Dear Subscribers to the Connecticut River Valley Mailing List, The Connecticut River Valley town of Hamden, New Haven County, Connecticut was home to Charles H. COOPER in 1870, according to the U.S. Census of that year, page 260. Charles H. COOPER's wife Amelia (maiden name unknown to me) was said to be a native of Georgia! She was 31 in 1870, thus was born about 1839. It is naturally a matter of curiosity that this woman who was born in Georgia found her way to Connecticut by 1870. Actually, Amelia's arrival in Connecticut must have occurred by 1858, because she had a son William H. COOPER, who was born in Connecticut and was twelve years old in 1870. I will add that Charles H. COOPER was a son of Judah Paddock COOPER and Lavinia FOWLER, who lived in Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut from about 1821 until their deaths, which occurred in 1862 and 1867. Charles H. COOPER was born in 1834 and had a brother William COOPER, who was born 2 Jun 1821. In the Civil War, Charles H. COOPER enlisted in Company "B" of the Twenty-first Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry, 23 Aug 1861, while a resident of Suffield, Connecticut. Charles H. COOPER was medically discharged from the service at Newport, Rhode Island, 12 Dec 1862. If you have any information on Amelia and her Georgia birthplace or her parents, please share such with me! Or, if any of the items mentioned in this post interesect with your interests, likewise, please contact me, so we can explore these matters together. Thank you! Randal W. Cooper in Ohio

Randall: The fact that Amelia wound up in Connecticut around 1858 poses no mystery. If you will check the date, this is the time when the North and South were getting into some serious bickering. No war yet and no secession yet but serious situation. A lot of the folks from the South who were Northern sympathisers moved north to escape the rath of their neighbors, just as the Southern sympathisers from the North moved South (A couple of my ancestors did this in 1859 - Connecticut to Kentucky) There was a lot of movement by families during this time so your Amelia and her family were more than likely Northern sympathizers and moved to get away. Just a thought. Fred Jones bugler103@home.com Bremerton, Wa. ----- Original Message ----- From: Randal W Cooper <rwcooper@kellnet.com> To: <CT-RIVER-VALLEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 7:49 PM Subject: [CRV] Charles H. COOPER's Wife Amelia, Born in Georgia: Residence Hamden, CT 1870 > Dear Subscribers to the Connecticut River Valley Mailing List, > > The Connecticut River Valley town of Hamden, New Haven County, > Connecticut was home to Charles H. COOPER in 1870, according to the U.S. > Census of that year, page 260. > > Charles H. COOPER's wife Amelia (maiden name unknown to me) was said to > be a native of Georgia! She was 31 in 1870, thus was born about 1839. It > is naturally a matter of curiosity that this woman who was born in > Georgia found her way to Connecticut by 1870. Actually, Amelia's arrival > in Connecticut must have occurred by 1858, because she had a son William > H. COOPER, who was born in Connecticut and was twelve years old in 1870. > > I will add that Charles H. COOPER was a son of Judah Paddock COOPER and > Lavinia FOWLER, who lived in Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut from > about 1821 until their deaths, which occurred in 1862 and 1867. Charles > H. COOPER was born in 1834 and had a brother William COOPER, who was > born 2 Jun 1821. In the Civil War, Charles H. COOPER enlisted in Company > "B" of the Twenty-first Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry, 23 Aug 1861, > while a resident of Suffield, Connecticut. Charles H. COOPER was > medically discharged from the service at Newport, Rhode Island, 12 Dec > 1862. > > If you have any information on Amelia and her Georgia birthplace or her > parents, please share such with me! Or, if any of the items mentioned in > this post interesect with your interests, likewise, please contact me, > so we can explore these matters together. Thank you! > > Randal W. Cooper in Ohio > > > ==== CT-RIVER-VALLEY Mailing List ==== > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > http://www.quadrangle.org [CRV musuem and genealogy library] > List owner: NewEnglander1620@mail.ccsinet.net > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > >

Dear Researchers of the Connecticut River Valley Mailing List, with Special Thanks to Fred Jones, First of all, I would like to thank researcher Frank Jones for his insightful response to my query regarding a native of Georgia, born about 1839, migrating to Hartford County, Connecticut by 1858. The Civil War and its prelude did cause many families to move, for a number of reasons. Thank you, Mr. Jones. Second, I have done some more digging and have found a couple more details on this issue of Southerners migrating to Suffield, Connecticut. Another Georgia native was living in Suffield, Connecticut, at least in 1850. His name was Arthur B. GRAVES/GREEVES, who was 14 years old in the 1850 Census of Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, page 120. Arthur GRAVES was living in dwellinghouse 495, the home of Reverend Dwight IVES, who was the minister of the Second Baptist Church of Suffield (from 1839 to 1874). Why was a young man who was born in Georgia living in a Baptist minister's home in Suffield, Connecticut in 1850? A possible answer lies in the Connecticut Baptist Literary Institution, in Suffield, which was founded in 1833. In 1835, the name was changed to the Connecticut Literary Institute. Arthur GRAVES may have been a student at the Institute. Add to this, that four houses from Reverend Dwight IVES lived a nine-year-old girl Henrietta CASE, who was born in Tennessee. And, not far from this house lived Ann JONES, nine years old, born in Alabama. There was at least one more Baptist clergyman in Suffield in 1850. He was Reverend Thomas R./B. PALMER, age 34, born in CT, residing in dwellinghouse 498, three houses from Reverend Dwight IVES. If anyone has more information on the Connecticut (Baptist) Literary Institute, or would like to discuss any of the people mentioned in this post, please don't hesitate. Thanks! Randal W. Cooper