Brief Life History of Martha Ann
When Martha Ann Copper was born on 27 July 1858, in Ferryville, Crawford, Wisconsin, United States, her father, George Accles Copper, was 41 and her mother, Eleanor Johnson, was 40. She married Thomas T Thompson on 18 April 1882, in Merrill, Lincoln, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Crawford, Wisconsin, United States in 1900 and Freeman, Crawford, Wisconsin, United States in 1905. She died on 30 December 1940, in Osage, Mitchell, Iowa, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Ferryville, Crawford, Wisconsin, United States.
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- Martha Copper in household of George Copper, "United States Census, 1870"
- Martha Ann Thompson, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
- Martha Ann Copper in entry for Mary Churness, "Iowa, Old Age Tax Assistance Records, 1934-1958"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · The Burtis Opera House
The Burtis Opera House opened in Davenport and could easily hold an audience of 1,600. It was a widely used facility and Mark Twain filled the house when he spoke on tour in 1869. It was also used to house Susan B. Anthony when she lectured on the woman's right to vote. The Quad City Symphony Orchestra played its first concert as the new Tri-City Symphony in the Opera House. An arsonist set fire to the building on the evening of April 26, 1921, and the building was severely destroyed. The building was rebuilt but was no longer used as an opera house.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English (Kent and Surrey): occupational name either from Middle English copere, a variant of cupere ‘cooper, maker or seller of casks, buckets, and tubs’, found late as copper, or from Middle English copper, cupper ‘maker of cups and small vessels’ (Old Norse koppari).
English: in Sussex and perhaps the adjacent counties, probably also a variant of Coppard, either from a Middle English (from Old French, Middle Dutch, or both) personal name Coppard (an extended form of Cop, a pet form of Jacob), or perhaps from Middle English cop(e), coppe ‘top, head’ + the pejorative suffix -ard, perhaps for someone with a large head.
Altered form of German Kopper .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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