HMC Family Association

Making Connections
I have a picture of Ann W. Matheny in a family album with other pictures most of which I can’t identify. On the back it says D. Wooten, Dixie, WA. My great-great-grandfather was William Matheny. He was born in 1810 in Kentucky. He lived briefly in Ohio. Went back to Kentucky and for several years before the 1850 census lived in Danville, Montgomery County, Missouri. My great-grandfather was Stephen P. Matheny. I know that Ann and her family were related, but I’m not sure how to make the connection. By 1840 William Matheny and his family were living in Missouri. William was a wheel-wright.

Also I’m beginning to see a possible Cooper connection. Benjamin Garrett Kimble (B: 1795 PA) married Rebecca Cooper who was born in 1801 in MD. She was the daughter of Jacob Cooper and Elizabeth Atkinson. Eldora Kimble Watson was one of my grandmother’s best friends now I see that there could be a possible connection going back several generations.

Maureen Barnard (a Matheny) earlmoci@camano.net

Continued from March 2008

From Don Rivara…
Thomas C. Cooper*abt. 1705-1785
Mary Unknown*abt. 1710-abt. 1791
Joel Cooper

Thomas Cooper left nothing to his son Joel in his will, yet he made him the executor of the will. This suggests that Joel was provided for during Thomas’ lifetime or that Joel was very prosperous. Born about 1743, Joel may have been the Cooper son captured by Indians in 1753. He was married 5 November 1764 to Courtney Roberts in Norfolk County, VA. He appears in the Hampshire County, VA [WV] censuses in 1782, 1783, 1784, and 1785.

After settling the estate of his father in 1785, Job appears to have left Virginia. On September 12, 1786, he and his brother Thomas II leased out 146 acres on Patterson Creek in Hampshire County that they apparently owned jointly. Witnesses to the lease were Job Cooper, David Cooper, and Arjalon Price. Thomas II moved to his inherited land on Allegheny Mountain and Job moved to the Watauga River Valley in what is today the easternmost tip of Tennessee. The 1787 tax list shows that Joel owned 150 acres on Sinking Creek. On January 20, 1788, Joel Cooper, Jr., married Elizabeth Job with Joel Jr.’s uncle, Job Cooper, as surety. In March of 1819 Joel Sr. made his X to sell 180 acres there to his son Joel Jr. Joel Sr. died in Carter County, Tennessee, in 1825. [By then the portion of Washington County where the Coopers lived had become Carter County.] In his will, he left his “plantation” to Joel, Jr., and divided the proceeds of the sale of the rest of his property among his other heirs. Joel Jr. remained in Carter County and died there in 1858. (to be continued in the next newsletter)

April 22, 2008-
I have been receiving the newsletter for many years and periodically like to send in a check to cover expenses.

I also have been putting my family on Ancestry public trees. This includes numerous Mathenys who lived in SE Washington. This is tedious but rewarding to see how the Mathenys were related and interacted with my ancestors. I have uploaded some pictures and documents. To find the trees look for Anna Matheny who married Hiram Smith Bishop and Ann W. Matheny who married J.D. Largent and Davis Wooton.

Keep up the good work!
-Carole A. Lange, Mabton, WA