. West Virginia and its people. g he moved acrossthe Ohio river into Virginia, settling at Parkersburg, nearly oppositewhere he was born. Before the time of steamboats he was a large ship-per of tobacco, corn and other products to New Orleans by was a man of strong intellect and remarkable memory, honest, stern,but kind and charitable. In the time of the Whig party he was a zealousWhig, and he was afterward a Republican. He married (first) November 29, 1827, Sarah E. Lewis; (second)in Montgomery county, Maryland, October 27, 1844, Emeline M., bornin Montgomery county, Maryland, 18
. West Virginia and its people. g he moved acrossthe Ohio river into Virginia, settling at Parkersburg, nearly oppositewhere he was born. Before the time of steamboats he was a large ship-per of tobacco, corn and other products to New Orleans by was a man of strong intellect and remarkable memory, honest, stern,but kind and charitable. In the time of the Whig party he was a zealousWhig, and he was afterward a Republican. He married (first) November 29, 1827, Sarah E. Lewis; (second)in Montgomery county, Maryland, October 27, 1844, Emeline M., bornin Montgomery county, Maryland, 1815, died at Parkersburg, 1881,daughter of Henry Odel and Sarah (Benson) Talbott. The Talbottfamily claims descent from Richard de Talbott, who came from Nor-mandy with William the Conqueror, and from Lord John Talbott, whowas created Earl of Shrewsbury in 1442, and, as its American founder,John Talbott, born at Windham, England, in 1645 ; he was a graduate ofCambridge LTniversity in 1664, became an Episcopalian minister, is be-. WEST MRGIXIA 447 lieved to have received consecration as a bishop from the non-jurors,and was a missionary at Burhngton, New Jersey. Children of OtisLittle Bradford, first-named three by first, others by second, wife: , unmarried. 2. Eliza, married Edward Bradon. 3. Sarah, mar-ried Paul Neal. 4. Columbia Ann, born August 16, 1845 : married, Octo-ber 17, 1871, Isaac \\esley Hiteshew (see Hiteshew II). 5. Emma Otis,born February 16, 1848, died June 15, 1866. 6. Frances Dana, bornMarch i, 1852, died February 3, 1906. 7. Josephine Talbott, born No-vember 26, 1854; married, August 26, 1890, William AI. Strauss. John Cooper, born in Staffordshire, England, in the year COOPER 1848, was the immediate founder of this family in Amer-ca. He came to this country when about twenty-one yearsof age and settled in Pennsylvania, obtaining employment in the coalmines of that state. Beginning as a digger in the mines, he manifestedsuch industry and intelligence
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