooper, John Wesley Monroe Dolphus (1881-1960). J.W. or Dolphy was a farm worker in early life for Dee Vault in cotton and corn in the Ft. Payne/Valley Head area of Alabama.In later years he worked for the railroad and did sharecropping. Unlike the other Coopers, he never managed to own land. He did woodworking and carving on the side and made fiddles, banjos, and cedar chests, among other things.He had blue eyes and jet-black hair.On June 22, 1907, he filed an application that was docketed with the Sizemore family to become enrolled as a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (Guion-Miller Roll No. 42018). He gave his age as 26 and usual place of residence as Henegar, Alabama, "at present, Long Island, Alabama." All the Sizemore applications were rejected.
Cooper, Mary (Polly) (1797-1862), eldest daughter of Isaac and Nancy Cooper of Wayne County, Kentucky Married 1) Benjamin Bookout, a Quaker from Parmleysville who abandoned her in 1820 and moved to Mississippi (evidently for reasons of miscegenation or fear of Indian removal), and 2) John Lovelace (Wallace), with whom she had six children. They married Youngs, Burnetts and Scotts.
Cooper, Mary (about 1809-1834), married Thompson Sinard, great-grandson of fullblood Cherokee woman known as Leek and James Sinard of N.C., a descendant of the Huguenot religious dissenter Chevalier de Sinard, who came to America via Ireland. The Sinards were lapsed Quakers and among the first settlers of Buncombe County, N.C. James Thomas Sinard died in Collinsville, DeKalb County, Alabama, about 1850. Harriet L. Sinard married William Henry Atkins. There was a connection with the namesake for Big Wills Valley outside Valley Head, and Little Wills and Little Wills Creek, both the north branch and the south branch, which meander across Little Wills Valley and through the town of Collinsville. William Webber, also called Redheaded Will, was the son of a Cherokee woman, the mother also, by Kittegunsta, of Ostenaco, and a British officer named Webber. He came from Nequassee in N.C.. His half-sister was Margaret Siniard, who married a Lamb. Some researchers have Margaret as the daughter of Anawaika (Deerhead). His brother may have been Archibald Webber, and he was somehow related to Blackheaded Cooper, Mary Cooper's father, also recorded as a Chickamauga chief. The Webbers intermarried with the Vanns, too. Sarah Webber married John Brown. Chief Will's daughter Betsy Webber married Chief John Looney. Their daughter Eliza Abigail Looney married Daniel Rattling Gourd. Another daughter, Eleanor, married Gen. Elias (Stand) Watie. Yet another daughter, Rachel, married John Nave, the grandson of Daniel Ross and Mary McDonald.
Cooper, Samuel (born about 1745 in Granville County, N.C.), smith, received a Spanish land grant on Sandy Creek dated Feb. 24, 1795. He returned with Absalom Griffin in 1805 and claimed William Cooper's land based on a Spanish grant of Jan. 1, 1793. His will was dated Sept. 18, 1777 (during the American Revolution) and was probably made as a safeguard in case he was killed. Son Samuel Cooper, born about 1765, is the second Samuel on the Spanish censuses. His will does not mention a Christian burial. He is apparently the Samuel Cooper mentioned with the children of Choctaw chief Moshulatubbee (Kings) in Adams County, Mississippi
Cooper, Sarah (1800-1874), second daughter of Isaac and Nancy Cooper of Wayne County, Kentucky Married John Adair, born Adair's Station near Knoxville, Tennessee, Aug. 13, 1794, the son of John Adair, Beaver Creek landholder, Revolutionary veteran, and owner of the storehouse for provisions for the Cumberland Settlement under James Robertson, who had come to Baltimore with his father about 1771. Of the Antrim Adairs (Hebrew Adar), who included James Robert (Robin) Adair (died 1783, Robeson County, N.C.), Scottish trader and adventurer among the Chickasaw and Cherokee who was also author of History of the American Indians.
Cooper, William (about 1725-1782), N.C. trader, guide, scout and commissioner for Daniel Boone and Gen. James Robertson. He raised a corn crop in 1775-1776 on the left bank of Otter Creek above Clover Bottom near Boonsboro, said to be the first corn raised in Kentucky (Kentucky State Historical Register, vol. 21, p. 97; Revolutionary War Pension W3001, Filson Club, Louisville; Deed Books "C", "G" pp. 272 & 374, and "M" p. 134, Wayne County Kentucky County Clerk's Office.)Employed by Richard Henderson to assist Boone and others in clearing the Wilderness Road (Record of the Tax, Paid for the paying of, the Militia employed in cutting the road and escorting families from the town and of Clinch Mountain to the Cumberland Settlements August 25th 1789, Part I, by Linda Carpenter, Compiled by E. James Keen, 1997). William Cooper died in the defense of Ft. Nashborough and on Jan. 12, 1783, "The heirs of William Cooper deceased obtained a preemption of 640 acres of land lying on the north side of Cumberland River on the second branch above the mouth of Gasper's Lick Creek about 2 miles up said branch, including a spring and tree marked thus R E running down said branch for compliment" (The Preemptors. Middle Tennessee's First Settlers, Vol. 1, by Irene M. Griffey). On May 10, 1784 the legislature voted a grant in Sumner County to his heirs for the defense of Nashville. Heirs were represented by Henry Labon Cooper, James Cooper, William Cooper, John Cooper and Huston Cooper.
Cooper, William (1753-after 1820), son of William Cooper, the guide for Daniel Boone, lived mostly in Spanish West Florida among the Choctaw relatives of his mother, Malea Labon. First found in 1787 on the Spanish census of Second Creek district. In 1790, he was back in N.C.. He took a Choctaw wife (unnamed) about 1800. Their son William Cooper married Susan King, the daughter of Chief Moshulatubbee, and they eventually emigrated to Leflore District, Indian Territory (Choctaw-Chickasaw Citizenship Court Case Files, Case 39. 7RA324, Roll 13). Another son, James Cooper, resided in Tishomingo County, Mississippi with a household of eleven next him in 1837 and also on the 1840 census (p. 232) and in the 1845 state census (that is, he managed to stay in the East and not be removed). William Cooper the father was a partner of the Choctaw trading company Turnbull & Associates. He seems to have left his Choctaw children with their mother Susan, for a William Cooper married the widow Polly Banks Warner and was justice of the peace in Washington Parish, Louisiana (1806). He next entered a land claim in Spanish West Florida (1809). William Cooper is last mentioned as a widower farmer from N.C. in Spanish Pensacola, Oct. 20, 1820.
Cooper, William Labon (1805-1860), second lieutenant, Capt. Fulton's Company D Mounted Georgia Volunteers, in the Mexican War where he served as scout. Married Sarah Glass, daughter of Thomas Glass and granddaughter of Chief Glass, and the family moved to Wilkes County, N.C. After his brother Isaac's death, he took care of widow Mahala Jane Cooper in Anawaika. On one of his trips to visit her, he was shot and killed in July 1860 in Dade County, Georgia (Mortality Schedule).
Cooper, William (about 1820-1847), first-born of Isaac and Jane (Blevins) Cooper. The military records show that Pvt. William Cooper, County K, was killed in action at the battle of Cerro Gordo, Mexico, April 18, 1847. He was in the Second Division under Gen. Twiggs, Colonel Harney's First Brigade Mounted Rifles. His widow, Susan Burke, then married his brother James back in Deerhead Cove, Alabama, another example of Levirate law.
Page 4 of 90
| Prev Page | Prev Item | Contents | Index | Go to Page | Home Page | Next Item | Next Page |