Cooper Te-ha-z

I moved to Cooper at the end of my Junior High "career" from Kansas. (I know, I said I was born in Colorado - my Mom moved us around alot. There were a few states between Colorado and Kansas...) and aside from the lack of excitment and the amazing floats made special by Mable.. I really didn't know alot about the town I graduated from. I was able to dig up a few little facts here and there, and a really interesting photo pf the old court house from the late 1800's.



"What Delta County lacks in size is fully made up in fertility." — Sheriff Sam B. Turbeville 1904
(I am going to go ahead and assume he meant the soil - what with the small population during his time and all.)

* post office was established there in 1871

*1885 reported 300 residents

* in 1896 Cooper comprised 1,000 residents, two churches, and a school, as well as a bank, a shoemaker, a hotel, a grocery store, a wagonmaker, two blacksmith shops, two feed mills, two steam cotton gins and corn mills, two weekly newspapers (the Delta Courier and the People's Cause), three drugstores, and seven general stores.

The first 9 trials recorded in Delta County: (you can click on the links for more info on each trial case)

Abb Barham vs. The State.
Sale of Intoxicating Liquor (Timely Notice in Newspaper)

Samuel Bittick and John Williams vs. The State.
The Murder of J.H. Verner

W. M. Busby Alias Mat Bersma v. The State.
Past conviction comes back to haunt Mr. Busby- denys perjury

Eliza Davis vs. The State.
In 1877, Mrs. Eliza Davis stands trial for the murder of Miller, the peddler

Jim Fisher vs. The State.
The Murder of Austin Hardy

E. C. Misso vs. The State.
E. C. Misso plays cards and tells.

James C. Ray vs. The State.
The Murder of Alfred H. Bledsoe

St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company of Texas v. J. K. Hall.
Hall's Team of Horses Spooked by Train

Jim Walls vs. The State.
Horse Theft

There is really, hardly anything to dig up on this place using the internet. Neat to know we were standing in a post office that is 132 years old, eh?