Hello Jeanne, I have attached a letter I wrote to another cousin concerning this line of Cooper's . I also attached from my Family Tree Maker a descendant chart of this line. Could not attached the ancestors of this line back to England as the computer said there wasn't room. If you want the line all the way back I will send it in a later e-mail. Hope this comes across as readable. They can get distorted when copied and sent out. Please let me know what line you are and any info that you can give me to bring this line up to date. Have been looking for connections for some time. Would like to put together a book someday on all of these Cooper's. There is more info available on this family in the Ohio GenWeb and under another Land Record site. Take Care' Danny Cooper Byrd William Cooper Jr. William Cooper Jr., son of William Cooper ( b 1730 Bucks Cty Penn) and Elizabeth (Lydia) Clark was my gggg uncle. He was married to Mary Hunter. He and his 10 siblings were Quakers as their parents and grandparents Jonathan Cooper and Sarah Hibbs had been. After William Sr. moved to SC around 1772 the majority of the family eventually left the Quakers to become Baptist etc; William Jr and family remained Quakers, for how long I do not know at this point. In 1806 William Jr. led a wagon train from Union Cty SC to Ohio where they settled in Somerville close to present day Cincinnatti along the Indiana/Ohio state line. They were still Quakers at this time and according to minutes of Quaker meetings left due to their disdain of slavery. Most if not all of the other Cooper siblings spread out throughout the south from SC to GA, Ala, Miss, Ark, Tex, among possibly other states. Several owned slaves as opposed to William Jr. and the majority including my gg grandfather Amos Pinckney Cooper, grandson of William Jr's Brother Jacob, fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. I am sure there were many Coopers from this same line, branches of Williams Sr.'s father Jonathan) that fought for the North. William Jr. and wife Mary Hunter are buried today with their children in a Presbyterian Churchyard in Somerville Ohio about 25 miles from my house. There is a 10 to 15 foot monument to them and their son Jonathan and some of their children there, among other related graves. William Sr. was a revolutionary war vet. I have a copy of his will. All of these Coopers were descendant of William Cooper and Thomasine Porter of Low Ellington, Yorkshire England who came over in 1699 with William Penn and the Quaker movement. Sarah Hibbs neice (see first paragraph) was the grandmother of James Fenimore Cooper, the first American author who wrote "The Last of The Mohicans". This Cooper line had as many as 7 to 15 children per descendant and is without doubt responsible for thousands of Cooper descendants in America today that came from the New Jersey, Penn area in the early 1700's. I have more info if needed. . Descendants of William Cooper Jr. 1 William Cooper Jr. 1756 - 1837 .. +Mary Hunter 1759 - 1833 ......... 2 Huldah Cooper ......... 2 Martha Cooper ......... 2 Lydia Cooper 1780 - 1872 ............. +Jonathan Cook 1775 - 1866 .................... 3 Mary Cook 1804 - 1853 ........................ +Ephrian Coombs 1794 - 1860 ............................... 4 Jacob Coombs .................... 3 Rachel Cook 1814 - ........................ +Adam Casey - 1848 ............................... 4 John Casey .................... 3 Jesse Cook 1822 - ......... 2 Jonathan Cooper Sr. 1781 - 1859 ............. +Ester Alexander 1785 - 1841 .................... 3 Jeremiah Cooper - 1861 .................... 3 Elizabeth Cooper - 1861 .................... 3 William Cooper 1807 - 1875 ........................ +Elizabeth Kellum 1812 - ............................... 4 Jonathan Cooper ............................... 4 Sarah J. Cooper ............................... 4 Esther Ann Cooper ............................... 4 Elijah Cooper .................... 3 Mary Cooper 1807 - 1861 .................... 3 Nancy Cooper 1810 - 1871 ........................ +John Turner 1793 - 1856 ............................... 4 Sidney Catherine Turner ............................... 4 Lucy Jane Turner 1832 - 1881 ................................... +Milton Elmo Phillips 1833 - 1873 ........................................... 5 Dorathy M. Dollie Phillips ........................................... 5 Barto Bernard Bee Phillips ........................................... 5 Mary Ida Phillips ........................................... 5 Elenora Jane Phillips ........................................... 5 Infant Phillips 1855 - 1855 ........................................... 5 Willaeter L. Phillips 1857 - 1874 ............................... 4 Nathan Berry Turner ............................... 4 Thomas Monroe Turner ............................... 4 Rachel Ann Turner ............................... 4 Sarah Hanner Turner ............................... 4 John Leander Turner ............................... 4 Mary Arminda Turner ............................... 4 James Joesph Marion Turner 1840 - ............................... 4 Farncis Alitha/Leether Turner ............................... 4 James Coleman Turner 1828 - 1862 .................... 3 Jonathan Cooper Jr. 1811 - 1850 ........................ +Elizabeth Dillman 1813 - 1860 ............................... 4 Jacob F. Cooper ............................... 4 Ira Cooper 1836 - ............................... 4 Sarah J. Cooper 1837 - ............................... 4 Mary E. Cooper 1840 - ............................... 4 Lane Cooper 1844 - ............................... 4 Leo W. Cooper 1845 - .................... 3 Jacob Cooper 1812 - 1861 ........................ +Sarah Dillman .................... 3 Ralph Cooper 1818 - 1861 .................... 3 Esther Cooper 1820 - 1841 .................... 3 Christiania Cooper 1822 - 1860 ........................ +Jacob Smyers .................... 3 George Cooper 1824 - 1861 .................... 3 David Cooper 1827 - ......... 2 Jacob Cooper 1787 - ............. +Elizabeth Walls ......... 2 Ralph Cooper 1793 -