Hi Fellow Coopers! I am following a William Davis Cooper, who started out in Edgefield SC or so I have been lead to believe. Also the information I can find relates him to a Timothy Cooper, however, the Dates I have found are all so different. Some would have him being born to a child others to a hundred year old mother...... Anyone working on this find fellow? Denise Cooper Fletcher -----Original Message----- From: Rcmjr@aol.com [mailto:Rcmjr@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 11:39 AM To: COOPER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [COOPER-L] Re: COOPER Rice Plantations Gary, Jo Ann, Lois, There were certainly many rice plantations in early SC and not just along the Cooper River and Charleston. You can also look around Georgetown and up the Black and Pee Dee. One thing I'll say is that rice has always been in our blood, and long after we switched to cotton, corn, flax and soybeans --rice remained a daily staple to our meals. We were not meat and potato people, but meat and rice people. I still have it 5-6 times a week. And it must be steamed. We jealously guarded our old rice steamers. Mine is from the 30's or 40's. I never see them like this anymore, until a couple of weeks ago my daughte received a NEW one and it was labelled Charleston Rice Steamer and came with a history of rice in Charleston. I am delighted to learn that a Cooper in NC still grows rice in AR!! I have information on my Cooper line in South Carolina from about 1730. Don't recognize the name Ustacy but I will check tonight.---Bob Robert Cooper Manning, Jr. ==== COOPER Mailing List ==== Keep COOPER-L and over 6000 other lists online with your RootsWeb membership or sponsorship. RootsWeb Gen.Data Coop.Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222 http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html