Margaret Cooper

Brief Life History of Margaret

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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Family Time Line

Samuel Walker West
1804–1873
Margaret Cooper
1804–1882
Marriage: 29 January 1829
Sarah Esther West
1829–1906
Clara West
Nephi West
Rosetta West
Russell West
John Anderson West
1830–1917
Isles Marion West
1832–1833
Susan Elizabeth West
1833–1926
Emma Seraphine West
1836–1910
Margaret Fletcher West
1838–1864
Lydia Clementine West
1840–1912
William Moroni West
1842–1874
Nancy Melinda West
1844–1917
Lehi West
1846–1878
Samuel Wilford West
1847–1848

Sources (52)

  • Margt West in household of Saml West, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Cooper - Church record: Blessing record or certificate: birth: 9 December 1804; ,Tennessee, United States
  • Margaret Cooper, "U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900"

World Events (8)

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

1818

Illinois is the 21st state.

1825 · The Crimes Act

The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.

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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