Madora Belle (Cooper) Earp (1871-1915) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

Madora Belle (Dora) Earp formerly Cooper

Born 28 Jan 1871 in Benton, Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Daughter of Columbus Franklin Cooper and Delilah Ann (Kieef) Cooper

Sister of James Franklin Cooper, William R Cooper, Polly Cooper, Ida Cooper, Sarah Adeline (Cooper) Presson and John Horace Cooper

Wife of John William Earp — married 5 May 1892 in Obion, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Mother of Lillie (Earp) Chambers, Ollie Columbus Earp and Connie Earp

Died 1 Apr 1915 at age 44 in Obion, Tennessee, United States

Problems/Questions

Profile last modified 31 Jan 2019 | Created 7 May 2013

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Biography

Chapel Hill Cemetery: located off Pierce Station Rd & Hwy 45 (near South Fulton)

EARP Dora Belle Obion 4/1 39 159 http://www.state.tn.us/sos/statelib/pubsvs/1915-06.htm

Madora Bell (Sissy) Cooper Earp, sister of James Franklin Cooper, was a witness to his marriage to Henrietta Moore on 10/14/1888.

Margie e-mailed on 07/21/06, "I found Dora Bell Cooper Earp's death on the TN state library archives - TN Index. Obion County - Date of Death 4-1-1915. Vol 39 - Page159."

1880 Census Dist.9 Benton Co., Enumerated Dist. #6

9 July 1880 J.K. Wheatley, Marshall

Page 11 Sheet 500 Line 12 Dwelling 113 Family 113

Columbus Cooper head 35 Farmer TN NC NC

Delila Ann wife 30 TN TN TN

James F. son 10 farm labor TN TN TN

Medora Belle daughter 8 TN TN TN (2nd wife of John Earp)

Sarah Adeline daughter 11 months old b. July 1879 TN TN TN

Fact: Census (1880) District 9, Benton, Tennessee, United States
Fact: Marital Status Single

Find A Grave: Memorial #80245630

Sources

"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDQL-QKC : 13 July 2016), Medora Belle Cooper in household of Columbus Cooper, District 9, Benton, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district ED 6, sheet 500C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1244; FHL microfilm 1,255,244.

"Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1955," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N91K-BVY : 25 May 2014), C.F. Cooper in entry for Dora Belle Earp, 01 Apr 1915; citing Chapel Hill Cemetery, Obion, Tennessee, v 39 cn 159, State Library and Archives, Nashville; FHL microfilm 1,299,642.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Kitty Smith for contributions to this profile.

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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Dora by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Dora: