BROOKS FAMILY HISTORY - Interactive Family Histories

7-240 INTERACTIVE FAMILY HISTORIES............Willie James Cooper (2.6.5.2.1), b. November 13, 1880............Deedie Cooper, b. February 13, 1882............Boonie Cooper, b. December 18, 1883............Charlie Cooper, b. 1884 - 1885............Bernie Mae Cooper (2.6.5.2.5), b. May 3, 1887............Florida Cooper............Bennett Pletis Cooper, b. May 2, 1894Sallie (Perkins) Cooper died in January of 1897 in Tallapoosa. Robert HenryCooper married twice after Sallie’s death and had two more children. DeedieCooper married Mary Parham and they had two children: - Harvey Cooper, -Sallie Kate Cooper, b. 1908. Harvey Cooper married and had one child: - C.H. Cooper. Sallie Cooper married a Mr. Lenderman and had one daughter: -Malone Lenderman. Deedie Cooper died in a well accident on April 16, 1908.Boonie Cooper was a merchant. Boonie Cooper married Edna Perkins and theyhad four children: - Clarice Cooper, b. January 7, 1911, - Foster Cooper, b.August 5, 1915, - Cameron Cooper, b. December 16, 1918, - Boonie PerkinsCooper, b. December 17, 1925. Clarice Cooper married J. B. Cooper and theyhad one daughter: - Angela Cooper. Angela Cooper married Doyal Shaddixand they had one son: - Billy Shaddix. Foster Cooper never married and diedon May 13, 1951 of a rare kidney disease. Cameron Cooper married GraceHamrick and they had no children. Cameron died on July 18, 1957 of a heart attack.Boonie Perkins Cooper never married and died in July of 1957. BoonieCooper died of pneumonia on April 30, 1925.Charlie Cooper married C. H. Gilley and they had three sons: - DenverGilley, - Paschal Gilley, - Powell Gilley. Denver Gilley married and has onedaughter: - Barbara Gilley. Paschal Gilley married and had at least one son: -Paschal Gilley, Jr. who is a Southern Baptist Minister and serves on the Board ofTrustees for Tift College. Paschal Gilley, Sr. died in an car accident when in hisseventies. Powell Gilley died as an infant. Charlie (Cooper) Gilley died in hertwenties. Florida Cooper married Henry Heard and they had six children: -Coy Heard, b. March 11, 1918, - Pauline Heard, - Grace Heard, - BlancheHeard, - Cooper Heard, - Wayne Heard. Coy Heard married Mary Wilsonbut and they no children. Coy Heard died in a train accident. Pauline Heardmarried Dalton Beavers, a farmer, and they had one daughter: - Nancy HeardBeavers. Grace Heard married Richard Roberts, Jr., a United States GovernmentPostal Employee, and they had one son: - Richard Roberts, III. Blanche Heardmarried F. T. Jordan and they had two children: - Allen Jordan, - Donna Jordan.Cooper Heard died in a car accident in Washignton, D. C. when he was inhis early twenties. Wayne Heard married Ellerline Pittman and they had twosons: - James Heard, - Denny Heard. Bennett Cooper served in World War Iin the Transportation Corps stationed in France. Bennett married Ethely Blountand they had no children. Bennett was in the real estate business and died ofcancer on October 22, 1962.References: 1) Letter, Grace (Henslee) Massie to Robert Casey, November, 1980; 2)Letter, Grace (Henslee) Massie to Robert Casey, September, 1981