Virginia F. (Cooper) Martin 1886–1969

Catalog ID p.2329 · Cite this page: njcoopers.com/p/2329/

Virginia F. (Cooper) Martin was born on 23 Oct 1886 in Greendell, Sussex Co., New Jersey, the daughter of Elmer Ellsworth Cooper. She married Fred B. Martin (1911). She died on 22 Jan 1969 in Andover, Sussex Co., New Jersey. One child is recorded.

Facts

Event	Date	Place / detail	Certainty	Sources
birth	23 Oct 1886	Greendell, Sussex Co., New Jersey	certain	N.37, D.821
residence	1900	Andover Twp. (village of Andover), Sussex Co., New Jersey (her father's household, dwelling 245 / family 248)	certain	D.821
residence	1910	Green Twp, Sussex Co., New Jersey (her father's household)	certain	D.349
residence	1 Jan 1920	Green Twp (Tranquility Road), Sussex Co., New Jersey - ED 184 sheet 1A, dwelling 6 / family 6	certain	D.856
residence	1930	Huntsburg, Green Twp, Sussex Co., New Jersey	certain	N.37
residence	1 Apr 1940	Green Twp (Tranquility), Sussex Co., New Jersey - ED 19-11 sheet 1B, household 21	certain	D.857
education	1 Apr 1940	High school, 4th year	certain	D.857
residence	1 Apr 1950	Green Twp (Tranquility), Sussex Co., New Jersey - ED 19-15 page 3, dwelling 35	certain	D.858
occupation	1 Apr 1950	Keeping house	certain	D.858
death	22 Jan 1969	Andover, Sussex Co., New Jersey	certain	N.37

Family

Parents

Father Elmer Ellsworth Cooper 1861–1938 N.37, D.349

Spouses

Fred B. Martin 1890
married 1911, New Jersey
N.37

Children

Kathryn O. (Martin) McMinn 1912–1997 N.37, N.40

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 Virginia F. (Cooper) Martin, in date order, with what that document itself records.

Date	Document	Role	What it records
1 Jan 1920	D.856 federal census 1920 US Federal Census — Green Township, Sussex Co., New Jersey, ED 184, sheet 1A, lines 18–20 (dwelling 6 / family 6): the Fred B. Martin household.	spouse as "Virginia F."	residence: 1 Jan 1920, Green Twp, Sussex Co., New Jersey
1 Apr 1940	D.857 federal census 1940 US Federal Census — Green Township, Sussex Co., New Jersey, ED 19-11, sheet 1B, lines 73–76 (household 21, Tranquility): the Fredrick B. Martin household.	spouse as "Virginia F."	residence: 1 Apr 1940, Green Twp (Tranquility), Sussex Co., New Jersey education: 1 Apr 1940, High school, 4th year
1 Apr 1950	D.858 federal census 1950 US Federal Census — Green Township, Sussex Co., New Jersey, ED 19-15, page 3, lines 18–19 (dwelling 35, Tranquility): the Fred B. Martin household.	spouse as "Virginia F"	residence: 1 Apr 1950, Green Twp (Tranquility), Sussex Co., New Jersey occupation: 1 Apr 1950, Keeping house

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

Still unknown, and where we have looked

Burial not yet found. 1 search recorded:

findagrave 2026-10-12 · Find a Grave: Martin, Virginia, b. 1886 +/-1, d. 1969 +/-1, New Jersey; and Martin, Virginia, Sussex County, New Jersey, no dates.

Searched for: Find a Grave: Martin, Virginia, b. 1886 +/-1, d. 1969 +/-1, New Jersey; and Martin, Virginia, Sussex County, New Jersey, no dates.

Result: NULL (no matches) - not evidence she has no memorial (she may be indexed under Cooper or a nickname).

Other searches recorded

ancestry all 2026-10-19 · HER THREE OPEN CENSUS GAPS — 1920, 1940 and 1950 — in ONE SEARCH SHAPE, run once per collection:...

Searched for: HER THREE OPEN CENSUS GAPS — 1920, 1940 and 1950 — in ONE SEARCH SHAPE, run once per collection: ?name=Virginia_Martin&name_x=1_1&birth=1886_new+jersey-usa&birth_x=1-0-0&count=50. Married surname, BOTH name halves exact, bounded on a New Jersey birth, and NO PLACE FILTER AT ALL. 1920 = coll. 6061 (22 rows), 1940 = coll. 2442 (16 rows), 1950 = coll. 62308 (15 rows) — all three result sets read end to end.

