Narcissus Jane (Bolt) Hobson (1855 - 1940)

Born 18 Jan 1855 in Kirklin, Clinton, Indiana, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Arthur Hobson — married 17 Sep 1870 in Clinton, Indiana, United States

Wife of James Harvey Cooper — married 2 Nov 1878 in Clinton, Indiana, United States

Descendants

Died 12 Feb 1940 at age 85 in Liberal, Barton, Missouri, United States

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Biography

From an oral interview of my aunt, Doris Cooper Harring Gurley, on 31 Jul 2000: "They [Narcissus and Arthur] had two boys, and were living in a dugout, and it was winter. Grandpa got sick, and died, at night, (in the bed with his boots on) and she ended up pulling apart one of the chairs and burning it to keep the panthers from coming down the chimney, until the next morning when the neighbors could come. And...they had a cow, and she had a horse and wagon, and she took the two kids, and the cow, and the horse and wagon and what she could take, and went back to Indiana....with a covered wagon. Now, that's the way I remember it being told......I wish you could have known her...she was a DEAR! She lived in Liberal, I can just see her house. They had catalpa trees on the front along next to the road...and she had a little wooden house and there was a cistern on this side, and there was a porch on this side, and she had some kind of a wooden tub thing that you did like this to wash clothes [back and forth motion like a saw]...and a little outhouse. One year we [Doris and first husband Don Harring] went down there, and she'd had the two rooms papered...she didn't have much money...she was just poor as church mice...some man papered the rooms, and the paper had little urns, and he hung them upside down! She was upset but couldn't afford to have it redone. And she always kept a spoon holder and a sugar bowl, and that celery holder in the middle of the table, and she'd put a dishcloth over it after we'd eaten...She had a pull-down wooden cabinet [flour bin?]. She came a lot of winters and stayed with us, there on Johnson Street. She had asthma so bad. But she'd tell us stories we heard a thousand times, about Grandpa dyin', and she'd sing a song about 'Kemo, Kimo, Dare Me Away.' And Mom [Cooper] would buy blocks of Milk of Magnesia for her to chew on. That was my delight for Mom to be gone and I'd crawl up on top of the cabinet and get that block and bite off a chunk of it. Never did get caught...Lots of times, Grandma slept with me and she'd have to sit up in bed...but oh, we loved Grandma. We always looked forward to her coming." In a 1970s interview with my mother, Myrtle Cooper Douglas, she said that often "Grandmother would say the rather shocking equivalent of 'cow dung,' then look alarmed and remind any child listening that you 'Never say a word you wouldn't put in your mouth.' Another expression of hers was 'as far as Dan to Bersheba' "- 1 Chronicles 20:2. After returning to Indiana after Thomas Hobson's death, she married second James Harvey Cooper in 1878.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4FD-QWL : 18 February 2021), Narcissus J Bolt in entry for James M Bolt, 1860. Jackson Twp, Clinton, Indiana.

• 1870 United States Federal Census, database with images, Ancestry.com. Clinton County, Indiana, Jackson Township, page 88, image 88 of 100, dwel 690, fam 655, Charity Bolt household.

• Indiana Marriage Collection, Clinton County, Indiana, Index to Marriages, Book C-5:63, Thomas A. Hobson and Narcissus J. Bolt, 18 Sep 1870, Ancestry.com.

• Indiana Marriage Collection, Clinton County, Indiana, Index to Marriages. Book C-6:358, James H. Cooper and Narcissus Hobson, 2 Nov 1878, Ancestry.com.

• "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ZYNY-WTT2 : 30 December 2021), Narcissus J Bolt in entry for Thomas A Hobson, 1870.

• 1880 United States Federal Census, database with images, Ancestry.com, Clinton County, Indiana, Kirklin Township, ED 15, SD 4, sheet 185A, James H. Cooper household.

• 1900 United States Census, database with images, FamilySearch.org (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3HV-NV3 : accessed 3 July 2018), Narcissus Cooper in household of James H Cooper, Ozark Township Liberal city, Barton, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 25, sheet 8A, family 184, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,838.

• Kansas State Census Collection, 1855-1925 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009; 1905 Kansas State Census. Microfilm reels K-1 - K-181. Kansas State Historical Society.

• U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Ancestry.com, Birmingham, Alabama, 1911. Narcissus J Cooper, spouse James H. Cooper, address 1423 Tuscaloosa Ave, W E. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/850850639:2469

• 1920 United States Census, database with images, FamilySearch.org. Missouri > Barton > Ozark > ED 34 > image 9 of 24; citing NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• 1930 United States Census, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHXS-49F : accessed 3 July 2018), Narcissus Cooper, Mindenmines, Barton, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 15, sheet 2A, line 44, family 34, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1175; FHL microfilm 2,340,910.

• Missouri, Missouri State Board of Health, Death Certificates, Narcissis Jane Cooper death certificate #1591.[1]

• Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 11 December 2018), memorial page for Narcissis Jane Bolt Cooper (18 Jan 1855–12 Feb 1940), Find A Grave: Memorial #122668523, citing Barton City Cemetery, Liberal, Barton County, Missouri, USA ; Maintained by Rickey (contributor 47877047).