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COOPER

    Captain James Oliver Cooper was born in Baldwin County, July 15, 1863, the
eldest son of Thomas Jefferson Cooper and Sarah Frances Ethridge. He was reared
in the settlement known as Cooperville (now called Coopers) and received his
education in an "Old field school," where the Blue Back Speller held sway.

    At an early age he began railroading and soon worked his way up to
conductorship. He has been a conductor on the Central of Georgia R. R. for about
thirty-five years.

    Capt. Cooper married Miss Cora Eloise Echols in 1888, at the home of her
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Madison Kilpatrick in Morgan County, Georgia. Mrs.
Cooper was born in Milledgeville, Ga., April 15, 1872. She was the only child of
Fayette I. Echols, and Cora Eloise Kilpatrick. Mr. Echol's first wife was a Miss
Jeans. Their three children were Brad, Eugene, and Ethel (now Mrs. Jim Ennis).

    Fayette I. Echols was a Confederate soldier, serving in the Governor's Horse
Guards, Co. A., Phillip's Legion, Hampton's Brigade, Stewart's Cavalry. He died
at Midway in 1896 and is buried there.

    Capt. and Mrs. Cooper have two children. Alva Kilpatrick Cooper was born May
1, 1891, at Eatonton, and married Miss Alice Foster, of Beuna Vista, Ga., March
12, 1913. They have four children, Alice, Alva, Jr., Ann Elizabeth and Cora
Eloise, twins. Alva Cooper, Sr., is a well known merchant of Prattsville, Ala.,
and is a graduate of Emory College.

    Mary Eloise Cooper (second child of Capt. and Mrs. Cooper) was born in
Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 31, 1894. Two years later the family moved to
Coving-ton, Ga., and there Mary Eloise received her education in the Covington
Schools. Later, she attended Wes-leyan College, Macon, Ga., from which she was
graduated in 1914. She married Chester R. Gannon, of Conyers, Ga., Nov. 3, 1915.
They have only one child, Renee Eloise Cannon.



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Part V

HISTORY of BALDWIN COUNTY GEORGIA

BY MRS. ANNA MARIA GREEN COOK

ILLUSTRATED

ANDERSON. S. C.
Keys-Hearn Printing Co.
-1925—


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