Elizabeth W. (Cooper) Hartung 1879–1964

Catalog ID p.2327 · Cite this page: njcoopers.com/p/2327/

Elizabeth W. (Cooper) Hartung was born on 20 Jan 1879 in Johnsonburg, Warren Co., New Jersey, the daughter of Robert Marshall Cooper and Phoebe A. (Schenck) Cooper. She married Peter Sharps Hartung (1907). She died on 27 Apr 1964 in General Hospital, East Stroudsburg, Monroe Co., Pennsylvania and was buried on 30 Apr 1964 at Ramsaysburg Cemetery, Knowlton Twp., Warren Co., New Jersey.

Also recorded as: Elizabeth Harting D.846

Facts

Event	Date	Place / detail	Certainty	Sources
birth	20 Jan 1879	Johnsonburg, Warren Co., New Jersey	certain	F.349, G.630, J.512, D.297
residence	1880	Robert M. Cooper household (age 1)	certain	D.296
residence	1900	Hope Twp, Warren Co., New Jersey (her father's household, dwelling 176 / family 180)	certain	D.297
residence	18 Apr 1910	Hope Twp, Warren Co., New Jersey — family 38, Hope Road, rented	certain	D.847
residence	1 Mar 1911	Hope, Warren Co., New Jersey	certain	J.559
residence	1913	Hope, New Jersey (as Mrs. P. S. Hartung)	certain	J.393
residence	1 Jun 1915	Hope Twp, Warren Co., New Jersey - dwelling 128 / family 130	certain	E.34
residence	1 Jan 1920	Hope Twp, Warren Co., New Jersey — dwelling 209 / family 211, rented	certain	D.846
residence	about 1924-1964	Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania (lived there 40 years)	certain	J.512
residence	1945	851 Scott Street, Stroudsburg, Monroe Co., Pennsylvania	certain	F.372
residence	1964	851 Scott St., Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania (the house of her nephew Robert L. Pierce)	certain	F.349
religion		Christian Church of N. J.	certain	J.512
occupation		housewife	certain	F.349
death	27 Apr 1964	General Hospital, East Stroudsburg, Monroe Co., Pennsylvania	certain	F.349, G.630
burial	30 Apr 1964	Ramsaysburg Cemetery, Knowlton Twp., Warren Co., New Jersey	certain	F.349, G.630

Family

Parents

Father Robert Marshall Cooper 1838–1913
Mother Phoebe A. (Schenck) Cooper 1841–1932

Spouses

Peter Sharps Hartung 1864–1945
married 1907, [not stated on the index; the return would give it]
C.156, D.847, F.349, G.630, G.631

Siblings

Samuel E Cooper 1861–1947
Addie M Cooper 1865–1887
Hector A Cooper 1867–1923
Agatha V Cooper 1870–1894
Minnie M Cooper 1872–1902
Albert P Cooper 1875–1913
Sadie S. (Cooper) Pierce 1881–1964

Children

None recorded.

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 Elizabeth W. (Cooper) Hartung, in date order, with what that document itself records.

