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Dillard Cooper (1814 - 1896)

Dillard Cooper
Born in Spartanburg, Pickens, South Carolina, USAmap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married about 1832 [location unknown]
Husband of — married about 1870 in Texasmap
[children unknown]
Died at about age 81 in Llano, Llano, Texas, United Statesmap
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Biography

Dillard Cooper. [1]

Born 10 SEP 1814. Spartanburg, Pickens, South Carolina, USA. [2]

Died 1896 Llano, Llano, Texas, United States. [3]

From findagrave: Dillard Cooper/Surviror of Goliad born in South Carolina Lived in Tenn. & Alabama before coming to Texas with Capt. John Shackelford (ALABAMA RED ROVERS)

After Texas independence, he lived in Hays County and subsequently settled on a tract of land on the east bank of Cummins Creek in Colorado County, granted to him by the Republic of Texas. The 1860 census described him as a farmer with a personal estate of $3,500. His account of the Goliad Massacre was published in the "Columbus Citizen" on July 30, 1870.

From Rangers and Pioneers of Texas by A.J. Sowell 1884 as reprinted from the American Sketch Book 1881. According to James T. DeShields in Tall Men With Long Rifles, DILLARD COOPER died in extreme poverty in the 1890's in Llano, TX stating "during his latter years the pitiful pension of $150.00 a year, provided by the great and opulent state of Texas, barely sufficed to buy food and medicines for the aged hero and his faithful wife. Napoleon was not far wrong when he said 'Republics are ungrateful.'"

Dillard Cooper wrote of his escape with 3 other members of THE ALABAMA RED ROVERS.Captain Shackelford's Company.

"On the morning of the 27th of March, 1836, about daylight, we were awakened by the guards, and marched out in front of the fort......"

After the death of his first wife, Lucinda, DILLARD COOPER married a widow, Mrs. Elizabeth E. Gholson, in October 1878;They moved to land in Northwest Llano and Southwest San Saba counties. After Elizabeth's death, he married Amanda Talk in Llano County on July 19, 1883.

November 2008 the Texas Historical Commission placed a marker on Dillard Cooper's grave

Sources

  1. Source: #S160 Database online. Record for Matthew Cooper Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=30287881042&indiv=try
  2. Source: #S160 Database online. Record for Matthew Cooper Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=30287881042&indiv=try
  3. Source: #S160 Database online. Record for Matthew Cooper Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=30287881042&indiv=try




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