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John B. Cooper

31 Oct 1774 – 29 Jul 1868

Birth	31 Oct 1774
Death	29 Jul 1868
Cemetery	Florence Cemetery Florence , Rankin County , Mississippi , USA
Added by	Robert Heinsch on 25 Feb 2009
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11474922

Bio

JOHN COOPER, TEACHER AND BLACKSMITH, THIRD CHILD AND SECOND SON OF HIS Capt. Robert Cooper and Jane Hamilton AND THE FIRST CHILD TO HAVE BEEN BORN ON FISHING CREEK IN THE OLD CAMDEN DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA. HIS FATHER DIED WHEN HE WAS FOURTEEN AND A FEW YEARS LATE HE LEFT FISHING CREEK WITH HIS BROTHERS WILLIAM GILL AND HAMILTON COOPER. THEY SETTLED IN DAVIDSON COUNTY JUST OUTSIDE OF NASHVILLE AT THE LITTLE TOWN OF HAYSBOROUGH. HERE HE TAUGHT SCHOOL. IN 1805, AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-ONE, HE MARRIED JENNETT CAMPBELL WHO WAS FROM SOUTH CAROLINA, AND PROBABLY FROM THE JOHN CAMPBELL FAMILY OF FISHING CREEK. THEY MOVED TO WILLIAMSON COUNTY AND THEN TO MAURY COUNTY, TENNESSEE AND HE CONTINUED TO TEACH IN EACH COUNTY. HOWEVER, HE WAS ALSO A BLACKSMITH, FOLLOWING THE TRADE OF HIS FATHER. FINDING THIS TO BE MORE PROFITABLE IN MAURY COUNTY HE DEVOTED HIS FULL TIME TO IT. HE LIVED THAT PORTION OF MAURY COUNTY WHICH LATER BECAME LEWIS COUNTY AND IT WAS HERE HE HAD HIS BLACKSMITH SHOP WHICH WAS TO BECOME A HISTORICAL SPOT. IT WAS IN THIS SHOP IN 1809 THAT HIS BROTHERS, HAMILTON AND ROBERT MELVILLE COOPER FORGED THE NAILS FOR THE CASKET OF MERIWETHER LEWIS. THE NAILS WERE LATER USED TO IDENTIFY THE REMAINS OF LEWIS WHEN THEY PLACED BENEATH THE MONUMENT ERECTED TO HIM THE MERIWETHER LEWIS NATIONAL PARK OF THE OLD NATCHEZ TRACE. He was married to Jane Jennett Campbell.WAR RECORD: PRIVATE - WAR OF 1812 CAPT. WM. SPENCER'S CO, LT. COL. GEORGE HENRY NIXON'S REGIMENT, MISS. MILITIA WAR RECORD: WAR OF 1812: PRIVATE IN CAPT. JOHN BOND'S CO. OF MISS. CAPT. WM. SPENCER'S CO., T. GEORGE HENRY NIXON'S REGIMENT, MISS. MILITIA. SERVED IN SAME COMPANY WITH HIS BROTHERS, WILLIAM GILL COOPER AND HAMILTON COOPER. SERVED FROM MAY 16, 1814 - OCTOBER 7, 1814 AS A BLACKSMITH. DISCHARGED AT FORT CLAIBORNE ON THE ALABAMA. ON DAILY DUTY AS A BLACKSMITH FROM JULY 11, 1814 - SEPTEMBER 27, 1814.

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Family

Parents

• Capt Robert Cooper 1746–1798
• Jane Hamilton Cooper 1752–1823

Spouse

• Jennet Campbell Cooper 1783–1855 FaG
• Jane Jennet Campbell Cooper 1788–1863 FaG

Siblings

• Elizabeth Cooper Patton 1769–1814
• Hugh Cooper II 1771–1861
• William Gill Cooper Sr 1775–1849
• Jane Hamilton Cooper Hemphill 1782–?
• Jonathan Cooper 1785–1882
• Senator Hamilton Cooper 1789–1856
• Col Robert Melville Cooper 1790–1878
• Matthew Delamere Cooper 1792–1878

Children

• Elizabeth Cooper Pringle 1806–1879 FaG
• William Hamilton Cooper 1808–1898 FaG
• Jane Hamilton Cooper Williams 1818–1888 FaG

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