Martha Elizabeth (Stackhouse) Cooper 1838

Catalog ID p.2402 · Cite this page: njcoopers.com/p/2402/

Martha Elizabeth (Stackhouse) Cooper was born about 1838 in New Jersey. She married George Monroe Cooper (1859). She was buried at Swayze Cemetery, Hope, Warren Co., NJ. Two children are recorded.

Facts

Event	Date	Place / detail	Certainty	Sources
birth	about 1838	New Jersey	certain	C.148, D.789
residence	1870	Green Twp, Sussex Co., NJ (PO Newton), in the household of Joseph Sharp, farmer	probable	D.789
residence	1880	Oxford, Warren Co., NJ, wife of Samuel B. Stout, teamster	probable	D.790
occupation	1870	House work	probable	D.789
death			certain
burial		Swayze Cemetery, Hope, Warren Co., NJ	certain	G.675

Family

Parents

Not identified.

Spouses

George Monroe Cooper 1830–1913
married 20 Dec 1859, Hope Twp, Warren Co., NJ
C.148, C.149

Children

Anna M. (Cooper) Walters 1866–1940 probable D.789, D.790, G.676
Mary L. (Cooper) Hissem 1859–1916 F.365

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 Martha Elizabeth (Stackhouse) Cooper, in date order, with what that document itself records.

Date	Document	Role	What it records
1837	G.675 cemetery memorial Find a Grave memorial 15208447, 'Martha E Stackhouse Stout' (1837-1896), Swayze Cemetery, Hope, Warren County, New Jersey	deceased as "Martha E Stackhouse Stout (1837-1896)"	burial: Swayze Cemetery, Hope, Warren County, New Jersey, USA
3 Dec 1859	C.149 marriage return Warren County, New Jersey, county register of marriage returns ("Warren. Marriage Records 1854-1895"), book page 38 - the return of Gabriel Woolverton, Justice …	bride as "Martha Elizabeth Stackhouse"
23 Jun 1870	D.789 census population 1870 1870 U.S. census, Township of Green, Sussex Co., New Jersey, PO Newton, page 10 (Ancestry citation page 60B), lines 23-30 (dwelling 70, family 71) - NARA M593 r…	listed as "Cooper Martha E, 32, House work"	residence: 1870, Green Twp, Sussex Co., NJ (PO Newton) occupation: House work
2 Jun 1880	D.790 census population 1880 1880 U.S. census, Oxford, Warren Co., New Jersey, supervisor's district 1, enumeration district 205, page 17 (stamped 528), lines 3-6 (dwelling 106, family 153)…	spouse as "Martha E [Stout], 42, Wife"	residence: 1880, Oxford, Warren Co., NJ occupation: Keepinghouse
18 May 1916	F.365 death certificate Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Certificate of Death, file no. 54698, Northampton Co., Upper Mt. Bethel Twp, registration district 757, primary district 3149, regi…	mother as "Martha Slackhouse"

Still unknown, and where we have looked

Parents not identified.
Death not yet found. 2 searches recorded:

findagrave 2026-10-15 · Find a Grave: Martha Stout, d. 1896 (exact), any place.

Searched for: Find a Grave: Martha Stout, d. 1896 (exact), any place.

Result: FOUND memorial 15208447 'Martha E Stackhouse Stout', 1837-1896, Swayze Cemetery, Hope -> [G.675] (parser run; family panel parents James and Elizabeth K Stackhouse, spouse Samuel B Stout, siblings Stephen P and Joseph O).

ancestry all 2026-10-15 · SIGNED IN. (c) 1880 census (coll. 6742): Anna Cooper, b. 1866 +/-2 New Jersey (filtered NJ/PA/NY); Martha Cooper, b. 1838 +/-2 New...

Searched for: SIGNED IN. (c) 1880 census (coll. 6742): Anna Cooper, b. 1866 +/-2 New Jersey (filtered NJ/PA/NY); Martha Cooper, b. 1838 +/-2 New Jersey (filtered NJ/PA/NY/MN). (d) NJ Birth, Marriage and Death Records 1711-1878 (62483): Martha Cooper, marriage 1874 +/-4 NJ (1); surname Cooper, b. 1866 +/-2 NJ, mother Martha Cooper (164; page 1 filtered for Sussex/Warren/Anna/No Name, five placeless 'No Name' births opened).

Result: NULL for both. (c) No Anna May or Martha E Cooper in Sussex/Warren in 1880 - possibly remarried. An 'Ann E. Cooper', b. ~1866, daughter of Moses and Emeline, Vernon, Sussex, is another family. (d) The one marriage is Gilbert M Cooper, 66, widower, to Mary C Stowe, 1873 - not her. The 'No Name' births 1866-68 have fathers William, R., Spencer, [blank] and William J Cooper - none George; an 'Anna M. Cooper' b. 6 Jul 1867 is in Salem Co.

Other searches recorded

familysearch tree 2026-10-15 · Tree search Martha Stackhouse, b. 1835-1841; profile L27C-MG3 opened (details, family, 8 sources).

Searched for: Tree search Martha Stackhouse, b. 1835-1841; profile L27C-MG3 opened (details, family, 8 sources).

Result: LEAD: 'Martha E. Stackhouse' 1838 Hope Twp - 5 Feb 1896 Hackettstown, burial Hope; m. George Monroe Cooper (99ZS-2PG) 3 Dec 1859; children Mary L Cooper 1859-1916 (L274-NTS), Sarah L. Cooper 1860- (LHC1-S6V), Anna Mae Cooper 1866-1940 (L27H-Y44); parents James Stackhouse (1807-) and Elizabeth Poyers (1805-), m. 20 Oct 1827; siblings incl. Caleb Stackhouse 1832-1900 (cf. the 1860 Calib Stackhouse household [D.661]). Sources: 1850 census; 1859 marriage; 1880 census under Samuel B. Stout -> [D.790]; Find a Grave 'Martha E Stackhouse Stout' -> [G.675]; NJ County Marriages (x4, 'Stockhouse' etc.).

genealogybank 2026-10-15 · SIGNED IN (chris_2535). New Jersey papers: Martha Stout, 1896 (0).

