Monabee (Yoruba) Cooper (abt. 1850 - aft. 1910)

Born about Jan 1850 in Africa

Wife of Richard Cooper — married 5 Jun 1872 in Mobile County, Alabama

Died after 1910 after about age 60 in Alabama, United States of America

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Biography

Kate (Yoruba) Cooper has Yoruba ancestry.

Kate (Yoruba) Cooper is Notable.

This profile is part of the Africatown, Alabama One Place Study.

Monabee was born about 1850 in Africa. She was kidnapped from Africa and smuggled into the USA aboard the ship Clotilda on July 9, 1860 and enslaved until emancipation. The Clotilda was the last known ship to bring captives from Africa to the United States. Slave trading was illegal in the USA at this time.

Monabee's American name was Kate or Katie. She married Elmore Cooper some time before 1870, then Richard Cooper in 1872. It appears she did not have any biological children, but adopted Annie Wilkerson.

Note: At this time, naming conventions have not been written for African Tribes before the time of last names. Therefore, the name of Monabee's tribe has been used as her LNAB at this time following Native American standards. This can be changed as needed when naming conventions are written. On her 1872 marriage record, her last name is written as Meaher which is crossed out and then Thomas is written. There were two Meahers who acquired slaves from the Clotilda. One of them is likely the slave owner for Kate.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHK2-RVL : 28 May 2021), Kate Cooper in entry for Elmore Cooper, 1870.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4V3-NXW : 13 December 2021), Katy Cooper in household of Richard Cooper, Whistler, Mobile, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9DX-R2X : accessed 18 December 2021), Hattie Cooper, Precinct 9 Whistler (part), Mobile, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 87, sheet 14B, family 315, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,031.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MK7K-K99 : accessed 18 December 2021), Katie Cooper, Precinct 9, Mobile, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 69, sheet 7B, family 147, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 26; FHL microfilm 1,374,039.

See also:

• Clotilda, Last Known Slave Ship