Amber Sophia Hitchcock

Notes:

From "Holdeman Descendants" by Ella Holdeman 1973, Vol II, Page 565

She was Past Matron of Thurston Chapter of Eastern Star, Past Noble Grand Rebekah Lodge, Past President of the American Legion Auxiliary of Harrisburg,(Oregon) and a member of the St. Mathews Episcopal Church.

-Officiating Fr. Steinberg, Funeral conducted by Garry Hawkins, Murphy Funeral Homes

Amber married James Anthony Jacobs on 15 Feb 1921 in Vancouver, Clark, Washington U.S.A.. James (son of Joseph Jacobs and Emma Truesdale) was born on 10 Feb 1893; died on 31 Jan 1961. [Group Sheet]

1. Shirley Jean Jacobs was born on 14 Sep 1921 in Salem, Marion, Oregon U.S.A.; died on 20 Mar 1971.
2. Gayle Renee Jacobs was born on 10 Jul 1928 in Eugene, Lane, Oregon U.S.A.; died on 07 Mar 1965.

Notes:

Clarence and Maria farmed in Denton Montana and were members of the
Methodist Church.

Clarence married Maria Curtis Holdeman on 14 Jan 1890. Maria (daughter of Abraham A. Holdeman and Elizabeth Curtis) was born on 01 Aug 1869 in Burr Oak, Noble Township, Branch, Michigan U.S.A.; died on 09 Oct 1949 in Lewistown, Fergus, Montana U.S.A.; was buried on 11 Oct 1949 in Lewistown City Cemetery, Lewistown, Montana U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Maria died at 3:30 p.m on Oct. 09, 1949 in St. Joseph's Hospital in Lewistown, Montana while on a visit to Montana from her home in Harrisburg, Linn County, Oregon. She died of Coronary Occlusion.

Notes:

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+ Standard Certificate of Death for Physicians; Registered No. 1548; South Dakota Department of History, Division of Census and Vital Statistics. Document # 29782.
+ Information from Colleen (POWERS) MAHAN
+ Index to Marr. License Applications,Cuyahoga Co,OH- Vol 1-6
+ Portrait & Biographical Album of Jackson Co- Chapman Bros- 1890
+ The Hamlin Family - Gen. of James Hamlin of Barnstable, MA - p 694-5
+ http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/sd/biography/memor99/hitchcock.txt (http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/sd/sdfiles.htm)

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[From E. W. Powers March 7, 1950 for Ruth Hitchcock Bressler]
Henry was in the Civil War and when he came home his wife, Clifford, Clayton and Clarend were living down in Coss County just south of Van Buren County Michigan

During the Civil War served for the North.

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"...member 103rd OH Inf. Vols, enlisted 1862; discharged 1866; farmer; removed to Edwardsburg, MI in 1866; to Bloomingdale (MI) 1868; (Sophia) died near Jackson, MI July 2 1870; he remarried and moved to Dakota, 1883; postmaster, Albion, South Dakota..."

One reference gives birth as 19 Jan 1839

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[Memorial and biographical record; an illustrated
compendium of biography, containing a compendium of local biography,
including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and
representative citizens of South Dakota...; Published by G. A. Ogle &
Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 954-956]
Henry S. Hitchcock Biography


HENRY S. HITCHCOCK, one of the first to settle in Richland township, is now one of the substantial agriculturists of that portion of Edmunds county. His success has been due to his own perseverance and good management, and his efforts have not been expended for his own good alone but for the upbuilding of the better interests of his community. He is one of the prominent citizens of that region, and takes an active part in matters pertaining to the growth of the thriving district where he chooses to make his home. He is an ex-soldier who may well be proud of his army record, and no soldier ever served his country with a more loyal heart or earnest effort. Mr. Hitchcock has a fine estate, and his home farm is the southeast quarter of section 22, in Richland township, Edmunds county. Here he is passing his declining years enjoying the peace and comforts of a pleasant home.

Our subject was born in Eaton township, Loraine county, Ohio, January 17, 1839, and was the eldest in a family of five children, two sons and three daughters, born to Mark S. and Polly (Morgan) Hitchcock. The
paternal grandfather of our subject, Manly Hitchcock, was of English descent, and the maternal grandfather, Ira Morgan, was a native of Connecticut, and both were by occupation farmers. The parents of our subject were married in Loraine county, Ohio, and the father was a farmer during the greater part of his life, but engaged in the hardware business during the last years of life at Jackson, Michigan.

