Joseph Cooper 1817–1893
Catalog ID p.1946 · Cite this page: njcoopers.com/p/1946/
Joseph Cooper was probably born in 1817 in New Jersey, probably the son of John Cooper. He married twice: Elizabeth Cooper and probably Catherine Cooper. He died in Oct 1893 in Stafford, Stafford Co., Kansas — at the home of his son Ed. Cooper and was buried at Stafford Cemetery, Stafford, Stafford Co., Kansas. Three children are recorded.
Facts
| Event | Date | Place / detail | Certainty | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| birth | 1817 | New Jersey | probable | G.543, D.612, D.611, D.610, D.589 |
| residence | 1850 | Roxbury Twp, Morris Co., New Jersey | certain | D.611 |
| residence | 1860 | Independence Twp, Warren Co., New Jersey (P.O. Allamuchy) | certain | D.610 |
| residence | 1867 | Clarke Co., Iowa (buys S½ SW¼ sec. 20, T71 R27, and NE SW sec. 6, T70 R27 in Decatur Co.) | probable | K.134 |
| residence | 1870 | Doyle Township, Clarke Co., Iowa (P.O. Smyrna) | certain | D.589 |
| residence | 1880 | Stafford, Stafford Co., Kansas | certain | D.612 |
| residence | 1885 | Stafford Twp, Stafford Co., Kansas | certain | D.613 |
| occupation | 1850 | Farmer | certain | D.611 |
| occupation | 1860 | Farmer | certain | D.610 |
| occupation | 1870 | Doyle Township, Clarke Co., Iowa; Farmer | certain | D.589 |
| occupation | 1880 | Stafford, Stafford Co., Kansas; Farmer | certain | D.612 |
| death | Oct 1893 | Stafford, Stafford Co., Kansas — at the home of his son Ed. Cooper | certain | J.262, G.543 |
| burial | Stafford Cemetery, Stafford, Stafford Co., Kansas | certain | G.543 |
Family
Spouses
- Elizabeth Cooper 1819–1888 D.612, D.611, D.610, G.543
- Catherine Cooper 1820 probable D.589
Siblings
- Sarah J. (Cooper) Seidner 1829–1846
- Levi H. Cooper 1831–1909
- Samuel Cooper 1832–1888
- Roderick Byanton Cooper 1838–1889
Children
- Edgar Cooper 1846–1908 probable D.589, D.588, J.232
- Athalia Scott (Cooper) Oliver 1853–1913 probable D.589, D.588, J.233
- Watson Cooper 1849 possible D.611
Family tree
Solid lines and outlines: certain. Dashed: probable or weaker. Open the full tree (four generations)
In the documents
Every published document that names Joseph Cooper, in date order, with what that document itself records.
| Date | Document | Role | What it records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1817 | G.543 find a grave memorial Find a Grave memorials 18773947 (Joseph Cooper), 18773945 (Elizabeth Scott Cooper) and 18773948 (Edgar "Ed" Cooper), Stafford Cemetery, Stafford, Stafford Count… |
deceased as "Joseph Cooper" |
birth: 1817 death: 1893 burial: Stafford Cemetery, Stafford, Stafford Co., Kansas |
| 12 Aug 1850 | D.611 federal census 1850 U.S. federal census, Schedule I — Free Inhabitants in the Township of Roxbury, Morris County, New Jersey, page 203 (also numbered 407), dwelling 4 / family… |
head as "Joseph Cooper" |
residence: 1850, Roxbury Twp, Morris Co., New Jersey occupation: 1850, Farmer birth: about 1819 |
| 23 Jun 1860 | D.610 federal census 1860 U.S. federal census, Schedule 1 — Free Inhabitants in Independence, Warren County, New Jersey, page 54, dwelling 373 / family 149, lines 19–23. NARA M653 r… |
head as "Jos Cooper" |
residence: 1860, Independence Twp, Warren Co., New Jersey (P.O. Allamuchy) occupation: 1860, Farmer birth: about 1819, N Jersey (ditto) |
