Mary Catherine (Feller) Copp (1837 - 1887)

Born 8 Sep 1837 in Virginia, USA

Wife of William Martin Warner — married 10 Sep 1862 in Shenandoah County, Virginia

Wife of John Henry Copp — married 9 Apr 1867 in Toms Brook, Shenandoah, Virginia, USA

Descendants

Died 11 Jan 1887 at age 49 in North Mountain Road, Tom Brooks, Shenandoah, Virginia, USA

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Biography

When Mary Catherine FELLER Warner Copp was born on September 8, 1837, in Toms Brook, Virginia, her father, George William, was 24, and her mother, Sarah "Sally" Walters Feller, was 21. She married William Martin WARNER on Septemer 10, 1862 in Shenandoah County Virginia, and they had one son together. She then married John Henry COPP on April 9, 1866, and they had nine children together. She died on November 26, 1916, in her hometown, having lived a long life of 79 years, and was buried there.

The story is that Mary Catherine was previously married had a son with a man that died in the Civil War. John Copp was the soldier that brought the news back from the battlefield that her husband died. See profile of her first husband William M. Warner

Sources

• Tombstone inscription, Toms Brook Cemetery, Toms Brook, Virginia. Find A Grave: Memorial #128696437.
• Firsthand information given by granddaughter-Gladys LortonWolfe-2697.
• Year: 1880; Census Place: Johnston, Shenandoah, Virginia; Roll: 1390; Page: 404A; Enumeration District: 085. Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site. Original data: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
• Library of Virginia; Richmond, Virginia; Confederate Pension Rolls, Veterans and Widows; Collection #: CP-5_152; Roll #: 152; Roll Description: Shenandoah County (surnames A - Ha)
• Ancestry.com. Alabama, Texas and Virginia, Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Texas, Confederate Pension Applications, 1899-1975. Vol. 1–646 & 1–283. Austin, Texas: Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Confederate Pension Rolls, Veterans and Widows. Richmond, Virginia: Library of Virginia. Confederate Pension Applications, 1880-1940. Montgomery, Alabama: Alabama Department of Archives and History.