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Cooper, Lyman

Source 282 – Marriage License – Lyman Cooper, Helen E. Nelson-Branch

March 22, 2025 by Admin

Filed Under: Vital Record: Marriage Tagged With: Cooper, Lyman, Nelson, Helen E.

Source 225 – Telegraph – Lyman Cooper

March 22, 2025 by Admin

Title: Death announcement telegraph for Lyman Cooper
Date: 13 February 1906
Locality: Paw Paw, MI
Curator: Christine Fisher
Detail: sent by Iva Cooper

Received: 11:03 am, Feb. 13, 1906
Dated: Paw Paw, Mich.
To: Mrs. C.H. Craine, Beulah, Mi

Father died last night. Funeral Friday morning.
– Iva Cooper

Filed Under: Vital Record: Death Tagged With: Cooper, Lyman

Source 002 – Family Record: Lyman Cooper by Valeria Nelson

February 11, 2017 by Admin

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

Filed Under: Letter: Personal Tagged With: Bacon, Louisa, Cooper, Carlton H., Cooper, Fred L., Cooper, Iva M., Cooper, Junia E., Cooper, Lyman, Cooper, Nellie F.

Source 003 – Personal Letter Regarding Branch/Lawton Genealogy by Dorothy Lawton

June 9, 1982 by Admin

Author: Dorothy Lawton
Title: Letter to Helen J. (Thomas) Hoorn regarding Branch/Lawton Genealogy
Date: 09 June 1982
Curator: Christine Fisher
Note: Sent from Mayer, AZ, to Grand Rapids, MI

09 June 1982
Grand Rapids, MI

Dear Helen:
This is the darnedest letter. First I’m not seeing so good. Second its a darnedest mix up trying to write about the family. and then I’m such a poor writer. But Frank says if you really study the papers in the last box, you’ll probably be able to figure it out for yourself. And then you can write and ask anything you don’t understand. So here goes:

Valeria L Nelson’s sister Helen E. Nelson – who married Elam Branch, Frank’s grandfather. There was three children: EE Branch (Uncle Elam), Jesse Branch (died in early life, was married and had two children. He died up in the thumb area of typhoid pneumonia and we lost track of his children. And Amanda Branch – Frank’s mother. After Elam died Helen E Branch later married Lyman Cooper (your [Helen’s] grandfather). But Helen was both yours and Franks grandmother.

After Helen and Lyman Cooper were married they had one daughter, Iva May Cooper – your mother.

Valeria L Nelson, sister of Helen E Nelson maried Elam Branch. They had 3 children: EE Branch, Jesse Branch, and Amanda Branch. After Elam Branch died Helen E Branch later maried Lyman Cooper. Had one dawter: Iva May Cooper. You asked if Aunt Valeria had been maried. She maried William Nelson. I do not know if he was a cousin or not. Grandmother Branch-Cooper buried in Hillside Cemetery, Lawrence, MI

Helen Branch-Cooper, Valeria Nelson, and Frank H Lawton and Amanda B. Lawton are all buried on the same large lot. If you were to go to the Lawrence Cemetery and look up the large lot and maybe look up the manager and he’ll tell you about who buried there.

Does Martin belong to the Mason’s? You remember Uncle Elam was a 32 (?) mason and we have a couple of rituals
My goodness I was going to copy this out a little better, but didn’t get it done.

My sister Vera and her husband (Clark William Hill) are having their 50th anniversary at their sons in Owosso next month. Hope you have a nice time sorting this out.
Love,
Lawtons (Frank and Dorothy), Mayer AZ

Filed Under: Letter: Personal Tagged With: Branch, Amanda B., Branch, Elam, Branch, Elam E., Branch, Jesse M., Cooper, Iva M., Cooper, Lyman, Hill, Clark William, Lawton, Dorothy E., Lawton, Frank E., MI - Lawrence - Hillside Cemetery, Nelson, Valeria L., Thomas, Helen J., Vera

Source 031 – Personal Letter by Iva M. Cooper

February 12, 1899 by Admin

Author: Iva M. Cooper age 16 of Paw Paw, MI
Title: Letter to “Aunt” Miss HP Draper [Hannah P. Draper age 78 of Westmoreland, Oneida Co, NY]
Date: 12 February 1899
Curator: Christine Fisher
Note:

Paw Paw, MI
February 12, 1899

Miss HP Draper [age 78]
Westmoreland, Oneida Co NY

Dear Aunt:
As Auntie [Valeria Louise Nelson Nelson, age 62] has warned you not to be scared, I suppose you have nerved yourself for my awful letter.

