About 18 Cooper's left the ft Boonesborough area in Ky and followed Boone up the Missouri River on a steamboat in 1808 to Boone's lick near the Capitol,(Howard County, Ft Cooper, etc., Sarshall, Benjamin, etc. I can prove no connection, but my 3 great GF farmed 266 acres about 5 miles N of Ft Boonesborough. Embree also went to Mo,