This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: COOPER, ANDREWS/ANDERS , PULLEN/PULLIN, McLAIN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/5519/EgB.2ACI/843.1328.1 Message Board Post: I am related to the COOPER family from Spartenburg, SC. My great-great grandfather was Dillard L. COOPER and Parthenia ANDREWS/ANDERS HOLMAN, from Wilkes Co, GA. (Parthenia was a daughter of Michael L. ANDREWS and Parthenia PULLIN, born in Georgia) Parthenia has various spellings--Bethenia, Parmelia, etc. And some of the PULLIN family name is shown as PULLEN. Dillard and Parthenia (shown on marriage record as Parmelia) married Aug. 1876, Monroe Co., Brinkley, AR. The ANDREWS/ANDERS family left Georgia about 1855 or 56 and were in Arkansas by 1857. Both COOPERs and ANDERS show up on 1870 census in Monroe/St.Francis Counties, Richland and Plainland townships in Arkansas. My Dillard's parents were Benson COOPER and Delphia Lindsey (various spellings) Spartenburg, SC. Benson also had a brother, Dillard, who ended up in Texas. Much has been found on his line by a number of people. My information has been gathered from several online family trees which showed my gg grandfther Dillard L. as a son of above Benson. I have information on Dillard L, (son of Benson) descendants, but am still searching for children who may have been raised by Dillard L. and Parthenia, who had several marriages, and I think Dillard also had several marriages. The only child I now know of is my great grandmother, Clara, born July 21, 1878, Brinkley, Monroe Co, AR, died May, 1979, McNeil/Magnolia, ARk and buried in Little Rock, ARK. Clara married William David McLAIN, 1898 and they made their home in Newport, Jackson, ARK until the early 1920s--had many children born there. I have made contacts with family trees on the COOPERs that trace the family back to England. You may post here or contact me at audstan@chartertn.net