Below, outlined in red, are the divisions of James Thomas Cooper's land on
Line Creek
made by his heirs
in 1890-1892, totaling 2,926 acres. This is what he owned at his death 8 Feb
1888. He was 58 years old.
These boundaries are from the surveys made by Cooper's heirs, which actually
weren't very good. I've tried to reconstruct the surveys based on the available
data. For the most part, the land was arbitrarily divided with no regard for
previous boundaries.
William Cooper's tract contained "the Langford lands" for which we
are not, for the most part, concerning ourselves with in this study. There were
a few thousand more acres which remained in tracts mainly south of the area
shown here.
John F. Cooper's division was in two tracts: one shown here and one on the
Rockcastle River which was called the "Ping survey" and began just
west of Evans Ferry (see
location map).
Ida Cooper was just 17 when she inherited her land and lived only three more
years. She had not married, so the land reverted back to the remaining heirs.
Robert Cooper bought her tract from his mother and siblings for $1,500. |
