Author: Lillian
Title: Postcard to “Cousin” Helen
Date: undated
Curator: Christine Fisher
Note: postcard
No Date
Wishing you a Happy Easter, from Lillian to cousin Helen. Mama sends love to both of you.
Sources
Source 023 – Postcard by Helen E. Cooper
Author: Helen E. (Nelson) Cooper
Title: Postcard (Westmoreland, NY) to unknown
Date: undated
Curator: Christine Fisher
Note:
Drum’s Store – Westmoreland, NY POSTCARD
I am sending you this more for the dog than the store. The dog is the one that tried to outrun the cars when he was a puppy and lost the end of narrative, and grew wise very suddenly. His name is Gypsy and is owned by Mr Hubble who owns the building, a corner of which may be seen at the left. Around the corner, south is the McDougle house, one of the oldest in town except ours. and the one marked 100 years on map. All of these photos you should see through a glass. Valeria you know wrote about the dog. and what an escapade they had. They are just across the road from us. See map. HE Cooper
Source 022 – Postcard by Helen E. Cooper
Author: Helen E. (Nelson) Cooper
Title: Postcard (Westmoreland, NY) to unknown
Date: undated
Curator: Christine Fisher
Note:
Borden’s Bottling Works (postcard)
Westmoreland, NY
I need not explain this. The map shows its location and how to reach it. I am going to Utica today if I can get there. I am awful weak and shaky, but guess I will make it all right. (Helen E. Cooper)
Source 002 – Family Record: Lyman Cooper by Valeria Nelson
Author: unknown
Title: Family Record of the Lyman Cooper family
Date: undated
Curator: Christine Fisher
Note: two pages
page 1
Cooper, Lyman – b 24 May 1829 (Stockbridge, Berkshire Co, MA); m 06 September 1859 (Nunda Livingston Co, NY) by LL Rogers; d 12 February 1906, 76 years (Paw Paw, Van Buren Co, MI)
Cooper, Louisa (Bacon) b 14 August 1835 (Grove, Allegany Co, NY); m 06 September 1859 (Nunda Livingston Co, NY) by LL Rogers; d 28 November 1881 (Lawrence, Van Buren Co, MI), 56 years
Cooper, Helen E. (Nelson/Branch) b 10 April 1846 (Gaines, Orleans Co, NY); m 14 July 1882 (Lawrence, MI) by Joshua White of Decatur, MI
page 2
Children of Lyman & Louisa Cooper:
Cooper, Nellie Florence b 26 July 1860 (Lawrence, VanBuren Co, MI); m Morton Rasmusson
Cooper, Fred Lincoln b 21 May 1865; 30 April 1866
Cooper, Carlton Herbert b 28 May 1868
Cooper, Junia Edith b 13 December 1871; m Charles H. Craine
Children of Lyman & Helen Cooper:
Cooper, Iva May b 05 August 1883 (Lawrence, VanBuren Co, MI); d 09 April 1945
Source 001 – Family Record: Drapers by Valeria Nelson
Author: Valeria Louise (Nelson) Nelson
Title: Family Record of the Drapers
Date: undated
Curator: Christine Fisher
Note: eight pages; found in family papers of Helen J. (Thomas) Hoorn of Byron Center, MI
Deaths:
23 May 1877 Draper, Amos P age 87
03 August 1889 Draper, Orvilla age 89
21 August 1868 Brooks, Charles
13 December 1788 Draper, Harry
13 August 1803 Draper, Polly
10 May 1848 Draper, Eleazer
03 July 1848 Draper, Hannah Palmer
30 December 1860 Draper, John
31 August 1868 Brooks, Eliza D.
04 February 1876 Draper, Lawton
page 1
“Gideon Draper [Gideon Draper Sr] the first to found our part of the family. He married at Roxbury, MA, on April 22, 1713. Abigail Aldis. He had 10 children, one of whom was the Gideon [Gideon Draper Jr] that we think founded our branch of the family. Our Gideon was born in Dedham, MA, August 25, 1722 , and died at Dover, NY, 1778.
