James Quitman Cooper

Notes:

Shown as Quitman in 1900 and Whitman J in 1910. When he registered for the draft during the First World War, he used his full name as James Quitman Cooper, and was a resident of Choctaw County, Oklahoma. He indicated he was farming for himself near Huskey, supporting a wife and two children. He was described as tall, medium build, with blue eyes and dark hair.

Notes:

On a transcription of the 1870 census, he was listed as Mc. Cooper.

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Census Listings:

1900 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Pr. 1
Enumerated 26 Jun 1900
SD 8 ED 68 Sheets 11B and 12A
189-193
Cooper, G Head W M Mar 1862 38 m1 18 Tx Miss Miss Farmer
Cooper, Louethena Wf W F Jun 1867 32 M 18 8/6 Tx Tx Tx
Cooper, Wm Son W M Aug 1884 15 S Tx Tx Tx Farm Laborer
Cooper, Silendra Dtr W F Oct 1889 10 S Tx Tx Tx
Cooper, Daniel Son W M May 1891 9 S Tx Tx Tx
Cooper, Quitman Son W M Mar 1892 8 S Tx Tx Tx
Cooper, Ellie Dtr W F Jan 1894 6 S Tx Tx Tx
Cooper, Abbie Dtr W F Mar 1898 2 S Tx Tx Tx

1910 Census
Oklahoma, Choctaw County, William Twp
Enumerated 30 Apr 1910 SD 4 ED 70 Sheet 2B
41-41
Cooper, George W Head M W 55 m1 30 Tx Miss Miss Farmer
Cooper, Fleshi M Wf F W 48 m1 30 12/10 Tx Tx Miss
Cooper, Elizabeth Dtr F W 20 S Tx Tx Tx
Cooper, Daniel Son M W 14 S Tx Tx Tx Farm Laborer
Cooper, Whitman J Son M W 14 S Tx Tx Tx Farm Laborer
Cooper, Olie Dtr F W 15 S Tx Tx Tx
Cooper, Abby Dtr F W 11 S Tx Tx Tx
Cooper, Dollie Dtr F W 8 S Tx Tx Tx
Cooper, Kelley S Son M W 5 S Tx Tx Tx
Cooper, Dosue Dtr F W 4 S Tx Tx Tx
Cooper, George B Son M W 2 S Ok Tx Tx
43-43
Cooper, William C Head M W 26 m1 2 Tx Tx Tx Farmer
Cooper, Fanie Wf F W 20 m1 2 Tx Tx Tx

George married Luthenia "Lue" M. Ferguson on 13 Feb 1882 in Sabine County, Texas. Luthenia (daughter of William Ferguson and Selindra Garlington) was born in Jun 1867 in Sabine County, Texas; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Barbara Yancey Dore shows him as a son of William Gill Cooper and Dempsey Donaho of South Carolina and Hinds County, Mississippi, and a brother to Jonathan Henry Cooper.

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Census Listings:

1880 Census
Texas, Sabine County, SubDiv 84
Enumerated 12 July 1880
Page 30 B SD 1 ED 84
268-279
Cooper, D M W M 54 Physician Miss Miss Miss
Cooper, Gracey W F 40 Wf Miss Miss Miss
Cooper, George W W M 15 Farmer Tx Miss Miss
Cooper, Octovine W F 14 Dtr Farming Tx Miss Miss
Cooper, Wesley W M 9 Son Tx Miss Miss
Cooper, William W M 6 Son Tx Miss Miss
Cooper, Berinda W F 5 Dtr Tx Miss Miss
Cooper, Henderson W M 2 Don Tx Miss Miss

Daniel married Gracie Berintha Harper about 1863. Gracie (daughter of Elmore Harper and Julia Ann Lane) was born about 1838 in Mississippi; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Compiled from 1860 Census Sabine County, Texas with Civil War Records by Mrs. Helen Gomer Schluter, page 55:

