Brief Life History of Zelda Mae
When Zelda Mae Cooper Jarrett was born on 20 September 1893, in Rich Valley District, Smyth, Virginia, United States, her father, Pleasant Daily Cooper, was 45 and her mother, Sarah Christina Elizabeth Cassell, was 37. She married Flem Taylor Jarrett on 29 March 1914, in Sullivan, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in McDowell, West Virginia, United States in 1935 and Welch, McDowell, West Virginia, United States for about 10 years. She died on 16 December 1968, at the age of 75.
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- Zelda M Jarrett, "United States 1950 Census"
- Zeldia May Cooper, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth Records, 1853-1896"
- May Cooper, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
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World Events (8)
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1900 · Governor Shot
On January 30, 1900 Governor William Goebel of Kentucky was assassinated. He took a bullet to the chest, outside the Old State Capitol. He died on February 3, 1900.
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a maker and repairer of wooden vessels such as barrels, tubs, buckets, casks, and vats, from Middle English couper, cowper (apparently from Middle Dutch kūper, a derivative of kūp ‘tub, container’, which was borrowed independently into English as coop). The prevalence of the surname, its cognates, and equivalents bears witness to the fact that this was one of the chief specialist trades in the Middle Ages throughout Europe. In North America, the English surname has absorbed some cases of like-sounding cognates from other languages, for example Dutch Kuiper .
Americanized form of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Kupfer and Kupper (see Kuper ).
Dutch: occupational name for a buyer or merchant, Middle Dutch coper.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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