Chalkley "Charley" Jared Cooper, Sr.

RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: QUACKER

OTHER EVENTS:

SERVED IN BLACK HAWK WAR UNDER CAPT. ROYAL A. KNIGHT AND COL. ALEXANDER

WAS OF WELSH ANCESTRY

Birth: May 26, 1810 Bucks County Pennsylvania, USA Death: Mar. 18, 1885 Rock Grove Stephenson County Illinois, USA

Sourced from The History of Stephenson County, Illinois : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, & biographical sketches

Page 734

C. J. COOPER, farmer, Sec. 5; P. 0. Rock Grove; born in Bucks Co., Penn. May 26, 1810; twelve years later, his father moved West, coming to Clarke Co., Ill., where they remained eleven years; then bought and settled on a small place in Crawford Co.; lived eleven years there, removing to Stephenson Co: in 1844. Mr. Cooper first saw this region before Stephenson Co., was yet embraced in Jo Daviess Co.; the period referred to was when he was here as a soldier in the Black Hawk war, in 1832; in that war he was a soldier in Capt. Royal A.. Knott's Company, 1st Regiment, commanded by Col. Blackburn, and of the 2d Brigade, commanded by Gen. Alexander, and saw the most of the war of which so few soldiers yet survive. His occupation has been chiefly farming, though for a good many winters was engaged in operating saw-mills, etc. he has 152 acres of farm land and 30 acres of timber land, all in Rock Grove Township. Held the office of School Director for seventeen years, and for many years also served in various township offices. In religious matters, he was born and bred a Quaker; in politics, he is Republican. He was married, July 28, 1840, to Miss Margaret A. Thompson, a native of Virginia; she came, at an early day, with her parents, Robert and Susannah Thompson, to Clarke Co., Ill., though they lived most of the time afterward in Crawford Co.; they came there about 1838 or 1839, her grandfather having moved there as early as 1825; Mrs. Cooper died Jan. 31, 1880, aged over 58 years. The children living are Robert T., Barton, Joseph, Margaret, now Mrs. N. E. Emriek; Susan L. and C. J.; two children deceased — Mary E. (Mrs. Jacob Fisher) and Harlan.

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Spouse:

 Margaret Ann Thompson Cooper (1821 - 1880)*

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Burial: Rock Grove Cemetery Rock Grove Stephenson County Illinois, USA