Brief Life History of Jonathan
When Jonathan Cooper was born on 2 February 1758, in Somerset, Maryland, British Colonial America, his father, Levin L Cooper Sr, was 29 and his mother, Sarah Angeline Wetherby, was 28. He married Eleanor English on 5 January 1798, in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 11 August 1845, in Jerseyville, Jersey, Illinois, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Falkner Cemetery, Jerseyville, Jersey, Illinois, United States.
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- Jonathan Casper, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Jonathan Cooper, "Find A Grave Index"
- Jonathan Cooper in entry for Jonathan E Cooper and Sarah C Gillham Johnson, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · The Declaration to the King
"At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""
1781 · The First Constitution
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
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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Notes from family file
Jonathan lived in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania and Surrey County, North Carolina. In 1835 or 1836 Jonathan and Elenor with some children went to Green County, Illinois.
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