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Robert Theodore Cooper Jr

13 Jan 1862 – 5 Apr 1950

Birth	13 Jan 1862
Death	5 Apr 1950
Cemetery	Odd Fellows Cemetery Georgetown , Williamson County , Texas , USA
Added by	John Christeson on 24 Nov 2008
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8359418

Gravesite details

Although the headstone reads "Sr" he was actually a Junior.

Bio

HISTORY: ROBERT THEODORE COOPER, JR. was to have been called "Robert Gordon" according to his mother, when she wrote to his father who was serving in the Civil War. His father only saw him once before he was killed in the service. He wrote his mother not to let him be without clothes or get old, but to make him a suit from this coat. After his father died, his mother gave him his father's full name. When he and his sister, Mary Belle came to Georgetown, Texas to join their brother, Eugene, he worked with his brother on the Williamson Sun for some nine years. He left the paper and brought a jewelry business which he gave up to accept a position in the Bank of Emzy Taylor, the predecessor of the First National Bank of Georgetown, and when the latter bank was organized, he became one of its directors. In 1898 he invested in a real estate enterprise with Wm. F. Casey. He was active in civic affairs and was trustee of the public schools of Georgetown for some ten years. He built a beautiful two story limestone house at 105 E. Fifth Street which was a showplace of its day. It is north of the courthouse and is now occupied by his daughters, Katie Lee and Corinna Hall. He married Corinna Taylor, daughter of the very prominent Emzy Taylor, on December 29, 1887, a marriage which lasted almost sixty-three years.

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Family

Parents

Capt Robert Theodore Cooper 1832–1863

Spouse

Corinna Taylor Cooper 1869–1958 FaG

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