Does anyone know if there was/is a town in Hernando County around 1870 named Cedar Tree. If the town existed where was it at, closest large town, or if it has a new name?

Thanks
Henry

Wasn't Cedar Tree one of the districts for families during the 1870 Census? Wasn't it also just East Southeast of Brooksville? I believe that the 1870 Census will bear this out and perhaps Cedar Tree still exists on the local county map. Let me know if any Nicks were residents there.

Cedar Tree p.o. listed as city in abstract of 1870 Florida Census Index. Haven't searched further the name appears as a city again in Federal census ?1880, I haven't got my "stuff" handy.Good Luck. Find lots of Coopers!
Sheryl

Thanks for the information. I would like to find the area of the county that it was located in. It would give me a general idea where the family lived.

Thanks
Henry S. Moran

Mr. Moran,
I was fumbling through this forum and pulled your query out by searching for "Cooper". I am looking for an Isham/Isom Cooper that was from that area. My G-G-Grandfather (One of Isom's sons) was William Rowan Cooper and he died in Citrus Co. Fla. and is supposed to be buried in "Stage Pond Cemetery" in Inverness. If any of this sounds familiar please e-mail me. Thanks Regina Cooper DePriest

Regina,

I don't have a William as a son of my Isham. My information on Isham is incomplete. I do know that he was in Hernando County in 1870. I am not sure where and when he left Hernando County. One of his sons (John V., my ggrandfather) was in Georgia in the 1880's and returned to Florida in 1904 with his children. Do you have any more information on your Isham?

Thanks for contacting me. If you like I can send you the information I have on Isham and his family.

My Isom/Isham Married a "Mary Vinzant". I have a partial list of his Children from My G-G-Grandfathers sister Susie Cooper Barker's family. She gave this info to my Uncle before she died.

Children of Isom and Mary Vinzant Cooper

Pink Cooper born in Hillsborough Co., Fla. abt. 1856
Jim Cooper born in Hillsborough Co., Fla. abt. 1858
William Rowan Cooper born in Hillsborough April 11/1860
Mollie Cooper born in Hillsborough Co., Fla. abt 1862
John Cooper born in Hillsborough Co., Fla. abt 1864
Susie Cooper born in ? ,Fla. 1874 Susie died in Nashville, Georgia in 1950

This info came out of an old woman's head and may be incorrect or incomplete.

Regina,

We have a match, Pink, John Vinzant, Molly, Nancy, Mary, Lucy, Orran (I think that is the correct spelling) etc are children of my Isham also. John (Vinzant) is my ggrandfather. In the Antioch Cemetery in Hillsboro County where John and Luannie (Lousiana Exum) are buried is the plot for a Mary A. Cooper. The tombstone says (Wife of Isham). Isham's brother Robert Robinson is buried at Duke's Station in Union County just south of Olustee Battlefield.

You can contact me for further information on my branch of the Coopers at elviejo99@hotmail.com.

The town (post office) of Cedar Tree in Hernando was what is today known as Darby in Pasco county. In one of the Hernando history sites:
http://www.fivay.org/hernando1.html
the post office Cedar Tree first appears in 1853 with James Bates as postmaster. In 1871 the justice of pease were Jason T. McKeown and L.J. Strickland for Cedar Tree. The 1880 census did not list the post office. On February 12, 1872 the Cedar Tree post office discontinued its services. Just a little Florida history.
Pat Bowen