Brief Life History of Rebecca
When Rebecca Cope was born on 29 September 1816, in Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, James Dickinson Cope, was 36 and her mother, Rebecca Cook, was 33. She married Presley Neville Sinclair on 7 August 1834, in Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Redstone, Jefferson Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and Redstone Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. She died in September 1899, in Vanderbilt, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Perryopolis, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Rebecca Sinclair, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Rebecca Cope - birth: 29 September 1816;
- REBECCA SINCLAIR, "BillionGraves Index"
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World Events (7)
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English (Midlands): from Middle English cope ‘cloak, cape’ (from Old English cāp reinforced by the Old Norse cognate kápa), hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who made cloaks or capes, or a nickname for someone who wore a distinctive one. Compare Cape .
Americanized form of German Koob or Kopp .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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