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THE ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS OF
Josiah Snell Copeland
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Katharine Guild
Of Easton, Massachusetts
CHARITON, IOWA
PRINTED AT THE OFFICE OF THE CHARITON HERALD
1947
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The following is copied from the manuscripts of Mrs. Katharine Guild, wife of Josiah Snell Copeland, from papers found after her death and burial.
To My Children: - Living remote from your natural ancestors and relations, and the time may come when you will wish to know something of your ancestors, and no one may be living to give you that knowledge which is now in my power to give you, partly from records and partly from memory of what my mother has taught me, she being very well versed in Genealogy. I don't suppose that at the present time you feel much interested in this document, but when “Hoar-frost, the winter of age”, has whitened your locks like mine, the mind turns back upon the past, to the gleeful days of childhood, to the rose tinted hours of youth, to middle age the heat and burthen of the day. Then we gradually come to look back on the road we have traveled, we look beyond. We would know something of those who have preceded us. I do not believe there is any one living who does not feel the better for knowing that there is no stain on his family escutcheon which would call a blush on his own cheek, or his children's after him. I wish my children to know that their ancestry were worthy and respectable. I wish you to preserve this feebly written record, if not valued for any other reason, but because it was written by your mother in the 70th year of her age, with a weak and trembling had, March 16, 1867.
(Signed) Katharine Copeland
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“Lo all grow old and die. But see, upon the faltering footsteps of decay, youth presses and the great Miracle Life goes on.”
GENEALOGY GUILD
Guild is an honorable name. I have never know or heard of one bearing the name a drunkard, profane swearer, or convicted of a crime.
Samuel Guild, who is believed to be the founder of the Guild family in America, settled in Dedham, Mass. His name as one of the proprietors, is on the record there previous to 1647. My great grandfather, Nathaniel Guild, settled in Walpole, an adjoining town. He owned a furnace during the Revolution, and cast shot and shell for the Americans. He had a brother and a sister.
The sister married a Coney. Her son, Judge Coney, was among the early settlers of Augusta, Maine, and probably the founder of the Coney family there, one of whom was lately governor of Maine. My grandfather married Mary Borden. They had four daughters and two sons.
Mollie married Amos Plympton and settled in Medfield.
Mercy married Ebenezer Hewins and lived in Sharon.
Susanna married Col. Morse of the Revolutionary army, lived in Sharon until the death of her husband, then went to reside with her children in Roxberry, where
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her numerous descendants still reside.
Mahetable lived single, and died at my father's Feb. 7, 1816. Nathaniel, eldest son, married Rebecca Curtis. They had five sons and two daughters.
Samuel went to Roxberry, married a wealthy lady name Mears, was president of a bank and a millionaire.
James I know nothing of.
Chester lives in Boston, and has accumulated a large fortune in the leather business. His son, Curtis Guild, is proprietor of the Boston Commercial Bulletin.
Rebecca married Joseph Hartshorn.
Mary I know nothing of.
My grandfather died September 1796.
Samuel Guild, my father, studied medicine with Doctor Dagget, of Medfield. Settled in Easton in 1768. He practiced medicine 45 years. He was an assistant surgeon in the army of the Revolution, and when at home was one fo the Committee of Safety, and slept nightly with two loaded muskets at the head of his bed. He raised a liberty pole at the corner of his home, which he was called on one night to defend from the Tories of his neighborhood. Their warm reception caused them to retire with the British army. In later years he was judge of the Court of Session in Bristol county, was a Justice of the Peace at the time of his death, and for 20
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successive years previous. He died May 9, 1816, aged 70 years. In 1770 he married Elizabeth Furgeson for his first wife, a lady of Irish descent.
The children of this marriage were: Mary, born March 1772. Samuel, born July 19th, 1774. James, born April 17th, 1780. Susannah, born October 29th, 1782, died 1783. Elizabeth, born 1778. His wife died August 20, 1784, at the birth of a son. A line on her tomb stone reads:Her babe from harm Sleeps on her arm. On February 17, 1786, he married for his second wife Katherine Leonard (my mother), born 1757. Their first child, Martin, born December 20, 1786 and died March 20, 1801. Katharine, second child, born November 4, 1788, and died June 14, 1791. Nathaniel, born February 24, 1791 Lusannah, born August 27, 1792 Katharine (myself), born October 14, 1797.
My mother died January 6, 1837, in the 80th year of her age. Mary married Calvin Brett. They had seven children, resided in Easton, and died there in 1844. But few of her children survived her.
Samuel was educated a physician, married Vesta Howard, of Easton, lived the last ten years of his life in
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Hartford county, Maryland, and died in 1821. Had no children.
Elizabeth married Church Williams of Easton, went to Augusta, Maine. They had seven children. Three only lived to be 21 years of age. She died in 1863.
James Guild married Abby Copeland, (aunt of J. S. C.) She died in 1809 leaving three children.
Charlotte, the eldest, married George Barrell, of East Bridgewater.
Almira married Doctor Reynard Randall, of North Rehobeth, (she being his second wife).
Martin was 3 months old when his mother died. He married nancy Bacon, of New Bedford. Both died young, leaving tow orphan daughters, Helen and Abby.
Helen married ________ Tucker, of Stoughton.
Abby married David A. Carter, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
James married for his second wife, widow Elizabeth Williams Edson. They had two sons and one daughter.
The sons died without issue.
Daughter Abby married John Curtis. They had one child living in Maine.
James died aged 73 years.