The first Gideon’s father was James Draper who was born at Roxbury, MA, 1654, and died there April 30, 1698. He married February 18, 1681. Abigail Whiting. This James was a son of James Draper who came from England, about the year 1647. His wife was Miriam Stansfield. He and she were both born in the village of Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England.
page 2
He was born in 1618, and she was born November 27, 1625, and both died in Roxbury and their graves and gravestones are well preserved. James Draper Sr, born 1618, wife Miriam Stansfield born November 27, 1625, in Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England. James Draper Jr born 1654 at Roxbury, MA, and died there April 30, 1698. He was married to Abigail Whiting, February 18, 1681.
Gideon Draper Sr birth unknown, was married at Roxbury, MA, April 22, 1713, to Abigail Aldis. Gideon Draper Jr born in Dedham, MA, August 25, 1722, and died at Dover, NY, 1778.
page 3
Great-great-grandfather Ebenezer Draper born January 21, 1747.
Hannah Spicer born October 29, 1751.
Ebenezer Draper and Hannah Spicer were married March 10, 1767
Mary Draper born May 11, 1768
John Draper born July 1, 1770
Lemual Draper born January 17, 1773; d December 15, 1776
Hannah Draper born January 15, 1775
Ruth Draper born May 16, 1778; d September 14, 1779
Benj Draper born August 10, 1779
Millie Draper born September 21, 1781
Elizabeth Draper born December 16, 1788
Oliver B. Draper born February 26, 1786
Sarah Draper born May 20, 1788
Caty Draper born June 24, 1790
Nancy Draper born February 15, 1792
Barrett Draper born July 22, 1794
page 4
John Draper (great grandfather) born July 1, 1770
Hannah Palmer Draper (great grandmother) born November 15, 1767
Harry Draper born December 28, 1787 (Dutchess Co, NY)
Ebenezer Draper born Sept 17, 1789
Amos P. Draper born June 22, 1791 (Dutchess Co, NY)
Polly Draper born June 22, 1794
Eleazer Draper born January 23, 1797 (Connecticut) – Twins
Eliza Draper born January 23, 1797 (Connecticut) – Twins
Orvilla Draper born May 2, 1800 (Connecticut)
Lawton Draper born January 19, 1803 (Connecticut)
Deaths:
30 December 1860 Draper, John Westmoreland 90 yrs
02 July 1848 Draper, Hannah P [Valeria listed 3 July 1848 earlier]
3 December 1788 Draper, Harry
13 August 1803 Draper, Polly
10 May 1848 Draper, Eleazer
31 August 1868 Draper, Eliza (Brooks)
04 February 1876 Draper, Lawton
23 May 1877 Draper, Amos P
03 August 1889 Draper, Orvilla 89 years
21 August 1868 Brooks, Charles (husband of Eliza Draper)
page 5
Draper, Ebenezer b 17 September 1789; d 05 August 1867; m 06 January 1814
Draper, Sarah Beckwith b 27 May 1787; d 13 July 1852
Draper, Nancy J b 28 September 1814
Draper, Joseph b 26 July 1817; d 27 July 1817
Draper, Mary b 26 July 1817; d 29 July 1817
Draper, John F. b 08 April 1819; m 06 August 1893 (Harriett N. Howe) [Harriet died in 1868, though]
Draper, Hannah P. b 07 October 1821
Draper, Nelson B. b 13 December 1823; m 21 November 1855 (Sarah Spencer)
Draper, Nathan C b 24 February 1828 (twins); m 08 January 1854 (Julia Longfit)
Draper, Esther Ann b 24 February 1828 (twins)
Draper, Nancy J m 28 January 1834 (Moses Nelson)
page 6
Draper, Barrett d 27 October 1815
Draper, John d 30 December 1860 90 years
Draper, Hannah Spicer d 27 October 1817
Draper, Ebenezer d 29 March 1825
5 boys Joseph, Ebenezer, Harry, Lenica, and Jesse Brownell. (Polly-nickname) Mary Brownell. Joseph Brownell and Hannah. Hannah Baker. 3 children…(confusing…)
Gideon Draper great-great-great-great grandfather, father of Ebenezer and Gideon, died October 1799. Wife of Gideon great-great-great-great-grandmother (name unknown) died March 1814.
