Genealogy of Patty Rose
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| Notes for Charles A. COOPER | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Charles A. lived to be 82, with 62 of those years in Lyons, Kansas. Lyons is 160 miles southwest of Milford, just east of the big bend of the Arkansas, very much out on the great American craton, the sedimentary, stable plains. This is the place where Charles' parents retired and his father died. Clearly the wide prairie and endless sky appealed to him. It looks like he did not go back to Ironton with his parents because he arrived in Lyons a year before they moved (1883). This is natural. He was the oldest sibling and 20. What attracted him to Lyons we don't know. Maybe it was the job at Corning-Doane milling. We do know he followed his father's and grandfather's trade of milling and grew to be a grain dealer, shipper and authority on the crop. He was also a 25 year member of the Lyons' city council. Before the turn of the century he started his own Cooper Milling Company which he ran many years with son Raymond (this became Central Kansas Flour Milling after he sold in 1918). After that he traveled widely, and was widely known, forecasting crop conditions and formulating statistics. He may have had Parkinson's in his later years. Raymond (1887) went on to own Cooper's Coal & Produce and to be a WW1 vet. [ref 14] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CENSUS: 1870 Milford NE, age 7 1880 DeWitt NE, age 17 7 Jun 1900 Lyons w4 ed226, Rice KS census [ref 11:497-18a(260)] 43 390 393 COOPER, Charles head Mar1863 36 m,1 WI NY England --builder Lilly wife May1865 35 1,-- IA OH unknown Raymond J. son Mar1887 13 KS WI IL attend school KENS, Cov--- servant Aug1881 18 KY IA IA housekeeper 1910 not found 3 Feb 1920 Lyons, Rice KS census [ref 11] 200 (can't read street) 38 572 587 COOPER, Charles A. head 56 WI NY England (occupation unreadable) Lilly C. wife 54 IA OH IO Raymond A. son 32 KS WI IO - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
| Notes for Lilly C. ATKINSON | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CENSUS: 1900 Lyons KS, age 35 1910 not found 1920 Lyons KS, age 56 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
| Last Modified 16 Dec 2004 | Created 4 Jan 2005 |