[or-roots] Idaho Springs, Idaho...

[CARROLLOUC at aol.com]

More - The regiment was organized in MO but many  enlistments took place in 
CO and then the enlistees were sent to MO. In fact,  the 2nd fought against 
Price and another gr grandfather (on my dad's maternal  side) was with Price, so 
James and Charles Jessup were probably fighting each  other.
 
Nathaniel and Sophia Cowles Cooper were married in  Pultneyville, NY in 1835. 
My gr grfather, DeWitt H. was b 1836 in PA. James was  b 1839 in Frankfort, 
KY. By 1841 the family was in Washington, Wash. Co., Iowa  where Nathaniel (or 
N.P. as he always signed everything) was the first  postmaster of Yantton. 
There were several more children born in Iowa. They  were here in the 1850 census 
and in Toolesboro, Louisa Co., Iowa in 1860  census. N.P. left the family in 
Nebraska and went to Pike's Peak abt 1861  then they settled near Ft. Collins, 
CO. N.P. died Apr. 1870 but the rest of the  family is in the 1870 census 
there. However, Sophia was listed by her nickname  Susan as head of household. 
James went to take care of the family after his  father's death and was named as 
FitzPatrick. I think someone else gave the  census taker the info, some of 
which was incorrect. 
 
In the meantime, DeWitt was in MT in 1870 working as a  sluice miner. He 
married there in 1868. By 1873 he was also in CO where my  grandfather was born. 
Next James and DeWitt with their families are found in  1880 in Jackson Co., 
Oregon. They went to Baker Co. abtr 1883, where my dad  was born in 1904. Sophia 
had a land patent in Baker Co. by 1885 and d  1893. James d in 1898. The rest 
of the family eventually ended up in  Portland, OR by 1906 where DeWitt d abt 
1907.
 
All of this explains why you couldn't find any of them  in the census records 
you looked in
:-) and is  probably more than you ever wanted to know <g>
 
Carroll
 
 

If you  read the history I sent you the URL for last night you will be even
more  confused, that regiment was organized in Missouri.

Where was the family  in the 1860 census, there are no coopers indexed by HQ
in either Idaho or  Colorado, but I find thirteen Coopers in 1870 in
Colorado, three in Idaho,  but in 1860 there are 9 James Coopers and a J F
Cooper.

Les  C




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