https://johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/013d3e0d088459ed6c1eb5757d754ba8.pdf dd9cc5557ee7f14cb33a50ae3be1766d PDF Text Text -- ~~ .... ,, ~e n cy c , J ( . 0 1 f . c th• hom on lD f r 10 year J f I th 1 st days of his , per enJoyed company om he loved to con d was noted in the area very interesting acf the past he would tell 1 J ] j • in 1866 to the son of an per had a a merchant, served e WPA l'I'ogram as a t 8nd Was a staunch in and promoter of . The first rural school ea for Blacks bore his five of his daughters ool teachers. . ft rt.itnarked that when was abolished, his enry Coqper, was the who could read and n the salaves were enry saw to it that each · dren were educated. in manner available to that time.This resulted ming a minister graduating from , and two oming 4 • I 4 ] Yank Cooper . night, writing with fire coals, his father would do whclt he saw the young man do. · Cooper said his fa ther also had a speller that he kept hidden f ~om his master by p acing 1t n hi · . Every opportunity he had Ile would stories he would . pull the s ler out to study. He . how his father was a was · cau t unaware while slave and learned to studying one day and threw the write by imitat · the k into a briar patchb-ut i camE master as he did his baCk later ·and retrieved it, ..... - -· • � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Weekly Observer Description An account of the resource The Weekly Observer was published out of Hemingway, SC from 1973 until printing ceased in 2012. The paper continues as an e newpaper on scnow.com Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1973-2012 Subject The topic of the resource Local Newspaper covering the Johnsonville and Hemingway communities. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Weekly Observer Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yank Cooper dies WO 9-16-76 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Weekly Observer News Newspaper Weekly Observer