Genealogy of Patty Rose
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| Notes for Samuel Albert COOPER | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Samuel Albert, the first Cooper born in Nebraska, knew the building, settling, developing prairie his whole childhood. His was a world of antelope and rabbits giving way to grain and steeples, of tame Indians and sermons listened to from rough benches. By 14 he had "a good working knowledge of farming, milling and stock raising." His left leg became injured somehow along the way and he could follow none of them, so he left home at 17 and went into accountancy and telegraphy, later stock broking and law. He also became something of a writer, and to one of his works, "A Jaunt West in '69," all Livesleys owe great due. Written for his sister Libbie in 1934, this memoir details a major part of our family's history and records the qualities of the period and place as well. Sam elsewhere mentions being two years (1890-92) a manager for the Mexican Central General in Mexico City. Sam tells us after Mexico he worked for the United Press (Wichita) and then was train dispatching during big oil days in Texas. The years 1902-12 saw him stock trading, then it was back to Dallas in real estate. During WW1 he worked for Western Union in New York and then "having established homes in Houston, Jackson, Alabama and Tylertown, Miss.," he collapsed in a sanitarium for six years. When he came out he was with Western Union again in Dallas and New Orleans and then to a government weather bureau before collapsing a second time and retiring in 1929. He ended up living with brothers Cecil and John in Riverside, California where he died in 1936 at 65. The first years of the century brought an Alabaman into his life, wife Eva Graham. Their two children grew up in Texas. Graham went to private school and was an accountant in Lousiana and Florida. His children 1902-05: Albert and Louise were born and raised Floridians. [ref 14] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CENSUS: 1870 Milford NE, age 2/12 1880 DeWitt NE, age 10 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - buried at Green Cemetery, Ironton WI: Cooper, Samuel A., b. Apr 24, 1870, d. Apr 9, 1936, s/w Martin L. Cooper, Row 3/2 picture - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
| Notes for Eva Pearle GRAHAM | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - daughter of John Simpson GRAHAM and Teresa Halo TAYLOR picture - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
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