Date	Document	Role	What 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 "Elizabeth Cooper Hartung"
1907	C.156 marriage index New Jersey State Archives, Marriage Indexes — BRIDE index, year range 1904-1909, surname range A–C, image 477 of the filmed volume: the COOPER entries from CARO…	bride as "COOPER ELIZABETH"	marriage: 1907
1910	D.847 federal census 1910 US Federal Census, Hope Township, Warren Co., New Jersey — Supervisor's District 5, Enumeration District 131, Sheet 2A, enumerated 18 April 1910 by Floyd M…	spouse as "Elizabeth [Hartung]"	residence: 18 Apr 1910, Hope Twp, Warren Co., New Jersey
1 Mar 1911	J.559 newspaper item The Courier-News (Plainfield, N.J.), Wednesday 1 March 1911, page 7 — the "WARREN COUNTY" news column; the Hope paragraph.	subject as "Mrs. P. Sharps Hartung / Mrs. P. S. Hartung, of Hope"	residence: 1 Mar 1911, Hope, Warren Co., New Jersey
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 "Elizabeth Cooper Hartung"
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 "Elizabeth Cooper Hartung"
1915	E.34 state census New Jersey State Census of 1915, County of Warren, Hope Township — page "Fifth 5", line 30, dwelling 128 / family 130: the Peter S. Hartung household of two. (T…	spouse as "Elizebeth W [Hartung]"	residence: 1 Jun 1915, Hope Twp, Warren Co., New Jersey
1920	D.846 federal census 1920 US Federal Census, Hope Township, Warren Co., New Jersey — Enumeration District 159, page 8A, lines 21-22, dwelling 209 / family 211 — the Peter S. Harting…	spouse as "Elizabeth [Harting]"	residence: 1 Jan 1920, Hope Twp, Warren Co., New Jersey
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 "Elizabeth Cooper Hartung"

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

Still unknown, and where we have looked

Searches recorded

ancestry all 2026-10-19 · HER 1930 AND 1940 CENSUSES, ATTACKED FIVE WAYS — including one that does not use a surname at all. The 2026-10-18 complete-county...

Searched for: HER 1930 AND 1940 CENSUSES, ATTACKED FIVE WAYS — including one that does not use a surname at all. The 2026-10-18 complete-county Hartung lists for Monroe Co., Pa. had already failed, so every search here was designed to survive a mangled or wrong surname. (a) NATIONAL, her own name, exact both halves — coll. 2442 ?name=Elizabeth_Hartung&name_x=1_1&birth=1879&birth_x=1-0-0&count=50: 1 row. (b) THE SAME IN 1930 — coll. 6224, identical parameters: 4 rows, all read. (c) NATIONAL, her husband Peter Sharps Hartung, exact both halves — coll. 2442 ?name=Peter_Hartung&name_x=1_1&count=50: 9 rows, all read. (d) MONROE CO., GIVEN NAME ONLY, NO SURNAME — coll. 2442 ?name=Peter_&birth=1864&birth_x=1-0-0&residence=_monroe-pennsylvania-usa_2065&residence_x=1-0-0_1-0&count=50: 5 rows, all read. (e) THE NAMELESS SEARCH — NO NAME FIELD AT ALL, which is the only form a wrong surname cannot defeat:

coll. 2442 ?birth=1879_new+jersey-usa&birth_x=1-0-0&residence=_monroe-pennsylvania-usa_2065&residence_x=1-0-0_1-0&count=50

— i.e. every person in Monroe County indexed as BORN IN NEW JERSEY about 1877-1880. 826 ranked rows; the New-Jersey-born band is the first ~45 and ends on page 1 (page 2 was read to establish that — it is entirely Pennsylvania-, Germany- and England-born). All ~45 read. (f) COMPLETE WARREN CO., N.J. HARTUNG LIST for 1940 — ?name=_Hartung&count=50&residence=_warren-new+jersey-usa_3036&residence_x=1-0-0_1-0: 68 rows, BOTH PAGES READ, in case the couple had never left New Jersey.

