BeyoncÃ© Giselle Knowles was born in Houston, Texas, to Celestine Tina Knowles (nÃ©e BeyincÃ©), a hairdresser and salon owner, and Mathew Knowles, a Xerox sales manager. BeyoncÃ©'s name is a tribute to her mother's maiden name. BeyoncÃ©'s younger sister Solange is also a singer and a former back up dancer for Destiny's Child.
Cooper County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 17,601. Its county seat is Boonville. The county was organized December 17, 1818 and named for Sarshell Cooper, a frontier settler who was killed by Native Americans near Arrow Rock in 1814.
St. Joseph, Missouri. St. Joseph (informally St. Joe) is a city in and the county seat of Buchanan County, Missouri, United States.[4] It is the principal city of the St. Joseph Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Buchanan, Andrew, and DeKalb counties in Missouri and Doniphan County, Kansas. As of the 2010 census, St. Joseph had a total population of 76,780, making it the eighth largest city in the state, third largest in Northwest Missouri.