Daughter of John Joseph Bullard and Nancy Ann Rogers
Married George Cope, 17 Apr 1836, Greene County, Illinois
Children - Joseph Cope, Verlene Cope, Emaline Cope, Milton Cope, Allen Cope, Mary Cope, Jane Cope, Malinda Cope, Elizabeth Cope, Caroline Cope, Charlie Cope
The first Cope family in Jersey County, Illinois arrived by covered wagon and settled west of Jerseyville, say some members of the Cope family. They were George and Lucinda Cope who pre-empted 120 acres of land 4 1/2 miles southwest of Jerseyville. Lucinda lived in this home until at 92 could no longer live alone. They had 11 children.
Lucinda told of how her father often killed a bear. It was then slaughtered and prepared for eating and storing. She told of how the entrails were dried and then scraped and hung on the fence to dry. After they dried the girls split them, by then they were very shiny, so the girls wore them as ribbons. The only thing she said "they made her hair greasy." Lucinda also told of how her Mother would hide the children in the chimney because of the Indians (in NC). They were afraid of being killed or scalped. Lucinda was a large woman being 5' 11" tall. She always wore long dresses that had large pockets in which to carry her money and her pipe. Ada Mourning MYERS mother, Hattie Mackelden MOURNING, said this always fascinated her when her grandmother pulled out the pipe. Lucinda could climb easily in and out of a wagon at the age of 99. She lived to be 100 years, 5 months and 29 days old.
Jerseyville Republican, Jersey Co., IL, 03 Jun 1917:
"The oldest living resident of Jersey County is Mrs. Lucinda Cope. She was 100 years old on April 10, 1917. She has lived with her son at Cameron, Missouri for the last 4 years. Born on a farm 2 miles from Hopinsville [Hopkinsville], Kentucky on April 10, 1817 and when she was 8 years old her parents moved to Boone Co., Missouri. Her playmates were children of Daniel Boone. The family moved to Warren Co., MO and thence to Jerseyville in 1834.
When 17 she married George Cope of North Carolina and they homesteaded a farm of 120 acres four and one-half miles southwest of Jerseyville in Otter Creek township. Mr. Cope died 38 years ago.
She lived on the farm 75 years. Seven years ago she left the farm to visit her daughter, Mrs. Dan Bray, and from there to Adair, Oklahoma, where she spent two years with another daughter, Mrs. Jane Sandidge, before moving to Missouri.
Besides two daughters, Mrs. Bray and Sandridge, Mrs. Cope has six other living children as follows: Milton Cope, with whom she lives, Joseph Cope of Bates Co., Missouri, Mrs. Emaline Decker, Mrs. Wm. Macheldon, Mrs. Samuel Sinclair and Allen Cope. In all eleven children were born but three died. She has 84 grandchildren, 116 great grandchildren and 14 great-great grandchildren.
When Mr. and Mrs. Cope were first married they ate their wedding breakfast off a tool chest and sat on blocks of wood sawed from logs. They lived six months in a house with an earth floor, and cooked in an open fire place. She spun the cloth for clothing for her family. Wild game was used as meat and her love for cornbread exists today. She retains her hearing and her memory is exceptionally vivid. She rises from her chair without help and more is lively than many persons half her age.
Married George Cope, 17 Apr 1836, Greene County, Illinois
Children - Joseph Cope, Verlene Cope, Emaline Cope, Milton Cope, Allen Cope, Mary Cope, Jane Cope, Malinda Cope, Elizabeth Cope, Caroline Cope, Charlie Cope
The first Cope family in Jersey County, Illinois arrived by covered wagon and settled west of Jerseyville, say some members of the Cope family. They were George and Lucinda Cope who pre-empted 120 acres of land 4 1/2 miles southwest of Jerseyville. Lucinda lived in this home until at 92 could no longer live alone. They had 11 children.
Lucinda told of how her father often killed a bear. It was then slaughtered and prepared for eating and storing. She told of how the entrails were dried and then scraped and hung on the fence to dry. After they dried the girls split them, by then they were very shiny, so the girls wore them as ribbons. The only thing she said "they made her hair greasy." Lucinda also told of how her Mother would hide the children in the chimney because of the Indians (in NC). They were afraid of being killed or scalped. Lucinda was a large woman being 5' 11" tall. She always wore long dresses that had large pockets in which to carry her money and her pipe. Ada Mourning MYERS mother, Hattie Mackelden MOURNING, said this always fascinated her when her grandmother pulled out the pipe. Lucinda could climb easily in and out of a wagon at the age of 99. She lived to be 100 years, 5 months and 29 days old.
