Rebecca (McKinney) Cooper (1760 - 1838)

Born 15 Jun 1760 in Frederick, Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Jacob Henry Cooper Jr. — married 15 Jun 1760 in Frederick, Virginia

Descendants

Died 12 Nov 1838 at age 78 in Ohio, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Merged with McKinney-5994. Most information was a match. Where it was not, information marked as certain was retained.

Biography

Rebecca McKinney was born on June 15,1760, in Frederick, Virginia. She married Capt Jacob Cooper on June 15, 1760, in her hometown. They had 12 children in 22 years. She died on November 2, 1838, in Ohio, Kentucky, having lived a long life of 78 years.

Rebecca McKinney was born in 1760. She married Jacob Cooper Jr in Chester County, South Carolina, after 1780.

They lived on an 880 acre land grant from the Lord Governor of the Carolinas, Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper. I found the family in the 1790 census, in the Camden district, listed under Capt. Jacob Cooper. There was one free white male over 16 in the house, 3 under 16, 6 females, 2 "other persons" (perhaps boarders), and four slaves.

The family had received a 1,000 acre land grant for Jacob's service in the Revolutionary War. He served as a Captain in the Independent Ranger Company of the South Carolina Militia in 1780 and 1781. He had three horses shot from under him. The IOUs from the government for the horses are kept in the SC Archives in Columbia.

Jacob died in 1805 and in 1809 or 1810, the farm was sold for back taxes. The family built ox carts and moved to Fordsville, Kentucky.

She passed away in 1838 and was buried on McDaniels farm in the Clay-Cooper Cemetery. My brother and I dug up everything we could from the cemetery (with the owners permission) in 1997. We could not find her headstone, but the owner of the farm says he knows that it is still there, just buried. My cousin, John Dudly (JD) Cooper of Fordsville was 80 at the time and remembers his Grandfather telling stories about moving in the ox carts from SC to KY.

Sources

• Husband's DAR record https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A025737
• https://www.geni.com/people/Rebecca-Cooper/6000000106652125840
• http://pollisplace.com/history/cooper.htm
• MAJ (Ret) Mark Cooper, US Army.
• SC State Archives, Columbia, SC

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Sandy Harris for creating WikiTree profile McKinney-534 through the import of Clark Goudy Odenbaugh Price Family Tree_2013-02-04.ged on Feb 4, 2013.