Cope, Elizabeth Thomas 1834-1908

COPE, THOMAS, SMITH

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 8/6/2012 at 11:56:50

The Grinnell (IA) Herald; March 20, 1908

MRS. A.A. COPE

Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas Cope, who died of grip complicated by pneumonia at the home of her son, P.T. Cope, near Searsboro, on March 12, was born in Harrison county, Ohio, June 17, 1834. On June 26, 1850, she was united in marriage to Amos A. Cope and to them were born six children, of whom only two, Pearson T. Cope of Searsboro and Wm. A. Cope of Marshalltown, survive. The deceased also leaves a brother, Peter Thomas, who lives in Washington state, and a sister, Mrs. Edith Smith, who lives in Ohio. Among her descendants she numbers ten grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Mr. and Mrs. Cope and family came to Iowa, settling near Springdale in 1868 and ten years later moved to the vicinity of Searsboro in Jasper county, where they lived till October, 1904, when they moved to Lynnville, where Mr. Cope died November 2, of last year. Mrs. Cope has since then made her home with her son, P.T. Cope.

She was a birthright member of the Friends church, converted in early childhood, and lived a humble, devoted, Christian life, loved by all who knew her.

Though not a public worker, she filled her mission in this life with kind words and loving hands, and many have been comforted along life's pathway by her tender sympathy and cheer, and by the many acts of kindness rendered by her.

Funeral services were held at Sugar Creek church, March 14, and were conducted at 11 a.m., by her pastor, Rev. Clark Brown, of Lynnville, assisted by Rev. Robert Lincoln and Rev. Leroy Hawks. The pall-bearers were the same who laid away her companion, Ezra Craven, David Meredith, John Boyle, Wilford Williams, David Stanley.