Bibb County AlArchives Biographies.....Cooper, Jesse Dean March 1 1832 - August 20, 1924
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   JESSE D. COOPER, an enterprising and successful farmer and stock dealer of
Bibb county, Ala., is a native of Butler county, Penn., and was born March 1,
1832. He is a son of Thomas and Phoebe (Dean) Cooper, both natives of
Pennsylvania. Thomas Cooper was a farmer and stock dealer, and held several
township offices. Both himself and wife died in Butler county, Penn., he in
1877, at the ripe age of ninety-two years, and she in 1884 at the age of
eighty-five years. Thomas Cooper was for many years an elder in the Presbyterian
church and his wife was a member of the Baptist church. Jesse D. Cooper was
reared on a farm and emigrated to Alabama in early life. He attended school at
New Market academy, in Madison county, Ala., and then entered Bucknell college,
Lewisburg, Penn., in 1854, and graduated in 1858, when he returned to Alabama,
taking charge of the school at Moulton, Lawrence county, for one year as
principal. He then removed to Chapel Hill, Tenn., and accepted the principalship
of the schools, remaining from 1859 to April, 1861, when he closed his school
and enlisted in the Confederate service, in company F, Seventeenth Tennessee
infantry, under Captain R. P. Hunter. In 1862 he was promoted to captain of his
company, serving as such until the close of the war. He then returned to Chapel
Hill and again entered the school he had taught before the war, remaining there
this time until 1869. July 12, 1868, he married Rhoda J. Howard, a native of
Bibb county, Ala., who was born in 1850 on the farm upon which they now reside.
She is a daughter of George W. Howard, formerly a wealthy agriculturist, but now
deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Cooper have had born to them nine children, five sons and
four daughters, six of whom are living, viz.: Minnie S., wife of Dr. William J.
Nicholson, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work; Bessie; Howard; Eva L.;
Robert F.; and Walter B. - the others, John, Jessie and David, having died.
After the death of George W. Howard, Jesse D. Cooper moved onto the plantation,
which is located near Centreville, at which place he has been employed as
principal of the schools for the past six years. In 1878 and 1879 he represented
Bibb county in the legislature. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity,
Friendship lodge. No. 83, and is secretary of the lodge. He is extensively
engaged in agriculture, owning sixteen hundred acres of fine land in Bibb
county. The old homestead or family seat where he resides is one of the most
beautiful and picturesque in the county. Everything betokens luxury, elegance
and refinement. Mr. Cooper is one of the most highly respected citizens of the
county, not only for his professional attainments, but also for his general
worth as a man of character.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 479-480

Jesse's tombstone in the Centerville Memorial Cemetery, Centerville,
Bibb County, Alabama, gives his birth date as March 1, 1831.

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