Calhoun County AlArchives Biographies.....Cooper, W. P. 1834 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    W. P. COOPER, a prominent planter of Calhoun county, was born in 1834, in
Tennessee, a son of Henry and Eliza (Cooke) Cooper, both natives of Pendleton
district, S. C., who went to Tennessee in 1825. Henry Cooper was a son of Philip
and Eunice (Freeman) Cooper. The grandfather was a native of England. Mrs. Eliza
Cooper was a daughter of William H. and Mary (Cantrell) Cooke. W. P. Cooper was
reared on the farm, but his father, Henry, having died when the son was only
eighteen days old, and the latter having been raised by a step father, his
education was neglected, and at the age of seventeen years the unpleasantness of
his step-father was so bad, that he left his home and at eighteen he entered
school and went two sessions; at nineteen he entered Mossy-Creek college and
remained about five months. He then went into mercantile business at Benton,
Tenn., and continued ten years, and then was on a plantation four years. In 1861
he was made deputy sheriff of his county, and the sheriff, going into the army,
was left in full charge. In 1863 he was elected sheriff and was removed in 1864
by the military powers. In 1866 he went to Georgia and remained five years, and
on December 23, 1871, he came to Alabama and settled on the farm where he now
lives. In 1890 he was nominated without any solicitation on his part for the
legislature and was elected by a good majority, but refused a second nomination,
preferring the quiet of the farm to the "hubbub" of political life. December 23,
1856, he married Mrs. E. A. Boyd - maiden name Cameron - daughter of William O.
and Eliza (Dacus) Cameron. This union was "blessed with seven children, five
still living : W. H., Alice, Anna, Cora and Thomas B. The mother was born in
Georgia in May, 1832, and died May 31, 1890, a member of the Cumberland
Presbyterian church. June 7, 1891, Mr. Cooper married Mrs. Sarah L. Loyd -
maiden name Fullenwiler - she is a member of the old school Presbyterian church,
while Mr. Cooper is a member of the Baptist church. He is one of the
representative farmers of his county and a leading democrat. He is a, member of
the Masonic order, having joined the fraternity in 1855. In connection with
farming he also runs a cotton gin, of thirteen bales per day capacity.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 588-589

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