Brief Life History of Evah Lee
When Evah Lee Copas was born on 31 July 1902, in Jefferson City, Cole, Missouri, United States, her father, William Louis Copas, was 22 and her mother, Della Barbara Allee, was 18. She married Waverly Woods Williams on 1 August 1942, in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States. She lived in Sedalia, Pettis, Missouri, United States in 1910 and Kansas City, Platte, Missouri, United States in 2001. She died on 25 October 1990, in Las Cruces, Doña Ana, New Mexico, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Hatch, Doña Ana, New Mexico, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (7)
- Eva L Copas in household of William Copas, "United States Census, 1930"
- Evah Copas in household of William L Copas, "United States Census, 1910"
- Evah L Copas, "United States Social Security Death Index"
Spouse and Children
1910–1984 Male
1902–1990 Female
Parents and Siblings
1880–1946 Male
1883–1934 Female
Siblings (2)
1902–1990 Female
1910–1987 Female
World Events (8)
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
Age 1
1912
Age 10
1927
Age 25
Name Meaning
Spanish: from copas, plural of copa ‘drinking bowl’, applied possibly as a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such vessels or as a topographic name for someone living in a hollow.
English: perhaps a topographic name from Middle English copis, coppes ‘coppice, thicket’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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