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1. Per Ancestry.com: database "1663942"; 13 Apr. 2002, contact .
2. US 1850 Census for Burton, Adams, Illinois, 5 Oct 1850, p. 18A, online image at :
Henry Cooper, blacksmith, M 35 NY.
Anne Cooper, F 29, NY.
Mary A. Cooper, F 5, Ill.
Susan Cooper, F 3, Ill.
Luella Cooper, F 1, Ill.
3. Parents are Ezekial Peck and Electa Buck. Rea Jenkins, Peck family researcher provides me the following per her email of 25 Oct 2010 to me:
"I have never found anything about Henry Cooper being a member of the [LDS] church, although he very well could have been. As far as I can tell, Ezekiel and Electa Peck joined the church in New York and with the rest of the Colesville saints went west to Kirtland, Ohio, where they were sent on to Missouri and settled in Kaw Twp. When they were driven out they went into Clay County and made a settlement, but then, according to LaMar C. Berrett's book, "Sacred Places, Missouri, A Comprehensive Guide to Early LDS Historical Sites," the Colesville saints started to scatter in search of land. Ezekiel went to the Lowry Settlement in Clay County. When they were driven out of Missouri, Ezekiel went to Quincy, Illinois and show up in the 1840 census there. They appear to be still involved in the church. In 1850 they are in Burton, as you know. As far as I can tell, Ezekiel stayed there, as well as Hannah and Eveline. Joseph B. stayed there but eventually ended up in Hancock, Illinois. Chauncey went to Ohio, but he and his wife, Maria Wood, did their temple work in the Nauvoo temple before they left Nauvoo. I guess none of them stayed in the church. Polly Peck, Ezekiel's sister, was married to Joseph Knight. Hezekiah, another brother, never came west with the saints. Benjamin, another brother, who my husband is related to, died in New York. His widow, Phoebe Crosby Peck, went west to Missouri with her children, became the second wife of Joseph Knight, quite a while later when Polly died, and that family came on west. That's about all as far as Ezekiel's early LDS involvement."
4. Website <http://www.josephknightfamily.org/history/colesville.html> accessed 24 Oct 2010:
"List of Original Colesville Branch Members, 1830 - 1831. Original Colesville Branch Members and Potential Members of The Church of Jesus Christ, 1830-31, First Organized Branch of the Restored Church of Jesus Christ Compiled by Professor Larry C. Porter, Brigham Young University, 2007. Members of the Colesville Branch living within the Broome and Chenango County areas: [I just copied the Peck family.] Peck, Anna Mariah (daughter of Ezekiel and Electra Buck Peck Peck, Charity (daughter of Ezekiel and Electa Buck Peck) Peck, Electa (Lecta) Buck (wife of Ezekiel Peck) Peck, Elizabeth (Betsy) (daughter of Hezekiah and Martha (Patty) Long Peck) Peck, Evaline (daughter of Ezekiel and Electa Buck Peck) Peck, Ezekiel (husband of Electa Buck Peck and son of Joseph and Elizabeth Read Peck) Peck, Hannah (daughter of Ezekiel and Electa Buck Peck) Peck, Henrietta (daughter of Benjamin (deceased) and Phoebe Crosby Peck) Peck, Hezekiah (husband of Martha (Patty) Long Peck and son of Joseph and Elizabeth Read Peck) Peck, Hezekiah (son of Benjamin Peck (deceased) and Phoebe Crosby Peck) Peck, Joseph (son of Ezekiel and Electa Buck Peck) Peck, Mahina P. (daughter of Hezekiah and Martha (Patty) Long Peck) Peck, Mark (son of Hezekiah and Martha (Patty) Long Peck) Peck, Martha (Patty) Long (wife of Hezekiah Peck) Peck, Mary (daughter of Hezekiah and Martha (Patty) Long Peck) Peck, Matthew (sone of Hezekiah and Martha (Patty) Long Peck) Peck, Phoebe Crosby (widow of Benjamin Peck, married 2nd Joseph Knight Sr. after Polly died) Peck, Reed (son of Hezekiah and Martha (Patty) Long Peck) Peck, Samantha (daughter of Benjamin (deceased) and Phoeby Crosby Peck) Peck, Sarah (daughter of Benjamin (deceased) and Phoeby Crosby Peck) Peck, Washington (son of Hezekiah and Martha (Patty) Long Peck)"
5. Email dated 23 Oct 2010 from Rea Jenkins, also a researcher of this family concerning Anna Mariah Peck and her children:
1. 1850 Census (know you have this, but if you look at it, just below Henry Cooper is Samuel Meachum and his wife Hannah. This is Anna Mariah's sister and her family. Below them is their father, Ezekial Peck and her mother, Electa Buck, and their younger sister Eveline.