Result: A HARD NULL FROM ALL SIX ANGLES, AND THE SHAPE OF THE QUESTION HAS CHANGED. (a) In the entire 1940 United States census there is exactly ONE Elizabeth Hartung born about 1879-1880 — a wife of Charles, Ohio-born, at Toledo, Lucas Co., Ohio. Not her. (b) 1930 holds four, all Ohio- or Germany-born (Toledo; Wapakoneta; Cincinnati; and a Minnesota Fasnacht the engine folded in). None is her. (c) Nine Peter Hartungs in the whole of 1940, and the OLDEST was born about 1883 — her husband was born in 1864. He is not in that census under that name anywhere in the country. (d) Monroe County holds five men named Peter born about 1862-1866 under any surname: Carolin, Hunsicker, Tesone, Arnst and a Leinbach mother-in-law. None is him. (e) THE DECISIVE ONE. Every Monroe County resident indexed as New-Jersey-born about 1877-1880 has now been read — about forty-five people — and she is not among them. This test does not depend on her surname, her married name, or any spelling, so the usual explanation ("the enumerator wrote something that does not fold into Hartung") no longer covers it. (f) Warren Co., N.J. is clean too: 68 Hartung/Harting/Hartong/Harding rows, and the only familiar faces are "Sadie Hartung, Hope, abt 1865, Mother" — Peter Sharps Hartung's brother Rush's widow, still at Hope — and "Sharps Hartung, abt 1868, with wife Eva, at Phillipsburg", who is [name.712] C. Sharps Hartung, the look-alike that file exists to keep apart. Neither Peter nor Elizabeth is there. WHAT IS LEFT, now that mis-spelling is largely excluded: she was not enumerated; or she was enumerated with a wrong birthplace (which (e) would miss); or she was not in Monroe or Warren County in April 1940 at all. Her obituary's "lived in Stroudsburg 40 years" ([J.512]) is an obituary's round number and cannot settle it. The route left is an ED browse of Stroudsburg, which these six searches have now earned rather than merely defaulted to — and [D.849] narrows where to start: her sister Sadie S. (Cooper) Pierce was at 851 Scott Street, ED 45-25, alone, on 2 May 1940.

ancestry all 2026-10-18 · HER 1920 CENSUS, one of six gaps on this file that stood at "no search recorded". A name-and-year national search: coll. 6061...

Searched for: HER 1920 CENSUS, one of six gaps on this file that stood at "no search recorded". A name-and-year national search: coll. 6061 ?name=Elizabeth_Hartung&birth=1879&count=50 — 141 rows over 3 pages, PAGE 1 READ (50 rows).

Result: FOUND → [D.846], the ninth row — but under Harting, with a husband Peter S, at Hope, Warren Co., N.J. The township is what identified her: [J.393] calls her "Mrs. P. S. Hartung, of Hope" in 1913, and page 1 held eight other Elizabeth Hartungs of her birth year in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Minnesota, Oregon and Texas. Without the 1913 notice this search would have been unresolvable. Household of two, rented; he is 55 to her 40. Pages 2 and 3 were NOT read — unnecessary once the match was positive, but it means this is a FOUND, not a swept set: no claim is made about the other 91 rows. Two neighbours recorded in [D.846] without any claim: a Harting Sadie, 54, widow, heading the household next door, and a Cooper Samuel E, 55, widower, five doors along.

ancestry all 2026-10-18 · HER 1930 CENSUS — NOT FOUND, and the search is only PARTLY bounded. She was living in Stroudsburg, Monroe Co., Pennsylvania by about...

Searched for: HER 1930 CENSUS — NOT FOUND, and the search is only PARTLY bounded. She was living in Stroudsburg, Monroe Co., Pennsylvania by about 1924 ([J.512]: "lived there 40 years"). Two passes in the 1930 census (coll. 6224): (a) ?name=Elizabeth_Hartung&birth=1879&count=50 — 126 rows over 3 pages; PAGE 1 ONLY READ. (b) ?name=Peter_Hartung&birth=1864&count=50 — the household head, whose 21 Oct 1864 birth is exact: 11 rows, ONE PAGE, ALL READ — a complete set for that name and year.