| 1867 | K.134 deed index Clarke Co., Iowa, general indexes of deeds — three index lines naming Joseph Cooper: DGS 8117000 image 460 (filed 1868), DGS 8099071 images 270 and 357 (filed 1… |
grantee as "Joseph Cooper" |
residence: 1867, Clarke Co., Iowa (land in S½ SW¼ sec. 20, T71 R27) |
| 1867/1888 | K.134a deed Clarke Co., Iowa, Deed Records - FamilySearch Full-Text machine transcripts of the three instruments indexed at [K.134]: Book H p. 626 (Holland to Joseph Cooper… |
grantee as "Joseph Cooper" |
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| 1880 | D.612 federal census 1880 U.S. federal census, Stafford, Stafford County, Kansas — Supervisor's District 2, Enumeration District 328, page 16, dwelling 139 / family 140, lines 25–29… |
head as "Cooper, Joseph" |
residence: 1880, Stafford, Stafford Co., Kansas occupation: 1880, Farmer birth: about 1817, N.J. |
| 1 Mar 1885 | D.613 state census 1885 Kansas state census, Schedule 1 — Inhabitants in the Township of Stafford, Stafford County, Kansas (P.O. Stafford), as of 1 March 1885, page 6, lines 18–31… |
head as "Joseph Cooper" |
residence: 1885, Stafford Twp, Stafford Co., Kansas occupation: 1885, Farmer |
| 2 Aug 1888 | J.341 death notice The Weekly Telegram (Stafford, Kansas), masthead dated "Wednesday, Aug. 2 1888", page 1 - "DIED."; newspapers.com image 428342122 (indexed there as The Stafford… |
spouse as "Joseph Cooper, of Stafford" |
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| 1893 | J.262 obituary Local item, "Joseph Cooper, died at the home of his son Ed. Cooper…" — Stafford County Republican (Stafford, Kansas), issue of Thursday 26 October 1893 (Vol. 8,… |
deceased as "Joseph Cooper" |
death: Oct 1893, Stafford, Stafford Co., Kansas |
1 further document not published (they may name living people).
Still unknown, and where we have looked
Searches recorded
newspapers com 2026-10-27 · A HUNT FOR Elizabeth Cooper ELIZABETH'S 1888 OBITUARY - item 2 of this file's own Next list, never run. SIGNED IN. Exact phrase "Mrs....
Searched for: A HUNT FOR Elizabeth Cooper ELIZABETH'S 1888 OBITUARY - item 2 of this file's own Next list, never run. SIGNED IN. Exact phrase
"Mrs. Joseph Cooper", Kansas region facet, 1886-1890 - a four-year window around the 1888 on her stone ([G.543]). 8 matches; all 8 read as a result list. (link)Result: NO OBITUARY FOR HER - AND THE ONE STAFFORD HIT IS ABOUT HIM, NOT HER. The Stafford County Herald, Wednesday 12 September 1888, page 1 was the only Stafford County row of the eight. The OCR matched
Mrs.; the page reads Mr. - it is a local item on a proposed salt-boring enterprise in which "Mr. Joseph Cooper ... says he has no land to give, but will give one hundred dollars in cash to help the enterprise along." Downloaded, filed and catalogued as [J.585]. The other seven are Bourbon (2), Butler (2), Harper, Shawnee and Crisfield - other women entirely. => Her obituary is still not found, and this search cannot be called a null for it: the phrase "Mrs. Joseph Cooper" is only one of the forms a notice could take, and her own given name was not tried.ancestry all 2026-10-26 · HIS MARRIAGE(S) IN NEW JERSEY, a gap the John Cooper worklist carried for both wives with "no search recorded". Collection 61376, "New...
