Brief Life History of William P
When William P Cooper was born on 11 March 1829, in La Follette, Campbell, Tennessee, United States, his father, John C Cooper, was 48 and his mother, Hester Sage, was 35. He married Sarah Hutson on 19 June 1851, in Campbell, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Hatmaker, Campbell, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Civil District 2, Campbell, Tennessee, United States in 1900. He died on 15 August 1903, at the age of 74, and was buried in Jacksboro, Campbell, Tennessee, United States.
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- Wm P Cooper, "United States Census, 1870"
- Wm P Cooper, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- William P. Cooper, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1835 · The Hermitage is Built
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
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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