Eleanor was born just across the street from the old Wyatt home, First South and Second West. The family moved to their log house South of Wellsville where her Father homesteaded eighty acres when Eleanor was one and a half years old. They dug a forty-foot well to good cold water, planted an orchard with many varieties of fruit and berries of all kinds. They also raised sugar cane, alfalfa and grain. She worked very hard when a girl at home, stripping sugar cane, topping and getting it ready to be hauled to Uncle Joseph Redford's mill, located near Murray's dam, where it was boned to a thick syrup, skimmed and run into twenty gallon barrels. Grain and hay were bound by hand. They had a cow to care for, besides churning of butter.

She attended school in Mt. Sterling and completed the eighth grade, studying history, grammar, geography, arithmetic, spelling and reading assignments. At the age of sixteen she went out to do housework for several people in town. At eighteen she went to Salt Lake City to stay with her Grandmother Dell, who had fallen and broken her wrist. After her marriage to Joseph Parker Cooper they lived with his folks until he left for his mission to England. She returned to work until he came home. A two-room brick house was built. Eleanor worked hard out in the field with her husband and in the home as a wife and mother. In days when there was no electricity. She had eleven children to care for. They turned the washer by hand, canned vegetables in a boiler which was kept boiling three or four hours on a wood and coal fed stove, ironed clothes each week with a stove iron, and made all the children's clothes with a treadle-sewing machine.

Both Eleanor and Joseph were dedicated and devoted to their church, working in the various organizations. He served in the Sunday School in different positions; as Bishop's counselor, as Bishop, President of the YMMIA, as High Councilman and also in the Stake. They both did a great deal of temple work. She was President of the Primary, also a teacher, President of the Relief Society in Mt. Sterling Ward and a visiting teacher for fifty years. She also sang in the ward choir. She was faithful in attending Relief Society and helping to quilt on work day. She had made numerous quilts herself and was still crocheting at age ninety.

Eleanor was an angel of Mercy to many during the flu epidemic and known as the Mt. Sterling Nurse. She helped to bring thirty babies into the world, nursed several cases of pneumonia, typhoid fever and scarlet fever, and helped to prepare the dead for burial.

She had a talent for giving readings and stories and in playing the piano. She was honored by her family on her eightieth birthday with an open house.
She died 15 Feb 1976 at Logan, Cache, Utah at the age of 95 Years and 7 months.
Eleanor Henrietta and Joseph had the following children:

Ida Redford Cooper, Henry Redford Cooper, Marvin Redford Cooper, Louis Redford Cooper, Alta Redford Cooper, Luther Redford Cooper, Heber Redford Cooper, Carl Redford Cooper, Eleanor Redford Cooper, Ruth Redford Cooper, and Norma Redford Cooper.