Searched for: HIS MARRIAGE(S) IN NEW JERSEY, a gap the John Cooper worklist carried for both wives with "no search recorded". Collection 61376, "New Jersey, U.S., Marriage Records, 1670-1965" - the New Jersey State Archives' county marriage returns: given name
Joseph, surname Cooper, marriage 1865 +/- 10 (so 1855-1875, which covers the whole window in which a second marriage could fall - he had Elisabeth in 1860 and Catherine by 1870), residence Warren Co., New Jersey (place token warren-new+jersey-usa_3036, on the verified allow-list; the returned URL did not rewrite the slug). 34 results, page 1 read. (link)Result: NULL, AND IT IS A USEFUL NULL FOR THE ONE-WOMAN QUESTION. No Joseph Cooper marriage in Warren or Sussex County in that twenty-year window. Every indexed Joseph Cooper is somewhere else and marrying somebody else: Joseph B. Cooper Jr. x Elizabeth C. Kaighn (Gloucester, 1859), Joseph Cooper x Mary S. Scull (Salem, 1868 and 1869 - the same marriage indexed twice), Joseph Cooper x Fanny C. Sandford (Belleville, Essex, 1870) and Joseph Cooper x Jane McCormick (Essex, 1856, indexed three times). None is ours; the rest of the 34 are other Coopers entirely (Andrew J of Sussex 1875, J Harry of Sussex 1868, Ed J of Essex 1867, Annie J of Morris, John J of Hudson and Bergen, Mary J of Monmouth). HOW FAR IT REACHES, AND NOT FURTHER. It covers New Jersey only, and he had left for Iowa by 1870 - so a remarriage between the 1860 census and the 1870 one could perfectly well be a Clarke County, Iowa record, which this search cannot see. ⇒ It does not prove one woman; it removes the likeliest New Jersey route and makes Iowa the place to look. Todo t1.
ancestry all 2026-10-26 · IS ELIZABETH ENUMERATED SEPARATELY IN 1870? - the test of the "Catherine was not his wife" reading. Collection 7163 (1870 US census):...
Searched for: IS ELIZABETH ENUMERATED SEPARATELY IN 1870? - the test of the "Catherine was not his wife" reading. Collection 7163 (1870 US census): given name
Eliza, surname Cooper, born 1819 +/- 5, birthplace New Jersey, female. 219 results; ONLY PAGE 1 READ. (link)Result: A FIRST-PAGE READ, NOT A NULL, AND IT IS RECORDED AS THE WEAK THING IT IS. The birthplace filter did not bind - the twenty rows returned are scattered across Indiana, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Mississippi, Georgia, Wisconsin and Tennessee - so this is a RANKED list, not a scoped one. On that page there is no Elizabeth or Eliza Cooper of the right profile in Iowa: the single Iowa row is Eliza B Cooper, husband John, Unionville, Appanoose Co., born New York - wrong county, wrong birthplace, wrong husband - and the only New-Jersey-born woman is at Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York. ⇒ Consistent with her NOT being enumerated apart from Joseph in 1870, which is what the one-woman reading predicts - but eleven pages were not read and the search was not properly scoped, so it corroborates nothing on its own. The right version of this search is the whole surname Cooper in Clarke County, Iowa in 1870. RUN, twenty minutes later - see the next row.**
ancestry all 2026-10-26 · EVERY COOPER IN CLARKE COUNTY, IOWA IN 1870 - the properly scoped version of the row above. Collection 7163, surname Cooper, 50 per...
