Cooper

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Joe & Virginia E.M. "Jane" Boone Cooper

Bonham Daily Favorite, Friday, June 19, 1925
NATIVE TEXAS GOES TO GREAT BEYOND 71-YEARS IN STATE
Born in Fannin County of Pioneer Stock -- Lived to See Great Changes Here
   Mrs. Joe Cooper of Randolph, died at that place, and the funeral a held
Thursday. Mrs. Cooper was a native of Fannin County. She was 71 years old
at the time of her demise. She was a daughter of J.R. Boone, who was an
early settler of Fannin County, coming here when the County was really the
proverbial wilderness, with the ever-recurring incursions of hostile Indians
who raided the settlers, killing them at times, and always depredating,
taking away stock and otherwise harassing the hardy pioneers who were
seeking a foothold in the new country.
   Rev Fount Jones preached the funeral and interment took place at
Randolph, in the neighborhood where this pioneer woman had been born, and
where she is reported to have lived all of her life.
   Thus another good woman passes from the scenes of a life spent in Fannin
County.
(researcher's note: Mrs. Joe Cooper was the former Virginia E.M. "Jane"
Boone, daughter of Fannin County, Texas pioneers Joseph R. Boone and
Virginia E.M. Crenshaw. She was predeceased by two sons, Albert Fisher
Cooper and Joseph Cooper, both of her parents, Joseph R. Boone and Virginia
E.M. Crenshaw, four sisters - Mary Rice Boone Bell; Sarah Lucretia Boone
Blanton; Henrietta Delphenia Boone Matlock Burgher; Josephine Boone - and
one brother, William Henry Boone. She was survived by daughter Sallie
Cooper Thomas (probably living in Muskogee, OK when her mother died), son
Oscar S. Cooper, daughter Jane Cooper who may have married a Frank Thomas,
daughter Birdie Cooper Cole, son Ammon M. Cooper, daughter Virginia Cooper
Dyer, daughter Lillian Mae Cooper, and two sisters Isabelle Ann Boone
Franklin and Emily Paulina Boone Colvin.
   Virginia's ancestry includes several patriots who fought in the American
Revolutionary War. One of her ancestors was Samuel Ball, the grandfather of
George Washington. Family lore claims kinship to Daniel Boone; however,
supporting evidence has yet conclusively confirmed that claim. Her
grandfather, Henry Boone, may very well be one of the three "unidentified
sons" of Squire Boone.)

Sherman Daily Democrat, Monday, August 18, 1930, p.10
JOE COOPER
   RANDOLPH. -- Joe Cooper (sic Joseph D. Cooper), 81, died here at his
home Sunday. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock
at the Baptist church of which he was a member. Conducted by the rev. Reese
and the rev. C.C. Haizlip with interment in Randolph cemetery. Mr. Cooper
had lived here 75 years. He was a native of Kentucky, having come to Texas
at the age of six in a train of ox wagons.
   Mr. Cooper is survived by the following children: Mrs. W.A. Thomas (nee
Sallie Cooper), Muskogee, Okla.; Mrs. J.B. Cole (nee Birdie Cooper),
Sherman; Mrs. G.C. Dyer (nee Virginia Cooper) , Oscar Cooper, Ammon Cooper
and Miss Lillian Cooper, all of Randolph. (researcher's comments: Joseph D.
Cooper married Virginia E.M. "Jane" Cooper, daughter of Fannin County, TX
pioneers Joseph R. Boone and Virginia E.M. Crenshaw.)

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