Birth Name: Cecil Celester Cooper
Place of Birth: Brenham, Washington, Texas, USA
Date of Birth: December 20, 1949
Ethnicity: African-American
Ancestry/Genealogy: Cecil Cooper is a former Major League Baseball first baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers and Boston Red Sox. He is also a former manager for the Houston Astros.
He was the son of Roy Cooper and Ocie Mae (Clark) Cooper.
His paternal grandparents were Samuel Lott Cooper (the son of Lott Cooper and Hannah Potts) and Millie Runnels Corprew. Samuel and Millie were born in Texas.
His maternal grandfather was John Clark, who was the son of James Edward Clark Sr. and Mary Elizabeth Roberts. James was born in North Carolina, the son of Robert Clark and Jane Jenkins. Mary was born in Choctaw, Mississippi, the daughter of Matthew Benton Roberts and Sarah D. Middleton.
His maternal grandmother was Lucinda Anderson, who was the daughter of Robert Anderson and Nettie Mathis.
Source: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158795962/roy-cooper (Cecil Cooper’s fathers obituary)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155619454/ocie-mae-cooper (Cecil Cooper’s mothers obituary)
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