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Elizabeth Simpson Cooper Papers
Creator SketchElizabeth Simpson Cooper, 1840- spent her childhood on a farm in Virginia before moving westward with her family in 1857 to a farm near Pleasant Run Creek, in Kansas. She married George R. Cooper in 1860, after a three-year acquaintance, and together they had nine children. They left Kansas in 1890, George Cooper died in 1904, and at the end of her life, Elizabeth Cooper was living in Nebraska City, Nebraska. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and Contents NoteThis collection consists entirely of a 41-page typed memoir by Elizabeth Simpson Cooper, written for her family in 1931 and 1932 when she was 91 years old and living in Nebraska City, Nebraska. In her memoir, entitled, "Memories of My Life," Cooper describes her early life and experiences from 1840 to 1865 and provides a little more information about her life in select years of the early 20th century. She writes about her school days in Virginia, the run of typhoid fever that decimated her family, her involvement with church, the Cooper family history, "Bleeding Kansas" (the period of conflict over deciding if Kansas would be a free or slave state), and the Civil War in Kansas. She specifically mentions the Lawrence Massacre and notes the savagery of Quantrill's band of bushwackers, who killed nearly every male in town they suspected of abolitionist support and vigilante activity. Also included in her memoir are her memories of personal encounters with Native Americans in Kansas and her trip back to visit her old home in Virginia in 1932. Return to the Table of Contents
Return to the Table of Contents RestrictionsRestrictions on AccessOpen for research. Return to the Table of Contents
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Return to the Table of Contents Administrative InformationAdministrative Information: Custodial HistoryThis copy of Elizabeth Simpson Cooper's memoir was donated to the University of North Texas by Mrs. August (Bessie Cooper) Schreibner, of Dallas, Texas, in c. 1978. Preferred CitationElizabeth Simpson Cooper Papers, University of North Texas Archives, Denton, Texas. Return to the Table of Contents Detailed Description of the Collection
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