Result: ALL THREE FOUND, AND SHE IS THE FIRST ROW IN EVERY ONE — Green Township, Sussex Co., New Jersey, each time. Downloaded, filed and read on census_stitch bands → [D.856] (1920), [D.857] (1940), [D.858] (1950). She never moved. Green Twp in 1920, 1930 (per [N.37]), 1940 and 1950, at Tranquility from at least 1935; she died at Andover, a few miles off, in 1969. THE TWO THINGS WORTH MORE THAN THE RESIDENCES: [D.857] records her daughter Kathryn O. (Martin) McMinn Katheryn O. as DIVORCED at 27, and puts a granddaughter, Elsie V., 6, born in the state of VIRGINIA in the house. CORRECTED THE SAME DAY: this row first said the catalog “had nothing whatever about her marital history”. It had plenty — Kathryn O. (Martin) McMinn is filed as Kathryn O. (Martin) Spence McMinn with two marriages already recorded. The claim was made without reading her file to the end. WHAT THE SHEET REALLY DOES IS TIGHTER AND BETTER: she was ‘Kathryn Martin Spence’ in October 1937 [N.40] and is divorced, under MARTIN, on 1 April 1940 ⇒ the Spence marriage ended inside a 30-month window, where the file had no end date at all, and the McMinn marriage is now bounded on BOTH sides (after Apr 1940, before Apr 1950). Elsie is the genuinely new thing: Kathryn O. (Martin) McMinn's children: key was empty, so this is the first evidence anywhere that she had a child — recorded probable, since the sheet gives the relationship to the HEAD, not to her. Why one shape worked where county guesses had failed twice that morning (Ruth C. (Cooper) Williams, Margery (Cooper) Snyder): a residence filter encodes where you THINK someone was; birth=1886_new+jersey-usa encodes something true of her wherever she lived.

ancestry all 2026-10-12 · Virginia Cooper, b. 1887 +/-2 New Jersey, father Elmer Cooper (1,291 results).

Searched for: Virginia Cooper, b. 1887 +/-2 New Jersey, father Elmer Cooper (1,291 results).

Result: FOUND: SSACI, NJ marriage index 1911, NJ death index 1969, 1930 census row -> [N.37]. Not opened: 1900, 1905, 1910, 1915, 1950 census rows. 2026-10-17: the 1900 row IS NOW OPENED, downloaded and filed as [D.821] - reached not from this list but from the complete Sussex County Cooper list run for her father. 1905, 1915 and 1950 remain unopened.

familysearch tree 2026-10-12 · Tree search - Virginia Cooper, b. 1885-1888, any place New Jersey, spouse surname Martin.

Searched for: Tree search - Virginia Cooper, b. 1885-1888, any place New Jersey, spouse surname Martin.

Result: NULL - no profile for her on page 1 (Kansas and West Virginia Virginias only).

newspapers com 2026-10-12 · SIGNED IN. Martin Cooper Andover, 22 Jan - 5 Feb 1969 (120 - page 1 all out-of-state papers).

Searched for: SIGNED IN. Martin Cooper Andover, 22 Jan - 5 Feb 1969 (120 - page 1 all out-of-state papers).

Result: NULL on page 1. The New Jersey Herald (Newton) is the paper to check for Jan 1969.

genealogybank 2026-10-12 · SIGNED IN. Newspaper archives - Virginia Martin, keyword Andover, 1969 (14 - NY, MA, TX, OH, IL papers).

Searched for: SIGNED IN. Newspaper archives - Virginia Martin, keyword Andover, 1969 (14 - NY, MA, TX, OH, IL papers).

Result: NULL - no New Jersey paper.

Documents

D.349 1910 US Federal Census, Green Twp. (Tranquility), Sussex Co., NJ (ED 171, Sheet 9B) - the Caleb S. Cooper household (dw.111/115) + son Elmer E. Cooper household (dw.114/118) + boarder Alfred Cooper.
D.821 1900 US Federal Census, Andover Twp. (Andover village), Sussex Co., NJ; Supervisor's Dist. 3, ED 161, sheet 10B, lines 51-55 (dwelling 245 / family 248) - the Elmer Cooper household, 5 persons; enumerated 25 June 1900 by Samuel S. Wills; NARA T623 roll 994.
D.856 1920 US Federal Census — Green Township, Sussex Co., New Jersey, ED 184, sheet 1A, lines 18–20 (dwelling 6 / family 6): the Fred B. Martin household.
D.857 1940 US Federal Census — Green Township, Sussex Co., New Jersey, ED 19-11, sheet 1B, lines 73–76 (household 21, Tranquility): the Fredrick B. Martin household.
D.858 1950 US Federal Census — Green Township, Sussex Co., New Jersey, ED 19-15, page 3, lines 18–19 (dwelling 35, Tranquility): the Fred B. Martin household.