William Ferguson, pension application 3543, approved October 12, 1899. Date of pension application July 18, 1899. He is 72 years of age and resided in Oakdale, Texas for 66 years. He is in very bad health and a farmer. He enlisted about June 1, 1863 with Company D, Cooks's Regiment, Heavy Artillery and served until the end of the war. He has two cows valued at $16, one year old yearling value $5, one calf worth $4, one horse worth $20, 10 head of hogs valued at $10. In the past two year he has sold one yearling for $5. V.H. Vickers, County Judge. W.T. Pulliam and J.O. Davidson witnesses. Dr. D.M. Cooper states that the applicant is in poor health with chronic colic and general nervous prostration. William Ferguson served with Milam County Guards, Infantry, 27th Brigade, General E.S.C. Robertson commander; Mount Vernon Grays, active Company, Infantry or Calvary, Titus County, 8th Brigade, TST was 5th Sergt., Company E, Volunteers, 11th Brigade, Captain Nathaniel B. Yelverton, Brigade Colonel L.W. Cooper commanding.

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Census Listings:

1860 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Sandy Beat No. 7, PO Fairmount
Enumerated 17 July 1860
Page 41
307-307
Durciller Low 56 F Farmer 3000 8532 Ga
Isaac Low 23 M Farmer 1100 810 La
Jackson G Low 20 M 1100 470 Tx
Alma H Low 15 F Miss
308-308
William Furguson 34 M Farmer $000 $640 La
Selendra Furguson 22 F La
William E Furguson 8 M Tx
Oleanner Furguson 6 F Tx
Plasete J Furguson 4 F Tx
Drusiller Furguson 1 F Tx
Benjamin G Furguson 8/12 M Tx

William married Selindra Garlington about 1857 in Sabine County, Texas. Selindra (daughter of Benjamin Garlington and Caroline Cynthia Vick) was born about 1839 in Texas; died about 1905 in Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From FindAGrave:

Shown as a son of Capt. Robert Cooper and Jane Hamilton. His place of birth is also listed as Rankin County, Mississippi versus South Carolina.

WAR RECORD: WAR OF 1812 - PRIVATE IN CAPT. WM. SPENCER'S CO., NIXON'S REGIMENT, MISS. MILTIA, MAY 16 - OCT. 7, 1814 AND IN CAPT HARMON M. RUNNEL'S CO., NIXON'S 13TH REGIMENT, JAN. 8 - FEB. 7, 1815.

About 1843 he moved to the Spring Ridge Community southeast of Raymond in Hinds County. He bought a tract of some 240 acres and lived there until he died. His wife died shortly after he had bought the plantation; but he lived for another six years, dying the latter part of January of 1849. He and his wife are buried together in the garden near their home.

Today their graves are unmarked for later owners felt the little family plot was morbid. They tore down the iron fence; plowed over the graves and took the headstone into a field and threw it in a gully. Earl B. Cooper found the stone and removed it to his lot in the Smith-Cooper cemetery in the Monterey Community of Rankin County, Miss. Now in graves unmarked and unknown, with their son, John Oliver Cooper, they rest in everlasting peace in the soil they loved and had chosen for a home.

A copy of his estate papers were said to have been filed in Hinds County, Mississippi on 10 Sept 1859.

William married Dempsey Donaho about 1808. Dempsey was born on 5 Aug 1788 in South Carolina; died on 1 Oct 1843 in Rankin County, Mississippi; was buried in Cooper-Smith Cemetery, Florence, Rankin County, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

FindAGrave shows her as a daughter of William Donaho and Esther Daniel.

Notes:

Married:
Source Citation: Source number: 1232.162; Source type: Family group sheet, FGSE, listed as parents; Number of Pages: 1; .
Source Information:
Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived from an array of materials including pedigree charts, family history articles, querie.

FindAGrave shows them as the parents of 15 children in total. Only the two sons that migrated to Sabine County, Texas are included in this database.

