COOPER, GEORGE R.
CAPTAIN GEORGE COOPER
Family history by Bob Miller.
Captain George Cooper came to Texas from Missouri. Previously he had gone to California gold fields and was in the Confederate army. While he was a prisoner of war in Alton, Illinois, his wife died back home. After the war, Capt. Cooper and his children came to Texas. He was a charter member of the Christian Church at Mantua and wagon freighted materials for the construction of his home and the church all the way from Jefferson in east Texas. His youngest daughter was Martha Ellen who married I. P. Dixon. Capt. Cooper raised all his children in the Mantua Church and his grand daughter, Lillie Dixon Miller also attended church there. The sacramental wine bottle from the Mantua Christian Church has been passed from Martha Ellen Cooper Dixon to her daughter. When the Mantua community began to fold with the coming of the railroad the church was sold to Matt Miller, Lillie’s father-in-law. Lillie gave a camera to her husband, Lawrence and asked him to take a picture of the old church at Mantua. That picture hung in Lillie’s home for many years. The church had metal shingles and lumber which Matt used to build a barn and several other buildings about the farm. They are in use today and in fine shape.
Family history by Bob Miller.
Captain George Cooper came to Texas from Missouri. Previously he had gone to California gold fields and was in the Confederate army. While he was a prisoner of war in Alton, Illinois, his wife died back home. After the war, Capt. Cooper and his children came to Texas. He was a charter member of the Christian Church at Mantua and wagon freighted materials for the construction of his home and the church all the way from Jefferson in east Texas. His youngest daughter was Martha Ellen who married I. P. Dixon. Capt. Cooper raised all his children in the Mantua Church and his grand daughter, Lillie Dixon Miller also attended church there. The sacramental wine bottle from the Mantua Christian Church has been passed from Martha Ellen Cooper Dixon to her daughter. When the Mantua community began to fold with the coming of the railroad the church was sold to Matt Miller, Lillie’s father-in-law. Lillie gave a camera to her husband, Lawrence and asked him to take a picture of the old church at Mantua. That picture hung in Lillie’s home for many years. The church had metal shingles and lumber which Matt used to build a barn and several other buildings about the farm. They are in use today and in fine shape.
G. R. COOPER
Letter.
My grand-father - G. R. Cooper came from St. Jo., Missouri with his 6 children. His wife died while he was in prison. The names of his children.
S. T. Cooper, also a Confederate soldier, married Elizabeth Wheat of Grayson County, daug. of Wm. W. Wheat.
Bob Cooper married Georgie Thornton of Grayson Co.
Susan T. Cooper married Joe Chambers of Chambersville, Collin Co.
Bettie Cooper married Scott Y. Creager Collin Co.
Mary Cooper married M. B. Brown of Grayson Co.
John A. Cooper married Elizabeth Wheat of Grayson County, daug. of Henry Clay Wheat, a Confederate soldier.
Martha married I. P. Dixon Collin Co.
All deceased....
I think my father was one of the last trustees of the old Mantua Church.
Letter.
My grand-father - G. R. Cooper came from St. Jo., Missouri with his 6 children. His wife died while he was in prison. The names of his children.
S. T. Cooper, also a Confederate soldier, married Elizabeth Wheat of Grayson County, daug. of Wm. W. Wheat.
Bob Cooper married Georgie Thornton of Grayson Co.
Susan T. Cooper married Joe Chambers of Chambersville, Collin Co.
Bettie Cooper married Scott Y. Creager Collin Co.
Mary Cooper married M. B. Brown of Grayson Co.
John A. Cooper married Elizabeth Wheat of Grayson County, daug. of Henry Clay Wheat, a Confederate soldier.
Martha married I. P. Dixon Collin Co.
All deceased....
I think my father was one of the last trustees of the old Mantua Church.
