Mary Leslie Maud (Newton) Cooper 1869–1932

Catalog ID p.92 · Cite this page: njcoopers.com/p/92/

Mary Leslie Maud (Newton) Cooper was born on 14 Nov 1869 in Rome, Georgia. She married Egbert Arthur Cooper (1896). She died on 27 Jul 1932 in Kilgore, Gregg Co., Texas and was buried on 27 Jul 1932 at Ranger, Texas. Four children are recorded.

Facts

Event	Date	Place / detail	Certainty	Sources
birth	14 Nov 1869	Rome, Georgia	certain	F.329, D.273, L.86
residence	1900	Hamilton Co., Texas	certain	D.273
residence	1910	Hico, Hamilton Co., Texas	certain	D.664
residence	1930	Ranger, Eastland Co., Texas	certain	D.723
residence	1932	Kilgore, Gregg Co., Texas	certain	F.329
death	27 Jul 1932	Kilgore, Gregg Co., Texas	certain	F.329
burial	27 Jul 1932	Ranger, Texas	certain	F.329

Family

Parents

Not identified.

Spouses

Egbert Arthur Cooper 1874–1928
married 15 Nov 1896, Bosque County, Texas
L.86

Children

Carl Clay Cooper 1897–1955
Mary Augusta Cooper 1899–1977
Imogene (Cooper) Shaw 1900–1980
John Henry Cooper 1901–1988

Family tree

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In the documents

Every published document that names Mary Leslie Maud (Newton) Cooper, in date order, with what that document itself records.

Date	Document	Role	What it records
22 Apr 1910	D.664 census population 1910 1910 U.S. census, Justice Precinct 3, Hico City, Hamilton Co., Texas, ED 68, sheet 8A, lines 32-37 (dwelling 163, family 165) — NARA T624	spouse as "Maude"	residence: 1910, Hico, Hamilton Co., Texas
15 Apr 1930	D.723 census population 1930 1930 U.S. census, Ranger City (part), Precinct 2, Eastland Co., Texas, ED 67-11, sheet 11B, line 79 (dwelling 53, family 58) - NARA T626	head as "Cooper, Maud L."	residence: 1930, Ranger, Eastland Co., Texas

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

Still unknown, and where we have looked

Parents not identified.

Searches recorded

ancestry all 2026-10-17 · HER MAIDEN SURNAME IN 1920 - the angle Egbert Arthur Cooper's file had been calling "the obvious next move" since 2026-10-16 and which...

Searched for: HER MAIDEN SURNAME IN 1920 - the angle Egbert Arthur Cooper's file had been calling "the obvious next move" since 2026-10-16 and which had never been run. The family vanishes from the 1920 index under BOTH spouses' married names, so the test is whether she was enumerated as a NEWTON. 1920 US Federal Census (Ancestry coll. 6061), NO residence filter at all - national, bounded by surname plus given name plus birth year - 50 per page, run in two renderings because her name is Mary LESLIE MAUD Newton and any of the three could be the one indexed: (a) name=Mau*_Newton&birth=1869 - the wildcard catches Maud / Maude / Maudie. 13 rows, ALL READ. (b) name=Leslie_Newton&birth=1869 - 160 rows, ALL FOUR PAGES READ (1-50, 51-100, 101-150, 151-160) using &pg=N. Ancestry fuzzes "Leslie" to the INITIAL L, so this is in fact the complete national set of L-initial Newtons born about 1864-1874 - which is better than the search asked for, because it also contains every "Mary L Newton" in the index.

Result: A COMPLETE NATIONAL NULL, IN BOTH RENDERINGS AND WITH EVERY ROW READ. She is not in the 1920 United States census index as a Newton. (a) The 13 Maud-ish Newtons of that age are in Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, Missouri, Illinois and Georgia; the one living in TEXAS - Maud S Newton, San Antonio - was born in INDIANA and is the wife of Miles F. NOT ONE OF THE THIRTEEN IS TEXAS-BORN. (b) Of the 160 L-initial Newtons, the Texas-BORN ones are all men (William L at Haskell Co., Okla.; Harvey L at Santa Rita, N.M.; Robt L at Pontotoc Co., Okla.) except Nancy F Newton of Hidalgo Co., b. 1874, wife of Lemuel F. The several "Mary L Newton" rows are born in Maine, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Ireland and Wisconsin. NONE IS HER. WHAT THIS CLOSES AND WHAT IT DOES NOT. It closes the maiden-name hypothesis - she was not indexed under Newton anywhere in the United States in 1920 - and with it the idea that the couple had separated and she had reverted. It does NOT close a mis-indexed surname, which no surname-keyed search can reach. ⇒ THE FAMILY IS NOW MISSING FROM THE 1920 INDEX UNDER THREE SURNAMES - Cooper (national null for him, Egbert Arthur Cooper 2026-10-17), Cooper for her (Mau* Cooper, complete national null, 2026-10-16), and now Newton. That makes an ED-by-ED IMAGE BROWSE of Ranger and the Eastland Co. districts, or a 1920-21 Texas city directory, the only routes left; the index has been exhausted.

findagrave 2026-10-04 · Not run this pass.