Jane Blevins Cooper Pension, 1858, Certification and Approval

Certification & Approval of Pension, 1858
Pension Files of Jane Cooper

[Transcript begins]:

Department of the Interior
Widow's Claim.

I certify that Jane Cooper, widow of Isaac Cooper, who was a private of company D, Georgia mounted volunteers, in the service of the United States, is entitled, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved June 3, 1858, to receive pay at the rate of Three dollars and Fifty cents per month, to commence on the Twenty-fourth day of December 1857, and to continue during life, unless she should again marry, in which case the pension is not payable after the date of such marriage.

Given at the Department of the Interior
this Thirtieth day of September, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty eight~
J. M~~~f~~~
Secretary of the Interior.
Countersigned.
[Geo~C?] Whitney
Commissioner of Pensions.
[Written across this document, diagonally, is the approval]:

Amount due on this Certificate from 24th Dec~r 1857 to 3d Sept 1858 inclusive, per pension office calculation $29.16 2/3

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TRANSCRIPTION NOTE

Transcribed by D.K. Pritchett from a photocopy of the court document. This file dated 25 June 2001.

Old URL (no longer extant): http://southernmuse.com/genealogy/cooper/jane1858d.htm

Obituary Extract: Clyde Edward Cooper, Sr.,

Obituary

Name of deceased: Clyde Edward Cooper, Sr.

Date of Death: 18 December 2017

Place of Death: Not stated (probably Hamilton County, Tennessee)

Age: 82

Residence: Soddy Daisy, Hamilton, Tennessee

Late Wife (1) (45 years): JoAnn Cooper

Late Wife (2) (4 years): Gayle Cooper

Son-in-law: Steve Carter (deceased)

Sister: Lillie Bell Henshaw (deceased)

Brother: Claude “Petey” Cooper (deceased)

Surviving children: Sandy Carter, Lisa (Robby) Rue, Clyde (Sharon) Cooper, Jr., and Ricky (Trish) Cooper.

Surviving grandchildren: Jonathan Shore, Andrew Shore, Hayley Carter, Susan Hughes, Janey Rice, Wesley Rue, Paige Rue, Riley Cooper, Miles Cooper, Benji Cooper, Kevin Cooper, and Brad Cooper.

Surviving sisters: Annie Kate Henshaw, Naomi Daub, Ruby Lee Breedlove and Darlene Allen.

Surviving brothers: Eddie Cooper and Ernie Cooper.

Surviving nieces and nephews ("several").

Membership: Boilermakers Local 454.

Funeral Home: Williamson & Sons Funeral Home

Location: 8852 Dayton Pike, Soddy-Daisy, Hamilton, Tennessee

Visitation: Thursday, 21 December 2017, 4:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M.; and Friday, 22 December 2017, 11:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M.

Services: Friday, 22 December 2017, 1:00 P.M.

Officiator: Pastor Charlie Ivey

Interment: Friday, 22 December 2017 (after service): Lakewood Memory Gardens, East

Cemetery Location (not stated): Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee

Condolences and memories: http://www.williamsonandsons.com

Arrangements: Williamson and Sons Funeral Home

Address: 8852 Dayton Pike, Soddy-Daisy, TN 37379

Obituary URL: http://www.williamsonandsons.com/tributes/Clyde-Cooper (accessed 20 December 2017)

Link to Obituary of Clyde Edward Cooper

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Alternate name, from my file: Clyde Elmore Cooper
Not sure of source for alternate name; probably his older half sister, Sallie (Cooper) Bryant.

Census:
1940 US Census: Clyde Cooper, male, son of Issac Cooper. Birth: 1936 Alabama. Residence (1940): Election Precinct 4, Jackson, Alabama. Residence (1935): , , .

Genealogical Information for parents of Clyde Edward Cooper: 

Father: Isaac S. Cooper (1879–1977), son of Peter and Malinda (Sizemore) Cooper.

Euna Estelle Higdon (1911–1997), daughter of William L. and Hannah (McBryer) Higdon.

Marriage of Isaac and Estelle (Higdon) Cooper: 17 March 1929, Marion, Tennessee, US.

Isaac and Mattie Jane (Wigley) Cooper (II)

Isaac and Mattie (Wigley) Cooper

Here are some more views of the old family photo of Isaac Cooper and his wife, Mattie Jane Emaline Wigley Cooper, of Long Island, Jackson County, Alabama. I believe these images were scanned straight from my negatives by ScanCafe. Previously, I uploaded copies which had been scanned from my printed photos. There is a notable difference in the color. These (from the negatives) have much better color and clarity. I've also included a copy of the photo as it actually was, with the couple together. That's the best shot of it that I have. I was able to get better focus on each face by taking shots of half the photo at a time.

