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Papers in possession of a deceased relative included a letter that may be of help to someone looking for Coopers. Don't think it is my line, and don't know how my uncle came to own it. Can't read the salutation, so don't know to whom it was written (Looks like Mr. J------h?), but is dated June 4, 1901, from St. John, Kansas. Here is the text, as best I can make it out, [? means I am not sure of the word] in hopes that it will help someone:
"Dear Sir I will try to furnish you the information you desire. My father was John Cooper from the State of Maryland and he was a bound boy and ran away from home in his teens and traveled and worked around until the breaking out of the war of 1812. He then enlisted in Capt. Liew [?] Hales Co. which was stationed at Norfolk, Va., and got an honorable discharge from the army and then married my mother in Gracen [?] Co., Va. Her name was Hester Sage [or Page?]. He then moved to Ky near Somerset where I was born Nov 25, 1823. We then moved to Tenn the following year and located in Campbell Co., 5 miles south of Jacksboro where I grew to manhood and married Mary J. Hutson in the month of April 1846 and in Sept. 47 I enlisted in the Mexican war and served until the close of the war. When I returned to my old home until Aug 1 [?], 1861, and then I organized the first company from the state of Tenn for the Federal army and made my way under the cover of night to Williamsburg, Ky. and there I was mustered into the service on the 8 day of August 1861 with 101 men. We were ordered to Camp [?] Dick [?] Robinson [?]on the 17th of Aug. to join Gen. Nelson. I was mustered out of the service by a general order from the war department on the 15 day of Jan. 1866.
I am now living in Stafford Co. Kans. five miles west and two miles north of St. John the county seat.
Kind regards, Gen. Joseph A. Cooper.
P.S. My full name is Joseph Alexander Cooper."
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