Nathaniel, (my brother,) married Harriett Petty, daughter of Doctor James Perry, of Easton, Their children are:
Harriett, who married Daniel B. Wheaton, of Easton.
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Lavoise N. married Hannah Tufts and lives in Sedalia, Missouri. Has two daughters.
Lusannah, (my sister,) married Elijah Howard. She died September 30, 1818, leaving two sons, Jason Guild, and Frederick William, (father to Theo. N. and Arthur Howard.) A daughter in her 4th year, named Katharine Leonard, died ten days previous to her mother's death.
Jason G. Howard married Martha Bartlett, daughter of Benjamin Bartlett, May 10, 1838. Their children are:
Lydia Parker, born August 19th, 1840, died Oct. 15th, 1881.
David Webster, born July 5, 1843.
Emmogene Bartlett, born November 22, 1845.
Jason G. Howard, died 1885.
Frederick William Howard married Lucinda, daughter of Alvin Copeland. They are the parents of The0. N. and Arthur Howard.
Frederick W. Howard, died April 1896.
His wife Lucinda, died January 1st, 1893.
Theo. N. Howard died November 6th, 1889.
Arthur Howard, died _______________.
Katharine (myself), married Josiah Snell Copeland, August 17, 1818. (See Copeland.)
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HOWARD
John Howard came from England and settled in Bridgewater in 1643. Was one of the original proprietors of the town, (8 miles square.) He was a man of great influence. His son, Jonathan, had six sons, viz: Ebenezer, Joshua, Abiel, Henry, Jonathan and Seth.
Ebenezer (was my great grandfather) resided in Bridgewater. Born in 1700 and died 1786. He married Katharine Dean. They had two daughters.
Silence married Eliphalet Leonard (my grandfather.)
Mahetable married Libeas Fobes.
Joshua married Susannah Hayward, and had four daughters. Lived in Easton.
Thankful, the eldest, married William Brett. Her son Calvin, married my eldest sister, Mary Guild.
Melinda married Joshua Williams. Her son, Joshua, died in Easton in 1863, aged 95 years. His daughter, Matilda, married Sanford Howard.
Sarah married _________Prentice, and went to Albany, N.Y. (those celebrated Prentice farms near Albany are owned by her descendants.)
Dr. Abiel Howard, a graduate of Harvard College, married Silence, daughter of Nehemiah and Jane Washburn.
Their daughter Silence married Dr. Philip Bryant, of North Bridgewater, Mass. They had a large and talented family, some of whom were natural poets.
Their eldest son Dr. Peter Bryant married a daughter
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of Ebenezer Sell and settled in Cumminton, Mass., where his son, William Cullen Bryant, the poet, was born November 3rd, 1794.
John Howard married Mercy Forbes and were the parents of Roland and Vest Howard.
Roland is the father of Sanford Howard.
Vesta was the wife of my brother, Samuel Guild.
Henry married Mary Howard, His son Elijah married Keziah Hayward. (Grandfather and grandmother to J. S. Copeland.)
Her sister, Sophia, married General Benjamin Tupper, (one of the original pioneers that settle Marietta, Ohio, on 7th of April, 1788- all males their wives and children landed in Marietta, the last of July, same year, they having log cabins to enter.
Doctor Lincoln Goodale, who died at Columbus, Ohio, on April 29, 1868, aged 87 years, was one of those children, then 7 years old.
The sons of Benjamin and Sophia Tupper, of Galipolis, Col. Anselem and General Edward Tupper have honorable mention in the anals of Ohio, as also Doctor Leonard Goodale, who was a surgeon in General Hull's army at Detroit, when Hull surrendered his whole command.
Elijah and Keziah had three sons and five daughters. They lived in Easton.
Keziah married Adonijah White. Her numerous
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descendants reside in Easton, Boston, New York and elsewhere. Patty died single.
Irene, your grandmother, married Elijah Copeland. They had Sophis, Josiah Snell, (your father) and Alvin.
Phebe married Roland Howard, grandson of John and father of Sanford Howard.
Olive married Simeon Leonard, of Mansfield.
Elijah married for his first wife, my sister Lusannah. His second wfe was Fidelia Williams, a sister of Church Williams, who marred my sister Elizabeth. His second wife left tow sons, Davis William and Elijah Norman, the last dying soon after his mother. His third wife was Nancy Johnson, by whom he had seven more children, only three now living.
Edwin married Lucy Brett, daughter of Calvin Brett Guild. She died leaving two children.
Sarah married Elipalet Smith Howard.
Edwin Dwelly married Julia White.
Ethan married Julia Howard. Both are now dead.
Seth married Mary Ames. A daughter married an Ames; another married a Snell.
SNELL
Thomas Snell settled in West Bridgewater in 1665. He was probably the largest land holder in the town and some portions of it still bear his name, Snell's Plains, Snell's Meadows, etc. He married Martha, daughter of
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Arthur Harris, and had Thomas 1671, Josiah 1674 and four other sons and three daughters.
Thomas married and had Betty 1705, also two sons.
Betty married Jonathan Copeland 1723. See Copeland.
Josiah married Ann, daughter of Zechariah Alden, of Duxbury, 1699 and had Josiah 1701, Zechariah 1704 and one daughter.
Josiah married Abigail, daughter of John Fobes, 1728 and had Rhoda 1743, also three daughters and three sons.
Rhoda married Elijah Copeland, son of Jonathan and Betty (Snell) Copeland, 1765. See Copeland.
