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Thomas Simpson Cooper

5 Sep 1834 – 6 Feb 1923

Birth	5 Sep 1834
Death	6 Feb 1923
Cemetery	Zion Presbyterian Church Cemetery Zion , Maury County , Tennessee , USA
Added by	Ron Johnson on 06 Nov 2013
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8711408

Bio

Son of Col. Robert Melville Cooper and Catherine Cooper Cooper. Husband of Lavonia McClain dau of Wm. T. McClain; Husband of Sara E. McKennon dau of Thomas Garner Pollock and Nancy (Liles) McKennon) Enlisted at Newburg, Lewis County, Tennessee and mustered in on 29 November 1861, Company C, 48th Regiment (Voorhee's) Tennessee Infantry, C. S. A. as a Private; absent from his unit (reason not given) on 15 March 1862; mustered out and transferred to Company E, 48th Regiment Nixon's Tennessee Infantry, C. S. A. on 1 April 1862; returned to his unit on 15 August 1862; absent from his unit (sick) on 15 January 1863; returned to his unit on 1 March 1863. Was in Bowling Green Camp with Martin McClain, son of John and Elizabeth McMillan McClain "The Soldier's Grave" a poem by Pearl Rivers. Tread lightly, 'tis a soldiers grave, A lonely, mossy mound; And yet to hearts like mine and thine It should be holy ground. Speak softly, let no careless laugh, No idle, thoughtless jest, Escape your lips where sweetly sleeps The hero in his rest. For him no reveille will beat When morning beams shall come; For him, at night, no tattoo rolls Its thunders from the drum. Tread lightly! for a man bequeathed, Ere laid beneath this sod, His ashes to his native land, His gallant soul to God.

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Family

Parents

• Col Robert Melville Cooper 1790–1878
• Catherine Cooper Cooper 1799–1863

Spouse

• Sarah Eugenia McKennon Cooper 1829–1904
• Livonia McClain Cooper 1844–1863

Siblings

• Cornelius Cooper 1816–1880
• Lt. Col. Albert Gallatin Cooper 1817–1883
• Paris Cooper 1819–1903
• John Hamilton Cooper 1821–1822
• Lieut William McAdams Cooper 1823–1862
• Eleanor Jane Cooper Houser 1824–1914
• Capt James Carlisle Cooper 1826–1897
• Mary Catherine Cooper Williams 1829–1915
• Henry Augustus Cooper 1830–1864
• Capt Robert Theodore Cooper 1832–1863
• Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie" Cooper Pickard 1836–1929
• Pvt Samuel Gwin Cooper 1838–1862
• Alexander Duval Cooper 1838–1861
• Leander Bruce Cooper 1841–1926
• Alfred Theodorick Cooper 1844–1931

Children

• Martin McClain "Mort" Cooper 1861–1933
• Lavonia Nancy Cooper 1868–1953
• Finnetta "Nettie" Cooper Pollock 1869–1938
• Florence Cooper 1871–1937
• Cora Cooper 1873–1958
• Knox Cooper 1878–1960

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