When Amanda Cooper was born on 18 May 1848, in Greene, Indiana, United States, her father, John Burgess Cooper, was 45 and her mother, Margaret Carr, was 46. She married George Washington Gee on 26 January 1869, in Greene, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. She lived in Jackson Township, Greene, Indiana, United States in 1880 and Marshall Township, Lawrence, Indiana, United States in 1910. She died on 6 February 1914, in Owensburg, Jackson Township, Greene, Indiana, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Greene, Indiana, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1855: Lawrence, Indiana, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
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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