OLIVER FRANKLIN "FRANK" COOPER was the son of ROBERT (BOB) ANSEL COOPER (JR.) and SARAH (SALLIE) ANN SMITH. Grandson of: ROBERT ANSEL COOPER and MATILDA CAROLINE DEEN. Great Grandson of WILLIAM GILL COOPER and DEMPSEY DONOHO. He was married to:WILLIE LOTTIE BRYANT
Their children were:
MALCOLM (MACK) RANDOLPH COOPER
EDNA BERNICE COOPER
EARL BRYANT COOPER
PRESTON LAFAYETTE COOPER
ENOCH HERBERT COOPER
SARAH THELMA COOPER
ALICE OMEGA COOPER
FORREST LAMAR COOPER
GLADYS EVELYN COOPER
OLIVER FRANKLIN COOPER, JR.
LOTTIE FRANCES COOPER
CLAUDE TAYES COOPER
OLIVER FRANKLIN COOPER was educated in the Public Schools at Monterey MS, and in a business college at Jackson MS. After his marriage, he moved to Line, Drew County, Arkansas where he taught school. After some seven years he became dissatisfied and persuaded his wife to sell their 40 acre farm and return to Rankin County MS. When they returned, they lived with his mother for a year and in 1917 purchased a farm from his first cousin, HENRY E. COOPER. The purchase included the home, 40 acres of farm land and some timber land. Later he purchased an additional 80 acres. About 1926, when his wife's aunt, Mrs. Alice Jayne (Bryant) Casper came to make her home with them, he moved the house to the west side of his 120 acres and rebuilt it. He left a portion of the old HENRY COOPER house intact, and it was used by members of the family to live in for short periods of time until they could find other quarters. He became a well known farmer and livestock raiser in that area. He was a well-read Bible scholar and was known to be a man of honor in his community, serving some four years as Justice of Peace. His wife, WILLIE LOTTIE BRYANT COOPER died suddenly in 1965 while sitting in her chair drinking a cup of coffee. Both are buried in the COOPER-SMITH CEMETERY at Monterey MS.