Husband: George Washington COSPER
aka: "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 CLARK
aka: "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's name: Gertrude Mae SMITH

Child No. 2: Burton COSPER
Sex:
Birthdate: 1877
Birthplace: Bradford, McKean Co., Pennsylvania
Death date: 1891
Place of death: Bradford, Penn.
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouse's name: 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: 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: Died of blood poisoning after being hit in the mouth with a baseball; left no issue.