Googins-Waide-Cooper in GenForum-Maine
Wednesday, 22 September 2004
I posted the following reply to a query in the State-Maine postings on GenForum...
Hello Susan,
Sorry that you had to wait so long for this reply. I haven't checked the surname pages for a while, let alone the states and counties. That's the way it works on this sometimes. You never know when someone will see your posting and reply.
I researched Muriel's branch of the family about 13 years ago from the other direction... as a descendant of Richard Cooper (1639-1724) of Plymouth, Mass. She was born in Turner, Maine on June 14th, 1901 as Muriel Imogene Cooper, daughter of George Freeland Cooper & Florence Annette Currier. Her mother is buried with her in Pine Grove Cemetery in Falmouth, Maine. Her biological father is buried in Pine Grove Cemetery in Norway, Maine... about 60 miles apart. Florence was the 3rd wife of George. He is buried with his 4th wife. Florence was first married to Ernest Nason who is buried in Biddeford, Maine. George was her 2nd husband, whom she divorced [divorced on 24Apr1906 for cruel & abusive treatment]. George was a Civil War Veteran and by reading through his Civil War pension record and reading his obituary, I get the impression that he hit the bottle a little too much. In the 1910 census she was living on 30 Thornton Ave in Saco,Maine as Florence Cooper(widowed,mother of 5, 4 still living). In the 1913 city directory of Saco, Maine she was listed as Florence A. Cooper (widow of George F., removed to Portland). George didn't die until 23 years later, in 1936, so she must have told them that their father had died. I say THEY because Muriel had a full brother... Edmund Frank Cooper AKA Edmund Frank Waide. Edmund was born in Roxbury, Maine on March 18th, 1904. He was not named on his birth record in Roxbury. He was just listed as a male child of George & Florence [ male,white,living,2nd child; H.N.Binford,MD, Mexico, Maine). When Edmund married Nellie Chamlers in 1929, he listed his father as George Cooper... but Muriel did not list George as her father. Her death record lists her step-father, Frank J. Waide, as her father.
Muriel also had half sisters and a half brother. Her mother's first marriage was to Ernest C. Nason. There was a son Edmund Nason who died of cholera, aged 6 months, in 1894. Her half sisters were Isabel Nason & Alice Nason. I don't have all of their information in my Cooper file on my computer, but Alice died in Portland, Oregon in the late 70's or early 80's and I got information from her obituary and contacted one of her children and they were able to give me more information about Muriel. (Can't remember right now what her married name was)
I was in touch with her son Charles Googins about 13 years ago. Muriel had a total of 13 children. Anyway, I have all of that research in my file cabinet that I can dig out and scan for you. A lot more information than can go on these pages. I can also send this to your email account, but we might write a little more here on GenForum so that others can perhaps join in.
Sincerely, Tim Cooper, Buckfield, Maine
Name: George Freeland Cooper
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Birth: 4 Oct 1843 Paris, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Death: 15 Dec 1936 Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
Burial: 18 Dec 1936 Pine Grove Cemetery, Norway, Oxford County, Maine
Father: John Cooper (1822-1848)
Mother: Ulvilda E. Monk (1823->1906)
Other Spouses: Elmira P. Rundlett
Ophelia A Eastman
Martha Sarah Green
Marriage: 14 Dec 1898 Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
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Spouse: Florence Annette Currier
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Birth: Mar 1874 Biddeford, York County, Maine, USA
Death: May 1949 Falmouth, Cumberland County, Maine, USA
Burial: May 1949 Pine Grove Cemetery, Falmouth, Cumberland County, Maine
Father: Edmund A Currier (~1850-<1898)
Mother: Alice Lesure (~1848-1912)
Other Spouses: Ernest Nason
Frank J Waide
Children:
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1 F: Muriel Imogene Cooper AKA:WAIDE
Birth: 14 Jun 1901 Turner, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
Death: 28 Jul 1980 Yarmouth, Cumberland County, Maine, USA
Spouse: Charles Morris Googins
Marriage: 7 Mar 1918 Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, USA
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2 M: Edmund Frank Cooper AKA:WAIDE
Birth: 18 Mar 1904 Roxbury, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Death: abt 1952 Miami, Dade, FL, USA
Spouse: Nellie Evelyn Chalmers
Marriage: 11 Nov 1929 Albion, Kennebec County, Maine, USA
Spouse: Thelma Lovell