2. 1860 Census for Henry Cooper family, Cottonwood, Yolo, CA, p. 648 of Ancestry.com.
3. 1870 Census for Henry and family, Buckeye, Yolo, CA, p. 410 of Ancestry.com.
4. 1880 Census - I can't find them.
5. 1900 Census for H. C. family, Winters, Yolo, CA, p. 14B, E.D. 203 of Ancestry.com.
I have obituaries for Henry and Anna Mariah, an abstract of death record for Anna, and a certificate of search for a death record for Henry from the Yolo County Clerk/Recorder in which they didn't find anything.
Census for Mary A. Cooper Grafton:
1. 1900 Census, Winters, Yolo, CA, p. 2B, E.D. 203, Ancestry.com.
Census for Susan J. Cooper Baker:
1. 1880 Census, Winters, Yolo, CA, p. 342, E.D. 160, Ancestry.com. (her sister, Luella is just below her)
2. 1900 Census, Winters, Yolo, CA, p. 2A, E.D. 203, Ancestry.com.
Census for Luella E. Cooper Wilgus:
1. 1870 Census, Buckeye, Yolo, CA, p. 15 & 16, Ancestry.com.
2. 1880 Census, noted above for Susan J. Cooper Baker.
3. 1900 Census, Sacramento Ward 7, Sacramento, CA, p. 6A, E.D. 89, Ancestry.com.
4. 1910 Census, Sacramento Ward 7, Sacramento, CA, p. 8B, E.D. 121, Ancestry.com.
5. 1920 Census, Winters, Yolo, CA, p. 17A, E.D. 230, Ancestry.com.(boarding with someone)
I have a death notice for Egbert H. Cooper, died at age 17.
Census for Emma E. Cooper Bentley:
1. 1910 Census, Winters, Yolo, CA, p. 14A, E.D. 184, Ancestry.com.
Census for Charles C. Cooper:
1. 1910 Census, Winters, Yolo, CA, p. 15B, E.D. 184, Ancestry.com.
2. 1920 Census, Winters, Yolo, CA, p. 7A, E.D. 230, Ancestry.com.
3. 1930 Census, Winters, Yolo, CA, p. 1A, E.D. 17, Ancestry.com.
I have obituaries for both Charles and his wife, Mary.
Census for George Day Cooper:
1. 1920 Census, Winters, Yolo, CA, p. 10B, E.D. 230 Ancestry.com. The wife in this census, Eula, is his second wife. I have obituaries of George Day and his first wife, Ida Mae, which explains a lot of the two wives.
I also have a cemetery record for the Winters Cemetery that I can copy also. In it there is a grave with a broken stone for a child of Henry and Anna. No name. The cemetery record says "baby? Broken marker looks like July 4 1858 ? age 2 y 20 da." I have this child on my family group sheet, and calculated the birth as 14 Jun 1856. Also, in Anna's obituary it states that she was the mother of ten children, six of whom - four daughters and two sons- are living.
This is all I have on the Henry and Anna Cooper family."
DEATH:
1. Per copy of death record abstract in my possession issued from the County of Yolo, Woodland, Calif. 95695, issued 28 Jul 2009: "12-16-1891, Mrs. A. M. Cooper, caucasian, 71 years, married, NY nativity, died from pneumonia, physician or coroner was Dr. Magill."
OBITUARY:
1. Newspaper "The Winters Express":
A. Thursday, Dec. 16, 1891, p. 2: "Deaths. Cooper, Near Winters, December 16, 1891, Mrs. A. M., wife of Henry Cooper, a native of New York, aged 71 years, 7 days."
