Family:Nathan Cooper and Mary Kelley (1)

Article from Our Cooper Family

Note - Information beyond the second generation redacted due to reference to living people

Nathan B. Cooper was born in Del. Co. Ohio, September 25, 1852 and was the thirteenth child of James and Lucinda Cooper. He was one of the four Cooper children that migrated west and remained there. After leaving Fountain Co. he evidently settled in Delavon, Ill. for it was there that he married Mary Etta Kelly who was born August 16, 1855 in Fountain Co. and passed away January 6, 1939 in Abilene, Kansas where they resided. She was the daughter of John and Sarah Bever Henry. This is another connection to the Bever Family and is why I added the information on them even though they are not in my direct line, but because of so many connections I felt it should be added since I had it. Nathan passed away April 30, 1917 also in Abilene and they were both laid to rest in Pawnee City Nebraska. They were the parents of:

1. Pharana Lucinda Cooper was born September 14, 1874 in Tazwell, Co. Ill. and after moving to Pawnee City Nebraska she married; in 1898, William B. Scott who was born June 28, 1871 in Pawnee City and he passed away April 5, 1925 in Abelene. She was living in Wichita, Kansas in 1967 and passed away November 24, 1969 and was laid to rest in Abelene, Kansas beside her husband, I assume. At least that is where he is buried. They were the parents of:
a. Florence Scott was born August 27, 1899 in Pawnee City Nebraska and on February 2, 1919 in Selina, Ks. She married John Elmer Boyd was born November 28, 1895 in Abelene, and passed away June 8, 1936 and she passed away August 24, 1960 and I assume they were both laid to rest in Abelene. They were the parents of:
b. Lorean Alsetta Scott was born November 24, 1903 in Pawnee City and on June 4, 1924 in Abilene she married Lyle Gamber Watson, born November 5, 1901 in Alton Ks. and they are the parents of:
c. Willmith Scott was born October 4, 1915 in Abeline and married Francis Wm. Simmons who was born March 30, 1909 in Ft. Leavenworth, Ks.and they are the parents of:

2. Marion Cooper was born August 13, 1877 in Tazwell Co. Ill. and on May 21, 1902 in Falls City Nebraska he married Almeda Henry who was born September 2, 1876. Marion passed way November 11, 1962 and I have no information on where they were buried. They were the parents of:
a. Harold Nathan Cooper who was born November 13, 1904 in Pawnee City Nebraska and married Mary Songhurst and they were the parents of:

3. Charles Milton Cooper was born October 5, 1882 in Tazwell Co. Ill. and married Helen Graham who was born January 8, 1884 in Salem Nebraska. Charles passed away February 25, 1949 and was buried in Dawson, Nebraska. They were the parents of two children:
a. Charles Emil Cooper was born February 28, 1925 (?) and on November 28, 1925 he married Nellie Clair Mission who was born February 18, 1903 and they are the parents of two children:
b. Cleo Doris Cooper was born April 2, 1903 in Salmen, Neb. (Salem?) and on March 25, 1922, in Abeline, Ks. she married Chester C. Duryea who was born May 11, 1902 in Davidson, Nebraska and they have one child as far as I know:

4. James Preston Cooper was born August 9, 1885 and passed away February 18, 1892

5. Daisy Elmira Cooper was born August 24, 1891 in Pawnee City Nebraska and on June 20, 1915 she married Calmer A. Byers, born around 1890. Daisy passed away April 16, 1965 and was buried in Abeline, Kansas and they have one son:
a. Donald Wayne Byers was born January 29, 1927 and on April 30, 1961 he married Virginia L. Peevler in Lansing Michigan. She was born March 15, 1928 and I have no more Information on this family.

The collateral on the family of Nathan Bateson was Ruth Dunham, September 7, 1965, also Opal Cooper and Robert Cooper. In a letter from Robert Cooper he states that his Grandmother says “Miles Cooper visited his brother Nathan in Abeline Ks. just before Nathan passed away (April 30, 1917). They sang hymns together. Both were very religious men". Also from Robert Milton Cooper February 2, 1967. "His Grandfather Charles Milton Cooper played guitars and sang patriotic songs to entertain the kids, was an amateur song and dance man and put on variety and Minstrel shows in Dawson Nebraska, owned a grocery store there 40 years until retirement. Died the next year". This concludes the family of Nathan B. Cooper.

1.   Author Unknown. Our Cooper Family. (Genealogy, Unpublished).