Document G.289 · find a grave memorial · transcription: verbatim

Find a Grave memorial 33766688 - Mrs Catha Ann “Kate” Evans Cooper, The Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky

repository: Find a Grave
date: 1916

What is transcribed: The whole memorial: header with plot, bio (an abstract of the Kentucky death index), family panel (five children, with memorial ids; no spouse row) and six images: her Kentucky death certificate, three photographs of her marker, a tintype portrait of her with a handwritten caption, and a tintype portrait captioned as her husband John Wallace Cooper. This parse returned no Ancestry record links; the links from the earlier parse are kept in suggested_records.

People named

As written	Role	Identified as	What this document says
Mrs Catha Ann “Kate” Evans Cooper	deceased	Caltha Ann (Evans) Cooper 1840–1916	birth: 26 Nov 1840, Kentucky death: 14 Dec 1916, Fayette County, Kentucky burial: The Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
Wallace Cooper	child	Wallace Cooper 1860–1913
William Cotton Cooper	child	William Cotton Cooper 1864
Katherine Cooper Pratt	child	Kate (Cooper) Bass 1868–1946
John Fenimore Cooper	child	John Fenimore Cooper 1870–1944
Joseph Evans Cooper	child	Joseph Evans Cooper 1873–1931
John Wallace Cooper	spouse	John Wallace Cooper 1835–1885

Transcription and notes

Name: "Mrs Catha Ann “Kate” Evans Cooper"
Birth: "26 Nov 1840 - Kentucky, USA"
Death: "14 Dec 1916 (aged 76) - Fayette County, Kentucky, USA"
Burial: "The Lexington Cemetery", "Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, USA"
Plot: "Section C-1, Lot I, Grave 45"

Bio, as given on the memorial:

Death Volume: 1916 Certificate Number: 29905 Name: Mrs Kate E COOPER Age: 76 Died: 14 Dec 1916 Fayette Co., KY Gender: Female Born: 26 Nov 1840 Ky Race: White Father: Jos EVANS Mother: Willie COTTON Spouse: Informant: Will COOPER Source: Kentucky Death Index County Filed: Fayette Submitter: Kyvitals Volunteers Submitter Relationship: None ∼ May have been married to John Wallace Cooper that died in Kentucky 1885. Burial location unknown

Family panel: - child: "Wallace Cooper", 1860-1913, memorial 220066063 - child: "William Cotton Cooper", 1864-1927, memorial 16995653 - child: "Katherine Cooper Pratt", 1868-1946, memorial 10514043 - child: "John Fenimore Cooper", 1870-1944, memorial 41156923 - child: "Joseph Evans Cooper", 1873-1931, memorial 21177077

Photograph (flat marker):

COOPER CALTHA ANN EVANS NOV. 26, 1840 DEC. 14, 1916

Image (Kentucky certificate of death, file no. 29905 [overwritten], selected fields):

County: Fayette Primary Registration District: Greendale Pike Full name: Mrs Kate E. Cooper Sex: F Color: W Single, married, widowed: widow Date of birth: Nov 26 1840 Age: 76 yrs 0 mos 18 ds Occupation: at home Birthplace: Ky Name of father: Jos Evans (b. Ky) Maiden name of mother: Willie Cotton (b. Ky) Informant: Will Cooper, Fayette Co Ky Date of death: Dec 14 1916 Cause: Chronic Nephritis Signed: A. J. Andrews[?] M.D., Lex Ky Place of burial: Lex Cemetery Date of burial: Dec 16 1916 Undertaker: W. [J?] Milward, Lex Ky

Photograph (tintype portrait of a young woman, with a handwritten caption):

Grandmother aged 16 Caltha Ann Evans wife of John Wallace Cooper

Photograph (tintype portrait of a young man, with a handwritten caption):

my grandfather John Wallace Cooper Lexington, Kentucky 32nd degree Mason