Pennsylvania Family Group Sheet for the George Washington "Wash" COSPER Family

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Husband: George Washington "Wash" COSPER
Birthdate: 7 Apr 1841
Birthplace: Kinzua, Warren Co. PA
Death date: 14 Geb 1923
Place of death: Henryetta, OK
Burial: West Lawn Cemetery, Henryetta
Father: John R. COSPER
Mother: Sara Ann STRONG

Marriage date: Aby 1873-1874
Marriage place: Bradford, McKean Co. PA

Wife: Marietta Arabella "Mate" (CLARK) COSPER
Birthdate: 13 Nov 1849
Birthplace: Bradford, McKean Co. PA
Death date: 20 Oct 1925
Place of death: Henryetta, OK
Burial: West Lawn Cemetery, Henryetta, OK
Father: David CLARK
Mother: Mary J. McKEAN

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Leslie Girard COSPER
Sex: M
Birthdate: 14 Aug 1875
Birthplace: Kinzua, Warren Co. PA
Death date: 23 Jan 1962
Place of death: Wichita Falls, TX
Burial: 
Marriage date: 3 Jul 1902
Marriage place: Sistersville, WVA
Spouse's name: Gertrude Mae SMITH


Child No. 2: Burton COSPER
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1877
Birthplace: Bradford, McKean Co PA
Death date: 1891
Place of death: Bradford PA
Burial: 
Marriage date: 
Marriage place: 
Spouse's name: 


Documentation: 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. 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. 
Notes: The Clarks and Cospers lived near each other in Bradford, 
Pennsylvania. 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. NOTE ON WIFE OF CHILD 1: His 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.” NOTES ON CHILD #2: 
Notes: Died of blood poisoning after being hit in the mouth with a 
baseball; left no issue. Sources: 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).