Papers of the Cooper-Sheppard-Cox Family, 1878 - 2004

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Papers of the Cooper-Sheppard-Cox Family, 1878 - 2004

Resource Link

http://hdl.handle.net/10407/1194539258

Abstract

The Cooper-Sheppard-Cox Family Papers are those of an African American family whose members resided in Topeka, Kansas from the late 1800s to the 1970s. The papers document the family line of W. D. (William Damascus) and Mary M. (Overton) Brinkley Cooper, and include papers of Sheppard and Cox family members who married descendants of W. D. and Mary Cooper.

Extent

23.35 linear feet (29 boxes), 7 oversize boxes, 1 oversize folder

Holding Repository

University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kanas Collection

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6353182

Related Entities

There are 14 Entities related to this resource.

African American freemasons.

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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Delta Chapter (University of Kansas)

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Cooper, W. D. (William Damascus), 1861-1965.

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Cooper-Sheppard-Cox Family

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Persons whose papers are included in this collection are W. D. (William Damascus) Cooper and his daughters (Willa Abe, Emma Ellene, and Elizabeth Brinkley-Cooper), Cooper's two sisters (Alice and Georgia), Henry Edward Sheppard (husband of Cooper's daughter Elizabeth), and Josiah Clark Cox (husband of Elizabeth's daughter Henrietta). The collection also includes papers of Josiah Cox's sister, Olive (Cox) Fisher, and papers of the children of Josiah and Henrietta (Sheppard) Cox: Thom...