When Yvonne Estelle Cooper was born on 26 January 1918, in Randolph, West Virginia, United States, her father, Floyd Mason Cooper, was 24 and her mother, Effie May Armstrong, was 21. She married Charles Malcolm Webster on 5 July 1948, in Rockingham, Virginia, United States. She lived in Dry Fork District, Randolph, West Virginia, United States in 1940 and Harman, Randolph, West Virginia, United States in 2011. She died on 14 May 2011, in Elkins, Randolph, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Woodbine Cemetery, Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States.
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.
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