Find a Grave memorial 14794787, "Wilmer Cooper", died 5 August 1889, Tranquility Cemetery, Green Township, Sussex County, New Jersey - plot "116 Sect 1; NO GRAVESTONE", sourced to the cemetery's burial record, with no birth date and no age given.

What this document records

The memorial verbatim

| field | as returned by the parser | |---|---| | name | Wilmer Cooper | | birth | unknown | | death | 5 Aug 1889 | | cemetery | Tranquility Cemetery | | cemetery location | Green Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA | | plot | 116 Sect 1; NO GRAVESTONE | | gravesite note | Burial Record. no age given. | | family panel | empty (related_people: []) | | images | none (images: []) |

The plot string is the finding

116 Sect 1; NO GRAVESTONE is CHARACTER-FOR-CHARACTER the plot string on [G.512], the memorial of Roderick Byanton Cooper Roderick Byanton Cooper, who died 1 March 1889 and lies in the same cemetery under no stone. => This man was buried in Roderick's plot, five months after Roderick, in a cemetery where neither of them has a marker. What that is worth, graded honestly. A shared plot string is a statement by the CEMETERY'S BURIAL RECORD, which the gravesite note names as the source - not a contributor's family-panel assertion, and the panel here is empty anyway. That puts it well above the MEDIUM the standing rule assigns to a family panel. It is still not a document that names a father: it says who is in the ground and where, and nothing about kinship.

The contributor has already linked him to two censuses

The parser returns three Ancestry record links, which are the contributor's own identifications and carry NO confidence in either direction by the standing rule: 1870 United States Federal Census -> collection 7163 record 24362513 · 1880 United States Federal Census -> collection 6742 record 28400166 · New Jersey, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1798-1971 -> collection 2540 record 591023974. NONE HAS BEEN OPENED - each is a todo below. If the 1870 and 1880 links resolve to the Independence and Allamuchy households this catalog already holds ([D.565] and [D.392]), then a contributor independently reached the same conclusion [D.392] reached by arithmetic, and the third link is a state death record that would carry the date outright.

What it settles and what it does not

It supplies a DEATH DATE where the catalog had only a tree-year: James W. Cooper James W. Cooper has carried "d. 1889" from [L.132] alone, graded unproven, with the file noting that nothing else supported it and that his father's own March 1889 death gave a tree compiler an 1889 date close to hand. 5 August 1889 is a day and month from a burial record. AND IT EXPLAINS A NULL THE CATALOG RECORDED THIS VERY MONTH. James W. Cooper's own Find a Grave search of 2026-10-24 - James Cooper, b. 1868 +/- 3, d. 1889 +/- 3, New Jersey - returned "No matches found", and the file recorded it honestly, observing that four of his siblings DO have memorials. He was there the whole time, under Wilmer. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO IS NAME HIM A SON. The panel is empty, there is no bio, and no document yet says Wilmer Cooper and James W. Cooper are one man. The identification is argued at [D.392] and graded probable there; this memorial is a strong new strand in that argument, not a substitute for it.