Jerseyville Republican, Jersey Co., IL, 03 Jun 1917:
"The oldest living resident of Jersey County is Mrs. Lucinda Cope. She was 100 years old on April 10, 1917. She has lived with her son at Cameron, Missouri for the last 4 years. Born on a farm 2 miles from Hopinsville [Hopkinsville], Kentucky on April 10, 1817 and when she was 8 years old her parents moved to Boone Co., Missouri. Her playmates were children of Daniel Boone. The family moved to Warren Co., MO and thence to Jerseyville in 1834.
When 17 she married George Cope of North Carolina and they homesteaded a farm of 120 acres four and one-half miles southwest of Jerseyville in Otter Creek township. Mr. Cope died 38 years ago.
She lived on the farm 75 years. Seven years ago she left the farm to visit her daughter, Mrs. Dan Bray, and from there to Adair, Oklahoma, where she spent two years with another daughter, Mrs. Jane Sandidge, before moving to Missouri.
Besides two daughters, Mrs. Bray and Sandridge, Mrs. Cope has six other living children as follows: Milton Cope, with whom she lives, Joseph Cope of Bates Co., Missouri, Mrs. Emaline Decker, Mrs. Wm. Macheldon, Mrs. Samuel Sinclair and Allen Cope. In all eleven children were born but three died. She has 84 grandchildren, 116 great grandchildren and 14 great-great grandchildren.
When Mr. and Mrs. Cope were first married they ate their wedding breakfast off a tool chest and sat on blocks of wood sawed from logs. They lived six months in a house with an earth floor, and cooked in an open fire place. She spun the cloth for clothing for her family. Wild game was used as meat and her love for cornbread exists today. She retains her hearing and her memory is exceptionally vivid. She rises from her chair without help and more is lively than many persons half her age.
Daughter of John Joseph Bullard and Nancy Ann Rogers
Married George Cope, 17 Apr 1836, Greene County, Illinois
Children - Joseph Cope, Verlene Cope, Emaline Cope, Milton Cope, Allen Cope, Mary Cope, Jane Cope, Malinda Cope, Elizabeth Cope, Caroline Cope, Charlie Cope
The first Cope family in Jersey County, Illinois arrived by covered wagon and settled west of Jerseyville, say some members of the Cope family. They were George and Lucinda Cope who pre-empted 120 acres of land 4 1/2 miles southwest of Jerseyville. Lucinda lived in this home until at 92 could no longer live alone. They had 11 children.
Lucinda told of how her father often killed a bear. It was then slaughtered and prepared for eating and storing. She told of how the entrails were dried and then scraped and hung on the fence to dry. After they dried the girls split them, by then they were very shiny, so the girls wore them as ribbons. The only thing she said "they made her hair greasy." Lucinda also told of how her Mother would hide the children in the chimney because of the Indians (in NC). They were afraid of being killed or scalped. Lucinda was a large woman being 5' 11" tall. She always wore long dresses that had large pockets in which to carry her money and her pipe. Ada Mourning MYERS mother, Hattie Mackelden MOURNING, said this always fascinated her when her grandmother pulled out the pipe. Lucinda could climb easily in and out of a wagon at the age of 99. She lived to be 100 years, 5 months and 29 days old.
Jerseyville Republican, Jersey Co., IL, 03 Jun 1917:
"The oldest living resident of Jersey County is Mrs. Lucinda Cope. She was 100 years old on April 10, 1917. She has lived with her son at Cameron, Missouri for the last 4 years. Born on a farm 2 miles from Hopinsville [Hopkinsville], Kentucky on April 10, 1817 and when she was 8 years old her parents moved to Boone Co., Missouri. Her playmates were children of Daniel Boone. The family moved to Warren Co., MO and thence to Jerseyville in 1834.
When 17 she married George Cope of North Carolina and they homesteaded a farm of 120 acres four and one-half miles southwest of Jerseyville in Otter Creek township. Mr. Cope died 38 years ago.