Isaac Cooper, born 1879

Mattie (Wigley) Cooper, born 

Isaac and Mattie Jane (Wigley) Cooper
See original post: http://northgeorgiakin.blogspot.com/2015/01/isaac-cooper-and-mattie-jane-emaline.html

Isaac Cooper and Mattie Jane Emaline Wigley (I)

Isaac and Mattie Jane (Wigley) Cooper

Isaac Cooper married Mattie Jane Emaline Wigley on 9 November 1902 in Trenton, Dade County, Georgia.

Isaac, born 29 March 1879 in Alabama, was the seventh son of Peter and Malinda (Sizemore) Cooper, who married on 28 August 1864 in Dekalb County, Alabama. Mattie, born 14 September 1886, was the daughter of James Marion and Mary E. (Bryant) Wigley, who married on 23 December 1880, in Dade County, Georgia.

The Coopers settled near their people in Long Island, Jackson County, Alabama. Isaac and Mattie had one stillborn son (later named Isaac, Jr.); and three daughters, Rosie Elizabeth Cooper, born 15 May 1906; Pearl Ellen Cooper, born 7 February 1908; and Sally Bell Cooper, born 16 July 1910. Mattie died on 18 June 1911 in Jackson County, Alabama, when her daughter, Sally, was just a baby. Mattie had never been well since the baby was born ~ she had a hole in her bladder. Isaac was a farmer. One day, while he was gone, Mattie found that there was going to be bad weather. She hurried out to try to get the crops in. This destroyed her health, and shortly after that, she died. Mattie is buried at the old cemetery in Island Creek Cove, Jackson County, Alabama.

Isaac remarried, first to Clarancy Cleo Colvin; and, after she died, to Estelle Higdon. He had six children by each of his other wives: sixteen children in all.

Isaac Cooper lived on the bluff in Long Island, Alabama. Some of his people, and the Wigleys, lived down in the cove. Later, he lived in Bridgeport (or the area came to be called Bridgeport). Cleo's half-brother, Mark ("Bean") lived with him for many years. Later in life, Isaac moved in with his daughter, Sally (Cooper) Bryant, in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. Finally, he moved into a nursing home. Isaac died in Collinsville, Dekalb County, Alabama, on 18 May 1977. He is buried at Sequatchie Valley Memorial Cemetery, Jasper, Marion County, Tennessee.

The photo of Isaac and Mattie (above) is a double portrait. However, I could not take it out of the frame, and could not get both faces into focus at once; therefore, I photographed each face separately and put the two images together. The original photograph belonged to Sally (Cooper) Bryant.

My other image file was scanned by ScanCafe, possibly straight from my negative. The color and clarity is a little better in the newly uploaded shots:

Isaac and Mattie (Wigley) Cooper photos
http://northgeorgiakin.blogspot.com/2016/01/isaac-and-mattie-jane-wigley-cooper.html

Isaac Cooper, Long Island, Jackson, Alabama: WWI Draft and Marriages

Isaac Cooper World War I Registration Card

[Extract from document image]:

Serial Number 664, Order Number A 2497

Isaac Cooper

Permanent Home Address: 23 [street, blank], Long Island, Jackson, Alabama.

Age: 37. Date of Birth: March 29, 1879.
[Checked]: White, native born.
Occupation: Farming; (employer) self.
(at) Long Island, Jackson, Ala.
Nearest relative: Cleo Cooper
(of) Long Island, Jackson, Ala.

[Affirmation, signature]: Isaac Cooper.
[Registrar's Report] 1-4-8-C.
Description: Tall, medium build, Blue eyes, Dark Hair.
Physical disqualifications: None.

Signed: William Cargile.
Date of Registration: Sep 12, 1918.

Stamp: Local Board for the County of Jackson, State of Ala., Scottsboro, Ala.

Citation: "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-25103-8816-37?cc=1968530 : accessed 29 Jul 2014), Alabama > Jackson County; A-Mason, John > image 1225 of 3778; citing NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d).
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 More about Isaac Cooper

Southern Muse's identification of individual: D.K. Pritchett's great-grandfather: Isaac Cooper, born 29 March 1879, Long Island, Jackson, Alabama; son of Peter Cooper and Malinda Sizemore.

