GIBSON COUNTY, TN - WILLS- James Irvin Cooper 1851
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Deathbed Will of James Irvin COOPER, 19 JAN 1851

February Term 1851           Gibson Co. Bond & Will Book D 1846-1852,  page 298
James I. Cooper's Will
    I, James I. Cooper make and publish this my last will and testament.  I 
desire my property to remain with my wife to raise and educate my children  and
my wife out of my effects shall pay my debts. If my wife shall marry again then
the property to be equally divided between her and the children. The undersigned
Thomas Cooper was called on by James I. Cooper deceased during last illness and
at his residence in Gibson County to witness what disposition, he desired to
make of his property  after his death, and all of the under signed heard the
disposition declared by him in his last illness and at  his residence which
disposition is now reduced to writing and the day of the late hereof and is
above written the said James I  Cooper having died  on 19th Jany A. D. 1851.  In
testimony whereof we have set our hands  and seals this 3rd Feby, A D 1851.

Thomas Cooper (seal)
J. P. Sharp  (seal)
T. P. H. Bledsoe. (seal)

James Irvin COOPER died at the age of 36 years.  He left a wife, Isabella
Eleanor DICKSON (COOPER) and seven children.  About four months after his death,
Isabella gave birth to their eighth child whom she named after her deceased
husband.

James Irvin COOPER (b.17 JUN 1814, TN d. 19 JAN 1851, Gibson Co., TN)
   + Isabella Eleanor DICKSON (b.10 JUL  1820,TN  d. 17 SEP 1892, 
Gibson Co., TN)   Married in Williamson Co.,TN 21 JAN 1836

Issue:
William Robert  (b. 1837- ?)
Sinai Graves Moore (1839-1914)
Rachel Virginia (1841-1897)
James Thomas (1843-1864)
Mary Jane "Mollie" (1845-1911)
John Bell (1847-1898)
Luke C. (1849-1922)
James Irvin, Jr. (1851-1883)