Polly Copes

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Date: 11/6/2022 at 23:36:20

Polly Copes

Polly Copes came with her son to Hartland township, Worth county, in 1858, lived in said township about twelve years. In the beginning of the late civil war she gave her son, her only support, to the cause of her country. The hardships of war proved too much for him; he obtained a furlough and came home to die, leaving his widowed mother without his companionship and support. She afterward moved with Wm. H. Perkins, her son-in-law, to Union township, where she died Aug. 29, 1876, and was buried in the Hartland burying ground by the side of her son and two daughters who had gone before her. Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1884, p.688