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Cemetery records show that this is a Simeon Coplen while family member's obituaries record his name as Simon.
Published in The Rochester News-Sentinel
Thursday, August 17, 1939
Committal services for Simeon COPLEN, aged 80, former Newcastle township resident who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mary RYAN in East Gary Tuesday, will be held in the Rochester Odd Fellows Cemetery at 2 p.m. Friday. The last rites will be in charge of Rev. G. J. LONG, pastor of Trinity Evangelical Church.
The deceased had lived with his daughter for the past three years but had been a farmer residing near Talma and near Logansport. Death was due to complications incident to old age. He had been in ill health for one year but was seriously sick but a few days.
Mr. Coplen was born on a farm in Marshall county, northwest of Mentone, December 18, 1858. His parents were Elijah and Mary (HORN) COPLEN. In a ceremony which was performed at Talma, July 10, 1879, he was married to Sarah BALL who died in 1916.
Surviving are the daughter, Mrs. RYAN; brother, Hiram E. COPLEN, Frankfort; three sisters, Mrs. Frank R ROSS, Pasadena, Calif., Mrs. Tena BEEHLER and Mrs. Sam FRIEND, both of Rochester, several grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Four children preceded their father in death.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1939
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
Cemetery records show that this is a Simeon Coplen while family member's obituaries record his name as Simon.
Published in The Rochester News-Sentinel
Thursday, August 17, 1939
Committal services for Simeon COPLEN, aged 80, former Newcastle township resident who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mary RYAN in East Gary Tuesday, will be held in the Rochester Odd Fellows Cemetery at 2 p.m. Friday. The last rites will be in charge of Rev. G. J. LONG, pastor of Trinity Evangelical Church.
The deceased had lived with his daughter for the past three years but had been a farmer residing near Talma and near Logansport. Death was due to complications incident to old age. He had been in ill health for one year but was seriously sick but a few days.
Mr. Coplen was born on a farm in Marshall county, northwest of Mentone, December 18, 1858. His parents were Elijah and Mary (HORN) COPLEN. In a ceremony which was performed at Talma, July 10, 1879, he was married to Sarah BALL who died in 1916.
Surviving are the daughter, Mrs. RYAN; brother, Hiram E. COPLEN, Frankfort; three sisters, Mrs. Frank R ROSS, Pasadena, Calif., Mrs. Tena BEEHLER and Mrs. Sam FRIEND, both of Rochester, several grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Four children preceded their father in death.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1939
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
NO HEADSTONE ON THIS GRAVE
Cemetery records show that this is a Simeon Coplen while family member's obituaries record his name as Simon.
Published in The Rochester News-Sentinel
Thursday, August 17, 1939
Committal services for Simeon COPLEN, aged 80, former Newcastle township resident who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mary RYAN in East Gary Tuesday, will be held in the Rochester Odd Fellows Cemetery at 2 p.m. Friday. The last rites will be in charge of Rev. G. J. LONG, pastor of Trinity Evangelical Church.
The deceased had lived with his daughter for the past three years but had been a farmer residing near Talma and near Logansport. Death was due to complications incident to old age. He had been in ill health for one year but was seriously sick but a few days.
Mr. Coplen was born on a farm in Marshall county, northwest of Mentone, December 18, 1858. His parents were Elijah and Mary (HORN) COPLEN. In a ceremony which was performed at Talma, July 10, 1879, he was married to Sarah BALL who died in 1916.
Surviving are the daughter, Mrs. RYAN; brother, Hiram E. COPLEN, Frankfort; three sisters, Mrs. Frank R ROSS, Pasadena, Calif., Mrs. Tena BEEHLER and Mrs. Sam FRIEND, both of Rochester, several grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Four children preceded their father in death.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1939
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
Cemetery records show that this is a Simeon Coplen while family member's obituaries record his name as Simon.
Published in The Rochester News-Sentinel
Thursday, August 17, 1939
Committal services for Simeon COPLEN, aged 80, former Newcastle township resident who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mary RYAN in East Gary Tuesday, will be held in the Rochester Odd Fellows Cemetery at 2 p.m. Friday. The last rites will be in charge of Rev. G. J. LONG, pastor of Trinity Evangelical Church.
The deceased had lived with his daughter for the past three years but had been a farmer residing near Talma and near Logansport. Death was due to complications incident to old age. He had been in ill health for one year but was seriously sick but a few days.
Mr. Coplen was born on a farm in Marshall county, northwest of Mentone, December 18, 1858. His parents were Elijah and Mary (HORN) COPLEN. In a ceremony which was performed at Talma, July 10, 1879, he was married to Sarah BALL who died in 1916.
Surviving are the daughter, Mrs. RYAN; brother, Hiram E. COPLEN, Frankfort; three sisters, Mrs. Frank R ROSS, Pasadena, Calif., Mrs. Tena BEEHLER and Mrs. Sam FRIEND, both of Rochester, several grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Four children preceded their father in death.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1939
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
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