Searched for: EVERY COOPER IN CLARKE COUNTY, IOWA IN 1870 - the properly scoped version of the row above. Collection 7163, surname
Cooper, 50 per page. The place id was obtained the documented way: typed "Clarke, Iowa" into the form's own Any Event location box, picked the autocomplete row "Clarke County, Iowa, USA", and read the token out of the URL the form built - event=_clarke-iowa-usa_635. Added to (archive file) and to the table in [[feedback_ancestry_place_recipe_when_names_are_garbled]]. Note it arrives as event=, not residence=, from that box. (link)Result: TWO COOPER HOUSEHOLDS IN DOYLE TOWNSHIP, NOT ONE - AND THE SECOND IS ALREADY IN THE CATALOG. Besides Joseph's (
Joseph abt 1818 NJ with Catherine abt 1820 NJ, Edgar 1846 NJ, Athalia 1853 NJ, Alice 1849 Ill), the township holds Ezra Cooper, abt 1828, born NEW JERSEY, with wife Elizabeth, abt 1831, NEW JERSEY, and children Elizabeth A (1849 NJ), Jason (1851 NJ), Melisse (1857 Ill), William (1859 Ill), Jenette (1862 Ill), Benjamine (1863 Ill), Warren A (1866 Ill) and Otto (1868 Iowa). GREPPED BEFORE TREATING IT AS NEW, AND IT IS NOT NEW: that is Israel Ezra Cooper ISRAEL EZRA COOPER, 3 Mar 1826 Monmouth Co. NJ - 31 May 1888 Hopeville, Clarke Co., Iowa, whose wife is Elizabeth Y. Masters (1832-1900). He is not a son of John Cooper - his father is Justus J Cooper Justice J. Cooper - but he is in the [D.4] 1850 Independence Twp Cooper cluster, and his file already records the route NJ -> Stark Co., Illinois -> Clarke Co., Iowa. So three men out of that one 1850 Independence cluster moved west along the same corridor: Israel Ezra Cooper Israel Ezra and Joseph Cooper Joseph both reached Doyle Township, Clarke Co., Iowa, and Levi H. Cooper Levi H. went NJ -> Stark Co., Illinois -> Kansas. Two of them were neighbours in the same Iowa township in 1870. It states no kinship and none is claimed - but it is the kind of chain migration that makes the [J.232] "nephew" reading more comfortable, and it means Joseph did not go to Iowa alone or at random. AND IT ANSWERS THE QUESTION IT WAS RUN FOR. The only Elizabeth Coopers in the county are Ezra's wife (b. ~1831), Ezra's daughter Elizabeth A (b. ~1849) and Elizabeth H (b. ~1823 Kentucky, of Washington Twp, wife of Griffin Cooper). ⇒ There is NO Elizabeth Cooper of about 1819 anywhere in Clarke County in 1870. Joseph's wife that year is recorded as Catherine and as nobody else, so she was not enumerated separately under her own name - which is what the one-woman reading predicts and the "Catherine was a different household member" reading does not.findagrave 2026-10-03 · Joseph Cooper, b. 1817 +/- 2, d. 1893 +/- 1, Kansas (7 matches - location filter partly ignored).
Searched for: Joseph Cooper, b. 1817 +/- 2, d. 1893 +/- 1, Kansas (7 matches - location filter partly ignored). (link)
Result: Only his own memorial 18773947 (Stafford Cemetery, 1817-1893 - already [G.543]); others in Maine, New South Wales, Chicago. Nothing new.
familysearch tree 2026-10-03 · Joseph Cooper, b. 1815-1819, d. 1892-1894 in Kansas.
Searched for: Joseph Cooper, b. 1815-1819, d. 1892-1894 in Kansas.
Result: Profile GTW5-CVZ (already noted in this file): b. 1817, d. 1893 Kansas; spouse Elizabeth Scott (1819-1888); child Edgar (1846-1908); no parents. Nothing new.
ancestry all 2026-10-03 · Joseph Cooper, b. 1817 +/- 2 New Jersey, d. 1893 Kansas, all collections (119 results).
Searched for: Joseph Cooper, b. 1817 +/- 2 New Jersey, d. 1893 Kansas, all collections (119 results).