Our subject was reared on a farm and had little school advantages, those early days affording the country pupil a limited education. Mr. Hitchcock engaged in farming in 1869 in Ohio and afterward went with his family to Bloomingdale, Michigan, and was a farmer there for sixteen years. The farm was well improved, consisted of fifty acres; a small stream running through the land afforded good water for stock,
and an orchard of one hundred and fifty trees with small fruits in abundance made a model farm, but sickness visited the family and three children and the wife our subject died while there and the health of
Mr. Hitchcock was failing. He went to Edmunds county, South Dakota, in 1882 and located on his present farm.

He erected a ten by twelve shanty and was his own housekeeper for two years, at the end of which time the family joined him in the new home. He had a small house erected, and a barn and granary and the
improvements on the property had already begun. When he located in Dakota Richland township was the extreme western limit of the surveyed land, and all supplies were hauled from Aberdeen, eighteen miles
distant. Our subject now possesses one hundred and sixty acres of land, and cultivates about one hundred and fifty acres. He engages mostly in raising small grains, but is interested to some extent in the raising of cattle and horses.

Mr. Hitchcock enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Third Ohio Infantry, July 22, 1862, and spent the winter of 1862 -63 in Frankfort, Kentucky, and the following summer went through Tennessee and Kentucky after Morgan's men. Many skirmishes and active duty kept them on the move through the summer of 1864, and the winter following our subject was taken ill with typhoid fever at Louisville, Kentucky. He was discharged early in 1865 and went back to old home.

Our subject was married in 1859 to Sophia Hamlin, a native of Dover, Ohio. Three sons and one daughter were born of this union. Mrs. Hitchcock died July 2, 1870. Our subject remarried, Miss Annie Graham
becoming his wife August 20, 1871. Mrs. Hitchcock is a native of Preble county, Ohio, and was born in 1847. Her grandfather, James Graham, was a native of Virginia. Her father, Joseph Graham, was a harness maker by occupation, and the mother died when Mrs. Hitchcock was but twelve years of age, after which the family was broken up and she was thrown on her own resources for a livelihood. She was reared in Morning Sun, Ohio, and there received her education. Two children, a son and a daughter, have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock, as follows: Fred S. and Ella C. Our subject has been called upon to fill various local offices, and has given his service freely, and for the good of all. He has been a member of the town board two years, of the school board nine years, and seven years has acted as assessor. He has been a delegate to many county conventions and advocates the principles of the Republican party.

Henry married Sophia Amanda Hamlin on 20 Nov 1858 in Lorain County, Ohio U.S.A.. Sophia (daughter of David Hamlin and Roxana Crocker) was born on 18 Mar 1841 in Dover, Tuscarawas, Ohio U.S.A.; died on 30 Jun 1870 in Bloomingdale Township, Van Buren, Michigan U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Ref: Index to Marr. License Applications,Cuyahoga Co, OH - Vol 1-6


Mi Death Index - Rec. 590, Ledger page 141[ Inflammation of the bowels]

Alternate birth year: 1842

Notes:

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(The Hamlin Family Genealogy says that she and Henry S. were married in Laporte. OH??)

REF: The Hamlin Family - Gen. of James Hamlin of Barnstable, MA - p 694-5

Notes:

SOURCE: "Holdeman Descendants" A Compilation of the Genealogical and
Biographical Record of the Decendants of Christian Holdeman 1788-1846,
by Edwin L. Weaver, E. V. Publishing House Nappanee, Indiana, 1937, Vol. I, Page 241-242 and "Holdeman Descendants, Vol II " by Ella Holdeman , Schilling's Printing County, Inc. South Bend, Indiana, 1973, Page 550.

