James Theron Cooper

Male28 June 1897–9 January 1974

Brief Life History of James Theron

When James Theron Cooper was born on 28 June 1897, in Monroe, Mississippi, United States, his father, Jefferson Davis Cooper, was 36 and his mother, Elizabeth “Betty” Houston Milligan, was 35. He married Thelma Louise Shearin on 1 January 1933. He lived in Beat 4, Monroe, Mississippi, United States in 1930. He died on 9 January 1974, in Aberdeen, Monroe, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Aberdeen, Monroe, Mississippi, United States.

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James Theron Cooper
1897–1974
Thelma Louise Shearin
1910–2002
Marriage: 1 January 1933

Sources (7)

  • Theron Cooper in household of Jeff Cooper, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Legacy NFS Source: James Theron Cooper - Government record: birth-name: James Theron Cooper
  • James Theron Cooper Sr in entry for Mrs Thelma Louise Shearin Cooper, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    1 January 1933

    • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (4)

    World Events (8)

    1898 · War with the Spanish

    Age 1

    After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

    1907 · Boll Weevil Destroys Most the Cotton Crop

    Age 10

    When the boll weevil threatened most the Mississippi Delta, it put the state’s cotton crop in peril. By the time the boll weevil reached Mississippi it had already destroyed four million bales of cotton. This added up to $238 million at the time or about 6 billion in present day. The boll weevil depends on cotton for every stage of its life.

    1918 · Attempting to Stop the War

    Age 21

    To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.

    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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