Ancestry 'Redding Family Tree' (155779766) — Elsie Stackhouse Cooper (1801–1868), wife of Joseph [Ellis?] Cooper of Warren Co.

Transcription and notes

Source: Ancestry "Redding Family Tree" (tree 155779766), person 382311884688 ("Else Cooper Stackhouse"). Export on disk: (image held in the family archive) (+ parsed report …Else Cooper Stackhouse (1801-1868) [ancestry 155779766].md). Parsed 2026-07-08 via scripts/parse_ancestry_tree.py.

Verbatim transcription

Elsie Stackhouse Cooper - Birth: 6 Feb 1801, New Jersey - Residence: 1840 + 1850 + 1860 Independence, Warren Co., NJ (S1/S2/S3 = US census); also "Fort Washington, Philadelphia, PA" (S7 church/town records) - Death: 9 Mar 1868, Hope, Warren Co., NJ - Parents: William Stackhouse (1774–) × Elizabeth Benzet (1775–1845) — "Benzet" = Benezet, a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family; Stackhouse = Bucks-PA/NJ Quaker surname ⇒ Elsie was of Quaker stock. - Spouse (TWO profiles attached — see note): (a) "Joseph Cooper (1781–1852)" [pid 382312378287]; (b) "Joseph Ellis Cooper (1786–1852)" [pid 382311884686]. - Children: Lewis Sanford 1825–1905 · Susannah 1828–1829 · George Monroe 1830–1913 · Margaret Elizabeth 1832–1896 · Caleb Swayze 1834–1913 · Calvin Chandler 1836–1919 · "Elsie Stackhouse 1836–1919" (dup/glitch — same dates as Calvin) · Robert Marshall 1838–1913. - Sources cited (8): 1840/1850/1860 US census (×4), Ancestry Family Trees, NJ Compiled Census & Substitutes Index 1643–1890, PA & NJ Church & Town Records 1669–2013, PA Death Certificates 1906–1967.

Note (verbatim-adjacent — a documentary fact about the tree)

The tree attaches Elsie TWO husband profiles for what is presumably one man — "Joseph Cooper (1781–1852)" (no middle name) AND "Joseph Ellis Cooper (1786–1852)." This duplication is itself evidence that the "Ellis"/b.1786 identity is a tree-construct/merge, not a documented fact — see [p.112] "Certainty" (2026-07-08). Interpretation lives in [p.112], not here.

Cross-references

• p.112 Joseph Cooper of Independence Twp Warren — Elsie's husband; the identity question
• F.139 — son Calvin Chandler's PA death cert (primary source locking Elsie Stackhouse as the mother)
• L.90 — the other Ancestry tree for this family (gave "Joseph Ellis" + Elsie Stackhouse)