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Show Great-Great-Granddad At 73 In S.F. Is Former Resident Of Arcadia; Throws Gut Challenge To Two States EDITOR'S NOTE: Joseph Cooper, who is ihe principal character in the following story clipped from the San Francisco Examiner, was a Uintah Basin resident from 1906 to 1935, tells us in a letter let-ter that the Examiner over-quoted over-quoted him He said I challenged chal-lenged the state of California and Utah relative to be'ng the youngest Great-Great Dad at 73. Accompanying the story was a photo of Mr. Cooper, his great-great-granddaughter, his daughter, granddaughter and great-granddaughter. San Francisco, a city that often of-ten prides itself on having some of the oldest things in this section sec-tion of the country, is the home of a man who has put in his I ' r r ! .... .iJin-.,,, -.r.... M OLDEST MAILMAN . . . Martin O. Childers, 94, of Beloit, Kansas, begins his twentieth year delivering deliver-ing nail. He drives a 62-mile route daily. claim to being the nation's youngest great-great-grandfather. He is Joseph Cooper 73, of 857 Ellis Street. An ex-Utah farmer (he got out of the farming farm-ing business when oil was discovered dis-covered on his land two years ago), he was born in 1880 in Hot Springs, Arkansas and moved mov-ed west at 17, because it was "just too hot down there" for him. He came back long enough, hovever, to marry a hometown sweetheart in 1900, and make a start on his prodigious trail of progeny. From there the genealogy gen-ealogy that leads from Cooper to his great-great-granddaughter, Deborah Jo Robbins, of Hot' Springs, Arkansas, reads lik-.i this: Cooper's first daughter,, now Mrs. Hester Gillham, was born in 1900. At 18 she had a daugh ter, now Mrs. John Williams, who in turn had a daughter, now Mrs. William Robbins, who in March of this year produced little Deborah Jo. Confusing? Not as confusing as it would be to Deborah, if she realized that her grandmother grand-mother is a granddaughter, as is her mother, whose grandmother grand-mother is mother of her gret-great-grandfathers granddaughter. granddaugh-ter. And besides that she ins sixty-eight other living blood relatives to contend with. As for Cooper, who claims he should be the subject of a novel called "The Last of the Coopers" by somebody named Mohican, isn't confused at all. He's looking look-ing forward to the day some year soon when little Deborah makes him the country's young- est great-great-great-grandfather. |
