Gwen, this is also my ggggrandfather. I have been trying to find the same things. My ancester was Hardy Gilpin. Who was yours? ----- Original Message ----- From: Gwen Brooks <jhngwn@bellsouth.net> To: <COOPER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 3:36 PM Subject: [COOPER-L] William Stephens Cooper 1810-1860 NC>GA > I just found my gr. gr. gr. grandfather William Stephens Cooper in Marion > Co. Georgia. He supposedly was born somewhere in North Carolina around > 1810. In the "History of Marion County" it is said that he left NC to do > battle in the Indian Wars. Then resettled in Georgia around 1840. He first > came in the 1840s to Stewart Co., GA but then bought 300 acres in Marion Co. > on the border of Webster Co. He married Elizabeth Bacon of Marion Co. in > the early 1840s. He died in March 1860. > > William & Elizabeth's children were: > > Jonathan L. Cooper b. 1843 died in Civil War. > Louisa Cooper b. 2/11/1845 d. 4/18/1908 m. John Henry Wilder > Sarah Elizabeth Cooper b. 1848 > Hardy Gilpin Cooper b. 2/1/1849 d. 6/3/1922 n, Margaret Elizabeth Rayborn > Martha A. Cooper b. 5/20/1852 m. John T. Lawhorn > William Edmond Cooper b. 12/20/1853 m. Martha V. McMickle & Leanna McMickle > & > Mary Green > Thomas L. Cooper b. 1856 n, Allie Marshall > Fleet Wood Cooper b. 6/19/1859 d. 3/8/1943 m Laura Judy Jordan & Minnie Lee > Green & Minnie Ola Harry > > I've looked through the archives at the Cooper Rootsweb List & have found > many William Coopers b. in NC around the right time who might be this > William but I needed more information. I hope someone will recognize > William and maybe a family name in the children's names. > > Thank you. > > Gwen Brooks > Atlanta GA > Researching: Brooks, Cochran, McLeod, Shelhorse, Bates, Perry, Jones, > Lawhorn, Cooper, Bacon, Radcliff, Nichols, Chandler, Gibbs, Atwood, etc. > > > ==== COOPER Mailing List ==== > Keep this list and over 6000 others 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

I was glad to hear from you. So far I've only heard from one other person about these Coopers & he was interested in my Cochran ties. I'm descended from the sister, Martha. She married John Lawhorn who grew up in the same district of Marion Co.as she did. They lived "next door" in Webster Co. after they married & soon ended up in Taylor Co. where they are buried at Sand Bethel Cemetery along with Hardy & his family. Do you have the write-up in the History of Marion County about William Stephens Cooper. There's a picture in there of Elizabeth Bacon (his wife) & Fleet Wood Cooper(younger son). My scanner is misbehaving but I have transcribed the written portion of the article if you would like a copy. Or I can make copies & send it to you through the mail, picture & all. That is actually the only information I have so far on the Coopers. Unfortunately the only source here in the Marietta library for Marion Co. is the one book--the History. I haven't started on the census records though. They usually have pretty interesting information. I'll be happy to share what I discover as I find it and I'd be interested in what you might have. I also have some really good sources for Taylor Co. if you need more information on Hardy and his life there. Where do you live? I noticed your email was from Andrew College but I'm not familiar with it. Sincerely Gwen