Result: NULL so far, and the two halves are worth different amounts. (b) is a real, complete null: there is no Peter Hartung of his years anywhere in the 1930 census. The eleven rows the engine returned are its own fuzzy matches — Harton, Hasting, Harting, Horton, Horten — in Missouri, California, Ohio, Delaware, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Not one is a Hartung, and not one is in Pennsylvania or New Jersey. (a) is NOT a null — page 1 held no Monroe Co. row, but 76 rows were left unread, so no claim is made about them. Recorded as unfinished, not as absent. ⇒ Either the household is indexed under a surname neither search reaches, or they were missed. The next moves are pages 2-3 of (a), a Stroudsburg ED browse, and the 1930 Pennsylvania death/city-directory route for him. A third attempt was DISCARDED, not recorded as a null: residence=_monroe-pennsylvania-usa_2511 resolved to richland-montana-usa_2511 — a guessed gazetteer id, the third such slip of the afternoon. Its zero means nothing. See the place-recipe guidance, which now carries a mechanical stop instead of a principle.

ancestry all 2026-10-18 · HER 1940 CENSUS — NOT FOUND. She was at Stroudsburg, Monroe Co., Pennsylvania from about 1924 ([J.512]). The county id was LEARNED FROM...

Searched for: HER 1940 CENSUS — NOT FOUND. She was at Stroudsburg, Monroe Co., Pennsylvania from about 1924 ([J.512]). The county id was LEARNED FROM THE FORM this time, not guessed: monroe-pennsylvania-usa_2065 — read out of the URL after picking "Monroe County, Pennsylvania, USA" from the location dropdown, and now recorded in the place-recipe note. Three passes in the 1940 census (coll. 2442): (a) ?name=Elizabeth_Hartung&birth=1879&count=50 national — 226 rows over 5 pages, page 1 read; no Monroe Co. row. (b) ?name=_Hartung&count=50&residence=_monroe-pennsylvania-usa_2065&residence_x=1-0-0_1-0 — every Hartung in Monroe County: 5 rows, ALL READ. (c) the same county bound with name=Elizabeth_ — given name only, surname blank — 178 rows over 4 pages, page 1 read (50): every Monroe Co. Elizabeth of her cohort.

Result: NOT FOUND, and (b) is the bounded part. The five "Hartungs" Monroe County returns in 1940 are all Hardings — Clifford and Eillen at Barrett, and three at Lemon in Wyoming Co. ⇒ There is no Hartung or Harting indexed in Monroe County in 1940. (c) page 1 holds fifty Monroe Co. Elizabeths of her years — Bernett, Staples, Berger, Fisher, Kingsley, Reese, Shackleton, Westbrook, Bush, Carlton, Henning and the rest — and not one is a Hartung. 128 rows were left unread, so (c) is unfinished, not a null. One near-name worth not re-opening: "Elizabeth Hartman", abt 1875, Housekeeper, Hamilton Twp, Monroe Co. Four years out and a different surname; not asserted to be her. ⇒ With the 1930 also unfound, two consecutive censuses are missing for a woman whose own obituary places her in that town for forty years. That pattern points at an ED browse of Stroudsburg rather than any further index search.

ancestry all 2026-10-18 · HER 1950 CENSUS — NOT FOUND. coll. 62308 ?name=_Hartung&count=50&residence=_monroe-pennsylvania-usa_2065&residence_x=1-0-0_1-0 — every...

Searched for: HER 1950 CENSUS — NOT FOUND. coll. 62308 ?name=_Hartung&count=50&residence=_monroe-pennsylvania-usa_2065&residence_x=1-0-0_1-0 — every Hartung in Monroe County in 1950: 7 rows, ALL READ.

Result: NULL. Six of the seven are Hardings; the single true Hartung is "Marion Hartung, East Stroudsburg, abt 1930, born New Jersey, Student" — far too young, though a New-Jersey-born Hartung in her county is noted in passing and not claimed as kin. WITH 1930 AND 1940, THAT IS THREE CONSECUTIVE CENSUSES in which she is not indexed under her married surname in the county she demonstrably lived in — [J.512] says Stroudsburg for forty years, and [F.372] puts her at 851 Scott Street there in 1945. Three misses in a row stop being bad luck and become a finding about the INDEX. ⇒ The remaining route is an enumeration-district browse of Stroudsburg, or a search on the household she was living in rather than on her own name — [F.349] names Robert L. Pierce as the nephew whose house it was, and his surname may be how the family is indexed.

ancestry all 2026-10-18 · THE PIERCE TEST — searching the HOUSEHOLD she lived in rather than her own name, which is what three failed censuses had been pointing...