Abraham was a soldier in the Civil War, having enrolled, September 5, 1861 at LaPorte, Indiana for three years. He was a member of Company C, 9th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and on December 26, 1862 at the battle of Lavargne was severely wounded. He was discharged September 15, 1864. [http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/a/i/Philip-D-Bailey/GENE1-0007.html]

A daughter of Abraham, who had not reached her ninth birthday when her father died, wrote of him as follows: "He exacted obedience and might have been considered stern, but he never seemed so to me; he must have been quite patient , for he helped me all one summer after I had failed in the second grade. I do not remember any coercion about the study, for I distinctly remember that I was tempted to give up when I reached the place where the fine print began. It seems the decision to continue was entirely my own. When I was small I sat beside him a great deal on winter days and remember that, though I had two places to play, I was never allowed to have more than one strewn with paper dolls, etc. at a time. When I went to the other place the one where I had been playing had to be put in order first. I have always been thankful for that training in order. My father's word was counted good and he was able to say "It's alright" before his sudden death. He was one of those whose life was shortened as a result of his three years in the army." (Weaver, 1937)
[http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/a/i/Philip-D-Bailey/GENE1-0007.html]

Abraham married Elizabeth Curtis on 25 Dec 1864 in Elkhart County, Indiana U.S.A.. Elizabeth (daughter of Burton H. Curtis and Elizabeth Koblin) was born on 15 Mar 1848 in Waterloo County, Canada West; died on 08 Nov 1924 in Lee, Allegan, Michigan U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Married by Samuel Holdeman, Justice of the Peace.

Less than three years after marriage Abraham and Elizabeth moved to Noble Township, Branch County, Michigan, where a few Mennonite families had settled shortly before, and in a neighborhood where there had seldom been any religious services. As early as 1866 Mennonite ministers made trips to Branch County, and John M. Brenneman has reported a visit he made there when on November 20, 1867 a meeting was held at the home of Abraham Holdeman, where two persons were received into the church. The membership then numbered twenty-eight, and they were in need of a meeting-house. In 1873 Abraham moved with his family back to Elkhart County, Indiana near Wakarusa, and later near Nappanee, but returned to Branch County, Michigan. The final move was to Bloomingdale Township, Van Buren County, Michigan.

Abraham was a soldier in the Civil War, having enrolled, September 5, 1861 at LaPorte, Indiana for three years. He was a member of Company C, 9th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and on December 26, 1862 at the battle of Lavargne was severely wounded. He was discharged September 15, 1864.

A daughter of Abraham, who had not reached her ninth birthday when her father died, wrote of him as follows: "He exacted obedience and might have been considered stern, but he never seemed so to me; he must have been quite patient , for he helped me all one summer after I had failed in the second grade. I do not remember any coercion about the study, for I distinctly remember that I was tempted to give up when I reached the place where the fine print began. It seems the decision to continue was entirely my own. When I was small I sat beside him a great deal on winter days and remember that, though I had two places to play, I was never allowed to have more than one strewn with paper dolls, etc. at a time. When I went to the other place the one where I had been playing had to be put in order first. I have always been thankful for that training in order. My father's word was counted good and he was able to say "It's alright" before his sudden death. He was one of those whose life was shortened as a result of his three years in the army." (Weaver, 1937)
[http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/a/i/Philip-D-Bailey/GENE1-0007.html]

Notes:

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+ Hitchcock Genealogy- 1894- p 170
+ History of Jackson Co (MI)- p ?
+ Index to Marr. License Applications,Cuyahoga Co,OH- Vol 1-6. p ?
+ Census records- 1850,60 OH; 1870,80 MI
+ Jackson City directories
+ Death certificate
+ Descendants of Thomas and Richard Brush of Huntington, L.I.; S.C & R.B.Brush; 1982; page 190.

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[Is this Mark and Polly?]
1840 Ohio: Hitchcock, Marcus
Township: Munson
County: Geauga
State: Ohio
Year: 1840
Page: 163
1 male - (20-30) and 1 female - (20-30)

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[From Michigan Historical Society Records, Vol. 11 page 17 (found on Ancestry.com 09.Dec.2005)]
After a long illness, Mark S. Hitchcock died at his residence, No. 506 West Main street, Oct. 18, 1886, in the 66th year of his age. Some weeks ago Mr. Hitchcock was stricken with typhoid fever, but had nearly recovered, when a severe cold developed a chronic urinary trouble which ended his life.

