Wife of:# 74495452

James Alexander Kolb
Birth 11 Sep 1875 in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, USA
Death 23 Dec 1966 in Logansport, De Soto, Louisiana, USA/Shelby,TX/

Daughter of:
Father-# 32750682

Joel Dawson Wiggins
Birth 30 Oct 1852 in Alabama
Death 5 Oct 1917 in Stanley, De Soto, Louisiana, USA /

Mother-# 32750690
Nancy Edie Elder Matthews
Birth 5 Nov 1859 in Louisiana
Death 6 Mar 1942 in Stanley (De Soto County), De Soto Parish,Louisiana/

Mary was a direct descendant of the following:
Grandfather-James Elishew (Elihu) Wiggins
wife- Susannah "Susan" Walters

G Grand-Kilby Wiggins-# 33411999
wife- Mary Ann "Polly" Pugh

GG Grand-Elihu Wiggins (1776-1842)
wife- Margaret Henrietta Kinnard

GGG Grand-William Wiggins-# 58504065
wife- Elizabeth Cooper-# 9072822

William Wiggins-
Birth 1755 in Johnston County North Carolina, USA
Death Jun. 6, 1819 in Monroe County Alabama, USA /
Served in North Caroline's 10th Regiment,Commanded by
Colonel Abe Sheppard.He enlisted in Coleman's Company of
N.C. line for 12 mths and served in the Militia of the
District of Wilmington in Lt. Wilkerson's Company from
17 Oct 1781 to 19 Apr 1782.

*Source: National Society Daughters of the American Rev.
Hunt's Spring Chapter-Huntsville,Alabama

GGGG Grand-Fleet Cooper Sr-# 75035079
wife- Margaret Coore
Birth 1725 in Loudon County, Virginia, USA
Death 1795 in Sampson, North Carolina


The Rev. Fleet Cooper, Sr., (1722-1795) was a pioneer Baptist minister in Sampson and Duplin Counties and was a prominent political figure during the American Revolution. According to a reliable genealogist, the Coopers were descended from at least four of the Barons who signed the Magna Carta and Fleet Cooper was descended from a brother of Anthony Ashley Cooper (Earl of Shaftsbury), who was one of the Lords Proprietors who were granted the Carolinas in 1663 by Charles II.The first Cooper to come to America was James Cooper, a son of George Ashley Cooper. He came from Stratford on the Avon and landed in Philadelphia in 1682. James Cooper was a member of the Society of Friends. He married and had two daughters and four sons: Isaac, Samuel, William and Benjamin.Benjamin Cooper (1701-1776) was married in 1720 to Elizabeth Kelly and in 1725 he moved to Isle of Wight County, Virginia, and then to Loudon County, Virginia. They had several children among who was Fleet Cooper, the subject of this article.Fleet Cooper was born in 1722 in Philadelphia and spent his youth in Virginia. We know nothing about his early education but he was married in 1747 to Margaret Coore of Loudon County, Virginia, whose father, Thomas Coore, later move to Northampton County, N.C.He moved first to Dobbs County, and in 1764, he received a grant of land on Coharie Swamp in Sampson County. Later he received grants for more than a 1,000 acres of land. This was located at Concord, six miles west of Clinton on Highway 24. After the Coopers arrived in what is now Sampson County, they were members of Coharie Baptist (Rowan) Church, which was founded near Clinton in 1749. We do not know when he became a minister, but he was pastor of the Coharie Baptist Church from 1785 to 1787.At the beginning of the American Revolution Fleet Cooper, Sr. signed the "Oath of Allegiance and Abjuration" (1777) in Duplin County, that part which later became Sampson. This qualified descendants for memberships in the Daughters of the American Revolution or Sons of the American Revolution. In 1784, when Sampson County was established, Fleet Cooper, Sr., was one of the 12 justices appointed to the Court of Pleas and Quarterly Sessions....

*Sources of Information: Mary John Parker and Mamie Chambers Sawyer.(Editor's note: Reprinted with permission of the Mount Olive Tribune.)Read more: The Sampson Independent - Looking back at the Reverend Fleet Cooper Sr . Family
Created by: Crumpler/McLamb./Cooper.Record added: Aug 16, 2011 Find A Grave Memorial# 75035079