The Coopers of Long Hill

Document G.100 · find a grave memorial · transcription: verbatim

Find a Grave memorial 70802289 - Walter A Cooper, Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey

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1859

What is transcribed: The whole memorial: header with plot, bio (the contributor's note on the 1860 mortality schedule), family panel (two parents and four siblings, with memorial ids) and one photograph of his headstone. The parser returned no Ancestry record links.

People named

As writtenRoleIdentified asWhat this document says
Walter A Cooper deceased Walter A Cooper 1857–1859
birth: 20 Jun 1857, Long Hill Township, Morris County, New Jersey
death: 22 Sep 1859, Long Hill Township, Morris County, New Jersey
burial: Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey
Alexander Cooper parent Alexander Cooper 1828–1898
Abigail Parrot Cooper parent
Martha Cooper sibling Martha 'Mattie' P. Cooper 1855–1894
Elizabeth F Cooper Travis sibling Elizabeth F (Cooper) Travis 1859–1913
Abram P. Cooper sibling Abram P Cooper 1861–1912
George P Cooper sibling George P Cooper ?–1851

Transcription and notes

Bio, as given on the memorial:

US Federal Census Mortality Schedule: Walter A. Cooper, age 2, died Sept 1859 due to dysentery. Census taken at Morris, Morris, New Jersey. Year 1860, line 14 hi, this has the cause of death. with the last correction you may notice that I did not request a change of date from Feb 22 (as is the stone) to Feb 23 (as the NJ index). thanks Karen Contributor: Karen Hanna (48273566)

Family panel: - parent: "Alexander Cooper", 1828-1898, memorial 70801829 - parent: "Abigail Parrot Cooper", 1827-1908, memorial 70801808 - sibling: "Martha Cooper", 1855-1894, memorial 70802127 - sibling: "Elizabeth F Cooper Travis", 1859-1913, memorial 70855557 - sibling: "Abram P. Cooper", 1861-1912, memorial 6362808 - sibling: "George P Cooper", ?-1851, memorial 70802017

Photograph (headstone):

WALTER A. [illegible line] Alexand[er?] & Abig[ail?] COOPER Died Sept. 22. 1859 [illegible line]