Joy Ada Cooper

1909 - 1910  (1 year)

• Name	Joy Ada Cooper  [1, 2]
  Birth	18 Apr 1909	Sabine County, Texas   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	1 Jun 1910	Texas   [2]
  Burial	Jacks Cemetery, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas   [2]
  Notes	Joy Ada Cooper, Elmore Eugene Cooper and Laverne Lucille Cooper share a triple marker at Jacks Cemetery in Sabine County, inscribed "Our Darlings."
  Person ID	I41881	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	2 Dec 2012

  
  

  Father	James Scott Cooper,   b. 12 Jan 1883, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas d. 11 Apr 1963, Port Arthur, Jefferson County, Texas (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Alpha Olivia Martin,   b. 23 Apr 1887, Sabine County, Texas d. 21 Dec 1970, Jasper, Jasper County, Texas (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	29 May 1905	Sabine County, Texas   [1, 3, 4, 5]
  	Old Timers of Sabine County, Texas March 5, 1964 Excerpts of the column written by Virgie Collier Speights [Alpha had hinted to her mother that she might soon be wed]...but her mother said she'd never give consent, so Mrs. Cooper said she had no choice but to slip off...she managed a brand new white leghorn hat.....also wrangled a brand new white dotted Swiss dresss, at 12 cents a yard.....[but didn't getting new white shoes, after her sister pointed out to her 'you haven't had the black ones long, if anyone gets new shoes, it should be me.'] [On the day they eloped]...Miss Martin kited over an 8-rail high back fence, and scooted down the road by the creek...Scott came driving up in his surrey, we went to the home of his sister and brother-in-law, Mrs. and Mrs. Will Bradshaw in Brookeland, where a J.P., Will Berryman, was waiting to perform the ceremony. "We set up housekeeping nearby, but about 20 years later rumors of $18 a day lured us to West Texas to pick cotton...we just stayed for two years. Wages were high all right, but so was living."
  Family ID	F12534	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 18 Apr 1909 - Sabine County, Texas Death - 1 Jun 1910 - Texas Burial - - Jacks Cemetery, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S481] 1910 United States Federal Census [Ancestry.com database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006, (For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1910. T624, 1,178 rolls. This database is an index to the head of households enumerated in the 1910 United States Federal Census, the Thirteenth Census of the United States. In addition, each indexed name is linked to actual images of the 1910 Federal Census. The information recorded in the census includes: name, relationship to head of family, age at last birthday, sex, color or race, whether single, married, widowed, or divorced, birthplace, birthplace of father and mother, and more.), Texas, Sabine County, JP 3 Enumerated 29 Apr 1910 SD 2 ED 133 Sheet 17B 325-330 (Reliability: 3). [S1419] McCary, Kay P. "Jacks Cemetery, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas" Cemetery Index ; http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txsabine/burials/. [S327] Dore, Barbara Yancey (RootsLady@rootslady.com) "Southeast Texas Regional Gedcom Project" http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=bydore_1, (Dore, Barbara Yancey "Southeast Texas Regional Gedcom Project"; http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=bydore_1 ; Updated Tue Feb 24 22:17:40 2004 This Gedcom contains many regionally located but sometimes unconnected Southeast Texas persons. Some of the information has been collected during Barbara's past 35 years of family research. Many undocumented families in the area are included. ALWAYS verify!!). [S374] Speights, Virgie "Old Timers of Sabine County, Texas Vignettes of Pioneer Families" (S. Malone, c. 1983), p. 46, instead shows 28 May 1905 (Reliability: 3). [S1203] McCary, Kay P. "John Smith Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas" Cemetery Index ; http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txsabine/burials/.