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Cenotaph Listing
The tombstone for Benjamin and Pretty Girl Cooper is a cenotaph only. It does not mark the actual burial location of this couple. The Coopers are buried in a desecrated cemetery that is now open pastureland located in the SW4, SW4, SE4 of Section, 11, Township 15 North, Range 24 East in Adair County, Oklahoma.
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The following biographical information is compiled from the separate research of Peggy Hooper, David Hampton and Robert Awalt.
1803 - Benjamin and his father both had two draws in the Land Lottery. They lived in Franklin Co., GA at the time.
1805 - Named co-executor (with his brother Cornelius) of his father's will.
1811 Dec. 28 - Benjamin sold to James McDonald, (both of Franklin Co., GA) a tract of land on Hudson's River. (Deed Book 333. p.5)
1814
The marriage of Benjamin Cooper and Pretty Girl was sometime after May 19, 1814. On that date, the father of Benjamin's first wife (Temperance Leeman Cooper) signed his will and left five shillings to Temperance so she was still alive then.
1818 May 22 - Signed up to leave GA for Indian Lands west of the Mississippi. He signed "by right of wife" listing his residence as on the "waters of the Chatahoochee".
1828-1831 - Listed on "List of persons who have taken the Prescribed Oath according to the law (1828-1831) and are permitted to continue thereby their residence in that part of Georgia occupied by the Cherokee." #39. Benjamin Cooper, wife and 4 children - farmer, wife Cherokee. (Lillian Reid Gray)
1833 (spring) - He asked B.B. Quillian to organize in the Cooper home the first Sunday School known to have been organized in Gilmer Co. Most of the people in this Sunday school were Cherokees.
November 27, 1834 - Death of Pretty Girl Cooper
The Cherokee emigration rolls indicate the arrival of Benjamin Cooper in the West with the notation that "one died" November 27, 1834. The deceased is likely his wife, Pretty Girl, who died shortly after her arrival in the West. Further evidence for the date of her death comes from a letter written in Indian Territory in February 1835 by William Boling to John Martin in the East. Boling states, "I was requested by Mr. Benj. Cooper to ask that you would let your neighbours Kaltestiah & Susan know that his wife is dead-their near connection also. Tell them never to come to this country and the balance of their friends; if they want not to shorten their days, never let them come here. For you can go to no place hardly, but what you see tolerably large gave yards; and after landing, it would not be long before they would go to the grave. My friends, these words are true you may depend." The "Kaltestiah & Susan" referenced in the letter are Pretty Girl's close relatives, perhaps even parents.
BIOGRAPHY: The land Benjamin settled is now in Adair County, OK (Section 11. Township 15, Range 24). In 1980, descendants of their granddaughter Sarah Ruth McClure still lived on that land. The double log house that Benjamin and Pretty Girl built was destroyed by fire in 1917.
BIOGRAPHY: There are 8 or 9 graves on old land settled in 1834. Family and descendants still lived there in 1986. There are no markers.
BIOGRAPHY: Oct. 28. 1852 - Sarah and Catherine (Cooper) wrote to Cornelius Cooper telling him about the death and will of Benjamin Cooper. He named six heirs in his will and each one received $471 from the sale of his estate. In that letter, the following people are mentioned: Richard King (apparently his wife, Nancy Cooper had already died)
Jane & Andrew Sinyard received one share. They were the children of Mary Cooper who had married to Thompson Sinyard. Right below the Cooper entry on Cherokee Emigration Rolls page 49 it indicates in the Sinyard family that one died "before arrival" and that Thompson returned East. The death refers to Mary Cooper Sinyard.
Sarah Cooper Ward was living on her old place (Cherokee Nation?), Sabra Cooper England lives on Honey Creek (Cherokee Nation?) Sarah & Catherine Cooper signed the letter "your loving sisters". The Sarah who wrote the letter spoke of Sarah Ward as another person so it seems that Benjamin had two daughters with the name of Sarah.
BIOGRAPHY: According to Michelle Tucker, Benjamin and his first wife had only one child, Cornelius. Benjamin and his second wife had 6 children: Mary, Nancy, Sabra, Sarah "Sally", Elizabeth, and Catherine. Lillian Reid Gray believed that Benjamin also had daughters. Sarah and Nancy, by his first wife.
Sallie Cooper married Martin Ward. Sshe didn't die until 1899 and is buried at Academy Cemetery, Evansville.