Dea Zechariah married Abigail, daughter of Dea Joseph Hayward, 1731, and had Ebenezer 1738, also three daughters and two sons.
Ebenezer married Sarah, daughter of Capt. Abiel Packard, 1764, a daughter married Dr. Peter Bryant and who was mother of Wm. Cullen Bryant the poet, who was born November 3, 1794.
HISTORY AND GENEALOGY
Richard Williams, (said to be a near relative of Cromwell) came from Glesmorganshire, Wales, in 1637. Became one of the orignal purchasers of Taunton, purchased of the Indians in 1637, his name being second on the list of purchasers. He married Frances Dighton, of Somersetshire, England. One of the several towns set
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off from Taunton purchased, was called Dighton, in her honor.
Katharine, her sister, married Governor Thomas Dudley, of Massachusetts. She was mother of General Joseph Dudley, and grandmother of Paul Dudley, Chief Justice of Massachusetts.
Elizabeth, the 7th child of Richard Williams, married John Bird, of Dorchester, Mass.
Their daughter, Katharine Bird, married Israel Dean, and their daughter, Katharine Dean, married Ebenezer Howard.
Their daughter Silence, married Eliphalet Leonard, of Easton.
Their daughter, Katharine, married Josiah Snell Copeland.
Their daughter, Katharine Leonard, married Henry Clay Godman, (both natives of Ohio).
LEONARD
In the history of Massachusetts it is recorded that in 1652 James and Henry Leonard came from Wales, where they had extensive iron works, to Taunton, and built the first forge, and made the first iron made in America, in what is now called Raynham.
Henry removed to New Jersey.
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James was the founder of the numerous Leonards in Taunton, Raynham, Norton, etc.
History says these Leonards claim descent from Leonard Lord Dacre, one of the most distinguished families in the United Kingdom, in two lines from Edward the Third, the Duke of Lancaster, and Thomas Duke of Cloucester. About the close of the last century the last Lord Dacre died without children.
Notice was publicly given to the descendants of James Leonard, that they could claim title. A meeting of the Leonards was held, and decided that the Hon. Judge George Leonard, of Norton, might claim title, he being the 4th in regular descent from James. The Judge replied, he would rather be Lord of broad acres in America, that Lord Dacres in England. He was then the Lord of numerous broad acres, and lived in the Old English style, with his park of deer, tenantry, mills, etc.
No on claiming the title and estate, it reverted to Lady Dacres and her sister, Mrs. Bowen, the wealthiest lady in the commonwealth. She died in 1850; Judge Leonard in 1819.
About 45 years since, the descendants of James Leonard were informed that the mortgages had been all paid and a large sum remained for claimants. An agent was sent to England, but finding the property in chancery, it was abandoned.
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The old Lenoard mansion in Raynham, built by James in 1670, was taken down 1844, it being the inhabited by some of the 6th generation.
Mrs. Abigail Leonard, who died 1844, aged 110 years, lived there.
Abigail Leonard was the wife of Zephaniah Leonard. He and his son, Horation, were High Sheriff of Bristol county, 60 years in seccession, being appointed by the Governor in 1808-9.
Josiah S. Copeland was a youth in this house. The family were Zephaniah and wife Abagail, Horatio, Zeph Jr., William and a daughter.
William Bain, deceased, of Marion, Ohio, and J. S. Copeland have conversed together about this house and iron works. Bain, when a youth, lived near them.
I have been unable to find any positive record of my great grandfather Leonard's paternity, but from the well known relationship of Thomas Cobb and our family, it is believed that he was the son of James Jr., and grandson of James Leonard, the founder of the family in America.
Cobb having married Lydia, daughter of James Leonard Jr.
David Cobb, her son, was a man of note: was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts.
His sister was the wife of Robert Treat Paine, one of the signers of the Declaration of American Independence, and Chief Justice of the state of Massachusetts.
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His son R. T. Paine Jr., was author of the once popular song of Adams and Liverty.
It was likewise well known that the Norton Leonards, (those living in Norton) descendants from Thomas, son of James, were relatives of our branch of the Leonard family.
In an old cemetery in Easton, is my great grandfather's resting place. The inscription on his grave stone is:
Sacred to The Memory of Captain Eliphalet Leonard
Who died 1786, aged 85 years.
He was so just, men put their trusts in him for years to come. We hope that God will him reward, now he has called him home. By his side lies his wife.
Sacred to The Memory of Ruth, Wife of Capt. Eliphalet Leonard Died April 11, 1786, aged 82 years. Here let her rest in precious dust, till God to glory call the just.
His son Eliphalet, married Silence Howard. They had two daughters and four sons, my mother the eldest.
Jonathan married Elizabeth Blackman, settled in Canton, Mass., and together with Adam Kinsley, (a descendant of Richard Williams,) who married his sister, Sarah Leonard, carried on for near half a century,
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those extensive iron works known throughout New England as Leonard & Kinsley's.
He was a self-educated man, remarkable for his intelligence and acquirements. His beautiful residence was the resort of the first literary men of Boston, as well as many others who claimed the hospitality so well known to be found there.
He had a large and talented family. None I believe are at present living.
His eldest daughter married Daniel Dana, and they settled in New Orleans, La., in 1812, and he was for a while mayor of the city.
During the latter part of my uncle's life, his eldest son returned from the Galena lead mines, and being shown a piece of rock dug up on his farm, his son siad it was the cap or a lead or coal mine. It being on my uncle's farm, he quit all other business, and spent a fortune digging for lead. Some lead was found, but not enough to pay. This with other heavy losses during the war of 1812-15, reduced him to poverty. His daughter, Mrs. Dana, sent for them. My uncle and aunt, with one unmarried son and daughter, went to New Orleans.