She lived on the farm 75 years. Seven years ago she left the farm to visit her daughter, Mrs. Dan Bray, and from there to Adair, Oklahoma, where she spent two years with another daughter, Mrs. Jane Sandidge, before moving to Missouri.
Besides two daughters, Mrs. Bray and Sandridge, Mrs. Cope has six other living children as follows: Milton Cope, with whom she lives, Joseph Cope of Bates Co., Missouri, Mrs. Emaline Decker, Mrs. Wm. Macheldon, Mrs. Samuel Sinclair and Allen Cope. In all eleven children were born but three died. She has 84 grandchildren, 116 great grandchildren and 14 great-great grandchildren.
When Mr. and Mrs. Cope were first married they ate their wedding breakfast off a tool chest and sat on blocks of wood sawed from logs. They lived six months in a house with an earth floor, and cooked in an open fire place. She spun the cloth for clothing for her family. Wild game was used as meat and her love for cornbread exists today. She retains her hearing and her memory is exceptionally vivid. She rises from her chair without help and more is lively than many persons half her age.
Married George Cope, 17 Apr 1836, Greene County, Illinois
Children - Joseph Cope, Verlene Cope, Emaline Cope, Milton Cope, Allen Cope, Mary Cope, Jane Cope, Malinda Cope, Elizabeth Cope, Caroline Cope, Charlie Cope
The first Cope family in Jersey County, Illinois arrived by covered wagon and settled west of Jerseyville, say some members of the Cope family. They were George and Lucinda Cope who pre-empted 120 acres of land 4 1/2 miles southwest of Jerseyville. Lucinda lived in this home until at 92 could no longer live alone. They had 11 children.
Lucinda told of how her father often killed a bear. It was then slaughtered and prepared for eating and storing. She told of how the entrails were dried and then scraped and hung on the fence to dry. After they dried the girls split them, by then they were very shiny, so the girls wore them as ribbons. The only thing she said "they made her hair greasy." Lucinda also told of how her Mother would hide the children in the chimney because of the Indians (in NC). They were afraid of being killed or scalped. Lucinda was a large woman being 5' 11" tall. She always wore long dresses that had large pockets in which to carry her money and her pipe. Ada Mourning MYERS mother, Hattie Mackelden MOURNING, said this always fascinated her when her grandmother pulled out the pipe. Lucinda could climb easily in and out of a wagon at the age of 99. She lived to be 100 years, 5 months and 29 days old.
Jerseyville Republican, Jersey Co., IL, 03 Jun 1917:
"The oldest living resident of Jersey County is Mrs. Lucinda Cope. She was 100 years old on April 10, 1917. She has lived with her son at Cameron, Missouri for the last 4 years. Born on a farm 2 miles from Hopinsville [Hopkinsville], Kentucky on April 10, 1817 and when she was 8 years old her parents moved to Boone Co., Missouri. Her playmates were children of Daniel Boone. The family moved to Warren Co., MO and thence to Jerseyville in 1834.
When 17 she married George Cope of North Carolina and they homesteaded a farm of 120 acres four and one-half miles southwest of Jerseyville in Otter Creek township. Mr. Cope died 38 years ago.
She lived on the farm 75 years. Seven years ago she left the farm to visit her daughter, Mrs. Dan Bray, and from there to Adair, Oklahoma, where she spent two years with another daughter, Mrs. Jane Sandidge, before moving to Missouri.
Besides two daughters, Mrs. Bray and Sandridge, Mrs. Cope has six other living children as follows: Milton Cope, with whom she lives, Joseph Cope of Bates Co., Missouri, Mrs. Emaline Decker, Mrs. Wm. Macheldon, Mrs. Samuel Sinclair and Allen Cope. In all eleven children were born but three died. She has 84 grandchildren, 116 great grandchildren and 14 great-great grandchildren.
When Mr. and Mrs. Cope were first married they ate their wedding breakfast off a tool chest and sat on blocks of wood sawed from logs. They lived six months in a house with an earth floor, and cooked in an open fire place. She spun the cloth for clothing for her family. Wild game was used as meat and her love for cornbread exists today. She retains her hearing and her memory is exceptionally vivid. She rises from her chair without help and more is lively than many persons half her age.
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