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Elizabeth Smith Harper

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Jackson, Georgia, United States
Death: 1868 (67-68)
Rome, Floyd, Georgia, United States
Place of Burial: Rome, Floyd, Georgia, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Alexander Thornton Harper, Jr. and Tabitha Hendrick Harper
Wife of Hollis Eli Cooley
Mother of Ellen Emily Hillyer; John Alexander Cooley; Milton Allen Cooley; Martha Harper Brookes and Georgia Hillyer
Sister of Martha Shorter and Alexander Thornton Harper, III

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About Elizabeth Smith Harper

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14734353&ref=wvr

Parents

  • Alexander Harper 1776–1815
  • Tabitha Hendrick Smith Harper 1768–1839

Spouse

  • Hollis Eli Cooley 1794–1857 (m. 1827)

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Harper-17221

Elizabeth Cooley formerly Harper

  • Born 20 May 1800 in Jackson, Georgia
  • Daughter of Alexander Harper II and Tabitha Hendrick (Smith) Harper
  • Sister of Martha (Harper) Shorter and Alexander Thornton Harper
  • Wife of Hollis Eli Cooley — married about 1827 in Monticello, Georgia
  • Mother of Milton Allen Cooley, Martha (Cooley) Brookes, Georgia Elizabeth (Cooley) Hillyer, Ellen Emily (Cooley) Hillyer and Mary (Cooley) Rhodes
  • Died 14 Nov 1868 at age 68 in Rome, Floyd, Georgia

https://vannsvalley.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-harper-family.html

When Alexander II was grown, his parents took the rest of their children to live in Mississippi while he returned to Virginia and married Tabith Hendrick Smith in 1765 and moved with her to Halifax County, Virginia. They had three children:

1. Martha Harper born Feb 25, 1799 in Jackson County; died March 22, 1877, Rome.
2. Elizabeth Harper, born May 20 1800, Jackson County; died November 14, 1868, Rome. She married in Monticello, Georgia to Hollis Eli Cooley (1794-1857), son of Eli Cooley and Chloe Allen of Deerfield, Massachusets. Their children were: Ethyl Hillyar, married Hamilton Harris first and had Maud Harris who married Benjamin C. Yancey II and had E. Hamilton Yancey. She married Bester Brown Second.
? Mabel Hillyer (1859-1909) married Warren Palmer Wilcox



https://vannsvalley.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-harper-family.html

When Alexander II was grown, his parents took the rest of their children to live in Mississippi while he returned to Virginia and married Tabitha Hendrick Smith in 1765 and moved with her to Halifax County, Virginia. They had three children:

1. Martha Harper born Feb 25, 1799 in Jackson County; died March 22, 1877, Rome.

2. Elizabeth Harper, born May 20 1900, Jackson County; died November 14, 1868, Rome. She married in Monticello, Georgia to Hollis Eli Cooley (1794-1857), son of Eli Cooley and Chloe Allen of Deerfield, Massachusets. Their children were:
Ethyl Hillyar, married Hamilton Harris first and had Maud Harris who married Benjamin C. Yancey II and had E. Hamilton Yancey. She married Bester Brown Second.



https://archive.org/details/familyhistorycom00will/page/171/mode/1u...

Tabitha Hendrick Smith, my great-great-grandmother, was the old est child of Elizabeth and Charles Smith; she married Alexander T. Harper 11, they had three children: Martha (1799-1877) ; Elizabeth (1800-1868) ; Alexander T. Harper III (1802-1840) .

https://archive.org/details/familyhistorycom00will/page/173/mode/1u...

Elizabeth Harper, born May 20, 1800, Jackson County; died November 14, 18(38, Rome. She was married in Monticello, Georgia, to Hollis Eli Cooley (1794-1857) son of Eli Cooley and Chloe Allen, of Deerfield, Massachusetts, and a cousin of John Baldwin, who had married her sister Martha. Children of Elizabeth Harper and Hollis Eli Cooley were:
Georgia Cooley
Ellen
Martha
Milton
Mary



This site shows different parents -
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZ61-VSG

When Elizabeth Smith Harper was born on 20 May 1800, in Jackson, Georgia, United States, her father, Alexander Thorton Harper Sr, was 53 and her mother, Margaret Elizabeth Jones, was 46. She married Hollis Cooley in 1825, in Monticello, Richmond, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 14 November 1868, in Rome, Floyd, Georgia, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Rome, Floyd, Georgia, United States.

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Elizabeth Smith Harper's Timeline

1800
1800
Jackson, Georgia, United States
1828
1828
1830
1830
1832
1832
1834
1834
1839
1839
Jasper Ga
1868
1868
Age 68
Rome, Floyd, Georgia, United States
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Rome, Floyd, Georgia, United States