>I have Cooper's in Fulton Co., IL and later in mcDonough Co., IL. Details available if you have Cooper's in these counties. Bob > > From: "Joan Coleman" > > To: > > 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" > >> To: > >> 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 > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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