Cooper County, Missouri
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N 38° 58.627 W 092° 44.653
15S E 522155 N 4314268
Cooper County is named for Sarshall Cooper, an early settler in the area. The waymark is centered on the Cooper County Courthouse, a three-story stone building located at 200 Main in Boonville, Missouri.
Waymark Code: WMYADY
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 05/20/2018
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The Person:
From genealogytrails.com on Sarshall Cooper:
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"Capt. Sarshall Cooper Murdered.
One of the saddest events of the war was the tragic death of Sarshall Cooper, after whom Cooper County was named. His death touched the hearts of the frontiersmen as had no other death in this section. He was, in fact, the beloved and acknowledged leader of the settlers north of the Missouri River.
The night of April 14, 1814, was dark and stormy, and the watchful sentinel could not sec an object six feet in front of the stockade. Captain Cooper lived in one of the angles of the fort, and one day while sitting at his fireside with his family, his youngest child on his lap, and the others playing around the room, his wife sitting by his side sewing, the storm raging without, a single warrior crawled up to the fort, and made a hole just large enough for the muzzle of his gun through the clay between the logs. The noise of his work was drowned by the howling storm; lie discharged the gun with effect fatal to Cooper, and Sarshall Cooper fell from his chair to the floor, a lifeless corpse, amidst his horror-stricken family.
Sarshall Cooper was a natural leader; he was about five feet 10 inches tall, of fine physique, a superior horseman, cool and deliberate. His wife was Ruth, a daughter of Stephen Hancock, the Boonsboro pioneer with Daniel Boone."
The Place:
From the Wikipedia page for Cooper County, Missouri:
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"Cooper County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 17,601. Its county seat is Boonville. The county was organized December 17, 1818 and named for Sarshell Cooper, a frontier settler who was killed by Native Americans near Arrow Rock in 1814.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 569 square miles (1,470 km2), of which 565 square miles (1,460 km2) is land and 4.4 square miles (11 km2) (0.8%) is water."