1. LEWIS A. COOPER b: 29 MAR 1809 in NATCHEZ, ADAMS CO, MS

2. JOHN OLIVER COOPER b: 11 DEC 1810 in NATCHEZ, ADAMS CO, MS d: 28 JUN 1850 in RANKIN CO, MS

3. GEORGE WASHINGTON COOPER b: 30 JUN 1812 in NATCHEZ, ADAMS CO, MS

4. POLLY ANN COOPER b: 6 JAN 1814 in HINDS CO, MS

5. Judge HAMILTON COOPER b: 15 FEB 1815 in HINDS CO, MS d: 1 JUL 1894 in NEWTON CO, MS

6. JANE MELVILLE COOPER b: 1 JAN 1817 in HINDS CO, MS

7. JONATHAN HENRY COOPER b: 22 AUG 1818 in HINDS CO, MS

8. SARAH COOPER b: 19 JAN 1820 in HINDS CO, MS

9. ROBERT ANSEL COOPER b: 15 AUG 1821 in HINDS CO, MS

10. LUCINDA COOPER b: 1 AUG 1824 in HINDS CO, MS

11. ELIZABETH "ELIZA" COOPER b: 10 OCT 1825 in HINDS CO, MS

12. WILLIAM GILL COOPER, JR. b: 14 SEP 1827 in HINDS CO, MS d: 29 FEB, 1912 in TEXAS, buried COTTONWOOD CEMETERY, DALLAS, DALLAS CO, TX.

His tombstone is inscribed:
"A Soldier of the
Mexican War 1846
A Hero of Buena Vista
under Colonel Jefferson Davis
In Co. G, First Miss. Volunteers"

"A Soldier of the Confederate States
of America 1861 in Co., G, Thirty-
nineth Miss. Volunteers
Take thy sleep, thy warfare's o'er!"

13. NANCY COOPER b: 30 APR 1829 in HINDS CO, MS

14. DANIEL MATTHEW COOPER b: 30 OCT 1830 in HINDS CO, MS

15. JAMES SIMPSON COOPER b: 26 NOV 1832 in HINDS CO, MS

Notes:

The son of James Harper. He enlisted in the 11th Texas Inf. at Camp Clough. By October 31, 1862, he was stationed at Camp Nelson, Arkansas. After the war, he returned to Sabine County and married the widow of his former friend and neighbor, Isaac Hickman Low. Elmore was a member of the Littleton Fowler Masonic Lodge in Hemphill and worked as a farmer. (White and Toole, p 40).

Kay Parker McCary shows that a military marker only is in the Spring Hill Cemtery of Sabine County, showing Co. F 11th Reg Texas Inf, CSA. His wife was shown as Julia Ann Lane.

Elmore married Julia Ann Lane before 1836. Julia was born about 1817 in Georgia; died about 1860. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In November, 2009, Vernon Virginia Ferguson Johnson (vernon2007@sbcglobal.net) emailed me that:

"As far as anyone knows the Olly Ferguson that married Drucilla Cook was not ever called AULSTON ? he never used this name--this is a different person, but has been so widely reported now that it is often taken as fact.

I want to remind descendants of Olly Ferguson -East Texas that Otey Ferguson in Va is NOT Olly of Texas...Please don't use the man in Va....the following message was posted several years ago.... my line is Olly, Roland,. Roland, Samuel, Jim, Vernon,

In 1993 when I found that someone had Olly's parents as Alexander Ferguson Jr and Nancy Wood, I contacted Christine Huddleston in Vinton, VA. She is the daughter of Edmund T Ferguson, Sr. who wrote "Ancestors & Some Families of Stephen D Ferguson and etc" She sent papers that listed the children of Alexander and Nancy and who they married. The third child listed was OteyOtty born 7th May 1797. Otey married Polly Arrington 3rd Mar 1823: min. Moses reer -surety, Daniel Arrington.

Transcript of Nancy Ferguson will (wife of Alexander Ferguson) proved 7th of Oct 1839 Rocky Mount, Franklin Co, VA. After listing all her children she left one dollar each to children of her son Otey Feguson, dec'd .....Alexander, Elizabeth, Sarah, Absond?, Daniel and Otey.

I would think that this proves that this is not our Olly.

Olly A Ferguson has no record of when or where he was born his age is never given. He did appear to die, or leave, Sabine County ca 1832, as his wife Drucilla remarried Eli Low around that time.

