Brief Life History of Myrtle May
When Myrtle May Cooper was born on 25 September 1898, in Buckley, Pierce, Washington, United States, her father, Frank Wesley Cooper, was 33 and her mother, Elizabeth Catherine Weigel, was 24. She married George Stanley Spencer on 3 January 1916. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Rockford, Kent, Michigan, United States for about 10 years and Rockford, Rockford, Kent, Michigan, United States in 1940. She died on 28 November 1991, in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Rockford, Kent, Michigan, United States.
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- Myrtle Burgy in household of Charles Struter, "United States Census, 1940"
- Cooper, "Washington, County Birth Registers, 1873-1965"
- Myrtle May Cooper Burgy, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
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World Events (8)
1899 · Mount Rainier National Park is Established
Mount Rainier was established as a state park on March 2, 1899 with legislation was signed by President McKinley. Mount Rainier is a volcanic peak surrounded by forests.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
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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