The Vicksburg Post (Vicksburg, MS), Thu 23 Jan 1902, p.4 — 'Martin===Cooper' marriage notice: Dr. B. B. Martin × Miss Ethel Maynard Cooper (daughter of Dr. & Mrs. John Atchison Cooper of Friars Point MS), m. 22 Jan 1902 at the ME church, home of the bride. Confirms Ethel [p.1163] as Dr John A. Cooper's [p.919] daughter + the father ALIVE Jan 1902 (refutes the erroneous FaG 'd.1900').

Transcription and notes

Source: The Vicksburg Post (Vicksburg, Mississippi), Thursday 23 January 1902, page 4. (image held in the family archive) (newspapers.com image 194312024).

Verbatim transcription

Martin===Cooper.

The marriage of Dr. B. B. Martin, of this city, and Miss Ethel Maynard Cooper, the lovely daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John Atchison Cooper, of Friars Point, Mississippi, was celebrated at 10 o'clock yesterday morning at the Methodist Episcopal church at the home of the bride.

Miss Cooper will be remembered as a frequent visitor to Miss Eloise Wright of this city. She is endowed with all the charms of lovely womanhood.

Dr. Martin is a native of this city, a son of Mr. Eugene Martin and is a young gentleman of the highest character and a physician of rare merit.

Dr. Martin and his lovely bride arrived in this city, their future home, by last evening's 7 o'clock Valley train.

Notes (identifications; not verbatim)

• Bride = Ethel Maynard Cooper [p.1163] — daughter of Dr John Atchison Cooper [p.919] × Lelia Maynard [p.1585] of Friars Point, Coahoma Co., MS (the "Ethel/Ersel, b. Apr 1881" of [D.456] 1900). Married 22 Jan 1902 ("yesterday morning") at the ME church, home of the bride; the couple's home was Vicksburg.
• Groom = Dr. B. B. Martin of Vicksburg (physician; son of Eugene Martin) = FaG "Ethel Maynard Cooper Martin (1881–1966)"'s husband.
• "Dr. and Mrs. John Atchison Cooper, of Friars Point" — the father is named as living in Jan 1902. Combined with [D.457] (1910 census, alive at 73), this refutes the erroneous FaG memorial 148701386 ([G.310]) that dates him "d. 1900" — the real Dr John A. Cooper [p.919] lived to 1914. (See [p.919] disambiguation.)

Cross-references

• p.1163 Ethel Maynard Cooper (bride) · p.919 Dr John A. Cooper (father) · p.1585 Lelia Maynard Cooper (mother)