Mark S. Hitchcock was born in Ontario county, New York, in 1821, his parents, Manly and Chloe Hitchcock, being natives of Waterbury, Conn. They moved to Lorain county, Ohio, in 1824, and lived in Cleveland until their death. While a youth Mark Hitchcock worked on a farm summers and attended district school winters until he married Miss Polly Morgan, at the age of twenty years, and then engaged in buying and shipping live stock for several years, after which he embarked in the grocery business, which he followed in connection with farming until 1864, when he was elected sheriff of Lorain county and held the office for four years. He removed to Jackson county in 1868 and purchased the farm three miles north of this city, which he owned until last year, when he sold it to Charles R. Durand, and bought the store, No. 188, in the Durand block. In 1879 he bought the hardware stock of Rice & McConnel in this city and managed it one year in partnership with his son-in-law, George W. Fifield, who then sold out and a new firm was organized January 1, 1880, with M. S. Hitchcock, Reuben E. Clark and Charles S. Hitchcock as partners. Three years later Mr. Hitchcock sold his interest in the business and the firm became Clark, Helmer & Houk, who conducted the business a years and then transferred it back to M. S. Hitchcock & Co., the present firm. In 1880 Mr. Hitchcock purchased an interest in the Eureka Coal Co. and was elected superintendent and treasurer the same year.

Mr. Hitchcock’s first wife died in May, 1854, leaving five children, and two years later he married Mary A. Bush, of Lorain, Ohio, who survives him.

During his illness all of Mr. Hitchcock’s children were at his bedside, but, with the belief that he was recovering, his son Henry returned to his home in Nebraska some days ago, and his daughter, Mrs. Henry Kennedy, returned to her home at Tougaloo, Mississippi. The other children are Wallace W. Hitchcock, grocer, of 504 North Blackstone street; Mrs. George W. Fifield, 420 Williams street; Mrs. David Town, of Blackman; Charles S. Hitchcock, [p.69] No. 240 West Main Street, and Miss Clara, who resides with her parents.

Mr. Hitchcock was a prominent and active member of the First Methodist Episcopal church, a man of good business ability and highly esteemed by a very wide circle of friends.

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[From a letter written by E. W. Powers March 7 1950 for Ruth Hitchcock Bressler]
Mark Hitchcok was sheriff in Elyria Ohio. Later he moved to Jackson Michigan.

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Mark came to OH with his parents abt 1824; worked on the family farm until he was 20, when he engaged in buying and shipping livestock for several years; then was in the grocery and provision business and farming until 1864, when he became Sheriff of Lorain Co and served four years in this office. In 1868,
he moved his family to a farm 3 miles north of Jackson, MI. He purchased a hardware store (Rice & McConnell) in 1879 and settled in the city. His son-in-law, George Fifield, was his partner for a year; he ran the store for a year by himself and Jan 1, 1880, took his son, Charles S, and Rueben E. Clark as
partners, each owning one-third interest.
Mark purchased an interest in the Eureka coal mine and was elected Supt. and Treasurer in Dec 1880. He also served as a Justice of Blackman Twp for some years. He and Mary were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.


Find-A-Grave Memorial Number: 23909394

Mark married Mary Morgan on 05 Jun 1839 in Elyria, Lorain, Ohio U.S.A.. Mary (daughter of Ira Beebe Morgan and Louisa Bronson) was born about 1817 in Ohio U.S.A.; died on 27 May 1853 in Lorain County, Ohio U.S.A.; was buried in Butternut Ridge Cemetery, Elyria, Lorain, Ohio U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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REF: Hitchcock Genealogy- 1894- p 170
History of Jackson Co (MI)- p ?
Index to Marr. License Applications,Cuyahoga Co,OH- Vol 1-6. p ?
Census records- 1850 OH
Desc.of Thomas and Richard Brush of Huntington,L.I.- S.C & R.B.Brush -
1982- p 190

Find A Grave memorial # 43176142

Notes:

"David ll ...came from Lee, Berkshire, MA, settled in Dover, Cuyahoga Co (OH).."
[History of Lorain Co, OH - Wright - p 759]

David married Roxana Crocker on 26 Oct 1830 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio U.S.A.. Roxana (daughter of Noah Crocker and Betsey Foot) was born on 01 Jul 1807 in Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts U.S.A.; died on 17 Mar 1891 in Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

History of Lorain County, Ohio; Wright; page 759.

