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This Hardy Gilpin Cooper was born in 1849 in Stewart County, GA. to William Stevens Cooper and Elizabeth Bacon Cooper. Strangly, his older brother Jonathan was enumerated in the neighboring household of Jas. M. Thompson (no explanation except maybe he was there with the Thompson children when the census taker was there. I have very little on his mothers line other than her father was one of the many Lyddall Bacon from all over the south, and her mother may have been Elizabeth Cooke. Hardy's father's line came through Fleet Cooper Sr, on the paternal side, and on the maternal side through the Hardy Stevens family, both of NC. The Stevens were connected to the Rev. Edward Browne family. Hardy's paternal grandparents were Jonathan Cooper and Drusella Stevens. Their marriage record has not been found, but Jonathan and Drusella Cooper are lised in the baptisms performed by Fleet Cooper circa 1805. In her father's, John Stevens will she is listed as Drusella Cooper.