Rachel Cooper [Marshall]

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Title

Rachel Cooper [Marshall]

Section

Lot

Grave

03A

First Name

Last Name

Relationship

Wife of Drury Cooper (G-008-02)

Birth Date

1838

Birth: Year

Death Date

1902

Death: Year

Gender

Number of Persons on Marker

Composition

Condition

Shape

State

Carving

Leaves

Legibility

Fair

Dimension: Height

61 inches

Dimension: Width

14 inches

Source of Information

Information taken from Westwood Printout and grave marker, if available; check the original burial register at city hall for additional data

Biographical Information

A brief biography of the Cooper family appears on pp. 49-50 of William E. Bigglestone, They Stopped in Oberlin: Black Residents and Visitors of the Nineteenth Century (Scottsdale, AZ: Innovation Group, 1981). According to Bigglestone, after Drury Cooper died she married "widower Charles Marshall."

Burial Date from Printout

04/08/1902

Burial: Month

Burial: Day

8

Burial: Year

Lot Owner

Cooper, Drury

Date Transcribed

08/04/2000

Default Latitude

41.28385631

Default Longitude

-82.23501245

Default Zoom Level

20

Collection

Citation

“Rachel Cooper [Marshall],” Westwood Database, accessed June 11, 2024, https://www.oberlinwestwood.org/omeka/items/show/53795.

Output Formats

Geolocation