Roxey Crocker, ch. Noah and Betsey, was born 1 July 1807 in Lee, MA.

Andrews, H. Franklin. The Hamlin Family. Exira, IA: Published by the author, 1902.

Vital Records of Lee, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston, MA: New-England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903.

Notes:

History of Lorain County, Ohio; Wright; page 759.

Notes:

[From "Holdeman Descendants" by Edwin L. Weaver, 1937, Vol I., Page 235-237]

George Holdeman was married February 18, 1836 in Wayne County, Ohio to Anna Eicher, born October 22, 1818 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, daughter of Daniel and Mary M. (Stuckschleger) Eicher. She had come with her parents to Wayne County, Ohio, and was reared on a farm which was the northeast quarter of section nineteen in Congress Township, in which township they lived during the first several years after their marriage.

George Holdeman became a school teacher and taught one-third of the winter term of 1839 and 1840 at the old log school house of district No. Six in Chester Township, Wayne County, Ohio. The following facts concerning the teaching career of George Holdeman in Ohio were taken from Chester Township records: " George Holdeman taught the winter term of school 1844 and 1845 in District No. Two which was the next district due north of District No. Six, and known to-day as Science Point District by the same number, and that on March 12, 1845 was paid $45.50 for his services, and the winter of 1846 and 1847 George Holdeman taught the school of District No. Eleven, today kown as Red Swamp, and on March 22, 1847 drew $52.00 for his wages. The following winter, 1847 and 1848, he again taught in District No. Two and on march 16, 1848 he was paid $52.00. (Harvey S. Rutt, "History of Chester Township, Wayne County, Ohio, P 26.)

On November 20, 1839, George Holdeman and wife bought from Simon Vanosdal a forty acre tract of land, which was the south one-half of the south half of the southeast quarter of section five in Chester Township. This land was sold on September 2, 1848, twenty acres to Isaac Young and twenty to Susannah Cook.

In the year 1848 George Holdeman and family came to Elkhart County, Indiana, and lived during the first year in Elkhart Township, in which township the Frederick Landis family had settled. They had seven children at this time. They then moved to Olive Township and purchased from the government September 2, 1849 the forty acres of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section thirty-five of township thirty-six (Olive); this tract was sold for sixty dollars to Susannah Miller July 30, 1850. On May 13, 1850, George and Anna Holdeman bought from Henry Yoder of Mahoning County, Ohio, for five hundred dollars the southwest quarter of section seven, 130.55 acres of township thirty-five (Locke). On October 11, 1858 they bought for three hundred dollars the north half of the southwest quarter of section thirty-four in Olive Township, containing 120 acres, and April 12, 1865 from John H. and Harriet Baker of Elkhart County for two hundred dollars the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section thirty-four in Olive Township.

George Holdeman was a soldier in the Civil War. He was drafted, and entered November 14, 1862 at Indianapolis. He was a private and a member of Company K. 57th Regiment of the Indiana Infantry. At the battle of Stone River December 21, 1862 he was wounded in the shoulder; it is said he would have been killed had it not been for a pair of new boots which he had in a knapsack over his shoulder.

George Holdeman had been the first of the Holdemans to settle in Elkhart County, and to clear land; he first cleared ten acres on the west side of section thirty-four, at what came to be called Coonville. Later he built a log house almost in the center of the section; it stood northesast of where the barn now is on the farm occupied by Warren Holdeman. This log house faced the east with a porch along the east side of it. He had also started to build a barn, but sold the farm before this was completeted.

Anna (Eicher) Holdeman died March 2, 1863, aged 44 years, 4 months, 10 days. George Holdeman was married the second time December 17, 1868 to Charlotte Bixler, and shortly afterward sold his farm to Joseph Holdeman. He purchased the shares from the children of his second wife of a farm north of the Baugo Church, northwest of Wakarusa.

In addition to teaching and farming he practiced verterinary quite extensively, and became more a veterinarian than a farmer.