My uncle sent 40 miles from the city to avoid the cholera, and then died with it.
My aunt and her son, Mr. and Mrs. Dana, Miss Dana and Mrs. Flagg (my cousin,) and her four children lie buried there.
My uncle, Eliphalet, settled in Vermont. Don't
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know his heirs.
Asaph settled in Maine.
Alpheus settled in Americas, N. Y., was a physician. Had a son Henry, who many years since resided in the City of New York, as an attorney.
My mother died in Easton, January 7, 1837, in her 80th year.
My grandfather Leonard died in Canton, October 27, 1805, aged 75 years.
My aunt Kinsley died in her 45th year. She left six children.
Adam died many years since, and left a large family.
Sarah Kinsley married James Dunbar. She had two children, Mary and John.
Alfred, now deceased, married Ann Copeland, and has three children.
Leonard single.
Lyman married and has one son and one daughter.
Mira married Richard Hickson. She is now a widow with three children.
My and Kinsley was one of earth's angels. From my childhood I loved her, and held her in the highest reverence. Her mantle seems to have fallen on her daughter Sarah.
James Dunbar, of Canton, died April 19, 1867, aged 80 years.
Sarah his wife, died September 1st, 1867, aged 73 years.
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COPELAND
Lawrence Copeland born in 1589, the reign of our gracious sovereign, Queen Elizabeth, of blessed memory. Died December 30, 1699, aged 110. He was 31 years old at the first landing of the Pilgrims in America; was an early and prominent member thereof. By tradition their records are now extant, and coverd 200 years, and upon none of that name at that period, had ever been served with process of law, imprisoned for crime, debt, or other misdemeanor. Braintree, Mass. Records.
COPELAND
Lawrence Copeland and Lydia Townsend were married in Boston, Mass., October 12, 1651, by Rev. Mr. Hibbins.The children were: Thomas, born 1654. Williams, born 1656. Joh, Born 1658. Ephraim, born 1665. Also five daughters. Lawrence died 1699 said to be 110 years old. His wife Lydia died 1688.
William, second son of Lawrence, married Mary, daughter of John and Ruth Bass, 1694. Ruth Bass was a daughter of John Alden the Pilgrim.
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Their children were William, Ephraim, Ebenezer, Jonathan, David, Joseph, Benjamin, Moses and Mary.
His son Joseph married and was the father of twelve children, whose united ages at their death were 1032 years, being an average of 86 years each.
Jonathan, fourth son of William and grandson of Lawrence, married Betty, daughter of Thomas Snell, Jr., 1723, and settled in West Bridgewater.
Their children were: Abigail, born 1724, married George Howard 1745. Betty, born in 1725, died. Jonathan, born 1728, married Mehitabel Dunbar, 1754. Mary, born 1731, married Benjamin Gannett, 1750. Joseph, born 1734, married Rebecca Hooper, 1760. Hannah, born 1737, married Jonathan Kingman, 1759. Elijah, born 1739, grandfather of J. S. Copeland. Daniel, born 1741, married Susanna Ames, 1764. Sarah, born 1745, married David Keith, 1769. Ebenezer, born 1746, married Abby Godfrey, 1770. Betty, born 1750, married Clifford Belcher, 1770.
Their father died September 11, 1790, aged 90 years, leaving 175 descendants, of whom 144 were then living.
Elijah, third son of Jonathan and grandson of William, married Rhoda, daughter of Josiah Snell, 1765, and
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settled in Easton, Mass.Their children were: Elijah, born August 7, 1766, father of J. S. Copeland, died 1848, aged 82. Josiah, born October 13, 1768, died 1852, aged 84. Luther, born September 17, 1770. Daughter died. Calvin, born March 11, 1776. Rhoda, born March 18, 1778. Abigail, born June 10, 1781. Married James Guild, June 16th, 1803. Martin, born January 16, 1784. Polly, born September 5, 1786. Elijah (3rd son of Jonathan,) died September 8th, 1817, aged 78.
Rhoda his wife, died October 5th, 1825, aged 82 years. They are both interred in the Elijah Copeland grave-yard, Easton, Mass., also the wife of Martin Copeland, who died in 1835 and her child.
The Elijah Copeland grave yard contains only four graves and is situated south of the Old Copeland place on the Bay-road, just opposite the end of Beaver street and some distance from the road. This burying ground is by twenty feet square and is enclosed by chains stretched from eight stone posts.
Elijah Copeland saw service in the Revolutionary war as a soldier, having enlisted at Easton, Mass.
Easton Town Treasurer's First Book P. 98.
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State Archives, Revolutionary Rolls, Vol. 11, P. 140.
State Archives, Revolutionary Rolls, Vol. 11, P. 142.
State Archives, Revolutionary Rolls, Vol. 1, P. 160.
State Archives, Revolutionary Rolls, Vol. 11, P. 135.
Benjamin Gannett, son of Benjamin and Mary (Copeland) Gannett, married Deborah Sampson, the female soldier who fought in the Revolution under the name of Robert Shurliff.
Josiah, second son of Elijah, married Susanna Howard, and their children were Horation, Susanna and Hiram.
Luther, third son of Elijah, went to Vermont.