Olly A Ferguson could not have been the Son of Alexander and Nancy Wood their son was Otey/Otty, and he lived and died in VA

These are facts we do know about Olly:

1820-MS-Franklin Co-Marr-Bk A p 22 minister-David Cook March 25, 1820
Lic: -----Oaly A Fergison to Drewcilla Cook on 25th March 1820 by Co clerk
Marr:---Olay A Fergusson to Drucilla Cook on 29th March 1820 by David Cook
Cert:----Olly A Ferguson to Drucilla Cook on 26th March 1820 on new cert 25th Feb 1965

1824-TX-Nacog/Sabine-Feb 16-Apr 3, 1824--Petition of the Americans residing at Nacogdoches:signed by Olle A Ferguson. "Barker Texas History Center March 10, 1827-Ayish Bayou-petition sent to President of Mexico? Barker TX Hist Center-General Land Office, Spanish Archives,Tanslations of Empresario's Contracts, Vol I p 168. Application of Settlers of Boundary Border Leagues (file 52 p 327 original)

1826-TX-Sabine-Nacogdoches Archives-Olly A Ferguson and Allen W Arthur accused of killing Louis Blackman-Letter to Alcalde Hines Sep 18, 1826. They were acquited 2 Nov 1826-letter from Elbert Hines Alcalde to Alcalde of Nacog.

@1832-TX-Sabine-Olly's wife Drucilla married Eli Low. Child Emily Low born @ 1833

If anyone has further information, please let me know. Thank you. Vernon Virginia Ferguson Johnson (vernon2007@sbcglobal.net)

Olly married Drucilla Cook on 25 Mar 1820 in Franklin County, Mississippi. Drucilla (daughter of Greenberry "Green" Cook and Nancy Morris) was born in Feb 1802 in Georgia; died on 4 May 1865 in Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Isaac Low Cemetery, Sabinetown, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Per the 1850 Sabine County, Texas census, Drucilla Low owned 4 slaves.

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Census Listings:

1850 Census
Texas, Sabine District
Enumerated 13 and 15 Nov 1850
Page Handwritten 673 Stamped 225
225-225
Drucilla Lowe 47 F Ga
William Furguson 23 M Farmer Tx
James Furguson 21 M Farmer Tx
Allonder Furguson 19 M La
Emily Lowe 16 F Tx
Malinda Lowe 14 F Tx
Jackson Lowe 1p M Tx
226-226
Roland Furguson 28 M Farmer La
Huldah Furguson 26 F Ark
James E Furguson 6 M Tx
Jeremiah A Furguson 5 M Tx
Nancy A Furguson 4 F Tx
Green B Furguson 1 M Tx
Granbury Furguson 1 M Tx

1860 Census
Texas, Sabine County, Sandy Beat No. 7, PO Fairmount
Enumerated 17 July 1860
Page 41
307-307
Durciller Low 56 F Farmer 3000 8532 Ga
Isaac Low 23 M Farmer 1100 810 La
Jackson G Low 20 M 1100 470 Tx
Alma H Low 15 F Miss
308-308
William Furguson 34 M Farmer $000 $640 La
Selendra Furguson 22 F La
William E Furguson 8 M Tx
Oleanner Furguson 6 F Tx
Plasete J Furguson 4 F Tx
Drusiller Furguson 1 F Tx
Benjamin G Furguson 8/12 M Tx

Notes:

Married:
Mississippi Marriages, 1776-1935, Ancestry.com
Oaly A. Ferguson to Drewcilla Cook 25 Mar 1820 Franklin County

Notes:

Son of Christopher Garlington V and Sarah Young. (Rootsweb World Connect Project: Hill Family Page) In her 1850 Sabine Parish census, Casagranda notes that the family can be traced back to Christopher Garlington and Elizabeth Wyatt of England. Through time members of this family lived in Northampton County, Virginia, South Carolina and Amite County, Mississippi.



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Census listings:

1850 Census
Texas, Newton County
55 55
Garlington B. 57 M S. Carolina
Garlington Cynthia A C F 44 Tennessee
Garlington D. R. 24 M Mississippi
Garlington Liznira 18 F Mississippi
Garlington Selinda 11 F Louisiana
Garlington Sarah E 9 F Louisiana

Benjamin married Caroline Cynthia Vick on 1 Apr 1819 in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana. Caroline was born about 1806 in Tennessee; died about 1887 in Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Old Garlington Family Cemetery, Newton County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Daughter of Jessy Vick. (Rootsweb World Connect Project: Hill Family Page)