s/o Sarshel Cooper / Ruth Hancock
PIONEER OF THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY
ANOTHER VETERAN GONE
Death of Major S. Cooper at Winters
Major Stephen Cooper died at Winters Thursday of apoplexy, aged 93 years. Major Cooper was one of the earliest pioneers in the State, coming to California in the fall of 1846 and settling in Sacramento. He afterward removed in 1847 to Napa valley, where he and Mr. Young gave the first 4th of July dinner ever given in the State, two flags, the Stars and Stripes and the Lone Star, being raised. He presided over the first political meeting ever held in the State at Yerba Buena. He was also the first settler in Benicia.
It was a letter of Major Cooper's to President James K. Polk that first gave to the world the news of the discovery of gold in this State in 1844, and which caused the great rush of fortune-seekers. In 1880 Major Cooper conveyed, as messenger, the State electoral vote to Washington. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, serving under his father, Captain Sarshel Cooper. Major Cooper was one of the company of Colonel J. C. Fremont and came to this State with him.
He married Malinda Tate in 1846, by whom he had six children, and at the time of his death had twenty-three grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. ref: Napa Daily Journal, May 18, 1890 Obit Contributed by: Connie
married Sept/Oct 1824 Malinda Tate
They had 6 children - Frances Ann, Susan Cooper, Sarshall, Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie", Thomas Benton, Martha
PIONEER OF THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY
ANOTHER VETERAN GONE
Death of Major S. Cooper at Winters
Major Stephen Cooper died at Winters Thursday of apoplexy, aged 93 years. Major Cooper was one of the earliest pioneers in the State, coming to California in the fall of 1846 and settling in Sacramento. He afterward removed in 1847 to Napa valley, where he and Mr. Young gave the first 4th of July dinner ever given in the State, two flags, the Stars and Stripes and the Lone Star, being raised. He presided over the first political meeting ever held in the State at Yerba Buena. He was also the first settler in Benicia.
It was a letter of Major Cooper's to President James K. Polk that first gave to the world the news of the discovery of gold in this State in 1844, and which caused the great rush of fortune-seekers. In 1880 Major Cooper conveyed, as messenger, the State electoral vote to Washington. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, serving under his father, Captain Sarshel Cooper. Major Cooper was one of the company of Colonel J. C. Fremont and came to this State with him.
He married Malinda Tate in 1846, by whom he had six children, and at the time of his death had twenty-three grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. ref: Napa Daily Journal, May 18, 1890 Obit Contributed by: Connie
married Sept/Oct 1824 Malinda Tate
They had 6 children - Frances Ann, Susan Cooper, Sarshall, Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie", Thomas Benton, Martha
s/o Sarshel Cooper / Ruth Hancock
PIONEER OF THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY
ANOTHER VETERAN GONE
Death of Major S. Cooper at Winters
Major Stephen Cooper died at Winters Thursday of apoplexy, aged 93 years. Major Cooper was one of the earliest pioneers in the State, coming to California in the fall of 1846 and settling in Sacramento. He afterward removed in 1847 to Napa valley, where he and Mr. Young gave the first 4th of July dinner ever given in the State, two flags, the Stars and Stripes and the Lone Star, being raised. He presided over the first political meeting ever held in the State at Yerba Buena. He was also the first settler in Benicia.
It was a letter of Major Cooper's to President James K. Polk that first gave to the world the news of the discovery of gold in this State in 1844, and which caused the great rush of fortune-seekers. In 1880 Major Cooper conveyed, as messenger, the State electoral vote to Washington. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, serving under his father, Captain Sarshel Cooper. Major Cooper was one of the company of Colonel J. C. Fremont and came to this State with him.
He married Malinda Tate in 1846, by whom he had six children, and at the time of his death had twenty-three grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. ref: Napa Daily Journal, May 18, 1890 Obit Contributed by: Connie
married Sept/Oct 1824 Malinda Tate
They had 6 children - Frances Ann, Susan Cooper, Sarshall, Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie", Thomas Benton, Martha
PIONEER OF THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY
ANOTHER VETERAN GONE
Death of Major S. Cooper at Winters
Major Stephen Cooper died at Winters Thursday of apoplexy, aged 93 years. Major Cooper was one of the earliest pioneers in the State, coming to California in the fall of 1846 and settling in Sacramento. He afterward removed in 1847 to Napa valley, where he and Mr. Young gave the first 4th of July dinner ever given in the State, two flags, the Stars and Stripes and the Lone Star, being raised. He presided over the first political meeting ever held in the State at Yerba Buena. He was also the first settler in Benicia.
It was a letter of Major Cooper's to President James K. Polk that first gave to the world the news of the discovery of gold in this State in 1844, and which caused the great rush of fortune-seekers. In 1880 Major Cooper conveyed, as messenger, the State electoral vote to Washington. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, serving under his father, Captain Sarshel Cooper. Major Cooper was one of the company of Colonel J. C. Fremont and came to this State with him.
He married Malinda Tate in 1846, by whom he had six children, and at the time of his death had twenty-three grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. ref: Napa Daily Journal, May 18, 1890 Obit Contributed by: Connie
married Sept/Oct 1824 Malinda Tate
They had 6 children - Frances Ann, Susan Cooper, Sarshall, Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie", Thomas Benton, Martha
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