Sarita ... I agree it is an unusual given name. There was Lycurgus Cooper in Columbiana Co., Delaware and also one of the same combination of names in Indiana, obviously yours. Maybe I should clarify my situation. I am researching my granddaughter's paternal ancestry. Her ancestor, Charles Daniel Cooper (often went by Daniel), was born about 1822 or 1826 according to whichever document being used. He married first to Mary Margaret Whitbeck, probably around 1858 and possibly in the area of St. Paul, MN. In 1860 they were living in Buchanan Co., Iowa and apparently shortly after that federal census was taken, back up around St. Paul, MN. Charles Daniel Cooper served in the Mexican War and also in the Civil War. He enlisted in the Union Army as a private in Co. K, 6th Regiment, MN Vol. Infantry on 3 Nov. 1863 and was discharged at Fort Snelling, MN on 19 August 1865. Sometime between 1865 and 1870 he appears to have either left his wife (and two children) or divorced her. In March of 1870 she was living in Black Hawk Co., IA and married as her second husband, George A. Woodward, in Anoka Co., MN. They lived out their lives in Anoka County. Charles Daniel Cooper remarried in 1873 in Otoe Co., Nebraska to Susan Emily Kear and started another family, all of whom were born in Iowa. He died on 29 Dec 1910 in Clearwater, Antelope Co., Nebraska. My granddaughter descends from his first marriage. A Cooper researcher in Missouri has found a scrap of paper in a billfold belonging to one of her ancestors. On this paper was written Charles Daniel Cooper and the name of his Civil War unit in Minnesota. Nothing more to indicate a connection. However, her lineage goes back to Lycurgus Cooper who married Martha Cooper. My thoughts are that perhaps there is a connection between either Lycurgus or his wife, whose maiden name WAS Cooper. Can anybody help me out here? Thanks. Ruby Coleman