When Thomas Jefferson Copley was born in May 1836, in Logan, Virginia, United States, his father, James Benton Copley, was 42 and his mother, Rebecca Jane Marcum, was 35. He married Mary Jane McNeely in 1860, in Wayne, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Charleston, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States for about 20 years and Forward Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910. He died on 7 January 1912, in Sawtelle, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
The Fort Tejon earthquake, on January 9, 1857, registered at 7.9, making it one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in the United States. Only two people were killed, largely due to the sparse population in the area where the earthquake occurred. As a result of the large scale shaking, the Kern River was turned upstream and fish were stranded miles from Tulare Lake as the waters were rocked so far from its banks.
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from any of various places called Copley, for example in County Durham, Staffordshire, and Yorkshire, from the Old English personal name Coppa (apparently a byname for a tall man) or from copp ‘hilltop’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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