Result: Top tree is the 'Redding Family Tree' (already analysed in this file: parents Joseph B. Cooper x Hannah W. of Camden Co., b. 1819 Burlington - the Camden/Burlington line). Records: Find a Grave index (1817-1893), a public member photo (1817 - Oct 1893); the rest are a Berwick, Maine Joseph (1816-1893). Nothing new. NOTE: the same Joseph B. Cooper x Hannah Wills parentage is given to Levi H. Cooper Levi by a different tree ('John Read tree') - see that file.
newspapers com 2026-10-03 · SIGNED IN. "Joseph Cooper" Stafford, Kansas papers, 1878-1894 (342 matches - keyword 'Stafford' inflates it; first page read); "Joseph...
Searched for: SIGNED IN. "Joseph Cooper" Stafford, Kansas papers, 1878-1894 (342 matches - keyword 'Stafford' inflates it; first page read); "Joseph Cooper", Kansas, 1893 (48 matches, first page read).
Result: No new item: his death notice is already held ([J.262]). First pages are St. John and Stafford (Alliance Herald 1879-1881) pages where 'Stafford' recurs, not opened; the 1893 hits are Atwood papers (another Joseph).
genealogybank 2026-10-03 · SIGNED IN (chris_2535). Joseph Cooper, Kansas papers, keyword Stafford, 1878-1894 (1 result).
Searched for: SIGNED IN (chris_2535). Joseph Cooper, Kansas papers, keyword Stafford, 1878-1894 (1 result).
Result: NULL: the one hit is the Phillipsburg Herald 10 Dec 1891 (northern Kansas; not opened). GenealogyBank holds no Stafford Co. paper for these years.
ancestry all 2026-10-29 · Collection 9064, "Iowa, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1758-1997" - surname Cooper with the probate-place token...
Searched for: Collection 9064, "Iowa, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1758-1997" - surname
Cooper with the probate-place token e-Self-Probate=_clarke-iowa-usa_635, the id read off the form's own autocomplete and verified against the slug Ancestry wrote back into the URL. The token RANKS rather than filters, so all 1,415 rows are returned with Clarke County first; every Clarke County row on page 1 (50 per page) was read. (link)Result: THIS CLOSES THE "CLARKE CO., IOWA PROBATE" HALF OF THIS FILE'S STANDING OPEN ITEM, AND IT CLOSES IT AS A NULL FOR HIM. The file has carried "Still open: Clarke Co., Iowa probate and deeds (not in Full-Text)" since 2026-09-18, and the 2026-09-18 section records the FamilySearch reels as padlocked (Center-only). Ancestry has the same series, open: collection 9064 includes Clarke County, and its browse menu yields
Probate Case File Index, 1853-1926, Aber, Joseph-Zink, Lewis plus ~80 boxes of Probate Case Files, 1853-1926. The index image id is 007596347_00001 - DGS 7596347, the very reel this file recorded as padlocked. The complete list of Clarke County Cooper probates is six, and NONE is him: John James Cooper (6 Mar 1920), Isreal Cooper (16 Apr 1907), Griffith H. Cooper (1903-04), Jessie Cooper (date mis-indexed "1 Mar 1804"), Harry Cooper (25 Jan 1889) and Israel Cooper (12 Oct 1874, case 625). There is no Joseph Cooper at all - which is what should be expected, since he died at Stafford, Kansas in October 1893 and his estate belonged to that court, not this one. => Do not look for his probate in Clarke County again. What remains of the original open item is the deeds (he bought land in Clarke and Decatur Cos.) and the Iowa death record, neither touched here. By-catch, worked elsewhere: case 625 is the estate of Israel Ezra Cooper Israel Ezra Cooper, his Doyle Township neighbour of 1870 - now [A.223], whose December Term 1889 caption names nine surviving children.ancestry all 2026-10-29 · Collection 9065, "Kansas, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1803-1987" - name=Joseph_Cooper (22 rows, all read), together with the...
