Husband: Oscar Elbert Cooper
Born: Mar-18-1882 in Tyler Co, WV 1,2 (see note 1) Died: Mar- 3-1964 in Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV 1,3 Buried: in Gnats Run Cemetery, near Pennsboro (Co Rd 74/9), Ritchie Co, WV 3 Resided: 1934 in Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV 4 Resided: 1909 in Pennsboro, Ritchie Co, WV 2 Father: William Elbert Cooper (1852 - 1906) Mother: Rosalie Adaline Keys (1857 - 1919)
Wife: Dora Wilson
Married: Dec-23-1909 in Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV 2
Born: Jun-18-1883 in Pennsboro, Ritchie Co, WV 5
Died: May-30-1934 in Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV 5
Buried: in EUB Church Cemetery, Pennsboro, Ritchie Co, WV 6,3
Cause of death: suicide by drinking Lysol 5
Resided: in Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV 5
Resided: 1909 in Pennsboro, Ritchie Co, WV 2
Father: Leman C. Wilson (1853 - 1933)
Mother: Isabella "Belle" Broadwater (1857 - 1911)
F Child 1: Hazel Belle Cooper Born: Jun-23-1912 7 Died: Dec-16-1987 7 (see note 2) Buried: in Mt. Harmony Masonic Cemetery, Pennsboro, Ritchie Co, WV 6 Resided: in Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV 7 Husband: Silas Harold Zinn b. Jun-25-1908 d. Feb- -1979 Also known as: Harold Zinn 8,9,10,11 Married: Dec-22-1933 in Ritchie Co, WV 12
M Child 2: Ralph Marshall Cooper
Born: Sep-20-1915 in Pennsboro, Ritchie Co, WV 13,14,15
Died: Jan- 2-1944 in North Africa 15
Buried: (Tablets of Missing) in North Africa American Cemetery, Carthage, Tunisia 16
Occupation: teacher (Ritchie Co), school principal (Greenwood) 15
Education: Pennsboro H.S. (1934), Salem College 15
Military: Ensign, U.S. Navy, World War II (KIA)
Sources: (1) Headstone. (2) Wood County Marriage Records, Parkersburg, WV. (3) Findagrave.com. (4) Death record of wife. (5) WV State Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, Death Certificate (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx) (6) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995. (7) Social Security Death Index. (8) 1920 Census, Doddridge County, WV (Central District). (9) 1930 Census, Doddridge County, WV (Central District). (10) Minnie Kendall Lowther, Ritchie County in History and Romance (McClain Publishing Co, Parsons, WV, 1990), p. 241. (11) Obituary of mother. (12) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1916-1945, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (Sep 1998), Identified as Silas Harold Zinn, 24, of Ritchie Co; and Hazel Belle Cooper, 21, of Ritchie Co. Married Dec 22 1933. (13) Obituary. (14) West Virginia Births Index, 1853-1969 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. (15) West Virginia Veterans Memorial Archives Database, http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvmemory/wvvetmem.html. (16) American Battle Monuments Commission, http://www.abmc.gov. Event Notes Note (1) Age in marriage record would put birth in about 1887. But date on headstone is Mar 18 1882, same as the date given in his delayed birth record, which was filed in 1942. Note (2) Headstone reads 1988, but SSDI shows death date as Dec 16 1987.