Here is a tree at Ancestry
Eli Cooper - Facts (ancestry.com)
Has Eli Cooper 1798-1838 in Tennessee married to Barbara Ridenhour dau of Henry Ridenhour
says his son George W Cooper was born 1819 in Anderson Co. Tennessee died 1881 in Whitely Co KY
This tree has George married to Emily Wilson
George Washington Cooper - Facts (ancestry.com)
son is Edward Wilson Cooper
Also has Eli and Barbara with the infamous Peter Eli Cooper
We match a Jacob Lasley (joe B 47 cm but Betty also matches)
Jacob is a g grandson of Dora Gertrude Cooper [1901-1989 Campbell Co. TN]
Dora dau of Joseph Coooper [1859-1939 Campbell Co. TN]
Joseph is son of Alvis Cooper [1811-1900 Campbell Co. TN]
Alvis is a son of Peter Cooper [1783/6-1875 Campbell Co. TN] and Clair Ridenhour.
Peter Cooper - Facts (ancestry.com)
Peter had a son named Eli here at finda grave
Eli Cooper (1825-1900) - Find a Grave Memorial
Eli is listed as a buyer of one hog on Peter Cooper's estate inventory sale
Peter Cooper - Facts (ancestry.com)
Eli had a son Amon Cooper at find a grave
Amon Cooper (1858-1913) - Find a Grave Memorial
Amon married Elizabeth Hatmaker
Several Hatmaker men are listed on Peter Cooper's inventory account
John Grant is on the 1830 and 1840 Campbell Co TN census
He married Mary Ridenhour a dau of Henry Ridenhour
John Grant - Facts (ancestry.com) so this says?
More on our Eli Cooper conundrum
And early source of many assumptions
https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/cooper/8549/
Re: Peter Cooper/Barbara Ridenour
By Donald Panther-Yates June 14, 2001 at
11:25:36
·
In reply to: Re: Peter
Cooper/Barbara Ridenour
5/11/01
I
have been interested in following this thread because Eli Cooper was neighbor
to my James Cooper in Wills Valley, Ala. (Sand Mountain, 1820s). This became
DeKalb Co., Ala. This group moved back and forth between Wayne Co., Ky.; NE
Alabama; Campbell Co., Tenn. and finally most went to Arkansas.
As Peter Cooper said in his Eastern Cherokee Application, "We lived as
white people but everyone knew we had the blood" (paraphrase).
The key is Henry Ridenour (originally Reitenhauer). He was a Pennsylvania Dutch
trader among the Cherokee and married a Cherokee woman. That was Peter, Eli and
other sons' mother. Another son was James Cooper who married Mary Fanning. I
believe their father was Thomas Cooper and he was the brother to Isaac Cooper
(who married Nancy Blackfox) and Capt. John Cooper, the Choctaw chief.
Here is a hypothetical reconstruction--don't have solid connections yet but
think we are close to solving the mystery. Does anybody have additional
children and their spouses or birth dates?
Don Panther-Yates
Descendants of Thomas Cooper
Generation No. 1
1.THOMAS3 COOPER(HENRY2, -----1)
More About THOMAS COOPER:
Fact: 1820, Wayne Co., Ky. census
Children of THOMAS COOPER are:
2. i. ELI4
COOPER, b. Abt. 1799, Tenn. or Va.; d. Abt. 1838, Tenn..
3. ii. PETER
COOPER, b. 1795.
4. iii. JAMES
COOPER, b. 1803, Alabama?; d. 1885, Gassville, Baxter Co., Arkansas.
Generation No. 2
2.ELI4 COOPER (THOMAS3, HENRY2, -----1) was born Abt. 1799 in Tenn. or Va., and
died Abt. 1838 in Tenn..He married BARBARA RIDENOUR June 22, 1818, daughter of
HENRY RIDENOUR and CHEROKEE WOMAN.
More About ELI COOPER:
Indenture: Abt. 1830, Register of Deeds E-F, Campbell Co., Tenn., pp. 192,258,
92.
Children of ELI COOPER and BARBARA RIDENOUR are:
i. JOHN5
COOPER.
ii. GEORGE
WASHINGTON COOPER, b. 1819, Tenn.; d. Bef. 1900, Whitley Co., Kentucky; m.