George and Ann (Eicher) Holdeman were members of the Mennonite Church. Before the Holdeman Meeting House was built, services were held regularly once every four weeks at their home one and one-half miles west and one-half mile south of Wakarusa. he sometime accommodated Mennonite ministers and other visitors to Elkhart County by providing transportation for them. For instance in 1868 Christian D. Berry of Burr Oak, Michigan visited Mennonites around Wakarusa; when he returned home George Holdeman and Danniel Brenneman accompaneid him as far as LaGrange, Indiana.

George married Anna Eicher on 18 Feb 1836 in Wayne County, Ohio U.S.A.. Anna (daughter of Daniel Echer and Mary M. Stuckschleger) was born on 22 Oct 1818 in Westermoreland County, Pennsylvania U.S.A.; died on 02 Mar 1863. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Anna had come with her parents to Wayne County, Ohio and was reared on a
farm which was the northest quarter of section nineteen in Congress Township, in which township they ( George & Anna) lived during the first several years of their marriage

Notes:

1888: Burton lived in Reed City, Michigan.

October 1871: Lived in Noble Township, Branch County, Michigan.

May 1853: Lived in Canada.

1857: Burton moved to Elkhart, Indiana.
[http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/a/i/Philip-D-Bailey/GENE1-0011.html]

Listed as Father of Claudius on his death Certificate.
1860 census, Olive Twp, Elkhart Co, Indiana
Curtis, B.H., 39, Baptist Minister, 2700, 1000, N.Y.
Elizabeth, 44, Canada
Leah, 16, Canada
Elizabeth, 12. Canada
Claudius, 9, Canada
Julia, 8, Canada

Father: Gad CURTIS b: Mar 1791 in Orange County, New York
Mother: Mary HITCHCOCK

Burton married Elizabeth Koblin about 1835 in Ontario, Canada . Elizabeth (daughter of William Koplin and Eva B. Strome) was born on 15 Jun 1812; died on 29 May 1885 in Branch County, Michigan U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Mrs. Heltzel is the daughter of B.H. and Elizabeth (Koblin) Curtis, natives of Canada, and was born May 12, 1853, in Canada. Her father lives in Reed City, Mich. Her mother died in June 1886.

CURTIS - On the 29th of May, in Branch county, Mich., of dropsy, Elizabeth Curtis, aged 72 years, 11 months and 14 days. Funeral services were held at Pleasant Hill by Preacher Hill, Harvey Friesner, and J.S. Coffman. Sister Curtis was called to pass through some of the sorest trials in life that God permits to come to his children; but through them all He kept her faithful. She lived an exemplary life, and continued to manifest an abiding trust in Him to the last moments of her life.

Herald of Truth - Volume XXII, Number 12 - June 15, 1885, Page 191; http://www.mcusa-archives.org/MennObits/1885/jun1885.html.

Surname Variations: koplin, koplan, kupland, coplan.

http://generations.regionofwaterloo.ca

ON, Waterloo - Wellington District Marriage Register Part 1 1840-1852, Dan Walker and Fawne Stratford-Devai, (NorSim Research and Publishing 1997).
Marriages By Rev'd F. W. Bindemann, Minister Of The German Evangelical Protestant Church
Burton Curtis, Potter, Of Waterloo, To Elisabeth Koplin, Of Woolwich. Wit. Samuel Eby, Yeom Of Woolwich, And Samuel Burkholder, Mason, Of Waterloo

Notes:

Mr. Heltzel continued with his parents until his marriage with Miss Julia Curtis, which took place at the home of the bride in Noble Township, Oct. 24, 1871. Mrs. Heltzel is the daughter of B.H. and Elizabeth (Koblin) Curtis, natives of Canada, and was born May 12, 1853, in Canada. Her father lives in Reed City, Mich. Her mother died in June 1886. Their five children are all living. [page 369, "1888 Portrait & Biographical Album of Branch County"]

October 1871: the family lived in Noble Township, Branch County, Michigan.

May 1853: the family lived in Canada.

Seven known children.

News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Der Morgenstern (1839-1841), extracted by Patricia J. Kauk, (Kitchener Public Library, Kitchener Ontario, Canada), 929.371344 Der., 5 Aug 1841.
Jully 29, 1841 Burton Curtis of Berlin & Elisabeth Koplin of Woolwich, were married by Rev. Bindemann.

http://generations.regionofwaterloo.ca/getperson.php?personID=I73877&tree=generations