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- According to Cope and Fulthey,
"Joseph Cope, [John's] younger brother, inherited the homestead, and upon a part of which he continued to reside until his death, 4, 4, 1870, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. He visited England in 1820, partly on account of his health, and in 1839 returned thither to procure improved stock of cattle and sheep, of which he was a most enthusiastic breeder for many years. He was a great admirer of the standard English writers and poets, and seldom penned a letter without a familiar quotation from one of them.
He married, 11, 27, 1823, Rachel, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Cope, of Fayette Co., Pa., by whom he had children as follows: 1. Ann, m. to Darlington Cope, of Franklin township. 2. John, m. first to Caroline Baldwin, who left one child, and second to Hannah M. Cooper, of Parkesburg. He was assistant superintendent of the West Chester and Philadelphia and Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Railroads at the time of his death, 3, 4, 1867, and was instantly killed by the cars. His widow and daughter Lucy conduct a boarding- and day-school at Toughkenamon. 3. Paschall, m. to Amy A. Baily, of West Chester; d. 8, 25, 1873, leaving one child, Lydia, now the wife of Prof. Isaac Sharpless, of Haverford College. 4. William Cowper, m. to Margaret M. Hughes, of Londongrove, d. 2, 5, 1868, leaving one child, Mary H. 5. Ellen, m. to Lewis Passmore, of London Britain; d. 12, 5, 1874, leaving three children, William C., Thomas L., and John W. 6. Edward Young, m. to Alice Gilbert and living in Ohio with two children, Charles and Anna.
Joseph Cope married second Eliza Gilbert, daughter of Abner and Ann, of Westmoreland Co., Pa., 4, 6, 1838, by whom he had two children. 7. Rachel W., m. first to William Cope, and second to Job Huestis, and died in Ohio, 10, 18, 1874, leaving issue,— Frank and Edna Cope and Edward C. Huestis. 8. Gilbert, m. 2, 5, 1880, to Anna Garrett, daughter of David and Mary Ann, deceased, of Birmingham, and they have a son, Herman, b. 11, 21, 1880, in West Chester." [4]
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