Dena Cooper Tree » William Edward Cooper (1902-1978)
Personal data William Edward Cooper
Source 1Sources 2, 3, 4, 5- He was born on January 12, 1902 in Oklahoma.Sources 2, 3, 4, 5
- Resident:
- in the year 1920: Diamond Ridge, Baca, Colorado, USA.Source 2
- in the year 1935: Cortez, Colorado.Source 3
- in the year 1940: cortez colorado.Source 3
- He died on March 31, 1978 in Moab Utah, he was 76 years old.Sources 4, 5
- He is buried in Moab, Grand, Utah.Sources 4, 5
- A child of George Washington Cooper and Minnie
Household of William Edward Cooper
He is married to Mary Lenora Hager.
They got married June 5, 1935 at Cortez, Montezuma County, Colorado, USA, he was 32 years old.
Child(ren):
- George Cooper 1936-2012
- (Not public)
- Ronnie Ray cooper 1943-1995
- Karen Kay Cooper 1946-2006
Timeline William Edward Cooper
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- U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- Utah Cemetery Inventory, Utah State Historical Society, comp. / Ancestry.com
Historical events
Birthday January 12, 1902
- The temperature on January 12, 1902 was between -0.5 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1902: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
- January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
- February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
- March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
- April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
- December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
- December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
Day of death March 31, 1978
- The temperature on March 31, 1978 was between 5.0 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1978: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
- March 11 » Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.
- July 25 » Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
- October 1 » Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- November 23 » Cyclone kills about 1000 people in eastern Sri Lanka.
- December 11 » The Lufthansa heist is committed by a group led by Lucchese family associate Jimmy Burke. It was the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil, at that time.
- December 16 » Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first major American city to default on its financial obligations since the Great Depression.
Same birth/death day
- 1899 » Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1965)
- 1899 » Pierre Bernac, French opera singer and educator († 1979)
- 1901 » Karl Künstler, German SS officer († 1945)
- 1903 » Andrew J. Transue, American politician and attorney (Morissette v. United States) († 1995)
- 1903 » Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist and academic († 1960)
- 1904 » Mississippi Fred McDowell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1972)
- 1975 » Percy Alliss, English golfer (b. 1897)
- 1976 » Paul Strand, American photographer and director (b. 1890)
- 1978 » Astrid Allwyn, American actress (b. 1905)
- 1978 » Charles Herbert Best, American-Canadian physiologist and biochemist, co-discovered Insulin (b. 1899)
- 1980 » Jesse Owens, American sprinter and long jumper (b. 1913)
- 1980 » Vladimír Holan, Czech poet and author (b. 1905)
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Dena Mccune, "Dena Cooper Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/dena-cooper-tree/P9.php : accessed February 19, 2026), "William Edward Cooper (1902-1978)".