Oklahoma Family Group Sheet for George Washington COSPER Family

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Submitted by: Glendyne R. Wergland
Email address: G.Wergland@att.net


Husband: George Washington "Wash" COSPER
Birthdate: 7 Apr 1841
Birthplace: Kinzua, Warren Co. Pennsylvania
Death date: 14 Feb 1923
Place of death: Henryetta, Okmulgee Co. Oklahoma
Burial: West Lawn Cemetery , Henryetta
Father: John R. COSPER
Mother: Sarah Ann STRONG

Marriage date: abt 1873-1874
Marriage place: Bradford, McKean Co. Pennsylvania

Wife: Marietta Arabella "Mate" CLARK
Birthdate: 13 Nov 1849
Birthplace: Bradford, McKean Co. Pennsylvania
Death date: 20 Oct 1925
Place of death: Henryetta , Oklahoma
Burial: West Lawn Cemetery , Henryetta
Father: David CLARK
Mother: Mary J. MCKEAN

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Leslie Girard COSPER
Sex: M
Birthdate: 14 Aug 1875
Birthplace: Kinzua, Warren Co., Pennsylvania ,
Death date: 23 Jan 1962
Place of death: Wichita Falls , Texas
Marriage date: 3 Jul 1902
Marriage place: Sistersville , West Virginia
Spouse: Gertrude Mae SMITH


Child No. 2: Burton COSPER
Birthdate: 1877
Birthplace: Bradford, McKean Co., Pennsylvania
Death date: 1891
Place of death: Bradford , Penn.
Marriage: none


Documentation: Cosper obituaries, Henryetta Standard, 15 Feb 1923 and Henryetta
Daily Free-Lance, 20 Oct 1925; U.S. censuses; Cosper family oral history;
Cosper family Bible; Ila M. DeYong, Cosper family history (1972 typescript);
John W. Jordan, Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New
York: 1913), 74-75, 353-55 (Clarks).

Notes:
George W. “Wash” Cosper was a brother of Edward Jefferson Cosper. They res
Kinzua , Pennsylvania 1850-1870. By 1874, “ Wash ” had left the farm, probably
to work in the Pennsylvania oil boom. In 1880, he was working as a laborer in
Bradford, McKean Co., Pennsylvania . The Clarks and Cospers lived near each
other in Bradford , Pennsylvania .

About 1890, Wash suffered a head injury in a logging accident. After that, he
and his wife followed their son Leslie. In 1900, Les Cosper was a driller in
Sistersville , West Virginia . The Cospers res Independence, Kansas (1905),
Rogers County, Oklahoma (1910), and Fort Collins, Colorado (about 1915). Before
1920, they were in Henryetta , Oklahoma . Wash was retired, but he and his wife
lived near their son Les, who was a wildcatter in the oil business.

Mate had two special gifts. One was her voice, which had been professionally
trained. She and her sisters formed a singing group and performed at events in
Bradford . Her other gift was for math. She could run her eyes down a column of
figures and tally the total faster than someone else could do it on an adding
machine. She did the family's bookkeeping.

Child #1 Notes: Les’s wife was the daughter of Emma Sarah ODENWELDER & Israel
Baldwin SMITH of St. Mary’s, West Virginia . Leslie and Gertrude had 5
children: Gertrude, Glendine, Emma, Marguerite, Leslie a.k.a. “Skid.”

Child #2 Notes: Died of blood poisoning after being hit in the mouth with a
baseball; left no issue.