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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Riley Davis Cooper ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Cooper, Riley Davis
LAST NAME: Cooper FIRST NAME: Riley MIDDLE NAME: Davis NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: M TITLE: 
BORN: 31 Dec 1849 DIED: 24 Mar 1942 BURIED: 26 Mar 1942 (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Lawrence Co, Missouri
DEATH PLACE: Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

1850 MO CENSUS - Riley D. Cooper (1y, b Missouri) enumerated with  E.E. (39y, b Kentucky, occupation farmer), Nancy (37y, b Kentucky), William H. (16y, b Tennessee), Daniel J. (15y, b Tennessee), Elizabeth (12y, b Tennessee), James S. (9y, b Missouri), Jacob C. (6y, b Missouri) and Sarah J. (4y, b Missouri) 

1860 MO CENSUS - Riley D. Cooper (11y, b Missouri) enumerated with  E.E. (48y, b Kentucky, occupation farmer), Nancy (47y, b Kentucky), Jacob C. (15y, b Missouri), Sarah J. (12y, b Missouri), John H. (8y, b Missouri), Elbert W. (8y, b Missouri) and Nancy P. (5y, b Missouri) 

1900 OR CENSUS - Riley D. Cooper, age 50, single, occupation farmer, b. Dec 1849 in Missouri, is enumerated with Miss Nancy Cooper (sister), age 45, single, b. Feb 1855 in Missouri, along with his neice, Ann Mann, age 21, single, b. Apr 1879 in Oregon. 

1930 OR CENSUS - Riley D. Cooper, age 80, single, b. Missouri, is enumerated with a relative [relationship not specified], John E. Cooper, age 78, divorced, b. Missouri.

1940 OR CENSUS - Riley Cooper (90y, b Missouri, single) enumerated with his sister Nancy Craft (85y, b Missouri, widowed);  family was living in same house in 1935 

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (1942 Multnomah co) #1133 Riley Davis Cooper, male, single; b 31 Dec 1849, Mo; father Elbert E. Cooper (b Ky); mother Mancy Warren (b Tenn); d 24 Mar 1942, 1914 E Burnside St, Portland, of Elk City, Lincoln co, Ore, age 92y 2m 23d; lived 5m in town, 78y in Ore; bur Spring Valley, Ore; informant A.J. Rose, 537 SE Alder, Portland

OBITUARY: 

COOPER - March 24, Riley Davis Cooper, late of Elk City, Or. Friends are invited to attend funeral services Thursday at 2 P.M. at the Zena church, under auspices of McMinnville lodge, A. F. and A. M. Interment Spring Valley cemetery, A. J. Rose & Son, Directors.
Oregonian, The (Portland, Oregon) 26 Mar 1942, pg 16

INSCRIPTION: 

Riley D. Cooper
1850 - 1942

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs

OSBH DC (1942 Multnomah co) #1133  

1850 MO CENSUS (Lawrence Co, Dist 47, FA#137)

1860 MO CENSUS (Lawrence Co, Mt Pleasant, FA#364) 
1900 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Independence, ED 175, sheet 13B)
1930 OR CENSUS (Lincoln CO., Elk City, ED 13, sheet 1B)

1940 OR CENSUS (Lincoln Co, Elk City, ED 21-10, sheet 2A)
Oreg. 26 Mar 1942, pg 16

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