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Matthew Delamere Cooper
30 Oct 1792 – 20 Dec 1878
| Birth | 30 Oct 1792 |
| Death | 20 Dec 1878 |
| Cemetery | Zion Presbyterian Church Cemetery Zion , Maury County , Tennessee , USA |
| Added by | George Seitz on 26 Dec 2006 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8711317 |
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Matthew Delmar Cooper Born in Chester District, S.C. Oct 30, 1792 Died in Columbia, Tenn. Dec 20, 1878 This work that was laid upon his fourscore years Is done and well done, it we drop our tears Who reverenced him and honored him and loved We mourn no blighted hope nor broken plan With him shose life stands rounded and approved In the full growth and stature of a man. His three wifes beside him. He is interred in the ground with a large and imposing monument to his memory, but each of hiswife are buried in box-like sarcophagus above the ground. War Record: War of 1812 - Private in Capt. James McEwen's Company, 2nd Regiment Tennessee Volunteers (Col Thomas Harte Benton) from December 10, 1812 to April 20 1813; first lieutenant in Capt. Christopher E. McEwen's Company, 2nd Reg West Tennessee Volunteers (Col. Wm. Pillow) Sept. 26,1813 to Dec.10, 1813, Brig. Gen Wm. Hall's Brigade, Major Gen. Andrew Jackson's Army. By his own sttemnt participated in the Battle of Talladega, Ala. Creek War, Nov. 9, 1813. Matthew Delamere Cooper was the son of Capt. Robert Cooper and Jane Hamilton. He served in 1824 as Deputy Grand Master when President Andrew Jackson was the Most Worshipful Grand Master; and in 1825 elected Grand Master and was re-elected in 1826 and served until 1827.
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Family
Parents
Spouse
- Mary Agnes Frierson Cooper 1801–1834 FaG
- Elizabeth Jane Frierson Cooper 1819–1838 FaG
- Mary Ann Witherspoon Brown Cooper 1822–1861 FaG
Siblings
- Elizabeth Cooper Patton 1769–1814
- Hugh Cooper II 1771–1861
- John B. Cooper 1774–1868
- 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
Children
- William Frierson Cooper 1820–1909 FaG
- Edmund Cooper 1821–1911 FaG
- Alfred Cooper 1823–1824 FaG
- Henry Cooper 1827–1884 FaG
- Mary Agnes Cooper Sansom 1829–1908 FaG
- Flavel Frierson Cooper 1838–1867 FaG
- Martha Ann Cooper 1842–1928 FaG
- Col Duncan Brown Cooper 1845–1922 FaG
- Alice Jane Cooper 1846–1901 FaG
- Addison A "Duss" Cooper 1848–1917 FaG
- Emma Sweet Cooper 1850–1894 FaG
- Susan Eloise Cooper Stockell 1852–1925 FaG
- Fanny Cooper Milner 1855–1881 FaG
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