Elijah, eldest son of Elijah, and grandson of Jonathan, married Irene, daughter of Elijah and Keziah Howard, of Easton, 1787. died 1848, aged 82; his wife died June 29, 1848, aged 77.Their children were: Sophia, born 1788. Josiah Snell, born November 2, 1793. Alvin, born April 24, 1797, died Tuesday, March 6, 1883. Sophia married Samuel Wilbur, of Raynham, in 1811. Alvin married Cyntha Britton, 1820, and settled in Warren. Their children were Lucinda, Sophia Irene, Ellen and Adelaide. Sophia Irene married John Bosworth. Ellen married ______ Britton. Adalaide was John Bosworth's second wife.
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Josiah Snell, (eldest son of Elijah and Irene Copeland, and grandson of Elijah and Rhoda Copeland,) born November 2, 1793, married katharine, (daughter od Doctor Samuel and Katharine Guild,) of Eastn, Mass., on August 27, 1818.They settled in Baltimore county, Maryland, where they had Guild, born July 4, 1821. Earl Percy, born October 20, 1824. In 1826 they went to Zanesville, Ohio where they had Howard, born May 13, 1828. Katharine Leonard, born October 30, 1830. Elijah, born March 25, 1833. Josiah, born November 29, 1836, died March 2, 1837. Buried at Zanesville, Ohio. Josiah Edwin, born March 9, 1838, died June 21, 1838, Buried at Zanesville, Ohio. Arthur Corwin, born December 22, 1841.
In 1844 they went to Marion, Marion county, Ohio. Josiah Snell Copeland died July 17, 1870, aged 76 years, 8 months and 15 days, and is buried at Marion, Ohio.
The deceased was in the military service of the U. S. in the war with England declared in 1812; was on the committee of citizens from Baltimore to receive General Lafayette on his visit to this country in 1824; was a member of the Ohio legislature in 1848. His wife died April 8, 1868, aged 70 years, 5 months and 24 days and is buried at Marion, Ohio.
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Guild Copeland married Corrilla A., only daughter of Henry and Phebe Peters, February 20, 1840, settled in Kenton, Ohio, where she died August 20, 1850, and is buried at Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Left no children.
For his second wife he married Eliza Jane, born May 1, 1834, daughter of Judge Mathew W. Foster, at Evansville, Indiana, January 20, 1857. they now reside at Passaic, N. J.Their children are: Foster, born at Evansville, Ind., March 9, 1858. Now resides at Columbus, Ohio. Henry H., born at Evansville, Ind., June 13, 1860, resides at Rutherford, N. J. Guild Anderson, born at Evansville, Ind., December 2, 1862. Parke, born at Walnut Hill (a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio,) February 9, 1866, died March 7, 1875, and buried in Greenwood, Brooklyn, N. Y. Katharine Leonard, born at Brooklyn, N. Y., August 7, 1871, and died January 21, 1874, and buried in Greenwood, Brooklyn, N. Y. Sarah Foster, born July 15, 1875, at Brooklyn, N.Y.
Guild died at Passaic, N. J. April 14th, 1891 of cancer of stomach and is buried in Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y., aged 69 years, 9 months, 10 days.
Eliza J. Widow of Guild, died at Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday, February 21, 1905. Interment in Greenwood cemetery N.Y., aged 70 years, 9 months, 20 days. Heart trouble cause of death.
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Foster Copeland, eldest son of Guild and Eliza J. Copeland, married Martha Hoge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Thomas, January 26, (Thursday) 1893, at Columbus, Ohio.
Their children were: Alfred Thomas, born February 3rd, 1894, Columbus, Ohio. Eleanor Foster, born January 8th, 1896, Columbus, Ohio. Martha Hoge, born Friday, August4th, 1899, at Marblehead, Mass. Foster Jr., born May 15th, 1904, at Columbus, Ohio.
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Alfred Thomas Copeland Eldest son of Foster and Martha Hoge Copeland and grandson of Guild and Eliza J. Copeland.
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Eleanor Foster Copeland Eldest daughter of Foster and Martha H. Copeland and grand-daughter of Guild and Eliza J. Copeland.
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Martha Hoge Copeland Second daughter of Foster and Martha H. Copeland and grand-daughter of Guild and Eliza J. Copeland.
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Foster Copeland Jr. - Second son of Foster and Martha H. Copeland and grand-son of Guild and Eliza J. Copeland.
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Henry Howard Copeland, second son of Guild and Eliza J. Copeland, married Minnie H. Bremner, daughter of Mrs. S. Bremner, November 18th, 1885, at Passaic, N.J.Their children were: Katharine Leonard, born November 20th, 1888. Marjory Bremner, born July 16, 1890. Henry Howard, Jr., born July 4th, 1892.
They were all born at Rutherford, N. J. Their father, Henry Howard, died Sunday, June 5, 1904, aged 43 years, 11 months, 22 days. Interment at Rutherford, N. J. Minnie H. - wife of Henry Howard Copeland, died March 16, 1905, at Sharon, Mass. Interment at Rutherford, N. J.
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Katharine Leonard Copeland Eldest daughter of Henry H. and Minnie H. Copeland and grand-daughter of Guild and Eliza J. Copeland.
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Marjory Bremner Copeland Second daughter of Henry H. and Minnie H. Copeland and grand-daughter of Guild and Eliza J. Copeland.
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Henry Howard Copeland Jr. - Eldest son of Henry H. and Minnie H. Copeland and grand-son of Guild and Eliza J. Copeland.
