Rhoda 'Rhodia' Copass
--b. May 5, 1837 Washington Co., TN
--d. December 10, 1914 Washington Co. TN
----buried Logan's Chapel Cemetery, Washington Co., TN
--NEVER MARRIED but did have SEVEN CHILDREN
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My Websites for Rhoda
- Job(e) Legacy - Gedcom on Rootsweb World Connect
JOB(E) LEGACY
Descendants of Andrew Job Jr
Wm. COPAS 48 TN Rhoda 26 TN Mary 19 TN Nancy 15 TN Sarah 14 TN Rhoda *Rhoda is with her parents.
Wm. COPASS 59 m farmer $1950 $953 TN Barbary 63 f domestic TN Mary 36 f domestic TN Rhoda C. 23 f domestic TN Salathia 21 f domestic TN Cynthia1 4 f TN Elizabeth JACKSON 48 f domestic TN *she is age 23 with her father and stepmother.
Rhoda CAUPAS 30 f w keeping house TN William 6 m w at home TN Andrew 3 m w at home TN
Rhoda COPASS Self S Female W 42 TN Keeping House TN TN William COPASS Son S Male W 15 TN Laborer Nathan COPASS Son S Male W 13 TN At Home John COPASS Son S Male W 8 TN TN TN Preston COPASS Son S Male W 6 TN TN TN Luther D. COPASS Son S Male W 4 TN TN TN
Head Roda Copass F 58 Tennessee (5 children - 5 living) single May 1842 Son Nathan Copass M 32 Tennessee married Jan 1868 Son Press Copass M 22 Tennessee May 1878 Son George Copass M 20 Tennessee April 1880 Daughter Sarah Copass F 18 Tennessee May 1882
Head George C Copass M 28 Tennessee Brother Press Copass M 30 Tennessee Mother Rhoda Copass F 70 Tennessee Niece Ettie M Copass F 8 Tennessee
Donna (Cox) Briggs writes:I found a will today in the at the Washington County courthouse. This will book is in terrible shape—the pages are falling out and it’s been locked up for ages. It’s for Jane Mosley or Jane Copas.
Will of Jane CopassBe it known that I, Jane Mosely (or Jane Copass or by whatever name I am known) of Washington County, Tenn. near Fordtown, do make this my last will and Testament That is to say that I order and direct that all of my just debts & expenses be paid with convenient speed after my death. I order and direct that William Copass, my last husband shall be paid one dollar. I order and direct that William McCulley shall be paid ten dollars. It is my will that my brothers, John and Jacob Jackson shall have the bedding that was formerly my mother's equally divided between them. It is my will that Jacob Jackson shall have four dollars in consideration of one calf that he left with me. I order that tombstones be put at the graves of myself and mother.
It is my will that the remainder of my property both real and personal shall be equally divided between my brothers or the heirs of any that may not be living That is to say William McCulley, Robert McCully, James McCully's heirs & John & Jacob Jackson. In witness whereof I hereunto sign my name in the presence of these subscribing witnesses on this the 23rd day of April in the year one thousand and eight hundred and ninety eight (1898).
Jane Copas
(her mark)
Letter from Descendant, Donna Godfrey Williamson August 2013:
My name is Donna Godfrey Williamson and I am doing my family tree and came across your family tree on the Copass family. If it is okay with you I have some questions that I hope you will be able to help me with.George C Copas (Copass) was my great grandfather and the father to my grandmother Bessie Godfrey. I notice you have a copy of the obituary on your site which also the same obituary Bessie had in her personal belongings which help me open the doors to George and his family. I tell you this because Bessie did not grow up really knowing her father. The story we were told growing up is that Blanche Oler (Bessie’s mother and George’s wife) married George and something happened early on in the marriage and that Blanche left and went back home not knowing she was pregnant at the time she left and never to return. So Bessie did not really know her father on a personal basis.
My questions are how did you determine that Rhoda Copass had seven children? I believe Luther D Copass and George C Copass are one in the same person. My somewhat evidence is the marriage license that list G. C. Copass and Blanche Oler married January 5, 1913 and then George’s draft registration (that I believe the men did in their own handwriting) he listed his name as George Luther Denny? Or Denis? Copass and family as Blanche Mae Copass. So Blanche being on both documents that is what led me to believe they are one in the same. The draft registration has George’s actual date of birth April 9, 1877 which means his headstone is incorrect for the birth year.. . .
. . . Blanche Mae Oler's (dob 7/5/1893) unsure of date of death but she did die here in Charleston, SC in late 1960's or early 1970's parents were Henrietta Hawkins "Retta" (dob 8/1870)and George Oler (dob 9/1860-1867?). George died at some point and Henrietta "Retta" remarried a Sam Sherfey and at some point Blanche and Bessie took his name as evidence in later census. Bessie was an only child and George Copass never remarried.
Though not married, Sarah is believed to have died in childbirth. The child, Mary Etta 'Ettie' (Copas) did live. She later married Felix C. ROYSTON.
If you have any old photos for any descendants of this family, please send to me at
Ann (Jobe) Brown