Isaac Cooper married (1) Mattie Jane Emaline Wigley (or Wiggley) (called Mattie).
[Record: Issaac Cooper (married) Miss Mattie Wigley on 9 November 1902, Trenton, Dade, Georgia; marriage book D, p.93].

Isaac Cooper married (2) Clarancy Cleo Colvin (called Cleo).
[Record: Mr. Isaac Cooper (married) Miss Cleo Colvan on 10 Dec 1911, Long Island, Jackson Co., Alabama; marriage book 3, p.436 (on file at courthouse in Scottsboro).]

Isaac Cooper married (3) Euna Estelle Higdon (called Estelle).
[Record: I.S. Cooper married Estell Higdon on 17 March 1929, Marion County, Tennessee; marriage book 20, p.130]

Note: Isaac has the middle initial of "S" on one marriage record. None of us descendants know what, if anything, it stands for. I've tried to extract records verbatim, but have had to refer back to my old notes in some cases. Also, my extract of Isaac's first marriage is from a typed, certified copy, backed up by my old notes from when I extracted it from the marriage book. Back then, my extracts were not all verbatim. DKP's extract style, not copy/paste.

Clarency Cleo (Colvin) Cooper

Clarency Cleo (Colvin) Cooper

Clarancy Cleo J. Colvin was born 22 October 1893 near Shellmound, Marion County, Tennessee. She was the daughter of Albert Elmore and Dora L. (Berryhill) Colvin, who had married in Dade County, Georgia, in 1892. Cleo married Isaac Cooper on 10 Dec 1911 in Scottsboro, Jackson County, Alabama. Isaac's first wife, Mattie Wigley, had died, leaving him with three little girls: Rosie, Pearl, and Sallie. Cleo became a mother to these children, and loved them as if they were her own. The family lived in Long Island, Jackson County, Alabama, up on the bluff, on Sand Mountain. In 1913, Cleo had her first biological child: Ella Mae Cooper. Five more children followed: Beulah Pauline, Lela Emmaline, Albert Elmore "Bud," Eula Lorene "Tommie," and Nellie Viola Cooper (born Jan. 1926). A few months after Nellie was born, her mother, Cleo, died on 23 May 1926. Nellie died a couple of months later. The photo above, of Cleo, hung on the wall of Grandmother's house (Sallie Cooper Bryant) for all the years that I can recall. She loved Cleo. She didn't remember her own mother, who had died when she was a baby; but she also kept a picture of Isaac and her mother, Mattie (Wigley) Cooper, beside the picture of Cleo. Below is a picture of Isaac and Cleo Cooper. Cleo is holding Ella Mae. Isaac's three daughters by his first marriage are there.

Isaac and Cleo (Colvin) Cooper and family

The Cooper children in the photo above are Pearl (left), Rosie (center), and Sallie (holding Isaac's hand). Ella Mae Cooper is the baby in Cleo's arms. I've had to identify them by presumed ages.

The photos have been retouched some. The photo of Cleo has had the background mat extensively retouched to remove skewing, distortion, corner shadows, and a bad glare caused by photographing the picture under glass. The bottom photo has had sharpening applied, especially to the heads; and some retouching of Pearl's right eye where there was a bad spot. The background behind the girls has been darkened a little to make them stand out a little better. I haven't tried to fix the corners.

Photos shared by D.K. Pritchett: please link back to my blog if you borrow them!

1930 Census: Issac Cooper and Family

1930 Census Listing, Cooper, Issac

Carpenter, Jackson, Alabama

 Series T626  Roll 20 Page 70  (9 April 1930)

COOPER, Issac   Head   own     M  W  51  m  50  y  n  AL  AL  AL 

   Farmer

                Estelle Wife   F  W  18  m  17  n  y  AL  AL  AL

                Rosa     dau   F  W  23               AL  AL  AL

                Pearl    dau   F  W  22               AL  AL  AL

                Ella M.  dau   F  W  17               AL  AL  AL

                Lela (?) dau   F  W  15               AL  AL  AL

                Beulah   dau   F  W  12               AL  AL  AL

                Albert   son   M  W  10               AL  AL  AL

                Eula     dau   F  W   6               AL  AL  AL

                Lily B.  dau   F  W 3/12              AL  AL  AL

BRYANT, Alex    son-in-law     M  W  24               AL  AL  AL 

   Fireman Steamboat

                Sallie B. dau  F  W  19               AL  AL  AL

Extract by Stan Wigley for D.K. Pritchett