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Guild Anderson Copeland, third son of Guild and Eliza J. Copeland, married Amelia Louise Pettit, of Washington, D. C., April 30th, 1885. Their only child mable was born at El Paso, Texas, September 19th, 1887. He got a divorce and his wife kept the daughter. He married for his second wife, Mable Ray Starkweather, April 8, 1891. She was the daughter of General Starkweather, of Detroit, Michigan. She died Friday, April 19, 1901. Interment at Sharon, Mass. No children. He married for his third wife Miss Jennie S. Hill, Saturday, June 20, 1903, at Sharon, Mass.
(Handwritten note in the book on this page reads: Guild Anderson Copeland died May 1926 Heart failure Richmond, Indiana. )
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Mable Copeland Only daughter of Guild A. and Amelia Louise Copeland and grand-daughter of Guild and Eliza J. Copeland.
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Sara Foster Copeland Second daughter of Guild and Eliza Jane Copeland and grand-daughter of Josiah S. Copeland.
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Earl Percy Copeland married Olive Princess Henrietta Norton, only daughter of Doctor Alson and Olive Norton, January 19, 1848, at Big Island, Marion county, Ohio.Their children are: Alice, born at Carey, Ohio, October 26, 1848, and died at Bellfontain, Ohio, December 9, 1864, and buried at Marion, Ohio. Corilla, born at Carey, Ohio, April 14, 1851. Olive Katharine, born at Marion, Ohio, April 8, 1856, and died May 15, 1856, buried at Marion, Ohio. May, born at Marion, Ohio, May 20, 1857. Laura, born at Marion, Ohio, June 14, 1861. Edith, born at Bellefontain, Ohio, July 29, 1865. Leila Norton, born at Bellefontain, Ohio, July 22, 1867.
Olive P. H., wife of Earl P. Copeland, died at Rochester, Ind., Tuesday, October 26th, 1886, interment at Marion, Ohio. Their father, Earl P. Copeland, died at Rochester, Ind., April 20, 1899. aged 74 years, 6 months. Interment at Marion, Ohio.
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Corrilla Copeland, second daughter of Earl P. and O.P.H. Copeland, married Evan Lewis, son of Thomas M. and Susannah W. Lewis, may 9th, 1871, at Chariton, Iowa.Their children are: Percy Copeland, born March 25, 1872, at Chariton, Iowa, died July 31st, 1872. Interment at Chariton, Iowa. Elijah H., born August 7, 1872, Chariton, Iowa. Charles B., born August 20, 1876, Chariton, Iowa. Harry Norton, born July 4, 1879, Chariton, Iowa. Hettie Olive, born September 23, 1885, Chariton, Iowa.
Their mother, Corrilla, died at Chariton, Iowa, Saturday, August 26th, 1899, aged 48 years, 4 months, 12 days. Interment Chariton, Iowa. Cause of death, Tuberculosis.
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Elijah H. Lewis Second son of Evan and Corrilla C. Lewis and grandson of Earl P. and O.P.H. Copeland.
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Charles B. Lewis Third son of Evan and Corrilla C. Lewis and grandson of Earl P. and O.P.H. Copeland.
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Harry Norton Lewis Fourth son of Evan and Corrilla C. Lewis and grandson of Earl p. and O.P.H. Copeland.
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Hettie Olive Lewis- Only daughter of Evan and Corrilla C. Lewis and grand-daughter of Earl P. and O.P.H. Copeland. Married Mortimer E. Wilson, Wednesday, November 23, 1904, at Chariton, Iowa. Their children are:
Mortimer, born Wednesday, January 10th, 1906, at Lincoln, Neb.
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Mortimer Wilson - Eldest son of Mortimer E. and Hettie O. Wilson and grandson of Evan and Corrilla C. Lewis and great-grandson of Earl P. and O.P.H. Copeland.
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May Copeland, third daughter of Earl P. and O.P.H. Copeland, married H. W. Lee Russell, son of Rev. Joseph A. and Sarah P. Russell, June 12th, 1882, at Rochester, Ind. Their children are:
Edith may, born Monday, December 15, 1884, at Creston, Iowa.
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Edith Russell - only daughter of H. W. Lee and May C. Russell and grand-daughter of Earl P. and O.P.H. Copeland.
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Laura Copeland, fifth daughter of Earl P. and Olive P.H. Copeland, married John Richard Watts, son of Mrs. Mary Frances Watts, January 6th, 1885, at Rochester, Ind. Rev. J. C. Reed officiating.Their children are: Georgia L., born December 23rd, 1885, Atlanta, Ga. Frances Louise, born January 3rd, 1887, Atlanta, Ga. Edith Olive, born March 28, 1889, Union Point, Ga. Princess Irene, born September 7, 1891, Atlanta, Ga. John Richard Jr., born May 20, 1894, Atlanta, Ga.
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Georgia L. Watts - Eldest daughter of John R. and Laura C. Watts and grand-daughter of Earl P. and O.P.H. Copeland.
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Frances Louise Watts - Second daughter of John R. and Laura C. Watts and grand-daughter of Earl P. and O.P.H. Copeland.
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Edith Olive Watts - Third daughter of John R. and Laura C. Watts and grand-daughter of Earl P. and O.P.H. Copeland.
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Princess Irene Watts Fourth daughter of John R. and Laura C. Watts and grand-daughter of Earl P. and O.P.H. Copeland.
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John Richard Watts Jr. - Only son of John R. and Laura C. Watts and grandson of Earl P. and O.P.H. Copeland.