Millie drowned in a well.
page 7
Nelson, Nancy J. d 03 March 1903 (Paw Paw, MI) 88 years
Draper, Esther Ann d 17 May 1843 (Westmoreland) 15 years
Draper, Nelson B d 25 October 1880 (Appleton, WI) 57 years
Draper, John F d 01 February 1897 (Taberg, NY) 78 years
Draper, Nathan C d 15 December 1903 (Merrifield, VA) 75 years
page 8
When our trials are all ended
Our mistakes are in the past
And the glories comprehended
When we reach our home at last.
We shall have the satisfaction
Jesus knows our hearts the best
Knows our thoughts and every action
Takes our sins and gives us rest.
We shall know as Jesus knows us
Numbered in that blood-washed throng,
We shall shout glad hallelujahs
To our king in praise and song.
Source 021 – Personal Letter by Valeria L. Nelson
Author: Valeria Louise Nelson
Title: Letter to “Niece” Iva [Iva M. Cooper]
Date: 13 January unknown year
Curator: Christine Fisher
Note: Since Valeria references Iva’s father, Lyman Cooper, it is presumed that the letter was written prior to his death 12 February 1906…when Iva was approximately 22.
13 January
Dear Niece Iva,
Had so much to do yesterday forenoon and afternoon went to aid society. Could not write to you so held your mothers letter till I could write to you. I was slightly surprised, but not in the least shocked by your announcement. I was wondering why you did not take to nursing. Why you was a odity among us, but answered with the thot that it was your timidity and lack of self-reliance. You have chosen a hard calling; but if it is a call from God, He will go before you, and you need not fear to follow where he leads. I believe that it is, from the way it has come to you, and you do well to answer so cheerfully and hopefully Here am I. May you, as you lay your life upon his altar, a living sacrifice rejoice in the life more abundant and receive of his fullness grace for grace and find in His presence fullness of joy. While you await his call to come up higher where there are pleasures forever more. From my view point, I am looking on at God’s dealings with you all. I know He doeth all things well although somethings look so hard, and are so hard to bear. I am sorry for your poor father because he wrongs his own soul by his wrong doing to which he is led by his wrong thinking, putting too high a value on self the things of time which perish with the using or are left to curse others often. He is so chocked by the cares of this life and the deceitfulness riches. May he come to himself before he starves on husks. I am sorry too, for your mother to be left by you, under existing circumstances, but sympathy is about all you can give her at present, and you can give that across the State, as I can here. My one longing cry to God for her is that she may hold firmly to the path of duty. Let who will go wrong, be saved from sin, and used for righteousness to his praise and glory.
I will send Fannie Harris last letter to you. There are points in it you will see without a pointer. There are items only of interest to her sister, but she let me read it and I asked her if I might send it to you and she said I might but her sister may want to see it so send it back when you write. Fannie has been a nurse for some years in Springfield Mass. Had from $20 to $25 per week as private nurse. She was here on her vacation two weeks this summer and she told me there was a matter she had got to decide within six months, but she was not sure of the mind of the Lord then. Ray and Anna told me what it was. She decided to go to China, with results as you see. She expects to go later. She is a blond about your size and make up. Is near 30 years old. Entered hospital for training when between 21 & 22. Commit your way unto the Lord. Trust also in Him and he shall bring it to pass. Love to all, your aunt Valeria (Valeria Louise Nelson)
Aunt sends love and would write but is having a sneezing cold and don’t feel able to keep her nose clean and write. Helen is asleep in her chair while she makes her call, and aunt has been naping yester a thay??? today skating. VLN