When Margaret Cooper was born on 9 December 1804, in Montgomery, Tennessee, United States, her father, John Cooper Jr., was 31 and her mother, Esther Fletcher, was 28. She married Samuel Walker West on 29 January 1829, in Montgomery, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States for about 14 years and Snowflake, Navajo, Arizona, United States in 1880. In 1880, at the age of 76, her occupation is listed as doctress. She died on 19 June 1882, in Snowflake, Apache, Arizona, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Snowflake, Navajo, Arizona, United States.
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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.
Possible Related NamesWhen she and her husband were taught by the missionaries in 1830 in Tennessee, they quit their tobacco, tea, and coffee and were baptized. They migrated to Nauvoo. But when the Prophet first made know …
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