B. Saturday, Jan. 2, 1892, page 1:
"Mrs. Henry Cooper, who died Dec. 16, 1891, was one of the pioneer women who have helped make California the grand state that it is today. She came to California in 1856 and settled with her husband and family upon the place where she died, living there a little over 35 years.
"She was bonr in Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York, December 9, 1820 and was married to Mr. Cooper in Burton, Adams County, Illinois where she had gone with her parents, Dec. 17, 1840. she was the mother of ten children, six of whom - four daughters and two sons - are living.
"That she was a good mother is attested by the honorable lives led by her children, and the respect in which they are held where they live. Mrs. Cooper was buried on the 51st anniversary of her wedding day and it was indeed a sad day for those who are left."
BURIAL:
1. Per tombstone list on file prepared by Brett T. Dunham, Manager of the Winters Cemetery District, 415 Cemetery Drive, P.O. Box 402, Winters, CA, 95694, phone 530-795-2475, email wcd415@sbcglobal.net. The following are buried in:
Sect. 6, Lot 118, Cooper Plot, all surnamed Cooper:
-Anna M., Dec 9, 1820-Dec 16, 1891, wife of H. Cooper.
-Baby ?. Broken marker looks like -July 4, 1858? age 2 y 20 da.
-Charles C., 1860-June 11, 1943.
-Egbert H., -Jan 26, 1875, age 17-10-16, son of H. and A.M.
-Eula D., Jan 26, 1875-Feb 7, 1959.
-George Day, Oct 11, 1862-Nov 12 1958.
-Henry, Mar 4, 1816-Dec 7, 1901.
-Ida May, Oct 28, 1888 age 22-1-27, wife G.D. Cooper.
-Mary, 1863-Aug 23 1938.
-Wealthya, Mar 23, 1865 age 71y.
2. Per photos of tombstone inscriptions provided to me by Rea Jenkins 19 Jan 2011:
-"Eula D. Cooper, Jan. 26, 1875 - Feb. 7, 1959."
-"John F. Baker, Died Feb. 28, 1890, aged 49 yrs. 7 mos. 8 ds. Native of Mass. Susan Jane, wife of J.F. Baker, died Feb. 14, 1903, aged 55 yrs., 11 mos. 8 days. Native of Illinois. At Rest." [Tombstone clearly gives John's death as 28 Feb, which then makes his birth date 20 Jul 1840, both of which are at variance to what dates I have been using.]
-Military tombstone: "William Elmer Baker, California, ___ Am. Service, August 30, 1932."
-"George D. Cooper, Oct. 11, 1862-Nov. 12, 1958."
-"Ida May, Wife of G.D. Cooper died Oct. 28, 1888, aged 22 Yrs. 1 Mo. 27 Ds. [Includes a poem that is illegible in photo.]"
-"Mary Cooper, 1863-1938." [Wife of Charles C. Cooper.]
-"Egbert H. Son of H. & A.M. Cooper, died Jan 26, 1869. Aged 18? ys 10 ms. 16 ds." [This gives a different birth date of 10 Mar 1851 compared to what we have used of 16 Oct 1851.]
-"Charles C. Cooper, 1860-1943."
-"In memory of Wealthy A. Cooper who died March 23, 1865, aged 71 years. [Includes photo of illegible poem.]"
-"Ann M. wife of H. Cooper born Dec. 9, 1820, died Dec. 16, 1891."
-"Henry Cooper, born, Mar. 4, 1816, died Dec. 7, 1901."
-Unmarked stone by Ann and Henry with some design by no words that I can make out in the photo.
-"Lottie E. daughter of J.H. & L.E. Wilgus, born March 12, 1878, died August 23, 1878."
-"Veva Bell daughter of E.E. & S.B. Wilgus, June 21, 1902 - July 16, 1912. [Poem]."
-"Wilgus, Edward, b. Dec. 21, 1871, d. May 20, 1943; Susie B. Sept. 24, 1870-Feb. 20, 1947."
-"Luella E. Wilgus, Feb. 7, 1849-Jan. 24, 1928."
-"John H. Wilgus, Mar. 28, 1844 - Feb. 15, 1918"
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
1820 - 1891 (71 years)