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Edith Copeland, sixth daughter of Earl P. and O.P.H. Copeland, married Harry K. Hollaway, son of Mrs. Margaret Carlisle and Richard Hollaway, March 26th, 1889, at Rochester, Ind. Rev. J. H. Wilson officiating.
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Leila Norton Copeland, seventh daughter of Earl P. and O.P.H. Copeland, married Omar Bishop Smith, eldest son of Jerry H. and A. M. Smith, December 29th, 1891,at Rochester, Ind. Rev. Dr. Tucker officating.Their children are: Gerald Percy, born 28th September 1892, Rochester, Ind. Genevieve, born 14th March 1896, Rochester, Ind.
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Gerald Percy Smith - Only son of Omar B. and Leila N. Smith and grand-son of Earl P. and O.P.H. Copeland.
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Genevieve Smith - Only daughter of Omar B. and Leila N. Smith and grand-daughter of Earl P. and O.P.H. Copeland.
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Howard Copeland was married to Sarah Catharine Holmes Darlington, (generally spelled by this family "Darlinton") only daughter of Carey Allen and Eliza (Holmes) Darlington, at Marion, Ohio, November 11, 1852, by Rev. Henry Van Deman, of Delaware, Ohio.
Their children are: Howard Darlington, born August 19, 1853, at Marion, Ohio. Josiah Carey, born September 19, 1855, at Kenton, Ohio. Arthur Percy, born September 27, 1858, at Shackopee, Minnesota. George Dodderidge, born December 14, 1860, at Marion, Ohio. Henry Guild, born February 19, 1862, at Marion, Ohio.
Their father, Howard Copeland, died at marion, Ohio, Tuesday, December 2nd, 1884, aged 56 years, 6 months, 19 days. Interment at Marion, Ohio. Their mother, Sarah C. H. Copeland, widow of Howard, died at Marion, Ohio, Wednesday, August 16, 1893, aged 63 years, 5 months, 15 days. Interment at Marion, Ohio. She was born at Newark, Ohio, March 2nd, 1830. Her mother was a daughter of Alexander Holmes and he, with Eber Baker, platted the site of Marion, Ohio.
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Howard Darlington Copeland, eldest son of Howard married Carrie Eugenia, only daughter of James B. and Susannah M. Custer, January 25, 1877, at Chariton, Iowa, where they now reside.Their children are: Sue Darlington, born June 28, 1878, at Chariton, Iowa. Howard, born Sunday, March 22nd, 1885, at Chariton, Iowa.
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Sue Darlington Copeland - Only daughter of Howard D. and Carrie E. Copeland and grand-daughter of Howard and Sarah C. H. Copeland, married Dr. Charles Maples Wicher, son of Samuel Morris and Florence Ruth Maples Wicher, Wednesday, June 18th, 1902, at Chariton, Iowa.
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Howard Copeland - Only son of Howard D. and Carrie E. Copeland and grand-son of Howard and Sarah C. H. Copeland.
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Josiah Carey Copeland, second son of Howard and S. C. H. Copeland was married Thursday, November 26th, 1896, to Mrs. Anna Gibbon McCollough, daughter of Dr. W. H. and Laura R. Gibbon and widow of Ralph McCullough and the mother of Clement G., Dorothy and Henry F. McCullough.Their children are: Lawrence Gibbon, born Sunday, January 9, 1898. Anna Laura, born Wednesday, July 25, 1900. Katharine Godman, born Tuesday, September 23, 1902.
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Lawrence Gibbon Copeland - Eldest son of Josiah C. and Anna Gibbon Copeland and grand-son of Howard and Sarah C. H. Copeland.
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Anna Laura Copeland - Eldest daughter of Josiah C. and Anna Gibbon Copeland and grand-son of Howard and Sarah C. H. Copeland.
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Katharine Godman Copeland - Second daughter of Josiah C. and Anna Gibbon Copeland and grand-son of Howard and Sarah C. H. Copeland.
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Arthur Percy Copeland, third son of Howard and S.C.H. Copeland, married Mary, daughter of Luther and Lydia A. (McWorter) Bolen, at Lima, Ohio, April 19th, 1894.Their children are: Arthur George, born July 15th, 1896, Chicago, Ill. Ruth, born August 28, 1898, Chicago, Ill.
Mary, wife of Arthur P. died at Rochester, Ind., Wednesday, April 27th, 1904. Interment at Marion, Ohio.
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Arthur George Copeland - Only son of Arthur P. and Mary Bolen Copeland and grand-son of Howard and Sarah C. H. Copeland.
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Ruth Copeland - Only daughter of Arthur P. and Mary Bolen Copeland and grand-son of Howard and Sarah C. H. Copeland.
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George Dodderidge Copeland, fourth son of Howard and S. C. H. Copeland, married Katharine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Bartram, at Marion, Ohio, Wednesday, June 5th, 1889. Their children are:
Alice Katharine, born October 4th, 1896, Marion, Ohio.
(hand written note on this page) George Dodderidge Copeland died at Marion, Ohio May 4, 1925.
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Alice Katharine Copeland - Only daughter of George D. and Katharine Copeland and grand-daughter of Howard and Sarah C. H. Copeland.
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Henry Guild Copeland, fifth son of Howard and S. C. H. Copeland, married Eva Elizabeth, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Kise, at Marion, Ohio, Wednesday, September 14, 1887.Their children are: Gladys Kise, born November 11, 1889, Marion, Ohio. Henry Guild Jr., born March 16, 1892, Marion, Ohio.
Their father, Henry Guild Copeland, died Saturday, July 22nd, 1893, aged 31 years, 5 months, 3 days. Interment Marion, Ohio.
