John Henry Cooper 1901–1988

Result: NULL FROM ALL FOUR. None of the 8 Texas John Coopers born 1901 has daughters of these names; the single Texas Juanita Cooper is a daughter of William D. and Edith Beatrice at Sherman, Grayson Co.; none of the 19 Juanitas or 17 Elsies nationwide has a father John born 1901 or a sister of the other name. THE GIVEN NAMES WERE THE STRONG CARD AND THEY FAILED. Juanita and Elsie are both uncommon enough that a nationwide exact search returns fewer than 20 rows, so this is not a common-name problem - the household is simply not in the index under these names. SEE Egbert Arthur Cooper FOR THE PATTERN: this is the FOURTH branch of the Egbert Arthur Cooper family to come back null from a census index, and the note there gathers them.

Result: NULL. No Texas-born John Cooper of his age is indexed at HOUSTON, where his 1988 death notice puts him for the previous forty years [J.486]. The only John Cooper at Houston on the page is John E, born LOUISIANA. AND THE PLACE RECIPE IS NOT AVAILABLE HERE: Houston in 1950 holds far too many Coopers for a surname-only, no-birth-year search to be readable, which is the recipe that cracked Elden Cooper, Ivan L. Cooper and William G Cooper this week. It works on a township, not on a city of 600,000. HE MAY NOT HAVE BEEN IN HOUSTON YET. "Houston resident 40 years" in September 1988 dates the arrival to about 1948, and he was at 4108 Southwestern, DALLAS in February 1942 [B.116] - so 1 April 1950 sits close to the move, and Dallas is as good a guess as Houston. NEXT: a Houston or Dallas city directory for 1948-1952 to get a street address, then the enumeration district for that address, then an image browse. Named as a todo.

Result: 1930: candidate household John H / Anna B / Elsa / Juanita, Oklahoma City -> [D.785] (provisional). 1940: NULL - the only Texas-born Juanita Cooper is a daughter of William D. and Edith Beatrice (Sherman, Grayson Co.); no John + Anna household with an Elsie/Elsa and a Juanita found on page 1.

Result: FOUND: Houston Post 7 Sep 1988 p. 4E death notice - daughters Elsie C. Burnett (New Orleans) and Juanita C. Muntzel (Midland), five grandchildren, no son; burial Forest Park Lawndale -> [J.486]. Juanita's obituary, Midland Reporter-Telegram 15 Jul 2005 (b. 12 Aug 1928 Quanah) -> [J.487].

Result: No memorial for him among the 10 (Australia, England, Indiana, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Newfoundland). Forest Park Lawndale not yet searched by cemetery.

Result: M7FC-D44 John Henry Cooper, 28 May 1901 Hamilton Co. - 1991 Texas; parents Egbert Arthur Cooper and Mary Leslie Maud Newton.

Result: NULL: the one hit is Sen. John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky (Houston Chronicle 23 Feb 1991).

Result: Paris News 15 May 1991 p. 4 - not opened (Lamar Co.; not obviously him).

Result: Not run.

Result: Not run.

Result: FOUND: WWII draft card [B.116] (Dallas 1942, contact his brother Carl C. Cooper Carl Clay Cooper); death 5 Sep 1988 Houston (Texas Death Index, SSDI, NUMIDENT - index only). NULL: 1920-1950 censuses - candidates read and NOT identified: 1920 'Jack Cooper', 20, Ranger, a boarder recorded as Mulatto (1:1:MCMH-QVX) - excluded; 1940 'John Cooper', 40, Houston Tract 42, wife Gertrude, child Carrol (1:1:K4W9-TZ8) - nothing on the index links him, not opened further; 1930 'J B Cooper', b. 1900 Texas, Houston (1:1:H18H-8ZM) - not his initials. A 1950 'John H Cooper, Jr', 16, nephew in Ezra E. Cooper Jr's Harris Co. household (1:1:6XP3-SKXW) belongs to another family by its own household.

Result: PROBABLE (record 809278072): 'John H Cooper', b. 28 May 1901, d. 5 Sep 1988; claims-only, no birthplace or parents. Both dates match this file.

Result: NOT ATTRIBUTABLE: 'John H Cooper', Houston, rows 1918-1958 carry five different spouses (Annie, Jean, Dora, Dorothy R, La Rue) - several men; none adopted.