EMILY WILSON, January 25, 1838, Campbell Co., Tenn..
iii. HENRY
COOPER, b. 1821.
iv. HULDA
COOPER, b. 1823.
v. PETER
COOPER, b. March 28, 1827.
vi. WILLIAM
COOPER, b. 1829, Tenn.; m. MARY ANN -------; b. 1833, Ala..
vii. INA
JANE COOPER, b. 1831.
viii. ELIZABETH
COOPER, b. 1834, Alabama.
3.PETER4 COOPER (THOMAS3, HENRY2, -----1) was born 1795.He married CLARA
RIDENOUR, daughter of HENRY RIDENOUR and CHEROKEE WOMAN.
More About PETER COOPER:
Bond: Bet. 1826 - 1831, Campbell Co., Tenn. (vol. E, p. 258)
Children of PETER COOPER and CLARA RIDENOUR are:
i. HENRY5
COOPER, b. 1836.
Notes for HENRY COOPER:
The Henry Cooper who was justice of the peace in Campbell Co. and married Lydia
Vernan Neal, August 9, 1855. He died as a prisoner of war, Oct. 1, 1864.
ii. ALVIS
COOPER, b. 1811.
iii. MARY
COOPER, b. 1813.
iv. JANE
COOPER, b. Abt. 1815.
v. BARBARA
COOPER, b. 1817.
vi. SARAH
COOPER, b. March 27, 1821, Tenn.; m. ROBERT HOUSLEY, Abt. 1838, Campbell Co.,
Tenn.; b. November 05, 1818.
vii. CATHERINE
COOPER, b. 1823.
viii. ELI
COOPER, b. 1825.
ix. JAMES
COOPER, b. 1829.
x. SOPHIA
COOPER, b. 1831.
xi. MILTON
COOPER, b. January 1840, Campbell Co., Tenn.; m. JANE HOUSLEY.
4.JAMES4 COOPER (THOMAS3, HENRY2, -----1) was born 1803 in Alabama?, and died
1885 in Gassville, Baxter Co., Arkansas.He married MARY FANNIN Abt. 1821 in
Alabama.She was born 1804 in Georgia, and died 1880 in Arkansas.
Children of JAMES COOPER and MARY FANNIN are:
i. LUCINDA5
COOPER, b. 1822; m. JOHN T. FERGUSON; b. 1808, Georgia.
ii. MARTHA
COOPER, b. 1824; m. JOHN H. MORGAN; b. 1818.
iii. GEORGE
WASHINGTON COOPER, b. November 13, 1827, Dekalb Co., Ala.; d. June 04, 1864,
Independence Twp., Marion Co., Arkansas; m. SUSAN CAROLINE STAFFORD, Abt. 1848,
Alabama?; b. 1828, Greenville Co., S.C.; d. March 17, 1870, Mountain Home,
Baxter Co., Ark..
iv. MALISSA
ANN COOPER, b. October 27, 1829, Dekalb Co., Ala.; d. January 16, 1917,
Gassville, Baxter Co., Ark.; m. (1) STEPHEN R. STAFFORD; b. 1824; d. Abt. 1862;
m. (2) ALLEN BAGWELL.
v. ANDREW
JACKSON COOPER, b. 1831; m. LANEY J. TRUSSY; b. 1831.
vi. LOUISA
JANE COOPER, b. June 06, 1835, Dekalb Co., Ala.; d. December 13, 1892, Baxter
Co., Arkansas; m. WALTER P. HARGRAVE; b. November 19, 1829.
vii. JOHN
CALVIN COOPER, b. 1837; d. 1862, Nashville, Tenn.; m. ELIZABETH HARGRAVES; b.
July 01, 1820, Illinois.
viii. ALFRED
COOPER, b. Abt. 1838.
ix. MARY
COOPER, b. 1839; m. JAMES LITTLEFIELD; b. April 13, 1830.
x. FRANCIS
MARION COOPER, b. June 15, 1841; d. January 15, 1918; m. CELIA ALICE CRANE; b.
January 13, 1848.
xi. ARMINDA
COOPER, b. 1843; m. (1) ----- AMBLIN (?); m. (2) WILLIAM HAMMACK.
xii. JAMES
COOPER, b. 1843; d. 1875; m. HERNANDA ELIZABETH MESSICK; b. November 13, 1849.
xiii. ANGELINE
J. COOPER, b. 1849.
Endnotes
1.Mrs. Ella Mae Perkinson, 6094 Taylor Mill Road, Covington, Ky. 41015.
