Josiah Cooper was born 31 August 1828 in New Paltz, New York, child of Josiah and Hannah (Ellis) Cooper. Little is known about his family; he is believed to be the youngest of their five (?) children. His early years were spent on a farm in New York. At age 18 (1846) he went to New York City to serve as an apprentice cabinetmaker. In August 1848 at the old Frederick homestead near Harrimans (Turners), Orange Co., New York, he married Harriet Frederick. He was then 20 years old; she was 17. (Harriet
Frederick, b. 9 May 1831, Harrimans NY, youngest child of Jacob and Catherine [Stevens] Frederick.) The family moved to PA back to NY and later to MN circa 1855. In Josiah's papers applying for a pension (National Archives) he is referred to as a "small man" and at age 58 is described as 5'6" tall with fair complexion, light hair and hazel eyes.
In later years, Harriet and Josiah's youngest child and her husband, Rose and Frank Parker, lived with them in their house at 410 Elm St. in Sauk Centre.
Josiah died 3 November 1905, age 77, of cancer, which had begun on his lip.(He always smoked a pipe.) Bernice (Cooper) Welch remembered that her grandfather Josiah had a rose-like growth on his cheek. Harriet died 3 July 1929, age 98, of old age. Affidavits applying for a widow's pension after Josiah died indicate that she was quite well-off. The house she owned was described as "one of the finest in Sauk Centre." Her daughter Rose and husband Frank Parker lived with her; I believe they bought the house from her estate as they continued to live there. She was the oldest resident of Sauk Centre and probably of all of Stearns Co., Newspaper accounts indicate that she was of sound mind until the very end. Both Josiah and Harriet are buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Sauk Centre, Minnesota.
Frederick, b. 9 May 1831, Harrimans NY, youngest child of Jacob and Catherine [Stevens] Frederick.) The family moved to PA back to NY and later to MN circa 1855. In Josiah's papers applying for a pension (National Archives) he is referred to as a "small man" and at age 58 is described as 5'6" tall with fair complexion, light hair and hazel eyes.
In later years, Harriet and Josiah's youngest child and her husband, Rose and Frank Parker, lived with them in their house at 410 Elm St. in Sauk Centre.
Josiah died 3 November 1905, age 77, of cancer, which had begun on his lip.(He always smoked a pipe.) Bernice (Cooper) Welch remembered that her grandfather Josiah had a rose-like growth on his cheek. Harriet died 3 July 1929, age 98, of old age. Affidavits applying for a widow's pension after Josiah died indicate that she was quite well-off. The house she owned was described as "one of the finest in Sauk Centre." Her daughter Rose and husband Frank Parker lived with her; I believe they bought the house from her estate as they continued to live there. She was the oldest resident of Sauk Centre and probably of all of Stearns Co., Newspaper accounts indicate that she was of sound mind until the very end. Both Josiah and Harriet are buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Sauk Centre, Minnesota.
Josiah Cooper was born 31 August 1828 in New Paltz, New York, child of Josiah and Hannah (Ellis) Cooper. Little is known about his family; he is believed to be the youngest of their five (?) children. His early years were spent on a farm in New York. At age 18 (1846) he went to New York City to serve as an apprentice cabinetmaker. In August 1848 at the old Frederick homestead near Harrimans (Turners), Orange Co., New York, he married Harriet Frederick. He was then 20 years old; she was 17. (Harriet
Frederick, b. 9 May 1831, Harrimans NY, youngest child of Jacob and Catherine [Stevens] Frederick.) The family moved to PA back to NY and later to MN circa 1855. In Josiah's papers applying for a pension (National Archives) he is referred to as a "small man" and at age 58 is described as 5'6" tall with fair complexion, light hair and hazel eyes.
In later years, Harriet and Josiah's youngest child and her husband, Rose and Frank Parker, lived with them in their house at 410 Elm St. in Sauk Centre.
Josiah died 3 November 1905, age 77, of cancer, which had begun on his lip.(He always smoked a pipe.) Bernice (Cooper) Welch remembered that her grandfather Josiah had a rose-like growth on his cheek. Harriet died 3 July 1929, age 98, of old age. Affidavits applying for a widow's pension after Josiah died indicate that she was quite well-off. The house she owned was described as "one of the finest in Sauk Centre." Her daughter Rose and husband Frank Parker lived with her; I believe they bought the house from her estate as they continued to live there. She was the oldest resident of Sauk Centre and probably of all of Stearns Co., Newspaper accounts indicate that she was of sound mind until the very end. Both Josiah and Harriet are buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Sauk Centre, Minnesota.
Frederick, b. 9 May 1831, Harrimans NY, youngest child of Jacob and Catherine [Stevens] Frederick.) The family moved to PA back to NY and later to MN circa 1855. In Josiah's papers applying for a pension (National Archives) he is referred to as a "small man" and at age 58 is described as 5'6" tall with fair complexion, light hair and hazel eyes.
In later years, Harriet and Josiah's youngest child and her husband, Rose and Frank Parker, lived with them in their house at 410 Elm St. in Sauk Centre.
Josiah died 3 November 1905, age 77, of cancer, which had begun on his lip.(He always smoked a pipe.) Bernice (Cooper) Welch remembered that her grandfather Josiah had a rose-like growth on his cheek. Harriet died 3 July 1929, age 98, of old age. Affidavits applying for a widow's pension after Josiah died indicate that she was quite well-off. The house she owned was described as "one of the finest in Sauk Centre." Her daughter Rose and husband Frank Parker lived with her; I believe they bought the house from her estate as they continued to live there. She was the oldest resident of Sauk Centre and probably of all of Stearns Co., Newspaper accounts indicate that she was of sound mind until the very end. Both Josiah and Harriet are buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Sauk Centre, Minnesota.
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