This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cooper/Strickland Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VUB.2ACE/633.1 Message Board Post: David Cooper (1828-1904) was a son of William "Billy" Cooper (1787-1849) and Margaret Pridgen (1790-1880). William Cooper's will, dated August 11, 1849, was probated in Nash County, North Carolina, in May, 1850. The will named his wife Margaret, sons William, Willie H., Calvin, Ashley G. H., David, George H., Vincent, Little I. B. (dead, no heirs), and daughters Rosa Barnes, Margaret Cooper, Primmy Finch, Rhoda Redding. Executors were sons Willie H. Cooper and Ashley G. H. Cooper. Witnesses were N. W. Cooper, George W. Cooper, and T. H. Scott. Several of the family members, including David and his wife Mary, are buried in the William Cooper Family Cemetery, located on the east side of SR 1306 loop road in Nash County ("Nash County North Carolina Church & Family Cemeteries A-J," by Tim Rackley, 1997).