William Marshall Soper and Ella Augusta Brisbane

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Husband William Marshall Soper ¹

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           Born: 21 Apr 1851 - Harrisville, Mercer Twp, Butler Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Soper (1815-1870) 1
         Mother: Mary Rolland (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 4 Aug 1881 1

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Wife Ella Augusta Brisbane ¹

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           Born: 3 Apr 1850 - near West Freedom, Perry Twp, Clarion Co, PA 1
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         Father: Enos Brisben (1818-1874)
         Mother: Susanna Armstrong (1826-1888) 1 2

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Children

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1 F Verda Celestia Soper ⁴

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            AKA: Verda Celesta Soper 3
           Born: 23 Dec 1882 3
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         Spouse: Frank Burton Stauffer (      -      ) 5

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2 F Florence Augusta Soper ³

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           Born: 6 Apr 1884 3
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3 F Edith Soper ³

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           Born: 6 Jun 1887 3
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4 M John Wesley Soper ³

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           Born: 10 Jan 1889 3
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5 M William Franklin Soper ³

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           Born: 31 Aug 1891 3
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General Notes: Husband - William Marshall Soper

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He was born at Harris­ville, Butler County, Pennsylvania, and there he received his first schooling. When he lived at Bully Hill he used to walk three miles to school. At the age of twenty-one years he started out for himself, checking and weighing coal in his father's mine. For two years he was a railroad brakeman, and for fifteen years he was in the oil fields of New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. March 1904, he bought a farm of seventy-two acres and his father's farm of sixty acres near Fredell, Clarion County, Pennsylvania. Later in 1902 bought a fifteen acre farm at Washington Doverspike, about one hundred and fifty acres in all. There he made his home; he built a barn and remodeled the house, and the farm was put in an improved condition generally. He was a Demo­crat, and was school director for multiple terms. In religion Mr. Soper was a Methodist, his wife a Presbyterian.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 623.

2 Mrs. Harold V. Linn, Daniel Smith - Pioneer Settler of Rockland Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania (Venango County, PA: Privately published, 1961), Pg 123.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 624.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 610.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 610, 624.