Nancy Cooper married Richard Wiley King. Nancy died before the Old Settler roll but her son, Benjamin Cooper King, is listed.
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The following information is provided by Find A Grave member Robert Awalt (#47210619):
Benjamin was born abt 1772. His first wife was Temperance Leeman (1775-circa 1814), daughter of Joseph Leeman and Elizabeth Betty Merritt. Temperance Leeman Cooper died after May 1814 (date of her father's will where she is mentioned as living) and the 1820 Georgia census for Hall County.
Source 1:
North Carolina, Marriage Collection, 1741-2004
about Temperance Leman
Name: Temperance Leman
Spouse: Benjamin Cooper
Marriage Date: 4 Nov 1794
Marriage County: Granville
Marriage State: North Carolina
Source: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT
Source 2:
Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived from an array of materials including pedigree charts, family history articles, querie.
Possible Children of Benjamin Cooper and Temperance Leeman:
1775 – 1814
Nancy Cooper
1797 – 1834
Sarah Sally Cooper
1797 – 1871
Jeanette Cooper
1799 – 1861
Cornelius Benjamin Cooper
1801 – 1886
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Cenotaph Listing
The tombstone for Benjamin and Pretty Girl Cooper is a cenotaph only. It does not mark the actual burial location of this couple. The Coopers are buried in a desecrated cemetery that is now open pastureland located in the SW4, SW4, SE4 of Section, 11, Township 15 North, Range 24 East in Adair County, Oklahoma.
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The following biographical information is compiled from the separate research of Peggy Hooper, David Hampton and Robert Awalt.
1803 - Benjamin and his father both had two draws in the Land Lottery. They lived in Franklin Co., GA at the time.
1805 - Named co-executor (with his brother Cornelius) of his father's will.
1811 Dec. 28 - Benjamin sold to James McDonald, (both of Franklin Co., GA) a tract of land on Hudson's River. (Deed Book 333. p.5)
1814
The marriage of Benjamin Cooper and Pretty Girl was sometime after May 19, 1814. On that date, the father of Benjamin's first wife (Temperance Leeman Cooper) signed his will and left five shillings to Temperance so she was still alive then.
1818 May 22 - Signed up to leave GA for Indian Lands west of the Mississippi. He signed "by right of wife" listing his residence as on the "waters of the Chatahoochee".
1828-1831 - Listed on "List of persons who have taken the Prescribed Oath according to the law (1828-1831) and are permitted to continue thereby their residence in that part of Georgia occupied by the Cherokee." #39. Benjamin Cooper, wife and 4 children - farmer, wife Cherokee. (Lillian Reid Gray)
1833 (spring) - He asked B.B. Quillian to organize in the Cooper home the first Sunday School known to have been organized in Gilmer Co. Most of the people in this Sunday school were Cherokees.
November 27, 1834 - Death of Pretty Girl Cooper
The Cherokee emigration rolls indicate the arrival of Benjamin Cooper in the West with the notation that "one died" November 27, 1834. The deceased is likely his wife, Pretty Girl, who died shortly after her arrival in the West. Further evidence for the date of her death comes from a letter written in Indian Territory in February 1835 by William Boling to John Martin in the East. Boling states, "I was requested by Mr. Benj. Cooper to ask that you would let your neighbours Kaltestiah & Susan know that his wife is dead-their near connection also. Tell them never to come to this country and the balance of their friends; if they want not to shorten their days, never let them come here. For you can go to no place hardly, but what you see tolerably large gave yards; and after landing, it would not be long before they would go to the grave. My friends, these words are true you may depend." The "Kaltestiah & Susan" referenced in the letter are Pretty Girl's close relatives, perhaps even parents.
BIOGRAPHY: The land Benjamin settled is now in Adair County, OK (Section 11. Township 15, Range 24). In 1980, descendants of their granddaughter Sarah Ruth McClure still lived on that land. The double log house that Benjamin and Pretty Girl built was destroyed by fire in 1917.
BIOGRAPHY: There are 8 or 9 graves on old land settled in 1834. Family and descendants still lived there in 1986. There are no markers.
BIOGRAPHY: Oct. 28. 1852 - Sarah and Catherine (Cooper) wrote to Cornelius Cooper telling him about the death and will of Benjamin Cooper. He named six heirs in his will and each one received $471 from the sale of his estate. In that letter, the following people are mentioned: Richard King (apparently his wife, Nancy Cooper had already died)
Jane & Andrew Sinyard received one share. They were the children of Mary Cooper who had married to Thompson Sinyard. Right below the Cooper entry on Cherokee Emigration Rolls page 49 it indicates in the Sinyard family that one died "before arrival" and that Thompson returned East. The death refers to Mary Cooper Sinyard.
