Re: COPELANDs fo western PA.
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In reply to:
Re: COPELANDs fo western PA.
3/16/99
Steve,
Long ago [3/99] you wrote: "Hi Cora Would you have any info on the Alice Barton who married your Joseph l."Orlando" Thanks Steve"
Answer is YEs, yes, yes.
Alice 'Ella' C. BARTON
Birth 21 May 1871, England
Death 1961
Burial Mt Vernon Cemetery; Boston, PA.
Father William BARTON (ca1841-1899)
Mother Alice (1845-)Spouses1 Joseph Lander 'Orlando' COPELAND
Birth 23 Dec 1864, Boston, Allegheny Co., McKeesport, Pennsylvania
Death 25 Jul 1901, Brown Mine #2; Boston, PA.1,2
Burial Mt. Vernon Cemetery; 2310 Buena Vista, Boston, PA.3
Occupation Driver [in 1888]; Coal miner [in 1901]
Father Joseph B. COPELAND (1825-<1890)
Mother Margaret J. NICKLE/NICHOLS (ca1834-1897)Marriage 4 Jan 18884Children William Joseph 'J.W.' (1888-1952)
David (1894-1946)
Stella 'Ella' B. (1897-1916)2 Harry B. EICHER
Birth 22 Mar 1874, Boston, Elizabeth Twp. Allegheny Co., PA.
Death 1944
Burial Mt Vernon Cemetery; Boston, PA.
Occupation road supervisor for Elizabeth Township
Father Joseph EICHER (ca1841-)
Mother Charlotte BERESFORD (ca1843-)Marriage aft 1907Notes for Alice 'Ella' C. BARTON
Childhood: Alice came to the USA with her parents when she was only four years of age. The family settled in Pennsylvania and then moved to Ohio and then to Boston, PA. All within the space of about six years. A lot of moving for a little child and not too easy for her parents either with 6 and more children to also be transported in days when transportation was not a simple matter.
Alice's early travails unfortunately presaged her future hardships. 5
Marriage:Joseph L. Copeland and Alice Barton married on Jan. 4, 1888 by Wm. L. Douglass, Justice of the Peace. Alice's father, William Barton signs permission for her wedding as she is under age. Witnesses were Jas. Edmundson & Wm. Duncan of Boston, PA.6
Ella was widowed at age 29 with three small children; her father having died two years prior to her widowhood and her mother was living with her when Joseph died.
Eventually she remarried to a Mr. EICHER.
Despite all these hardships, Ella lived to be 89 years old, longer than her husbands and children and several grandchildren!
If you want more I have a little bit on her siblings and parents.
Cora