The Coopers of Long Hill

Samuel E Cooper 1861–1947

Catalog ID p.167 · Cite this page: njcoopers.com/p/167/

Samuel E Cooper was born in 1861 in New Jersey, the child of Robert Marshall Cooper and Phoebe A. (Schenck) Cooper. Samuel died in 1947 and was buried at Johnsonburg Christian Church Cemetery.

Facts

EventDatePlace / detailCertaintySources
birth 1861 New Jersey certain G.155, C.28
residence 1905 Independence Twp, Warren Co., New Jersey certain E.23
residence 1930 Johnsonburg, Frelinghuysen Twp, Warren Co., New Jersey certain D.697
residence 1940 Frelinghuysen Twp, Warren Co., New Jersey certain D.698
occupation 1905 Carpenter certain E.23
occupation 1930 Carpenter, building certain D.697
occupation 1940 Carpenter, construction certain D.698
death 1947 certain G.155
burial Johnsonburg Christian Church Cemetery certain G.155

Family

Parents

Spouses

None recorded.

Siblings

Children

None recorded.

Family tree

Solid lines and outlines: certain. Dashed: probable or weaker. Open the full tree (four generations)

Samuel E CooperSamuel E Cooper1861–1947Robert Marshall CooperRobert Marshall Cooper1838–1913Joseph CooperJoseph Cooper1785–1852Elsie (Stackhouse) CooperElsie (Stackhouse) Coop…1800–1860Phoebe A. (Schenck) CooperPhoebe A. (Schenck) Coo…1841–1932

In the documents

Every published document that names Samuel E Cooper, in date order, with what that document itself records.

DateDocumentRoleWhat it records
1895 G.164 find a grave memorial
Find a Grave memorial 33947865 - Agatha V Cooper, Johnsonburg Christian Church Cemetery, Johnsonburg, Warren County, New Jersey
 sibling
as "Samuel E Cooper"
14 Jun 1905 E.23 census state nj 1905
1905 New Jersey state census, Township of Independence, Warren Co., sheet 7B, lines 89-92 (dwelling 171, family 177) — FamilySearch microfilm DGS 004881602
 household member
as "Cooper, Samuel"
birth: May 1863
residence: 1905, Independence Twp, Warren Co., New Jersey
occupation: 1905, Carpenter
1913 G.151 find a grave memorial
Find a Grave memorial 33948360 - Robert M Cooper, Johnsonburg Christian Church Cemetery, Johnsonburg, Warren County, New Jersey
 child
as "Samuel E Cooper"
1913 G.156 find a grave memorial
Find a Grave memorial 33948318 - Albert P “Bertie” Cooper, Johnsonburg Christian Church Cemetery, Johnsonburg, Warren County, New Jersey
 sibling
as "Samuel E Cooper"
1923 G.157 find a grave memorial
Find a Grave memorial 33948372 - Hector A Cooper, Johnsonburg Christian Church Cemetery, Johnsonburg, Warren County, New Jersey
 sibling
as "Samuel E Cooper"
23 Apr 1930 D.697 census population 1930
1930 U.S. census, Frelinghuysen Township, Warren Co., New Jersey, ED 21-6, sheet 5A, line 5 (dwelling 111, family 116) — NARA T626
 head
as "Cooper, Samuel"
residence: 1930, Johnsonburg, Frelinghuysen Twp, Warren Co., New Jersey
occupation: 1930, Carpenter, building (own account)
25 Apr 1940 D.698 census population 1940
1940 U.S. census, Frelinghuysen Township, Warren Co., New Jersey, ED 21-6, sheet 3B, line 50 (household 72) — NARA T627
 head
as "Cooper, Samuel"
residence: 1940, Frelinghuysen Twp, Warren Co., New Jersey
occupation: 1940, Carpenter, construction

3 further documents not published (they may name living people).

