This collection contains financial documents belonging to the Cooper family of Bradley County, Tennessee, specifically Bennet Cooper and his oldest son Dempsey Cooper. These six documents range from 1839 to 1899. They include financial documents, the first of which declaring Bennet Cooper as the executor of his recently deceased father’s estate (Philip Cooper). This document was signed on January 7, 1839 in Athens (McMinn County). The second document is a deed, signed on January 27, 1847, tendering eighty acres of land in Bradley County to Dempsey Cooper from William Harle.

Other documents include receipts for tax payments by Dempsey Cooper. The first receipt states that Dempsey Cooper has paid $6.65 for taxes required by an Act of Congress called “An Act for the Collection of Direct Taxes in Insurrectionary Districts within the United States, and for other purposes” and it was signed on December 28, 1865. The last three receipts represent the annual taxes paid by Dempsey Cooper in Bradley County for the years of 1896, 1897, and 1898.

Also included are pages from an unknown book detailing some of the genealogy of the Cooper family, specifically the descendants of Erby Cooper, the second to last child of Bennet and his wife Lydia Cooper.