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Subject: [CAYOLO-L] W.H.H. Copp obituary
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 23:07:03 -0600

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Surname: Copp, Cook, Black, Hoffman, Porter
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Obituary from "THE MAIL OF WOODLAND"; Volume XXII Thursday Morning, October
6, 1898

W. H. H. COPP
Died at the Home of His Son-in-law, Near Dunnigan, Wednesday Morning

Another of Yolo County's Pioneers Starts on His Final Journey Across the
Plains.

Dunnigan, Oct. 5th.

William Henry Harison Copp, one of the oldest and most esteemed residents
of Yolo County, died at the home of his son-in-law, Sam Barker, near this
town at 8:30 this morning. Death was sudden and unexpected. The deceased
appeared to be as well as usual on the night before when he retired, and
arose this morning at the customary hour. He went from his room into the
kitchen and was there suddenly stricken. He fell to the floor and was lifted
in a semi-unconscious condition and put to bed. He died only a short afterward.

The coroner, D. O. Bean, of Woodland, was notified of the death and summoned,
as is necessary by law in such cases. A dispatch was also sent to his wife,
who went to Woodland yesterday to visit her brother, John A. Black, and
also to his daughter, Mrs. Fred Porter, of Woodland. Mr. Bean and Mr. and
Mrs. Porter arrived on the noon train, but the news so shocked Mrs. Copp
that is was deemed best to spare her the sorrow and care at present and
she remained in Woodland. She has been in ill health herself.

The deceased has suffered with a complication of diseases for several years
past. Stomach trouble seemed to be his worst ailment and it no doubt caused
the end. He has been gradually failing, but no one anticipated the end
so soon and the shock is a severe one to friends and relatives alike.

The deceased was born in New York, in the year '37 (1837). He was raised
and educated in the Empire State, and in '49 (1849), having caught the
gold fever, came to California across the great plains. He settled near
Dunnigan on the same land which was his when he died, having lived there
all these years, save for a few visits to his old home in New York, and
two years he spent in Colorado in the merchantile business.

He married Mrs. Hoffman, a sister of John Black, who was a widow with three
children, Mrs. Sam Barker, of Dunnigan, Mrs. John Allen of Sacramento,
and L. J. Hoffman, a son. The wedding ceremony was solemnized by Rev. Pendegast
in Woodland about twenty-two years ago. The deceased leaves only one child,
Mrs. Fred Porter, of Woodland.

At one time the deceased, his father John E. Copp, and a brother, Jesse
Copp, owned between three and four thousand acres of land near Dunnigan.
His father died in Texas several years ago, and his brother is buried in
the cemetery at Woodland. Misfortune followed adverses, and slowly the
great farm diminished until now it consists of only 145 acres -- the home
place.

Deceased was a pioneer member of the Masonic lodge at Knights Landing.
He was a fine, honest, old gentleman universally admired and respected
throughout the county. He was charitable and public spirited and did much
to make Yolo county what it now is. His memory will ever dwell among its
people as a man of men: as a father of our county, and as a friend true
and trustworthy.

END OF OBITUARY for W. H. Harrison Copp

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