Searched for: Collection 9065, "Kansas, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1803-1987" -
name=Joseph_Cooper (22 rows, all read), together with the collection's own Browse this collection county menu enumerated in full. Run with Levi H. Cooper Levi, who died in the same county sixteen years later. (link)Result: NOT A NULL - A COVERAGE EXCLUSION. The collection states it holds "approximately 45 percent of Kansas counties", and its browse menu lists 44. STAFFORD IS ABSENT. The name search agrees: no Joseph Cooper with a probate date of 1893-94 anywhere in the collection. The FamilySearch catalog was then checked for the same county, signed in, both with and without a subject filter (a subject token that does not bind returns a false zero): eight items for Stafford County, Kansas, and the complete subject list is Cemeteries (3), Census 1905/1915/1925 and History (2). No court, probate, land or vital records at all. => His Stafford County probate is not online anywhere, on either service. The FamilySearch wiki says the records exist - probate begins 1879, and "There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county" - so this is a correspondence task, not a search task: Stafford County Courthouse, 209 N. Broadway Street, St. John, Kansas 67576-2042, or the Stafford County Historical and Genealogical Society, 100 N Main St, Stafford, KS 67578. One letter covers both estates, since Levi H. Cooper Levi died in the same county in 1909; the task is tracked as
t8 on his file. Why it is worth the letter: this man's father: p.113 is graded probable and rests on a bracket argument plus [J.232]'s nephew-and-niece sentence, with no document naming his father. An administration petition lists the heirs at law, and where an estate is contested or the heirs are scattered - his were, across Iowa and Kansas - siblings and their residences get named.familysearch records 2026-10-29 · FamilySearch Full-Text (the deed/probate image corpus, not the records index), signed in - never run for this man before. Phrase pair...
Searched for: FamilySearch Full-Text (the deed/probate image corpus, not the records index), signed in - never run for this man before. Phrase pair
"Joseph Cooper" "Doyle Township", chosen because Doyle Township is distinctive and he is in it in the 1870 census. First page of collection lines read. (link)Result: NULL, and a WEAK one - read it as "nothing surfaced", not as "nothing exists". No Clarke County, Iowa document surfaced at all. The ranked hits are a different Doyle Township altogether - Barron Co., Wisconsin (its county history and biographies) - plus Grove Township, Shelby Co., Iowa public records, and Iowa birth and death ledgers of the 1880s-90s in which "Doyle Township" is simply a column value. Why the null is weak, and the reason is structural: the engine reported 115,751 results for a two-phrase query, so the phrases are being matched independently across the corpus rather than as a conjunction. A result set that large is a ranking, not a filter, and the first page of it is not evidence of absence. What it does establish is that Full-Text surfaces no obvious Clarke County instrument for him, which is consistent with this file's standing note that the Clarke Co. deeds are not in Full-Text. The deeds remain the open item; they were worked at index tier on a FamilySearch Center visit (see
Real Estate/Iowa/Clarke County/, the 1852-1871 deed index sweep of 2026-10-08).Documents
- J.586 Notice of a Union veterans' mass meeting held at St. John, Stafford County, Kansas, 28 February 1890, to petition Congress for a service pension - The Stafford County Herald, Stafford, Stafford County, Kansas, Wednesday 12 March 1890, page 1.
- D.589 1870 US Federal Census, Doyle Township, Clarke County, Iowa — page 7, dwelling 53, family 55, lines 28–32. Enumerated July 1870 by Elihu Gardner; P.O. Smyrna.
- D.588 Seven-record sweep for Ed / Edward / Edgar Cooper of Stafford, Stafford Co., Kansas, born New Jersey 1846/47 — Kansas state censuses 1885, 1895 and 1905, the 1900 federal census (ED 309 sheet 12A, image read), and three Iowa birth records for his daughter Elnora, 1881, Taylor Co.
- J.232 "Death of Levi H. Cooper" — Stafford County Republican (Stafford, Kansas), Thu 23 Dec 1909, p. 8. Death notice giving his birth as Warren County, N.J., 11 January 1831, his burial in Stafford cemetery, and three relatives.