Still unknown, and where we have looked

Searches recorded

ancestry all 2026-10-17 · HIS 1900 CENSUS - THE COMPLETE WARREN COUNTY COOPER LIST, read end to end. 1900 US Federal Census (Ancestry coll. 7602), surname COOPER,...
Searched for: HIS 1900 CENSUS - THE COMPLETE WARREN COUNTY COOPER LIST, read end to end. 1900 US Federal Census (Ancestry coll. 7602), surname COOPER, NO given name, NO birth year, residence Warren County, New Jersey held EXACT. 77 rows, BOTH PAGES READ (1-50, 51-77). This is not a name search: it is every Cooper the 1900 index places in this county, so a mangled given name or birth year cannot hide him from it.
Result: NULL FOR HIM, AND IT IS A COUNTY-COMPLETE NULL rather than a name null. Warren County holds exactly TWO Samuel Coopers in 1900: 'Samuel J', Mar 1869, head at Oxford with wife Lulu A - that is Samuel Jones Cooper, accounted for - and 'Samuel', Nov 1870, BOARDER at Allamuchy, single, CARPENTER, in the Walter Drake household. The second is now [D.820] and is graded POSSIBLE below. ⇒ If Samuel E Cooper was in Warren County in 1900 under the surname Cooper, he is the Allamuchy boarder. If he is not that man, he was outside the county or his surname is unrecoverable. Also read off the same list: his parents' household at Hope ([D.297]) holds seven people and he is not among them, so he had left home by 1900 - consistent with his absence from the 1885 and 1895 state censuses of the same family ([E.27], [E.28]).
ancestry all 2026-10-17 · HIS 1920 CENSUS, TWO COUNTY-COMPLETE ANGLES. (a) THE PLACE RECIPE: 1920 US Federal Census (coll. 6061), surname COOPER, no given name,...
Searched for: HIS 1920 CENSUS, TWO COUNTY-COMPLETE ANGLES. (a) THE PLACE RECIPE: 1920 US Federal Census (coll. 6061), surname COOPER, no given name, no birth year, residence Warren County, New Jersey held EXACT - 84 rows, BOTH PAGES READ. (b) THE SURNAME REMOVED ENTIRELY: given name SAMUEL, NO SURNAME AT ALL, birth 1862 +/-5, same county held exact - 49 rows, all read. (b) is the angle that survives a mangled surname, which is the standing hypothesis for this man.
Result: NULL ON BOTH, AND (b) IS THE HARDER OF THE TWO. (a) The 84 Warren Co. Coopers of 1920 are at Oxford, Phillipsburg, Pohatcong, Washington, Allamuchy, Belvidere, Blairstown, Frelinghuysen, Hackettstown and Hope; no Samuel of any age is among them. The Frelinghuysen Coopers - the township he is enumerated in in 1930 [D.697] - are the George A. and Watson C. households, and he is in neither. (b) Of 49 Warren Co. people born about 1862 whose given name the index matches to 'Samuel', NOT ONE is a Cooper; Ancestry fuzzes the given name to its initial, so the set is really every S-initial person of those years in the county. ⇒ In 1920 there is no man of his age named Samuel in Warren County under ANY surname. He was outside the county, or his GIVEN name is mis-indexed too, or he was missed. The last row of the (a) list is worth recording: 'Hector A Cooper, head, Hope' with 'Phebe A, mother, 78' - his brother and mother, already held as [D.699].
ancestry all 2026-10-17 · THE DECIDING TEST ON [D.820], ATTEMPTED AND INCONCLUSIVE. Ancestry 'New Jersey, U.S., State Census, 1895' (coll. 1054) record 1402251,...
Searched for: THE DECIDING TEST ON [D.820], ATTEMPTED AND INCONCLUSIVE. Ancestry 'New Jersey, U.S., State Census, 1895' (coll. 1054) record 1402251, the 'Samuel Cooper' row its suggested-records panel offers off the Allamuchy 1900 record - opened in full.
Result: IT CANNOT DECIDE IT, AND THE REASON IS THE COLLECTION, NOT THE RECORD. This index carries name, race, sex, county, locality, family number, roll, page and line - AND NO AGE AT ALL. So it cannot be set against either birth year. What it does give is a PLACE: Warren County, OXFORD, family 237, p. 36 line 25, roll V227_106. Oxford is Samuel Jones Cooper Samuel Jones Cooper's township, and he is head there in 1900, so this 1895 row is most likely him and not the Allamuchy boarder - but the index cannot establish even that. The SHEET records age classes (Robert Marshall Cooper's own 1885/1895 rows are noted as 'age classes only, no relationships'), so the image is still worth pulling; it is now a todo.
