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Joseph Cooper

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Joseph Cooper

Birth
Massachusetts, USA
Death
19 Dec 1844 (aged 87)
Holland, Erie County, New York, USA
Burial
Holland, Erie County, New York, USA Add to Map
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Aged 87 years, 9 mo's & 3 days

A Soldier of The Revolution

"Joseph Cooper was a native of Massachusetts but in early life removed to Vermont. His wife's name was Dolly Page. They have had six children; Joseph married Lydia Dustin, Hannah married Jonathan Colby in Vermont, Dolly married Benjamin Crook, Leonard married Eliza Humphrey, Eleanor married Lyman Clark, Samuel married Sally Nutting. In 1811 Joseph Cooper emigrated from Vermont and located in Holland, Erie county, NY (then Willink, Niagara county) on the north part of lot sixty-three where he resided until his death at the age of eighty-seven years. Samuel, third son of the preceding, was born in Corinth, Orange county, Vt, Aug 11, 1800 and came with his father to Holland in 1811. He still owns and occupies the homestead he helped to redeem from the wilderness. He married Sally Nutting and has a family of five children; Page married Valona Sweet and lives in Holland, Maryette married Seth Cooper, Julia unmarried, Emma unmarried, Grace married RJ Sellek."

History of the Original Town of Concord, By Erasmus Briggs, 1883


Aged 87 years, 9 mo's & 3 days

A Soldier of The Revolution

"Joseph Cooper was a native of Massachusetts but in early life removed to Vermont. His wife's name was Dolly Page. They have had six children; Joseph married Lydia Dustin, Hannah married Jonathan Colby in Vermont, Dolly married Benjamin Crook, Leonard married Eliza Humphrey, Eleanor married Lyman Clark, Samuel married Sally Nutting. In 1811 Joseph Cooper emigrated from Vermont and located in Holland, Erie county, NY (then Willink, Niagara county) on the north part of lot sixty-three where he resided until his death at the age of eighty-seven years. Samuel, third son of the preceding, was born in Corinth, Orange county, Vt, Aug 11, 1800 and came with his father to Holland in 1811. He still owns and occupies the homestead he helped to redeem from the wilderness. He married Sally Nutting and has a family of five children; Page married Valona Sweet and lives in Holland, Maryette married Seth Cooper, Julia unmarried, Emma unmarried, Grace married RJ Sellek."

History of the Original Town of Concord, By Erasmus Briggs, 1883



Inscription

Joseph Cooper
died Dec. 19
1844
Aged 87 years
9 mos. 3 days
Here lies a kind and
affectionate Father.
Blessed are those servants
whom the Lord when he cometh
will find watching.

Gravesite Details

Has regular stone as well as Military marker.....next to each other



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