To Rose and others researching Susan T. (BISHOP) COOPER in Hempstead Co., AR and Hardeman Co., TN, Hi, this is Betty Clingman again. We exchanged emails several weeks ago. I think we need to establish who Susan T. COOPER was. In rechecking the 1850 Census of Hempstead County, AR, I found TWO listings for women by the name of Susan T. COOPER. One appears on the last page of the Mine Creek Township census in the household headed by Harmon BISHOP. The other appears on the last page of the Bois D'Arc Township as head-of-household with her young son. The two listings seem a little suspect because both Susan T. COOPERs were the same age, 40, and both had a son, John J. COOPER, age 16. That seems like an awfully big coincidence to me. Is it possible the same person was counted in two different townships? On the chance that there really were two women by that name living in Hempstead County, AR in 1850, do we know for sure which one married Isaac PERKINS in 1851 and Nathan YARBOROUGH/YARBROUGH in 1855? Was it the Susan T. COOPER in Mine Creek Twp. or the Susan T. COOPER in Bois D'Arc Twp.? You mention that your Susan T. COOPER was the daughter of Asa BISHOP. Are you positive about that information? If so, yours and mine are not the same Susan T. COOPER. It is my belief that the Susan T. COOPER who appears in the 1850 Mine Creek Twp., Hempstead Co., AR census was living in the home of her younger brother Harmon BISHOP and that both Susan and Harmon were children of John BISHOP and Elizabeth Keene JONES. Another brother, William BISHOP is also living in the same household in 1850, as was the widowed mother, Elizabeth Keene (Jones) BISHOP. Elizabeth, as well has her children, Harmon, Susan and William, all were born in Brunswick Co., VA. At the time of the 1840 Census, all the above except Susan COOPER and her son John were living in Hardeman Co., TN. In the 1830 Census, they are living in Brunswick Co., VA. Two of Elizabeth's other children are in my direct lines, Martha Matthew BISHOP (1793-1879) who married 1. Charles OLDHAM and 2. Robert J. MITCHELL and migrated from VA to Davidson Co. and then Tipton Co., TN and Lucy S. BISHOP (1798-1831) who married Thomas SUGGETT/SUGGITT and migrated to Hardeman Co., TN. Please tell me what you think. Are there two Susan COOPERs? Betty Surnames in TN (Tipton, Shelby and Hardeman Co.): COATES/COATS, SUGGETT/SUGGITT, CREWS, MORRISON, MITCHELL, BISHOP Surnames in AR (Hempstead Co.): BISHOP, CLINGMAN -----Original Message----- From: Rose Mitcham [mailto:aceofhearts@rcia.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 2:02 AM To: TNHARDEM-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TNHARDEM] Research in Hardeman County, Tennessee Sean, I can use some help, I am looking for the Land records or marriage of the couple Susan T. Bishop and William D. Cooper. The marriage was in 1833 and their child was born in 1834. John James Cooper. I am trying to find some information on the Cooper line. She was the daughter of Asa Bishop. Also I am trying to find out if William D. died in Hardeman Co., Tennessee. Susan traveled with her son and brother family to Hempstead Co., Arkansas where they lived and she married twice, Issac ? and Nathan Yarborough. She lived with family in Union County, Arkansas in 1870's and she must have died in 1870 because she and Nathan were not in census then. Can you help?? Rose Mitcham