The Southern Kentucky Thorntons' Wagoner cousins descended through the aunt of Mary Susan Cooper Thornton, wife of Jesse Benton. Tabitha Josephine "Jocie" Cooper was born November 26, 1859, to Francis "Frank" Marion and Tabitha Sullivan Cooper. In approximately 1873, she married David E. Wagoner (1842-1901) and had at least ten children. In the picture above, Jocie Wagoner is in the front row, third from the right. In the front row, we find her sons, left to right: Robert Lucian (1896-1976); Frank Herbert (1880-1936); Walter Edmond (1875-1956); Will Marshall (1878-1948), and Ervin Samuel (1884-1953). In the second row, we have Ruthie T. (1899-1942); Laura Bell; Beulah Josephine (1892-1970), and Bessie. Hershel Tharston Wagoner (1882-1955) is not pictured. Jocie died December 5, 1943, in Allen County, Kentucky.
Tabitha Josephine Cooper Wagoner.
Beulah Josephine Wagoner was born July 28, 1892, and died November 28, 1970, in Allen County, Kentucky. On June 27, 1907, she married Ben Wilson Rippy (1890-1932) in Sumner County, Tennessee, and they had at least eight children: Noah Matthew (1909-2002); Lawrence Albert (1912-1954); Lela Mae (1914-2004); Minnie Bell (1915-1987); Cordell Elizabeth (1918-2005); Nellie; Delbert (1923-1968), and Robert Ray (1927-1995).
Photos from the Rippy family.
Photos from the Rippy family.