Searched for: THE PIERCE TEST — searching the HOUSEHOLD she lived in rather than her own name, which is what three failed censuses had been pointing at. coll. 62308 ?name=_Pierce&birth=1879&count=50&residence=_monroe-pennsylvania-usa_2065&residence_x=1-0-0_1-0 — 3 rows, ALL READ — then the matching record opened.

Result: THE HOUSE IS FOUND AND SHE IS NOT IN IT. "Sadie Pearce", 68, widowed, Head, born New Jersey — Sadie S. (Cooper) Pierce Sadie S. (Cooper) Pierce, her sister, indexed under Pearce — at 851 Scott St., Stroudsburg, dwelling 144, ED 45-43, page 12, occupation "Keeping House". The street and house number are the same 851 Scott Street [F.372] gives as this person's address in 1945 and [F.349] gives as the place of her death in 1964. AND THE HOUSEHOLD IS TWO PEOPLE: Sadie, 68, and Robert L Pearce, 42, Son. ⇒ She was not living there on census day 1950, at the one address she is otherwise documented at on both sides of it. This sharpens the question instead of answering it. Her 1950 is still unfound, but the negative is now bounded at the specific house rather than across a county. Where she was between 1945 and 1964 is a real question now, not a gap in an index: a city directory for Stroudsburg, or an ED browse, is the next move. A side-corroboration worth keeping: the panel on Sadie's record lists her in the SSA index as Sadie Schenck Pierce — carrying the maiden surname of their mother Phoebe A. (Schenck) Cooper Phebe Ann Schenck. UPGRADED the same session: the plate was pulled and read → [D.848]. The household on the sheet is lines 25-26 only — Pearce, Sadie, Head, W F 68, and Robert L., 42, son — with the household above ending at line 24 and the next beginning at line 27. ⇒ Her absence is now read off the document, not inferred from an index summary.

ancestry all 2026-10-18 · HER 1910 CENSUS — and the shape that worked where three national searches had failed: the complete county list, with the id taken from...

Searched for: HER 1910 CENSUS — and the shape that worked where three national searches had failed: the complete county list, with the id taken from the place-recipe note's own table rather than guessed. coll. 7884 ?name=_Hartung&count=50&residence=_warren-new+jersey-usa_3036&residence_x=1-0-0_1-0 — 39 rows, ONE PAGE, ALL READ: every Hartung in Warren County in 1910.

Result: FOUND → [D.847]. Hope Twp, ED 131 sheet 2A, family 38, Hope Road: "Hartung, Peter S." 44, Confectioner in a Store, an Employer, renting; "Elizabeth" 34, 0 children born, 0 living. Both coded M1 with 3 years of present marriage. That dates a marriage this file had no date for — about 1907 (see marriages:). AND THE SAME 39-ROW LIST ANSWERED THE QUESTION [D.846] RAISED LAST HOUR. The widowed "Harting Sadie", 54, next door in 1920 with a son Albert, 13, is Sadie S. Hartung, wife of Rush S Hartung (b. 1867) — with Albert B Hartung, b. 1907, their son, also at Hope in 1910. ⇒ Rush died between 1910 and 1920. Brotherhood with Peter Sharps Hartung is not asserted. This enumerator wrote Hartung; 1920's wrote Harting. Two enumerators, two spellings, both faithfully indexed. One list, three results — the household, the neighbour's identity, and a complete county artifact. Worth remembering against the three national searches that preceded it.

findagrave 2026-10-12 · Sibling link on her sister Sadie's memorial (Find a Grave search Sadie Pierce, b. 1882 +/-3, d. 1964 +/-2, Pennsylvania).

