Description
Johnson Cooper: 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company D, Private. Additional service: 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, Company D. Died October 18, 1914, in Hennessey, Oklahoma.
✦ Invalid Pension: #590,736, Certificate #474,844
✦ Widow Pension: #1,038,175, Certificate #812,469
(Researcher's note: Johnson Cooper enlisted at Fort Scott, Kansas on August 8, 1862, and was mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry, Company D. On November 30, 1866, Samuel Pepper of Platte County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #298 for enlisted slave Johnson Cooper and swore an oath of allegiance before Weston, Missouri, Court of Common Pleas Clerk William F. Yocum.
Pepper claimed he had acquired title to Johnson when “…that he bought him at the Administrator's sale of affiant's grandfathers in Mason County, State of Kentucky, in the year 1842. That he got no Bill of Sale, the Negro being only a child about 4 years old. That affiant owned him ever since and brought him to Platte County, Missouri in the year 1844. Witness James A. Miller was present at the sale and saw the purchase. And both witnesses know of the ownership, both in Kentucky and in Missouri, having removed to Platte County, Missouri, about the same time as affiant and lived here ever since.”
As of July 1, 2026, Civil War U. S. C. T. Pension Record case files are not currently available on the Internet and would need to be ordered from the National Archives, https://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/pre-ww-1-records.)Date(s) of Creation
12/7/1886