Sarah Cooper Ward was living on her old place (Cherokee Nation?), Sabra Cooper England lives on Honey Creek (Cherokee Nation?) Sarah & Catherine Cooper signed the letter "your loving sisters". The Sarah who wrote the letter spoke of Sarah Ward as another person so it seems that Benjamin had two daughters with the name of Sarah.
BIOGRAPHY: According to Michelle Tucker, Benjamin and his first wife had only one child, Cornelius. Benjamin and his second wife had 6 children: Mary, Nancy, Sabra, Sarah "Sally", Elizabeth, and Catherine. Lillian Reid Gray believed that Benjamin also had daughters. Sarah and Nancy, by his first wife.
Sallie Cooper married Martin Ward. Sshe didn't die until 1899 and is buried at Academy Cemetery, Evansville.
Nancy Cooper married Richard Wiley King. Nancy died before the Old Settler roll but her son, Benjamin Cooper King, is listed.
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The following information is provided by Find A Grave member Robert Awalt (#47210619):
Benjamin was born abt 1772. His first wife was Temperance Leeman (1775-circa 1814), daughter of Joseph Leeman and Elizabeth Betty Merritt. Temperance Leeman Cooper died after May 1814 (date of her father's will where she is mentioned as living) and the 1820 Georgia census for Hall County.
Source 1:
North Carolina, Marriage Collection, 1741-2004
about Temperance Leman
Name: Temperance Leman
Spouse: Benjamin Cooper
Marriage Date: 4 Nov 1794
Marriage County: Granville
Marriage State: North Carolina
Source: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT
Source 2:
Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived from an array of materials including pedigree charts, family history articles, querie.
Possible Children of Benjamin Cooper and Temperance Leeman:
1775 – 1814
Nancy Cooper
1797 – 1834
Sarah Sally Cooper
1797 – 1871
Jeanette Cooper
1799 – 1861
Cornelius Benjamin Cooper
1801 – 1886
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**********
Cenotaph Listing
The tombstone for Benjamin and Pretty Girl Cooper is a cenotaph only. It does not mark the actual burial location of this couple. The Coopers are buried in a desecrated cemetery that is now open pastureland located in the SW4, SW4, SE4 of Section, 11, Township 15 North, Range 24 East in Adair County, Oklahoma.
***************
The following biographical information is compiled from the separate research of Peggy Hooper, David Hampton and Robert Awalt.
1803 - Benjamin and his father both had two draws in the Land Lottery. They lived in Franklin Co., GA at the time.
1805 - Named co-executor (with his brother Cornelius) of his father's will.
1811 Dec. 28 - Benjamin sold to James McDonald, (both of Franklin Co., GA) a tract of land on Hudson's River. (Deed Book 333. p.5)
1814
The marriage of Benjamin Cooper and Pretty Girl was sometime after May 19, 1814. On that date, the father of Benjamin's first wife (Temperance Leeman Cooper) signed his will and left five shillings to Temperance so she was still alive then.
1818 May 22 - Signed up to leave GA for Indian Lands west of the Mississippi. He signed "by right of wife" listing his residence as on the "waters of the Chatahoochee".
1828-1831 - Listed on "List of persons who have taken the Prescribed Oath according to the law (1828-1831) and are permitted to continue thereby their residence in that part of Georgia occupied by the Cherokee." #39. Benjamin Cooper, wife and 4 children - farmer, wife Cherokee. (Lillian Reid Gray)
1833 (spring) - He asked B.B. Quillian to organize in the Cooper home the first Sunday School known to have been organized in Gilmer Co. Most of the people in this Sunday school were Cherokees.
November 27, 1834 - Death of Pretty Girl Cooper
The Cherokee emigration rolls indicate the arrival of Benjamin Cooper in the West with the notation that "one died" November 27, 1834. The deceased is likely his wife, Pretty Girl, who died shortly after her arrival in the West. Further evidence for the date of her death comes from a letter written in Indian Territory in February 1835 by William Boling to John Martin in the East. Boling states, "I was requested by Mr. Benj. Cooper to ask that you would let your neighbours Kaltestiah & Susan know that his wife is dead-their near connection also. Tell them never to come to this country and the balance of their friends; if they want not to shorten their days, never let them come here. For you can go to no place hardly, but what you see tolerably large gave yards; and after landing, it would not be long before they would go to the grave. My friends, these words are true you may depend." The "Kaltestiah & Susan" referenced in the letter are Pretty Girl's close relatives, perhaps even parents.
