Aunt Betty Jean Davis (Abernathy)’s PATERNAL ancestors; there are more details to be added, as information is compiled into the family tree program.
For now, here are the basic facts:
[internet source: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/p/a/n/Donald-N-Pantheryates/BOOK-0001/0007-0009.html]
“17. WILLIAM5 COOPER (WILLIAM A.4, JAMES3, ROBERT2, ROBERT1) was born 1753 in N.C. (?), and died Aft. 1820 in Pensacola, Fla. (?). He married (1) CHOCTAW WIFE Abt. 1800. He married (2) POLLY BANKS WARNER November 1801, daughter of WETTENHALL WARNER and ELIZABETH CARGILL. She was born August 25, 1783 in Orangeburg Dist., S.C., and died Bef. 1820.
Notes for WILLIAM COOPER:
Arrived with other Coopers before 1787 as one of numerous North Carolinians in Natchez District, under Spanish rule, and became a cabo (corporal) in the Second and Sandy Creek District along Tennessee and headwaters of Tombigbe River (tristate area of TN/MS/AL). Returned in 1806 and got grant on Big Black River. Ended up as widower in Pensacola.
Early Settlers of Mississippi as Taken from Land Claims in the Mississippi Territory[....]“
William Copper and Mary “Polly” Banks Warner, according to data I have collected, are Betty Jean Davis (Abernathy)’s fourth great-grandparents.
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Thank you, Dr. Donald Panther-Yates! for posting your genealogy databases online.
– Cathy Ann Abernathy