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Gladys Kise Copeland - Only daughter of Henry Guild and Eva E. Copeland and grand-daughter of Howard and Sarah C. H. Copeland.
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Henry Guild Copeland Jr. - Only son of Henry G. and Eva E. Copeland and grand-son of Howard and Sarah C. H. Copeland.
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Katharine Leonard Copeland married Henry Clay Godman, son of James H. and Ann Godman, September 28, 1852, at Marion, Ohio.Their children were: James Copeland, born December 14, 1853, at Marion, Ohio. Willie Guild, born February 20, 1855, and died August 3, 1860. Anna Katharine, born October 31, 1858, and died November 23, 1860.
Katharine Leonard, wife of Henry C. Godman, died at Columbus, Ohio, Thursday, February 14, 1901. All interments at Marion, Ohio.
Henry C. Godman married for his second wife Corra G. Flora, Wednesday, July 1st, 1903, at Columbus, Ohio.
James Copeland, eldest son of Henry C. Godman, married Mrs. May Thrift Gould, daughter of T. Burr Thrift, of Lansing, Michigan, December 7, 1882. His wife died Thursday, September 22nd, 1887, at Columbus, Ohio. Interment at Marion, Ohio. James Copeland Godman died Sunday, October 21st, 1888 at Columbus, Ohio. Interment at Marion, Ohio. Left no children.
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Elijah Copeland married Lydia Amanda Baker, daughter of Charles and Mary Anderson Baker, at Marion, Ohio, on November 20, 1856.Their children were: Mary Katharine, born Sunday, October 18, 1856, at Evansville, Indiana, and died at Walnut Hills, Ohio, Sunday, November 19, 1865, buried at Marion, Ohio. Irene Howard, born at Marion, Ohio, Thursday, January 12, 1860, died at Walnut Hill, Ohio, Tuesday, November 7, 1865, buried at Marion, Ohio. Elijah Percy, born ar Evansville, Indiana, Tuesday, October 21, 1862. Eloise Amanda, born at Walnut Hills, Ohio, Tuesday, December 21, 1866. Anna Lucetta, born at Omaha, Neb., Friday, August 20, 1869, and died at Chariton, Iowa, January 12, 1875, buried at Marion, Ohio. Charls Baker, born at Chariton, Iowa, November 6, 1878.
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Elijah Percy Copeland, eldest son of Elijah and Lydia A. Copeland, married Lula Alice, daughter of Ephraim W. and Sarah M. Addis Smith, at Omaha, Neb., May 23, 1888.Their children are: Alice, born Saturday, April 16, 1892, at Paulding, Ohio. Grace, born Friday, September 28th, 1894, at Paulding, Ohio. Margaret Eloise, born Monday, October 31st, 1904, at Paulding, Ohio.
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Alice Copeland - Eldest daughter of Elijah P. and Lula A. Copeland and grand-daughter of Elijah and Lydia A. Copeland.
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Grace Copeland - Second daughter of Elijah P. and Lula A. Copeland and grand-daughter of Elijah and Lydia A. Copeland.
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Margaret Eloise Copeland - Third daughter of Elijah P. and Lula A. Copeland and grand-daughter of Elijah and Lydia A. Copeland.
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Eloise Amanda Copeland, daughter of Elijah and Lydia A. Copeland and grand-daughter of Josiah S. and Katharine Copeland.
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Charles Baker Copeland - Second son of Elijah and Lydia A. Copeland and grand-daughter of Josiah S. and Katharine Copeland.
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Arthur Corwin Copeland, youngest son fo Josiah Snell and Catharine Guild Copeland, was born at Zanesville, Ohio on the 22nd day of December, 1841, and died at Rochester, Indiana, December 25, 1904.
At the age of two years he removed with his parents to Marion, Ohio where he grew to manhood. Here he obtained a common school eduction and laid the foundation for the large fortune he afterward accumulated, first as school teacher, then telegraph operator, then as clerk. With the money saved from these sources he established the Rochester Bank, and for almost forty years he gave to this institution his undivided attention, gaining the confidence and respect of the entire communtiy until "honest as old Cope" became a by-word in the county.
No call on him was ever made by one of his patrons too early in the morning or too late at night to get a cheerful and ready response, often arrising from his bed at midnight and going to the bank to serve a customer. he was an indefatigable worker and never had any "banking hours."
As a token of the regard in which he was held by his townsmen he was twice elected to the state legislature, in which capacity he served the people of his county for four years.
He never married, and all his affections appeared to center in his immediate relatives, and while naturally
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suspicious of mankind in general he always felt that any person to whom he was related could do no wrong. As his fortune accumulated and grew under his fostering care, he always spoke and acted as though the entire estate was the property of his natural heirs and that he only held the same in trust for them and spoke of it as the family money, and while possessing a large estate, lived a very simple anf frugal life, in hope that his property might be a blessing to his nieces and nephews when he should be called away. A few days before his death he asked the writer not to allow any great amount to be expended for his funeral, as it could do him no good and that it might better be used for the benefit of some of his relatives.
At his request his body was laid to rest in the family lot in the Marion, Ohio, cemetery, beside his father, mother, brothers and sister, who had precede him "there to rest until the last trump shall sound," but his memory shall forever be held in kind rememberance by all to whom his virtues were known.
This book was transcribed by Kathleen Gregory 11/7/2012 The original book is not in the possession of the transcriber, it is a pdf file downloaded from www.archive.org.