Sterling Cooper died in 1920. He served in the 6th Indiana Cavalry in the Civil War. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mindy Bell" <mbell@consolidated.net> To: <cooper@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 10:10 AM Subject: Re: [COOPER] Illinois > Yes, Joan. My great-greatgrandfather was Sterling Cooper who was born in > Wake County North Carolina in 1826. He came to Illinois via Indiana and > died Coles County Illinois and is buried in Clark County Illinois. His > father's name was Benjamin and he was also born in North Carolina but that > is as far back as I know. Mindy > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joan Coleman" <jcolema1@elp.rr.com> > To: <cooper@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 9:40 AM > Subject: Re: [COOPER] COOPER Family Photograph > > >> Anybody out there with Illinois Coopers??? Joann >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Edward Sinker" <e.sinker@btinternet.com> >> To: <cooper@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 5:02 AM >> Subject: Re: [COOPER] COOPER Family Photograph >> >> >>> Hi Carroll, >>> >>> Thank you for your reply, pointing out how you know that Sophia COWLES >>> husband is Nathaniel P. COOPER, plus the additional useful and >>> interesting >>> information about your family. >>> >>> I do think that there is a fair chance that Nathaniel might belong to >>> the >>> Salem/Camden County, NJ, COOPERS, even if he was born in New York >>> State. >>> >>> I did notice a couple of your 'deliberate' :-) mistakes, just to see if >>> I >>> read >>> it carefully, such as your father, Maurice DeWitt COOPER being born in >>> 1804 rather than 1904. >>> >>> Getting back to Pultneyville, Wayne Co., New York, I sometimes get a >>> little confused about Williamson the village and Williamson the >>> township. >>> Pultneyville & Williamson are both in the Town of Williamson, so when I >>> see that my COOPERS, Griffith & Alexander are mentioned as being in >>> Williamson, it could and does at times mean that they are actually in >>> the >>> village of Pultneyville rather than the village of Williamson but they >>> are >>> so close together that it does really makes much difference. >>> >>> So, anyhow, I tried finding your Russell COWLES, father of Sophia in >>> Pultneyville and anywhere in Wayne County but couldn't find a reference >>> to him, until it suddenly dawned on me that he was being referred to as >>> Russell COLES. Now that you wrote that it is pronounced as Kolz, the >>> spelling of COLES is understandable. See if you agree with me...... >>> >>> ___________________________________________________________________________________ >>> Source: Military history of Wayne County, N.Y. : the County in the Civil >>> War >>> Sodus, N.Y by Lewis H. Clark, published by Hulett & >>> Gaylord, >>> 1883 >>> >>> page 216 [I think this is about 1814] >>> >>> ............The British soldiers, who are said to have landed from their >>> Batteaux with >>> unloaded guns, loaded forthwith. There was a scattering of both sides. >>> In >>> the >>> scuffle the British seized as prisoners, Richard White, bartender; >>> PRESCOTT >>> FAIRBANKS, Mr. Ledyards clerk, and RUSSEL COLE. The latter jumped >>> away in front of Ledyards store, dashed around it to the creek and swam >>> over >>> to the other side.........Not many minutes elapsed before the enemy, >>> having >>> loaded and regained their boats, commenced a scattering of musketry >>> fire, >>> paying their particular respects to the bushes into which RUSSELL COLE >>> had escaped........ The prisoners White and FAIRBANKS were taken away >>> and sent to Halifax. It was some months before they were released...... >>> Fairbanks was the son of Rev. Eleazer Fairbanks the early Presbyterian >>> minister of Palmyra who settled at what is still known as FairbanksPoint >>> east of Pultneyville.....RUSSELL COLE was a blacksmith by trade and >>> also a gunsmith; an ingenious mechanic and withal something of a hunter. >>> He could make a rifle and use it. He married a daughter of Deacon >>> Abraham PEPPER. >>> >>> [The reason I put PRESCOTT FAIRBANKS in capital letters, is because >>> his grandson, also named Prescott Fairbanks, married MARY ELIZA >>> COOPER, in 1868 and she is the daughter of James B. COOPER & Sarah >>> ROGERS & James B. is the son of GRIFFITH MORGAN COOPER whom I >>> mentioned in my previous message, who was born in 1791 in Haddonfield, >>> New Jersey.] >>> >>> _________________________________________________________________________________ >>> Source: Landmarks of Wayne County, New York by George Washington >>> COWLES, published by D. Mason, Syracuse, NY, 1895: >>> [He isn't a relation of Russell's is he?] >>> >>> Chapter XX. >>> History of the Town of Williamson. >>> page 305 >>> ........The second highway ...through....Williamson village.....was >>> later >>> known in this town as Jersey street from the fact that many of the >>> settlers along its lines came from New Jersey. >>> >>> [So this helps to explain why my New Jersey Cooper relations were >>> in Wayne County but I wonder why a lot came from NJ to up State >>> New York in the first place? G.W. Coles supplies a great deal of detail >>> about Williamson & Pultneyville, including the incident with the British >>> soldiers in 1814. He also spells the name as RUSSELL COLE.] >>> >>> page 315 >>> Pultneyville.-- This village..........RUSSELL COLE put up a blacksmith >>> shop, and afterwards built a larger one on the site of the James B. >>> Cragg house. >>> >>> page 316 >>> Churches.-- The First Presbyterian Church of Williamson was or- >>> anized by Rev. Allen C. Collins, a missionary, November 21, 1816, >>> the constituent members being: ..........Wilhelmina PEPPER..... >>> Abraham PEPPER.....Maria FAIRBANKS >>> >>> ___________________________________________________________________________ >>> >>> Source: Old Houses and Churches of Wayne County, New York State >>> compiled by Mrs. Helen Balmat Gorman, State Historian, 1938 >>> >>> page 49 >>> Lake Captains Monument. >>> >>> Pultneyville, Wayne County, New York, was once a busy port >>> on Lake Ontario, and many of its residents were seamen. This >>> Monument erected to the memory of Lake Captains of the >>> vicinity, was dedicated in 1930. A list of the names is given. >>> Also on a historical marker here, one reads, >>> "From 1687 French Batteaux men stopped here to trade with >>> the Indians. First Settler "Yankee Bill" Waters, a hunter, lived >>> here in 1804." ..............Samuel Throop......RUSSELL COLE...... >>> Horatio N. Throop......John H. Ledyard.....Milton Fairbanks.....etc. >>> >>> [I don't think that they are suggesting that these gentlemen were >>> French. I included the Troop gents because one of their relations, >>> Adoniram Judson Throop married Anna Hamilton COOPER at >>> Pultneyville in 1878, she being the daughter of Alexander Hamilton >>> COOPER brother of Griffith Morgan COOPER. The Fairbanks is also >>> a relation of the Prescott Fairbanks who married Mary Eliza COOPER, >>> mentioned previously. The connection here seems to be that they >>> were mariners which is what Griffith Morgan Cooper claimed to be, >>> having been in the US Navy, as were his brothers and his father.] >>> ________________________________________________________________________ >>> >>> I hope that some of this information is of interest to you. I know >>> I have not proven a connection between your Nathaniel P. COOPER >>> and my Coopers but think that I have made a case for his possibly >>> being from that line of Coopers. >>> >>> I have another question to ask you. Where do you think that the >>> DEWITT name comes from? >>> - Ed >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> COOPER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes >>> in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> COOPER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COOPER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >