William Cooper and Elizabeth Lawrence

I have my Cooper family traced back to Warwickshire, England. My 9th Great Grandparents were a cord winder at St Georges, Southwark in London England named William Cooper, he was born about 1675 in Warwickshire, and Elizabeth Lawrence who was born about 1679 also in Warwickshire, England.

Their son Marcome Cooper was born in Warwickshire, England around 1699. Marcome married a lady from Warwickshire named Sarah. Marcome and Sarah Cooper had at least 2 sons. One of these sons was my 7th Great Grandfather David D Cooper.

David D Cooper and Elizabeth “Mary” Wilder

David was born in Warwickshire, England around 1725. In 1747 he was in North Carolina and married Elizabeth Wilder. Elizabeth was born in 1726 at Edgecombe, Nash County, North Carolina, she was also known as Mary.
In 1751 David bought 100 acres of land in Edgecombe, North Carolina from a Joe Wilder evidentially a relative of Mary’s but I am not sure how at this time. David sold this acreage for a profit of 23 pounds in 1755 and moved with Mary and the first three of their ten children to Thickitty in the Spartanburg District of South Carolina, where David worked as a mineral prospector.
David and Mary Cooper lived the remainder of their years in this area. David died on March 17th 1792 and was buried in Thickitty. Elizabeth “Mary” Cooper died sometime after 1805 in Gaffney, Cherokee County, South Carolina. The town and county names are different but knowing this area and how area names did change I am almost positive Mary and David are still together.

Sion Cooper and Mary Brantley

My 6th Great Grandfather Sion Cooper was born in Thickitty, Spartanburg District, South Carolina in 1760 to David and Mary Cooper. Sion married a girl from Virginia named Mary Brantley. They were around 18 years old when they married and were living in the Pendleton District of South Carolina by the time their first child Ansel Cooper was born on June 16th 1779. Sion and Mary Coopers second son Alexander Cooper is my 5th Great Grandfather he was born in 1781.
Sion and Mary Cooper farmed for a living, they raised ten children on 132 acres of land where they made a home near the waters of Cane Creek in the Pendleton District of South Carolina. Sion passed away on March 6th 1831 and Mary died February 8th 1852.

On August 21st 1854 Judge W.J. Parsons of O.P.D., Pickens District, South Carolina ordered that the 132 acres of land owned by Sion and Mary Cooper to be sold by the Sheriff of Pickens District in January, and proceeds divided among Rahab Fields, Warren Cooper, Davis Cooper, Nancy Cooper, Hannah Cooper, Matilda Cooper, Elizabeth Starky, and Robert F. Morgan, Legal heirs of Sion Cooper. Some of the names mentioned as legal heirs are actually Grandchildren of Sion due to the deaths of some of his children. Some of the children were sons Ansel, Alexander, and Vincent Cooper and daughters Delilah Ferguson and Sally Cooper.

Warren Cooper and Nancy Young

My 4th Great Grandparents Warren and Nancy Cooper were both born in 1821. Warren is the son of Alexander Cooper and was one of the Grandchildren named along with his brother David/Davis in Sion Coopers will.

Warren Cooper married Nancy Young in Pickens District, South Carolina in 1845, together they raised 8 children of their own and one adopted son named Franklin Simmons in present day Easley, South Carolina. They lived and farmed next to Warrens brother David A. Cooper who was married to Elizabeth Hunnicutt.

David and Elizabeth had six children of their own when David was killed on August 20th 1862 during a battle near Columbia South Carolina in the Civil war. David was a Private in Company F, 22nd Regiment of the South Carolina Infantry Rifles when he died. He was brought home and buried at Porters Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery in Pickens County. Elizabeth received a class 3 Confederate widows pension for his service starting in 1901.

After David’s death his brother Warren volunteered for service as a private in Company I, in the 3rd Regiment of the South Carolina Reserves from1862 to 1863, and after that he again volunteered and served this time in Company B of the 1st South Carolina State Troops from 1863 through 1864.
In 1901 at the age of 80 Warrens wife Nancy did go into Easley and apply for a widows pension for his service to the Confederacy, this class 4 application was approved with no questions asked.