Alvaretta
(Johnston) Cooperrider
(1853-1944)
Alvaretta (Johnston) Cooperrider
was born on Oct. 22, 1853 in either Brownsville, Licking County or Glenford,
Perry County, OH, the
daughter of Seth R. and Isabel (Minor)
Johnston.
On April 24, 1872,
Alvaretta married Alva Lewis Cooperrider
(1847-1923), son of Lewis and Dorcas (Spencer) Cooperrider. Their children were Arthur
Johnston Cooperrider,
Isabelle "Belle" Ice, William Roland "Rod" Cooperrider, Flora Boring, Lewis
Herbert Cooperrider, August "Gus" Edwin Cooperrider and Ethel Shrider.
The Cooperriders settled in Hopewell Twp., Perry County. Alva was a farmer, and he ultimately owned four tracts of land in nearby Bowling Green Twp., Licking County. Circa 1910, he and his son Rod formed a sand company, filling railroad cars by hand to ship locally mined sand to Zanesville, Muskingum County, OH.
Alvaretta and Alva were active in the Good Hope Lutheran Church of Glenford. They are mentioned in the 1993 book, 175 Years of Good Hope, published by the church, seen here.
The
Cooperriders suffered the death of son Arthur, who was unmarried, in
1911, at the age of 36. He had come down with a nervous condition at age seven which
caused seizures, and lived with the condition for nearly two decades. A
correspondent for the Somerset Press eulogized that "So far as I
know he had not a single enemy in the world."
Alva died on May 13, 1923. He
is buried at the Good Hope church graveyard.
Alvaretta survived her husband by more than two decades. She passed away on Jan. 9, 1944, and was laid to rest with Alva.
They and their offspring are referenced in J.L. Cooprider's 1952 book, Chronicles of the Families of Cooperider, Cooperrider and Cooprider and Their Descendants.
Son Gus served in World War I and worked for the Clark Grave Vault Company of Columbus, OH and also as a hardware dealer in Johnstown, OH.
While unloading mail sacks from a B&O Railroad train at
Glenford in 1911, son Rod lost a finger from his left hand and suffered deep cuts
on the other hand. While trying to "secure the mail sacks ... before
the local engine pulled across the tracks," said the Somerset Press,
"he slipped and fell toward the engine when his hands became entangled in
the cross head of the engine."
Daughter Belle married John Ice. John was said by the New Lexington Daily News to be "one of the best-known farmers in that section of Perry County." He and his wife Belle owned a 75-acre farm in the northeast quarter of Section 4, Township 17, Range 16. They also owned a 1930 Model-A Ford. Active in the Good Hope Church near Glenford, their names adorn the bottom of a memorial stained glass window there today, seen at right.
Grandson
Wayne Ice also died a violent death, at age 21, when he was crushed while chopping
down a tree in Glenford in January 1925.
Grandsons Maurice "Guss" Cooperrider and Joseph C. Cooperrider were veterans of World War II.
Tragically, Guss was killed in 1950 when his automobile collided with a stalled coal truck near Thornville.
In July 1950, son in law Virgil Boring and his son Charles R. Boring co-purchased a funeral home in Thornville, Perry County. The home later was known as Baker-Boring Funeral Home and today is the Boring-Sheridan Funeral Home, seen below right. Active in the community, Charles served on the Northern Local School Board of Perry County, OH, circa 1958. He and his family are profiled in the 1980 book, History of Perry County, Ohio, Illustrated, and in the 1977 volume, History of Thornville.
Thornville's Town Hall and town block
Grandson
Kermit Boring (seen here), who passed away in 2003, was a retired farm salesman and grain elevator
inspector. Said the Columbus (OH) Dispatch, "He was employed by the
State of Ohio Department of Agriculture, Mike Clum Auctions of Rushville, and
was active in antiquing and the chair caning business." He is pictured and profiled in the May 1984
volume, A Touch of the Past: The People and Places of Perry County. His
late wife Dorothy was an elementary school teacher in the area for 31 years.
The Borings' daughter Barbara (Boring) Bauer has been a volunteer with the Palatines to America Library in Columbus, OH. She has done extensive research into our family's German roots, and has authored three excellent summaries on our website -- The Immigrant Brothers: Meyndert and Carsten Fredericksen -- The Immigrants: Jacob and Anna Elisabethe Weber -- and The Kochertal Party.
For more information on this branch, contact Barbara (Boring) Bauer.
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