Anna M. (Cooper) Walters 1866–1940

Result: BOTH GAPS NULL, AND THE 1920 ONE IS NOW SURNAME-PROOF. 1920: Knowlton Township held exactly four Walters, and neither she nor George is among them. The nameless search then asked the township without any name at all — 43 people born about 1865-1867, the complete cohort — and she is not there either. Nationally there are 58 George Walterses born 1879-1881 and not one has a wife Anna of her age and birthplace (the only Anna M among them is wife of a German-born George S. Walters at Sugar Camp, Wisconsin). ⇒ They were not in Knowlton in January 1920, although they are there in 1910 ([D.841]) and 1930 ([D.791]). 1900: no Ann* Cooper of that age in Warren County at all, and the complete given-name band — 80 women — contains nobody identifiable as her. ⇒ At 34 she was not enumerated in Warren County under a recognisable form of her given name. BUT THE KNOWLTON LIST PRODUCED SOMETHING ELSE, AND IT MATTERS MORE THAN THE NULL: "Dupuy S Walters", Head, b. about 1852 PENNSYLVANIA, at Knowlton, with wife "Lizzie R", b. about 1864 New Jersey. That is almost certainly George P. Walters George P. Walters's father Depue S. Walters, whom [G.677]'s family panel names — and [D.841] independently records George's father's birthplace as Pennsylvania, which this row matches. Not asserted: the wife here is Lizzie R., where [G.677] gives George's mother as Mary E. (Mericle) — consistent with a remarriage, but equally consistent with another family. Carried to a todo at George P. Walters. MY OWN ERROR, RECORDED BECAUSE IT IS THE FOURTH OF ITS KIND: the first attempt at the Knowlton list used an invented place id, _knowlton-warren-new+jersey-usa_19777. Ancestry resolved it to tanners-walton-georgia-usa_19777 and returned zero. Caught immediately by reading the slug back out of the returned URL, as the standing rule says to — and that zero was discarded, not recorded as a null, because a zero from a mis-resolved id is a search of somewhere else. The id was then taken from the form properly.

Result: NOT FOUND — AND IT IS A COVERAGE GAP, NOT A NULL. That distinction is the whole result. (a) The 12 Warren Anna Coopers hold no Walters marriage; the nearest, Anna M. Cooper x David Sliker, 4 Nov 1866 at Johnsonburg, is a woman born about 1848. (c) The collection holds exactly ONE Warren County Walters marriage from 1900 onward (Arabella Walter x Walter Staats, 12 Oct 1900) and ZERO Warren County Cooper marriages from 1900 onward. ⇒ Coll. 61376's Warren run effectively stops in 1900, despite the collection being titled 1670-1965. She married about 1907 ([D.841]: married 3 years in May 1910). This is the standing "a titled date range is an envelope, not a run" rule, caught by a facet probe costing two searches — and it converts a dead end into an address: the record exists, at the Warren County Clerk or the NJ State Archives, and is not online here. Carried to todo:.

Result: FOUND → [D.841]. Knowlton Twp, ED 133 sheet 8B, dwelling 168 / family 176: "Walters George P." 29 Head, Farmer; "Annie M." 46 wife, House Keeper; and "Spencer James B." 16, relation Hand — a live-in farm hand the index's household panel omits. Hers is the only one of the 24 whose husband is a George P. Three things this adds. (1) Married 3 years ⇒ about 1907, which independently confirms the ~1906-08 window [D.791] implied from the ages-at-first-marriage columns. (2) Children born 0, living 0 — childless after three years. (3) Her father's birthplace reads New Jersey, a second census agreeing with [D.791] against [D.790]'s Pennsylvania. AND ONE INDEX CORRECTION: Ancestry reads her age 40 and publishes a derived birth year of 1870. The plate reads 46 at 12x — a closed loop with an ascending entry stroke, not the plain ovals written as 0 in the children's columns of the same row. 46 ⇒ b. ~1863-64, about two years before her stone's 1866; the indexed 1870 is four years the wrong side of it.

Result: NULL - the one hit is the Press of Atlantic City, 1 Dec 1940 (not opened; wrong end of the state and ten months after her death). GenealogyBank holds no Warren Co. title for 1940.

Result: Not run.

Result: NULL - only other Coopers (Julia A, Lulu A, Hector A). Not found as a single woman 1900-1905 under Cooper in Warren.

Result: NULL - no George P. Walters x Anna marriage in NJ or PA among them. Note: a 'George H Walters', b. 1880 Boston, m. Anna G Logue at Boston 9 Sep 1908 - probably the source of the FamilySearch tree's 'George H Walters' for her husband (the stone and 1930 census say George P.); not this couple.

Result: NULL - Warren Walters x Anna marriages are other couples (Silas x Anna E. Criviling 1859; Alvah J. x Anna E. Armstrong 1888; Charles W. x Anna E. Lorcheim 1896; Len J. x Anna M. Ball 1896). Her marriage may be outside Warren or after the indexed years; the FHC item on the trip checklist (P3.C) stands.

Result: No marriage record found. (b) gave the 1930 census, Knowlton, Warren Co., sheet 10A line 8 (1:1:X4NF-SKJ, index only - image NOT read): 'George P Walters', head, 49, b. NJ, father b. PA; 'Anna M Walters', wife, 61, b. NJ; with Joseph Clark, 50. The index carries no age-at-first-marriage; read the image for that (and her parents' birthplaces) before using it. (a) and (c): other couples only (England 1735; Ohio, Indiana, Montana Stouts).

Result: LEAD: b. '28 1866' Warren Co., d. 17 Feb 1940 Columbia, Warren; spouse George H Walters 1880-1956 (L2S4-S8Y; = George P. per the stone); parents George Monroe Cooper and Martha E. Stackhouse; 0 sources.

Result: FOUND memorial 38361374 'Anna M Cooper Walters' 1866-1940 -> [G.676] (stone photographed: 'ANNA M. COOPER / WIFE OF / GEO. P. WALTERS'); husband's memorial 38361342 -> [G.677].

Result: No Cooper-Walters marriage seen on page 1 - re-run as Anna Cooper x Walters, NJ, 1885-1915.