This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cooper-Crosswhaite-Grooms Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.families.aol.com/mbexec/msg/an/YYB.2ACI/1614.1.2.3 Message Board Post: Yes this is a connection. Thanks to Gene for his information. Debora/Deborah Cooper is the daughter of Samuel Cooper and Nancy Grooms. She married George W. Crosswhaite sometime in 1856 (most likely October) at the age of 22. She herself had 9 children, George W. Crosswhaite, Jr, Francis Marion Crosswhaite b.1858 (my great Grandfather), Cassius Crosswhite b. 1860, Ida Mae Crosswhaite, b. unknown, Anna Crosswhaite b. Unknown, Olive Crosswhite, b. unknown, John Crosswhaite b. 1870, William Crosswhaite b. 1875, and Robert Crosswhaite b. 1876. Now, I know that one of the above sons was a minister, although my dad is not sure which. It was not Francis, and most likely was not Cassius (Cash). George W. Crosswhaite Jr. and Francis Marion Crosswhaite, were born in Adams County Ohio, the rest most likely born in Mississippi County, Missouri, although I have no evidence on that. Debora/Deborah died February 8, 1879 in Hoe Cake Ridge, Mississippi County, Missouri at age 46. Her gravesite and that of her husband George W. is in Hoe Cake Ridge, confirmed by my grandfather (I've not been there) Francis's Son, Clarence.