Searched for: Sibling link on her sister Sadie's memorial (Find a Grave search Sadie Pierce, b. 1882 +/-3, d. 1964 +/-2, Pennsylvania).

Result: FOUND: memorial 11916018 -> [G.630]; husband 11916006 -> [G.631]. No children linked on either.

ancestry all 2026-10-12 · Ancestry record links from the memorial (PA Death Certificates 5164/14772265).

Searched for: Ancestry record links from the memorial (PA Death Certificates 5164/14772265).

Result: FOUND: death certificate 037856-64 -> [F.349] (image downloaded). SSACI, Newspapers.com obituary index and 1880 census rows not opened.

newspapers com 2026-10-12 · SIGNED IN. Hartung, 27 Apr - 4 May 1964 (300).

Searched for: SIGNED IN. Hartung, 27 Apr - 4 May 1964 (300).

Result: FOUND: Pocono Record 28 Apr 1964 p. 3, 'Mrs. Hartung, Stroudsburg' -> [J.512] (page downloaded). Survivors - one sister, Mrs. Sadie Pierce, and nieces and nephews; no children.

Documents

D.296 1880 US Federal Census, Independence Twp., Warren Co., NJ (dwelling 111/119) - the Robert Cooper household (9 persons: Robert + Phebe + 7 children).
D.297 1900 US Federal Census, Hope Twp., Warren Co., NJ; Supervisor's Dist. 3, ED 189, sheet 8B, lines 59-65 (dwelling 176 / family 180) - the Robert M. Cooper household, 7 persons; NARA T623 roll 998.
J.393 New Jersey Herald (Newton, N.J.), Thursday 16 October 1913, page 7, Stillwater column; newspapers.com image 1352500647.
D.846 1920 US Federal Census, Hope Township, Warren Co., New Jersey — Enumeration District 159, page 8A, lines 21-22, dwelling 209 / family 211 — the Peter S. Harting household of two.
D.847 1910 US Federal Census, Hope Township, Warren Co., New Jersey — Supervisor's District 5, Enumeration District 131, Sheet 2A, enumerated 18 April 1910 by Floyd McCain; lines 43-44, family 38, Hope Road — the Peter S. Hartung household of two.
C.156 New Jersey State Archives, Marriage Indexes — BRIDE index, year range 1904-1909, surname range A–C, image 477 of the filmed volume: the COOPER entries from CAROLINE to LAURA.
D.848 1950 US Federal Census, Stroudsburg, Monroe Co., Pennsylvania — Enumeration District 45-43, page 12, lines 25-26, house 851 Scott Street, dwelling serial 144 — the Sadie Pearce household of two.
E.34 New Jersey State Census of 1915, County of Warren, Hope Township — page "Fifth 5", line 30, dwelling 128 / family 130: the Peter S. Hartung household of two. (The same page carries the Rush S. Hartung household at lines 8-10, dwelling 119 / family 121.)
J.559 The Courier-News (Plainfield, N.J.), Wednesday 1 March 1911, page 7 — the "WARREN COUNTY" news column; the Hope paragraph.
G.151 Find a Grave memorial 33948360 - Robert M Cooper, Johnsonburg Christian Church Cemetery, Johnsonburg, Warren County, New Jersey
G.156 Find a Grave memorial 33948318 - Albert P “Bertie” Cooper, Johnsonburg Christian Church Cemetery, Johnsonburg, Warren County, New Jersey
G.157 Find a Grave memorial 33948372 - Hector A Cooper, Johnsonburg Christian Church Cemetery, Johnsonburg, Warren County, New Jersey
G.164 Find a Grave memorial 33947865 - Agatha V Cooper, Johnsonburg Christian Church Cemetery, Johnsonburg, Warren County, New Jersey