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About Malea Labon Cooper
Ethnicity/Relig. Must have been Choctaw or part Choctaw for Henry and the other children were considered Choctaw Malea is Hebrew for "full, ripe, complete" and a common Choctaw girl's name; A famous LaBon (sic) married a Capet in France and one of his sons was a Jacobite. The other came to S.C. through connections with the Gervais (Jarvis) family in Maryland. Jarvis is a Melungeon name from Tennessee. This Pierre LaBon left a sizable family in upcountry S.C. (Anderson Co.); they changed their name to LaBoon.
Milla was a wealthy Jewish widow of Samuel Mutun of Royston, near Cambridge, who was killed by Simon de Montfort in the Albigensian crusades (Michael Adler, Jews of Medieval England, Jewish Historical Society of England, 1939, p. 22; Rigg I, 152; Stokes, p. 164). The name, therefore, was associated with French Jewry as early as 1200. The name became common in the tribal hierarchies of the Chickasaw, Choctaw and Creek.
The only mention of Malea Cooper in records is a land sale in Bute County, N.C. from March 1768 in which she is mentioned as a witness and called Emelea Cooper (DB-2 p. 101). Perhaps her husband William Cooper was away at the time.
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Malea Labon Cooper's Timeline
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1725
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Chickasaw Nation, in the vicinity of what is now Nashville, Tennessee
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1740
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Virginia, United States
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1745
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Granville, NC
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September 15, 1750
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Granville County, North Carolina, British Colonial America
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1750
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Henry County, Virginia, US
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1750
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NC
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1753
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Halifax, Halifax, NC
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1755
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