Elizabeth Agnes
McIntosh
Birth: Oct. 3, 1821, in Kentucky
Died: Aug. 22, 1854, near Redding, Shasta County, Calif.
Buried: at Canyon Cemetery, near Redding, Shasta County, Calif.
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Elizabeth was the oldest of the McIntosh children and was
born in Kentucky. She married Archibald Hardin Cooper on Oct.
27, 1839, in Bourbon County, Kentucky. He was born Dec. 21, 1816
in Kentucky and was a doctor. Together
they had four children, three born in Kentucky and one in Illinois.
Their youngest child, son Louis Cooper died in 1852, the same
year that the family traveled overland to California by wagon
train. Dr. Cooper died the next year, in 1853, leaving Elizabeth
Cooper with three children and in a difficult situation.
Elizabeth then married Charles B. Catey on July 31, 1853,
in Red Bluff, Tehama County, Calif. They
had a son together. Sadly, Elizabeth Catey died in 1854. |
Archibald and Elizabeth's children
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John Francis Cooper, born Dec. 17,
1840, in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. He married Joanna
Powelson on Oct. 17, 1869, in Sacramento, Calif. He died on Dec.
7, 1917.
Here is the biography of John Francis
Cooper, a remarkable account of "The Days of '49" and
a successful life in business.
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Laura Alice Cooper, born April 7, 1843,
in Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky. She married George Nourse
in San Francisco. They had five children. She died on Sept. 17,
1902, in Oakland, Calif. Laura's married daughter Rebecca Alice
Everett, born about 1880-1882, died Jan. 1, 1945 as a prisoner
in a Japanese camp in Manila, the Philippines. |
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David M. Cooper, born April 17, 1846,
in Illinois. David served with Union in the Civil War and later
fought Indians on the coast. He married Rebecca Gilley, probably
on Aug. 13, 1871 but had no children. David married Sarah Burlett
in April, 1874, in Washington, Daviess County, Indiana. He died
on April 21, 1902 in Sacramento, Calif. and was buried with Grand
Army of the Republic honors. |
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Louis Cooper, born Sept. 2, 1848, in
Kentucky. He died in 1852, the same year that the McIntosh family
traveled the difficult overland trail to California. |
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Elizabeth traveled overland to California with the McIntosh
family in 1852. After Archibald died in 1853, she married Charles
B. Caty on July 31, 1853, in Red Bluff, Tehama County, Calif. |
Charles and Elizabeth's children
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George William Caty, born April 24,
1854, probably at Canyon House, near Redding, Shasta County,
Calif. He attended Grandma McIntosh's 81st birthday in 1885. |
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Elizabeth died on Aug. 22, 1854, probably
at Canyon House, near Redding, Shasta County, Calif. She is buried
at Canyon House Cemetery. Her father Frederick is also buried
there. The small cemetery is on a hillside near the Canyon House
site on the old road to Shasta from Redding. |
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