Oscar Levi Cooper

Brief Life History of Oscar Levi

When Oscar Levi Cooper was born on 26 January 1895, in Caddo, Oklahoma, United States, his father, Cornelius Cooper, was 27 and his mother, Susan Ellen Thompson, was 18. He married Bertie Oteelie Gilbert on 30 November 1913, in Blue, Bryan, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and Abilene, Taylor, Texas, United States in 1950. He died on 6 August 1972, in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Elmwood Memorial Park, Abilene, Taylor, Texas, United States.

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Oscar Levi Cooper
1895–1972
Bertie Oteelie Gilbert
1894–1990
Marriage: 30 November 1913
Madesta Cooper
1914–1999
Oscar Levi Cooper Jr
1920–1996
Rondall Edward Cooper
1924–1970
Gayzelle Cooper
1927–1993
Ruenelle Cooper
1929–2009

Sources (33)

  • Oscar L Cooper, "United States, Census, 1950"
  • Oscar L Cooper, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages, 1980-2015"
  • Oscar Levi Cooper, "United States, World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

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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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