ancestry all 2026-10-14 · NJ Birth, Marriage and Death Records 1711-1878 (62483): Samuel Cooper, b. 1862 +/-2, residence Warren Co.; surname Schenck, b. 1862...
Searched for: NJ Birth, Marriage and Death Records 1711-1878 (62483): Samuel Cooper, b. 1862 +/-2, residence Warren Co.; surname Schenck, b. 1862 +/-2, mother Phebe Schenck.
Result: NULL - no NJ birth return for him indexed under Cooper or Schenck (only Monmouth/Somerset/Essex/Middlesex rows). His sister Minnie's 1872 return is [F.338]; Robert M.'s family was in Wyoming Co., PA in 1870 [D.295].
familysearch tree 2026-10-04 · Children of Robert Marshall Cooper: Cooper, b. 1858-1882, father Robert, mother Phoebe (20 results).
Searched for: Children of Robert Marshall Cooper: Cooper, b. 1858-1882, father Robert, mother Phoebe (20 results).
Result: NOT listed among the children of Robert Marshall Cooper 99ZS-2RV x Phoebe Ann Schenck (Agatha Vivia, Hector A., Albert 'Bertie' P., Addie M. appear). Consistent with this file's caution that his 1861 birth predates the 1864 marriage, and with his absence from his father's 1913 death notice [J.393].
newspapers com 2026-10-04 · SIGNED IN. "Samuel E. Cooper" OR "Samuel Cooper" Hope, New Jersey, 1947 (62 matches).
Searched for: SIGNED IN. "Samuel E. Cooper" OR "Samuel Cooper" Hope, New Jersey, 1947 (62 matches).
Result: NULL on page 1: Trenton, Jersey City and Bayonne items only - no Warren/Sussex paper.
findagrave 2026-10-04 · Not re-run; memorial already in [G.155].
Searched for: Not re-run; memorial already in [G.155].
Result: Not run.
ancestry all 2026-10-04 · Not run this pass.
Searched for: Not run this pass.
Result: Not run.
genealogybank 2026-10-04 · Not run this pass.
Searched for: Not run this pass.
Result: Not run.
familysearch records 2026-10-05 · Samuel Cooper, b. 1859-1866, any place Warren Co., New Jersey (8,703; first 16 read).
Searched for: Samuel Cooper, b. 1859-1866, any place Warren Co., New Jersey (8,703; first 16 read).
Result: FOUND: 1905 NJ state census [E.23], 1930 [D.697], 1940 [D.698] - single every time. NOT LINKED: NJ marriage 4 May 1892, Warren Co., 'Samuel Cooper' x 'Lina Bazell' (1:1:FZPM-WZB, index only, book p. 365 line 12, DGS 004210071) - his consistent 'S' (single) in 1905, 1930 and 1940 argues against it being him; recorded so the hit is not re-found blind. Also seen, other men: 1870 Hudson Co., 1870 Camden 'Samuel E', 1880/1900/1920 Philadelphia 'Saml E' (wife Mary E.), 1880 Lee Co. IL. NULL: 1900, 1920 censuses; NJ death return 1947 not online.
ancestry all 2026-10-06 · Ancestry 'U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007' (coll. 60901): Samuel E Cooper, birth 1861 +/-1 (name search;...
Searched for: Ancestry 'U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007' (coll. 60901): Samuel E Cooper, birth 1861 +/-1 (name search; up to 12 candidate records opened and filtered on given name and birth year).
Result: NULL - no record matching name and birth year among the candidates.
ancestry all 2026-10-12 · Samuel E Cooper, b. 1862 +/-2 New Jersey, d. 1947 +/-1 (residence Warren Co. NJ entered; the page swapped it to Mecosta, Michigan, so...
Searched for: Samuel E Cooper, b. 1862 +/-2 New Jersey, d. 1947 +/-1 (residence Warren Co. NJ entered; the page swapped it to Mecosta, Michigan, so the residence filter did not hold) (153 results; page 1 filtered for New Jersey/Warren).
Result: NULL for records - tree and member-photo rows only (BRADSHAW-JOHNSON-NEILL-KIRCHNER-HUDSON-COOPER LEGACY tree - b. 1861, d. 1947 Warren, parents Robert Marshall Cooper and Phoebe Ann Schenck; lead only).
genealogybank 2026-10-12 · SIGNED IN. Newspaper archives - Samuel Cooper, keyword Johnsonburg, 1946-1948.
Searched for: SIGNED IN. Newspaper archives - Samuel Cooper, keyword Johnsonburg, 1946-1948.
Result: NULL (0 results).

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