BIOGRAPHY: The land Benjamin settled is now in Adair County, OK (Section 11. Township 15, Range 24). In 1980, descendants of their granddaughter Sarah Ruth McClure still lived on that land. The double log house that Benjamin and Pretty Girl built was destroyed by fire in 1917.
BIOGRAPHY: There are 8 or 9 graves on old land settled in 1834. Family and descendants still lived there in 1986. There are no markers.
BIOGRAPHY: Oct. 28. 1852 - Sarah and Catherine (Cooper) wrote to Cornelius Cooper telling him about the death and will of Benjamin Cooper. He named six heirs in his will and each one received $471 from the sale of his estate. In that letter, the following people are mentioned: Richard King (apparently his wife, Nancy Cooper had already died)
Jane & Andrew Sinyard received one share. They were the children of Mary Cooper who had married to Thompson Sinyard. Right below the Cooper entry on Cherokee Emigration Rolls page 49 it indicates in the Sinyard family that one died "before arrival" and that Thompson returned East. The death refers to Mary Cooper Sinyard.
Sarah Cooper Ward was living on her old place (Cherokee Nation?), Sabra Cooper England lives on Honey Creek (Cherokee Nation?) Sarah & Catherine Cooper signed the letter "your loving sisters". The Sarah who wrote the letter spoke of Sarah Ward as another person so it seems that Benjamin had two daughters with the name of Sarah.
BIOGRAPHY: According to Michelle Tucker, Benjamin and his first wife had only one child, Cornelius. Benjamin and his second wife had 6 children: Mary, Nancy, Sabra, Sarah "Sally", Elizabeth, and Catherine. Lillian Reid Gray believed that Benjamin also had daughters. Sarah and Nancy, by his first wife.
Sallie Cooper married Martin Ward. Sshe didn't die until 1899 and is buried at Academy Cemetery, Evansville.
Nancy Cooper married Richard Wiley King. Nancy died before the Old Settler roll but her son, Benjamin Cooper King, is listed.
**************
The following information is provided by Find A Grave member Robert Awalt (#47210619):
Benjamin was born abt 1772. His first wife was Temperance Leeman (1775-circa 1814), daughter of Joseph Leeman and Elizabeth Betty Merritt. Temperance Leeman Cooper died after May 1814 (date of her father's will where she is mentioned as living) and the 1820 Georgia census for Hall County.
Source 1:
North Carolina, Marriage Collection, 1741-2004
about Temperance Leman
Name: Temperance Leman
Spouse: Benjamin Cooper
Marriage Date: 4 Nov 1794
Marriage County: Granville
Marriage State: North Carolina
Source: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT
Source 2:
Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived from an array of materials including pedigree charts, family history articles, querie.
Possible Children of Benjamin Cooper and Temperance Leeman:
1775 – 1814
Nancy Cooper
1797 – 1834
Sarah Sally Cooper
1797 – 1871
Jeanette Cooper
1799 – 1861
Cornelius Benjamin Cooper
1801 – 1886
********************
Cenotaph Listing
The tombstone for Benjamin and Pretty Girl Cooper is a cenotaph only. It does not mark the actual burial location of this couple. The Coopers are buried in a desecrated cemetery that is now open pastureland located in the SW4, SW4, SE4 of Section, 11, Township 15 North, Range 24 East in Adair County, Oklahoma.
***************
The following biographical information is compiled from the separate research of Peggy Hooper, David Hampton and Robert Awalt.
1803 - Benjamin and his father both had two draws in the Land Lottery. They lived in Franklin Co., GA at the time.
1805 - Named co-executor (with his brother Cornelius) of his father's will.
1811 Dec. 28 - Benjamin sold to James McDonald, (both of Franklin Co., GA) a tract of land on Hudson's River. (Deed Book 333. p.5)
1814
The marriage of Benjamin Cooper and Pretty Girl was sometime after May 19, 1814. On that date, the father of Benjamin's first wife (Temperance Leeman Cooper) signed his will and left five shillings to Temperance so she was still alive then.
1818 May 22 - Signed up to leave GA for Indian Lands west of the Mississippi. He signed "by right of wife" listing his residence as on the "waters of the Chatahoochee".
