Mary Cooper

Brief Life History of Mary

When Mary Cooper was born on 16 January 1815, in Lawrence, Ohio, United States, her father, Charles Cooper, was 33 and her mother, Tabitha Willis, was 30. She married William Smith Dickerson on 8 June 1835, in Greenup, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Daviess, Missouri, United States in 1850. She died on 1 August 1870, in Civil Bend, Daviess, Missouri, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Wilson Cemetery, Civil Bend, Daviess, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Smith Dickerson
1803–1861
Mary Cooper
1815–1870
Marriage: 8 June 1835
John Dickerson Cooper
1834–1899
John Dickerson
1835–
Sarah Dickerson
1837–1838
Tabitha Dickerson
1839–1851
Malinda Dickerson
1841–1908
William Wiley Dickerson
1843–1924
Margaret Dickerson
1846–1920
Josephus Dickerson
1850–1855
Martha A. Dickerson
1852–1913
Charles Wesley Dickerson
1857–1925

Sources (6)

  • Mary Dickerson in household of William L Dickerson, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Mary Cooper, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
  • Mary Cooper Dickerson, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (7)

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1820 · Making States Equal

The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

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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