1848 approx: Born in Maine to William Lyon and Elizabeth Lowell. (A1, p7-8)

1871 Apr 16: Travelling alone from St. Paul, Minnesota, Helen Marie Lyon arrives in Coneburg, a forerunner of Peabody, KS, to stake a homestead claim and take up residence. (1, p84)

George Cooper marries Helen Marie Lyon.

The Cooper family were early members of the First Christian Church of Peabody, as were the Ulysse Huguenin family.

George Cooper Homestead, 2008 Dec 1 Enlarge Little House on the Prairie 1869-1871: The Ingalls family is living in their "Little House on the Prairie" (2,3) near Independence, Kansas, about 100 miles southeast of Peabody.

Family Material

1. Helen Marie Cooper, The Wealth She Gathered, ed. Gertrude Helen Cooper (Chapman & Grimes, 1950). This well-written book tells the story of the Cooper family and also a great deal about early Peabody, KS.

Notes

2. Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie (HarperCollins, 1994). First published 1935.

3. "The Official Site of Little House on the Prairie," www.littlehouseontheprairie.com (LittleHouseOnThePrairie.com; accessed 2009 May 17).