Family Search: When Victor Lisle Cooper was born on 6 October 1897, in Mersea Township, Essex, Ontario, Canada, his father, Theodore Franklin ‘Frank’ Cooper, was 26 and his mother, Ada Virginia ‘Addie’ Declute, was 26. He had at least 2 sons with Mary Walsh. He immigrated to United States in 1906 and lived in New London, New London, Connecticut, United States in 1935 and Waterford, New London, Connecticut, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1916. He died on 19 July 1992, at the age of 94, and was buried in Heavener, Le Flore, Oklahoma, United States.
Victor was born in Point Pelee, Ontario. He was one of six children born to “Frank” and “Addie”. We still need his mother’s cemetery name to link this large family together.
His parents divorced in Nov 1917 and the mother moved to Detroit. No more records were found for her after the 1930 census record.
Adelaide “Addie” Viroqua D’Clute – death date & cemetery?
Birth 19 Apr 1871 in Blenheim, Ontario, Canada
Death aft 1930 in prob, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA.
Victor served in the “Canada, Soldiers of the First World War, 1914-1918”.
In Victor’s 1930 census record he moved to New London, Connecticut where he enrolled in the Coast Guard Academy – “V. S. Coast Guard Academy at Fort Trumbull New London, Conn.”
He had two wives. We need their marriage records and any children they might have had.
From 1937-1952 living with Mary, his wife, in New London, Connecticut.
Mary W. – maiden name, death date & cemetery?
Birth abt 1914 in prob, Waterford, New London, Connecticut, USA
Death aft 1952 in prob, Waterford, New London, Connecticut, USA
We know nothing more about Mary.
Victor’s second wife was –
Hattie Ione Smith – cemetery?
Birth 3 Jan 1907 in Le Fore County, Oklahoma, USA
Death 1995 in Heavener, Le Flore, Oklahoma, USA
They married 25 Dec 1955. Nothing more is known about Hattie.
Source: Find-A-Grave
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