Genealogy of Thomas E Cady - Person Sheet
Genealogy of Thomas E Cady - Person Sheet
NameThomas R. Cooper 
Birth1851, Carthage, Mo.
Death28 May 1953, MERCER Co. Mo.
BurialHalf Rock Cemetery, Mercer Co. Mo.
FatherSilas C. Cooper
MotherDelilah Michael (1831-1854)
Misc. Notes
From MERCER COUNTY PIONEER TRACES Vol 111
Written in - The Post - Thursday Dec 6, 1951 - Mr Cooper says that to become a pioneer again he would dig a well first. “ In good health, Mr. Cooer retains his good looks. alert mind and kindly disposition. He is easy to please and never complains One is hardly aware that he has been blind for six years. His mother having died on the trail, he ,his sister and Father made their home with John and Dilemma (Evans) Michael. He lived with his grandparents John and Delimme Evans Michaels and he described the home in her notes. Thomas Cooper went to school in a log building with log benches with small logs pegged in as legs. Many went to school barefoot, even during the winter.
He maried in Kansas , farming was hard. He hand cut wheat with a cradle, shocking and tying by hand. He planted corn by hand and covered it with a hoe. He cut wood for 75 cents a cord. In 1885 the family returned to Mercer Co by covered wagon, driving the stock. He operated a farm for 13 years till his wife died in 1929 He visited in Oklahoma and married again and lived there till the second wife died , then moved back to Mercer Co. and lived with his
daugher Ada till he died 1n 1953 in Harris.
Written in - The Post - Thursday Dec 6, 1951 - Mr Cooper says that to become a pioneer again he would dig a well first. “ In good health, Mr. Cooer retains his good looks. alert mind and kindly disposition. He is easy to please and never complains One is hardly aware that he has been blind for six years. His mother having died on the trail, he ,his sister and Father made their home with John and Dilemma (Evans) Michael. He lived with his grandparents John and Delimme Evans Michaels and he described the home in her notes. Thomas Cooper went to school in a log building with log benches with small logs pegged in as legs. Many went to school barefoot, even during the winter.
He maried in Kansas , farming was hard. He hand cut wheat with a cradle, shocking and tying by hand. He planted corn by hand and covered it with a hoe. He cut wood for 75 cents a cord. In 1885 the family returned to Mercer Co by covered wagon, driving the stock. He operated a farm for 13 years till his wife died in 1929 He visited in Oklahoma and married again and lived there till the second wife died , then moved back to Mercer Co. and lived with his
daugher Ada till he died 1n 1953 in Harris.