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Mary Rufus (Cooper) Winter (1843 - 1925)

Mary Rufus (Mollie) Winter formerly Cooper
Born in Tuscumbia, Colbert County, Alabama, USAmap
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married 1860 [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 82 in Mississippi, USAmap
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Biography

Mary was born in 1843, the daughter of William and Elizabeth (Blocker) Cooper. S​​he married Benjamin Ricks Winter. Among their children were:

William Cooper Winter 1861–1949
Ben Torrance Winter 1864–1943
Bettie B. (Winter) Upshaw 1867-1948
Mollie (Winter) Townes 1873–1959
John Dawson Winter 1879–1938[1]

Mary passed away in 1925[2]


  • Married before June 1, 1860 (US Census date) resident of Eastern Subdivision, Franklin, Alabama (La Grange post office), no children yet
  • Residence 1870: Tuscumbia, Colbert, Alabama, USA
  • Residence 1880: Torrance, Yalobusha, Mississippi, USA
  • Buried with her husband at Grenada, MS

Research Notes

According to the 1900 census Mollie is in Mississippi in the home of his son-in-law Robert Townes and her daughter Mollie, Robert’s wife. With them is also another son William C., with his wife Talby L. (or Falby?) and two-year-old son Benzock[3].

Michael Caviness' website [www.michaelcaviness.com] cited as a source is unreachable. I did not find any other links to Michael Coviness' work on the web - written by Gio May 2021.

Sources

  1. "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4P8-828 : 14 January 2022), M. R. A. Winter in household of B. R. Winter, Torrance, Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district ED 209, sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .
  2. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33162218/mollie-r-winter : accessed 04 June 2022), memorial page for Mollie R. Cooper Winter (1843–1925), Find a Grave Memorial ID 33162218, citing Odd Fellows Cemetery, Grenada, Grenada County, Mississippi, USA ; Maintained by Donald Gordon Dalrymple (contributor 46772734) .
  3. "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-D15Q-8Z1?cc=1325221&wc=9B7P-T3G%3A1030553801%2C1031307701%2C1031320901 : 5 August 2014), Mississippi > Grenada > ED 36 Beat 1 Grenada town Ward West > image 46 of 52; citing NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).


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