Searching for Eli Cooper

 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.