- J.233 "Mrs. Oliver Dead" — Stafford County Republican (Stafford, Kansas), Thu 14 Aug 1913, p. 1. Death notice for Mrs. Athalia Oliver, died at Abbyville, Kansas 7 August 1913, buried Stafford cemetery.
- D.587 Three census households for a Levi (H.) Cooper born in New Jersey — West Jersey Twp, Stark Co., Illinois 1870 (dwelling 230, p. 32); Asherville, Mitchell Co., Kansas 1880 (ED 176, p. 30); Glasco, Solomon Twp, Cloud Co., Kansas 1900 (ED 26, sheet 15A). All three sheets downloaded and read.
- D.590 1880 US Federal Census, Polk Township, Taylor County, Iowa — page 16, ED 216, dwelling 109, family 114, lines 13–17 — the Edgar Cooper household of five (Edgar 33 and wife Alice 30; children Maud 9, Thomas J 5, Happy 2). Enumerated 9 June 1880.
- D.610 1860 U.S. federal census, Schedule 1 — Free Inhabitants in Independence, Warren County, New Jersey, page 54, dwelling 373 / family 149, lines 19–23. NARA M653 roll 711; enumerated 23 June 1860; P.O. Allamuchy.
- D.611 1850 U.S. federal census, Schedule I — Free Inhabitants in the Township of Roxbury, Morris County, New Jersey, page 203 (also numbered 407), dwelling 4 / family 4, lines 19–23. NARA M432 roll 458; enumerated 12 August 1850.
- D.612 1880 U.S. federal census, Stafford, Stafford County, Kansas — Supervisor's District 2, Enumeration District 328, page 16, dwelling 139 / family 140, lines 25–29. NARA T9 roll 398, page 35d.
- G.543 Find a Grave memorials 18773947 (Joseph Cooper), 18773945 (Elizabeth Scott Cooper) and 18773948 (Edgar "Ed" Cooper), Stafford Cemetery, Stafford, Stafford County, Kansas — with headstone photographs.
- J.262 Local item, "Joseph Cooper, died at the home of his son Ed. Cooper…" — Stafford County Republican (Stafford, Kansas), issue of Thursday 26 October 1893 (Vol. 8, No. 28), page 8, column 2.
- D.613 1885 Kansas state census, Schedule 1 — Inhabitants in the Township of Stafford, Stafford County, Kansas (P.O. Stafford), as of 1 March 1885, page 6, lines 18–31. Kansas State Historical Society roll KS1885_133.
- K.134 Clarke Co., Iowa, general indexes of deeds — three index lines naming Joseph Cooper: DGS 8117000 image 460 (filed 1868), DGS 8099071 images 270 and 357 (filed 1878) and image 608 (filed 1888)
- K.134a Clarke Co., Iowa, Deed Records - FamilySearch Full-Text machine transcripts of the three instruments indexed at [K.134]: Book H p. 626 (Holland to Joseph Cooper, 1867), Book 1 p. 160 (Joseph and Elizabeth Cooper to S. M. Smith, 1877) and Book 10 p. 149 (Dunfee to "Joseph Coop", 1888). The deed-book images themselves were NOT captured.
- D.40 1830 US Federal Census, Independence Twp., Warren Co., NJ (page 23 of 26) — three Cooper households (John, Robert, and Joseph Cooper), each enumerated by head name + age/sex bracket counts.
- D.348 1840 US Federal Census, Independence Twp., Warren Co., NJ — three Cooper households (Joseph, Robert, and John Cooper), each enumerated by head name + free-white age/sex bracket counts.
- D.3 1840 US Federal Census, Hardwick Twp., Warren Co., NJ (2-page schedule, stamps 97/375) - the John D. Cooper household (head named; counts by bracket).
- D.470 1860 US Federal Census, Independence Twp, Warren Co., NJ - the John Cooper household (John 70 labourer, Ann 60, and 4 children).