1828-1831 - Listed on "List of persons who have taken the Prescribed Oath according to the law (1828-1831) and are permitted to continue thereby their residence in that part of Georgia occupied by the Cherokee." #39. Benjamin Cooper, wife and 4 children - farmer, wife Cherokee. (Lillian Reid Gray)
1833 (spring) - He asked B.B. Quillian to organize in the Cooper home the first Sunday School known to have been organized in Gilmer Co. Most of the people in this Sunday school were Cherokees.
November 27, 1834 - Death of Pretty Girl Cooper
The Cherokee emigration rolls indicate the arrival of Benjamin Cooper in the West with the notation that "one died" November 27, 1834. The deceased is likely his wife, Pretty Girl, who died shortly after her arrival in the West. Further evidence for the date of her death comes from a letter written in Indian Territory in February 1835 by William Boling to John Martin in the East. Boling states, "I was requested by Mr. Benj. Cooper to ask that you would let your neighbours Kaltestiah & Susan know that his wife is dead-their near connection also. Tell them never to come to this country and the balance of their friends; if they want not to shorten their days, never let them come here. For you can go to no place hardly, but what you see tolerably large gave yards; and after landing, it would not be long before they would go to the grave. My friends, these words are true you may depend." The "Kaltestiah & Susan" referenced in the letter are Pretty Girl's close relatives, perhaps even parents.
BIOGRAPHY: The land Benjamin settled is now in Adair County, OK (Section 11. Township 15, Range 24). In 1980, descendants of their granddaughter Sarah Ruth McClure still lived on that land. The double log house that Benjamin and Pretty Girl built was destroyed by fire in 1917.
BIOGRAPHY: There are 8 or 9 graves on old land settled in 1834. Family and descendants still lived there in 1986. There are no markers.
BIOGRAPHY: Oct. 28. 1852 - Sarah and Catherine (Cooper) wrote to Cornelius Cooper telling him about the death and will of Benjamin Cooper. He named six heirs in his will and each one received $471 from the sale of his estate. In that letter, the following people are mentioned: Richard King (apparently his wife, Nancy Cooper had already died)
Jane & Andrew Sinyard received one share. They were the children of Mary Cooper who had married to Thompson Sinyard. Right below the Cooper entry on Cherokee Emigration Rolls page 49 it indicates in the Sinyard family that one died "before arrival" and that Thompson returned East. The death refers to Mary Cooper Sinyard.
Sarah Cooper Ward was living on her old place (Cherokee Nation?), Sabra Cooper England lives on Honey Creek (Cherokee Nation?) Sarah & Catherine Cooper signed the letter "your loving sisters". The Sarah who wrote the letter spoke of Sarah Ward as another person so it seems that Benjamin had two daughters with the name of Sarah.
BIOGRAPHY: According to Michelle Tucker, Benjamin and his first wife had only one child, Cornelius. Benjamin and his second wife had 6 children: Mary, Nancy, Sabra, Sarah "Sally", Elizabeth, and Catherine. Lillian Reid Gray believed that Benjamin also had daughters. Sarah and Nancy, by his first wife.
Sallie Cooper married Martin Ward. Sshe didn't die until 1899 and is buried at Academy Cemetery, Evansville.
Nancy Cooper married Richard Wiley King. Nancy died before the Old Settler roll but her son, Benjamin Cooper King, is listed.
**************
The following information is provided by Find A Grave member Robert Awalt (#47210619):
Benjamin was born abt 1772. His first wife was Temperance Leeman (1775-circa 1814), daughter of Joseph Leeman and Elizabeth Betty Merritt. Temperance Leeman Cooper died after May 1814 (date of her father's will where she is mentioned as living) and the 1820 Georgia census for Hall County.
Source 1:
North Carolina, Marriage Collection, 1741-2004
about Temperance Leman
Name: Temperance Leman
Spouse: Benjamin Cooper
Marriage Date: 4 Nov 1794
Marriage County: Granville
Marriage State: North Carolina
Source: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT
Source 2:
Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived from an array of materials including pedigree charts, family history articles, querie.
Possible Children of Benjamin Cooper and Temperance Leeman:
1775 – 1814
Nancy Cooper
1797 – 1834
Sarah Sally Cooper
1797 – 1871
Jeanette Cooper
1799 – 1861
Cornelius Benjamin Cooper
1801 – 1886
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