I have never seen you, and perhaps never shall, but I hope that I may sometime, I would be glad to come if I could, and stay with you, and comfort you in your loneliness.

I hope you are getting along all right this cold weather, here this morning the thermometer registered 34 degrees below zero, and it is predicted, that it is going to be cooler during the next three days, some, here in town, have lost their fruit by having their cans burst, and we should have lost ours, if mamma (Helen E. Nelson Branch Cooper) had not nearly all night, keeping fires. Grandma [Nancy J. Nelson, age 85] said, this morning, when she first awoke, that she hoped those poor children would not freeze, meaning Amanda and Frank (Lawton), she thinks you are all right, because you wrote you had your supply of coal, for the winter, but I think the children will take care of themselves for Frank has a good supply of wood in the wood shed, we have also managed to keep in wood.

We are all as well as usual, papa [Lyman Cooper, age 70] and mamma [Helen E. Cooper, age 53] are convalescing from the LaGrippe, grandma [Nancy J Nelson] has a slight cough, having taken a little more cold, but is getting better, Auntie [Valeria], well, she is not exactly a somnambulist, for she does not quite walk in her sleep, but she does nearly every thing else, eats, talks, pares potatoes, and washes dishes in her sleep, and it is quite funny to see her sometimes when se goes to eat an apple, she will begin to pare it, get a mouthful, take a nap, and so alternate till the apple is finished, when she (rousts up) as grandma says, to see if she has eaten it, or where it has gone to, she nods and bows on all occasions, and this morning got up, went to the stove opened it, made a low bow, and was met by the flames, (I suppose I ought to say was kissed by them), at all events she singed her hair, smelled it burning, (and woke up). She says she was not asleep, but I think she must have been taking her morning nap, and got up in her sleep, we never know what she will do next, she says it is not so funny, and though we have to laugh at her, we are all sorry for her, because she has been broken of her sleep so much taking care of grandma, that she can not help it.

I thought I would send you a valentine, and thank you, for that , capable cat; I have three cats, but I have not used diamond dyes on them, one of them is black nearly all over, the other two are malta and white, I think. I will not follow the example of the capable cat and dye them. Do you keep a cat? Grandma says, you used to keep a cat, when she was there, and that you had a chair for it.

I think this is all for this time, as grandma says, you can not read it, your not being used to my writing.

When you write to Auntie V [Valeria]
Write a letter, please, to me.
I will always ever be
Your grand-niece Miss Iva C.

Miss Iva May Cooper [16 years old]
Paw Paw, Box 178
Van Buren Co, MI

Filed Under: Letter: Personal Tagged With: Cooper, Iva M., Cooper, Lyman, Draper, Hannah P., Draper, Nancy J., Nelson, Helen E., Nelson, Valeria L.

Source 024 – Personal Letter by Nellie Rasmusson

January 17, 1890 by Admin

Author: Nellie Florence (Cooper) Rasmusson [age 30]
Title: Letter to “Father” [Lyman Cooper] of Dorr [MI]
Date: 17 January 1890
Curator: Christine Fisher
Note:

Dorr
January 17, 1890

Dear Father [Lyman Cooper]

I sit down this evening to write you a few lines to let you know we are well and have got moved back at Dorr. I got home that same night you went back to the Sanitarium and was very much disapointed on not seeing you at home as I herd you was home on a visit before I got there.

Well pa we got your letter and was surprised to here that you had an operation and ma [Helen E Cooper] and all of us are worried about you and you must let us know how you are getting a long. They all told me when I got home that pa was getting well that you looked better than you had in five years. It made me feel so good. I can’t express my feelings and ma has told me so many times she thought pa was going to get well now as there was a great change in you now. If you don’t get along you must let us know. I was over home to day every thing is all lovely.

Will is changeing. Works with George sawing wood so they will get some wood a head. Well my Dear pa, it is getting late and I must close.

From your daughter,
Nellie [Florence Cooper Rasmusson], age 30
Good night. Write soon.

Filed Under: Letter: Personal Tagged With: Cooper, Lyman, Cooper, Nellie F., Nelson, Helen E.

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