Searched for: SIGNED IN (chris_2535). New Jersey papers: Martha Stout, 1896 (0).

Result: NULL - no New Jersey match.

newspapers com 2026-10-15 · Not run - the browser was not signed in to newspapers.com this session.

Searched for: Not run - the browser was not signed in to newspapers.com this session.

Result: Not run.

familysearch records 2026-10-15 · Anna May Cooper (surname exact), marriage 1882-1895, marriage place New Jersey (27,812 ranked; first 100 read, filtered for Sussex /...

Searched for: Anna May Cooper (surname exact), marriage 1882-1895, marriage place New Jersey (27,812 ranked; first 100 read, filtered for Sussex / Warren / Morris / Hunterdon).

Result: NULL for Anna May. FamilySearch indexes the 1870 row itself (Green Twp, b. 1866). Area marriages seen: Phebe Anna Cooper (b. 1869) x Frank Smith, Sparta, 7 Dec 1892; Annie Cooper x Davel C. Fitser, Phillipsburg, 18 Sep 1895 (no age) - neither identified with her. Also a Find a Grave 'Anna May Cooper', 1875 - 28 Jan 1896, Phillipsburg Cemetery (birth year does not fit).

ancestry all 2026-10-15 · SIGNED IN. 1880 census (coll. 6742), residence Sussex Co., NJ (exact, place code 2837): (e) given name Anna, b. 1866 +/-1 NJ (page 1...

Searched for: SIGNED IN. 1880 census (coll. 6742), residence Sussex Co., NJ (exact, place code 2837): (e) given name Anna, b. 1866 +/-1 NJ (page 1 filtered for step-/grand-daughter, niece, servant, boarder, Cooper, Sharp, mother Martha); (f) given name Martha (exact), any surname, b. 1838 +/-2 NJ (22 rows).

Result: NULL. (e) No Anna May with a mother Martha; the one stepdaughter is Anna M. Adams, mother Caroline, Sandyston. (f) The only 'Martha E.' is Martha E. Stanaback, 42, wife of Jacob Stanaback, 46, Lafayette, dwelling 83 (rec. 28354105) - the couple alone, no Anna; nothing links her to this Martha (same initial and age only). Not pursued.

ancestry all 2026-10-15 · SIGNED IN. (a) All collections: Martha E Cooper, b. 1838 +/-2 New Jersey, d. 1896 +/-2 (84; filtered for New Jersey / Warren / Sussex /...

Searched for: SIGNED IN. (a) All collections: Martha E Cooper, b. 1838 +/-2 New Jersey, d. 1896 +/-2 (84; filtered for New Jersey / Warren / Sussex / Stackhouse / Minnesota / Pennsylvania); (b) 1870 census (coll. 7163): Martha Cooper, b. 1838 +/-2 New Jersey.

Result: (a) NULL - no death record or tree for her (other Marthas in Michigan, Virginia, Kentucky). (b) FOUND -> [D.789]: 'Martha E Cooper', 32, Green Twp, Sussex, 1870, with 'Anna May' Cooper, 4.

Documents

C.149 Warren County, New Jersey, county register of marriage returns ("Warren. Marriage Records 1854-1895"), book page 38 - the return of Gabriel Woolverton, Justice of the Peace, dated 3 December 1859. FamilySearch 'New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956', DGS 004541237 Item 3, image 54 of 230 (item view), record 1:1:VW5B-MHM; image ark 3:1:939Z-1ZSN-J5
C.148 New Jersey return of marriages, Township of Hope, Warren Co., 1 June 1859 - 1 June 1860, register vol. AH page 171, entry for George M Cooper and Martha E Stackhouse
D.789 1870 U.S. census, Township of Green, Sussex Co., New Jersey, PO Newton, page 10 (Ancestry citation page 60B), lines 23-30 (dwelling 70, family 71) - NARA M593 roll 889
D.661 1860 U.S. census, Township of Green, Sussex Co., New Jersey, PO Tranquility, page 12 lines 38-40 and page 13 lines 1-6 (dwelling 84, family 86) — NARA M653
L.90 Ancestry public tree — George Monroe COOPER (1830-1913) — Tree ID 33965336 / Person ID 18621242437 — names full sibling roster + parents Joseph Ellis Cooper × Elsie/Elcy Stackhouse + spouses (Martha E Stackhouse + Rachel Nancy Janes) + children (Mary L, Sarah, Laura Elbertine, Belle Florilla, George Ile Melvill). 11 timeline sources cited. = the keystone Ancestry-tree corroborating [F.139](../F-Church-Vital/F.139.yaml) PA death certificate primary-source-locking of Joseph Ellis Cooper × Elsie Stackhouse parentage [verbatim]
F.365 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Certificate of Death, file no. 54698, Northampton Co., Upper Mt. Bethel Twp, registration district 757, primary district 3149, registered no. 32 - Ancestry 'Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1972' (coll. 5164) record 667793, image 41381_2421401696_0890-00572
D.790 1880 U.S. census, Oxford, Warren Co., New Jersey, supervisor's district 1, enumeration district 205, page 17 (stamped 528), lines 3-6 (dwelling 106, family 153) - NARA T9 roll 799
G.675 Find a Grave memorial 15208447, 'Martha E Stackhouse Stout' (1837-1896), Swayze Cemetery, Hope, Warren County, New Jersey