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Subject: Benjamin Pierce ~ born Grayson County, Virginia
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 06:40:51 EST

Fairfield Ledger
Sept. 14, 1887
Page 3 col. 8

MARRIED SIXTY YEARS. On August 30, 1827, in Ohio, BENJAMIN PIERCE was married
to MISS. RACHEL COPPOCK….Few people in our midst have done more through
charitable work and more eventful histories than MR. and MRS. PEIRCE[sic]. Both
were reared according to the strictest tenets of the orthodox Friends, but
gradually grew into what they are pleased to term liberal ideas, relying more upon
faithful works and less upon creed and form….The spirit of abolition was born
in both of them. MRS. PEIRCE[sic] came from the celebrated COPPOCK family. Two
of her cousins, ED. and BARCLAY COPPOCK, enlisted under JOHN BROWN’S standard
in Cedar County, this state, and were with him in his famous Harper’s Ferry
raid. BARCLAY escaped to the mountains after the encounter with the troops, but
ED. was hung on the same scaffold with the martyr BROWN. In all these
troublous times both these good people risked life and fortune for the slave. For
years their home was a station on the great underground railroad, on which so many
of these poor people took passage, and many is the weary refugee who has
received aid at their hands. With the means at their command they not only gave
succor to the fleeing slave, but the widow and the orphan have never gone from
their home empty handed, and though never blessed with children of their own
their roof has sheltered many a fatherless and motherless child. The works and
memories of MR. and MRS. PEIRCE will live long after they have gone, and their
simple lives and excellent example will long remain in the minds of those who
knew their history.

Fairfield Tribune
Wed. Apr. 1, 1896
Page 2 col. 2

DEATH OF BENJAMIN PIERCE, in the city of Fairfield, on the 26th day of March,
1896. Born in Grayson County, Va., Sept. 25, 1804. In 1809 he, with his father
’s family, moved to Miami Co., Ohio, at that time a wilderness, where in 1827
he was married to RACHEL COPPOCK who preceded him to the grave about six
years. They moved to Wayne County, Indiana, and in 1841 moved to Henry County,
Iowa, then moved to Jasper County, Iowa, and about 1856 came to Fairfield, where
they resided until their deaths….

Fairfield Ledger
Dec. 31, 1932
Page 3 col. 3

HOMES OF FAIRFIELD. 307 South Main St. Built by BENJAMIN D. PIERCE originally
and once rebuilt, and his home until death….

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