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Elizabeth Frances <I>Wilson</I> Drury

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Elizabeth Frances Wilson Drury

Birth
Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky, USA
Death
9 Apr 1900 (aged 76)
San Lorenzo, Alameda County, California, USA
Burial
San Lorenzo, Alameda County, California, USA Add to Map
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b. September 22, 1823, Lewis, co., Kentucky.  At the time of the 1850 Indiana census, she was living in Jackson, Co., Indiana, with her sister Jane Stanfield; her name is listed as Elizabeth Williams, age 27.  m. 1st. 1840, in Perry co., Ohio, Levi Williams, b. Kentucky.  What become of Levi Williams is not known.  She was m. 2nd. to Caleb Cope. "Caleb Cope hung himself on the last day of August, 1861." per Susannah George's Journal.
At the time of the 1860 census, Elizabeth Cope was living in Cjequest Twp., Van Buren co., Iowa, and she worked as a nurse in military hospital during civil war.  She was at Council Bluffs, Iowa or Omaha, Nebraska, in 1881, but by 1882 she was a resident at Greenville, Plumas co., California.  She m. 3rd., October 22, 1891, John Reynolds Drury, a resident of Greenville, age 67, at Oroville, Butte co., California.  She became the guardian of Walter Margrave Williams, her grandson, only issue of William H. H. Wiliams.  Elizabeth also raised from a young girl, Edith Bell Howell, (b. 1877, Iowa) who was living with the family in Oakland and was the age of 18 years in September of, 1895.
Elizabeth and John R. were divorced in 1896 - John R. Drury died 2 Apr 1905.

Elizabeth Drury was living in 1895 at 528 18th St., Oakland, and others who signed some of her papers as witness were } Jennie M. Hall and Mrs. F. E. Greene both residence of Oakland, California in 1895, who state they have know Mrs. E. F. Drury for the past thirteen years.  She is listed in the 1895 Oakland City Directory as running a rooming house at 525 18th St. and she had moved to Elmhurst in 1898. (Elmhurst was a suburb which was incorporated into Oakland c1909).

Issue of Levi and Elizabeth Williams
  I.    William Harrison H. b. 1842, Perry co., Indiana
 II.    Ephraim b. 1845, Ohio
III.   Levi Jasper b. 1848, Ohio 
Issue of of Caleb and Elizabeth Cope
IV.    Francis M. b. Oct. 8, 1860, Iowa
Adopted child of Elizabeth Cope Drury
A.    Edith Bell Howell   b. Jul 1877 IA
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b. September 22, 1823, Lewis, co., Kentucky.  At the time of the 1850 Indiana census, she was living in Jackson, Co., Indiana, with her sister Jane Stanfield; her name is listed as Elizabeth Williams, age 27.  m. 1st. 1840, in Perry co., Ohio, Levi Williams, b. Kentucky.  What become of Levi Williams is not known.  She was m. 2nd. to Caleb Cope. "Caleb Cope hung himself on the last day of August, 1861." per Susannah George's Journal.
At the time of the 1860 census, Elizabeth Cope was living in Cjequest Twp., Van Buren co., Iowa, and she worked as a nurse in military hospital during civil war.  She was at Council Bluffs, Iowa or Omaha, Nebraska, in 1881, but by 1882 she was a resident at Greenville, Plumas co., California.  She m. 3rd., October 22, 1891, John Reynolds Drury, a resident of Greenville, age 67, at Oroville, Butte co., California.  She became the guardian of Walter Margrave Williams, her grandson, only issue of William H. H. Wiliams.  Elizabeth also raised from a young girl, Edith Bell Howell, (b. 1877, Iowa) who was living with the family in Oakland and was the age of 18 years in September of, 1895.
Elizabeth and John R. were divorced in 1896 - John R. Drury died 2 Apr 1905.

Elizabeth Drury was living in 1895 at 528 18th St., Oakland, and others who signed some of her papers as witness were } Jennie M. Hall and Mrs. F. E. Greene both residence of Oakland, California in 1895, who state they have know Mrs. E. F. Drury for the past thirteen years.  She is listed in the 1895 Oakland City Directory as running a rooming house at 525 18th St. and she had moved to Elmhurst in 1898. (Elmhurst was a suburb which was incorporated into Oakland c1909).

Issue of Levi and Elizabeth Williams
  I.    William Harrison H. b. 1842, Perry co., Indiana
 II.    Ephraim b. 1845, Ohio
III.   Levi Jasper b. 1848, Ohio 
Issue of of Caleb and Elizabeth Cope
IV.    Francis M. b. Oct. 8, 1860, Iowa
Adopted child of Elizabeth Cope Drury
A.    Edith Bell Howell   b. Jul 1877 IA
.

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