George Cope and Susan Snyder

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Husband George Cope ¹

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           Born:  - Lancaster Co, PA
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           Died:  - ? Westmoreland Co, PA
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Wife Susan Snyder ²

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Children

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1 M George Cope ^{2 3}

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           Born: 1797 - ? Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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           Died: 1841 - ? Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Anna Mary Eisaman (      -      ) 2

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2 M Joseph Cope ³

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General Notes: Husband - George Cope

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The Cope family of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, trace their ancestry back to Oliver Cope, who came over with William Penn in 1681, in which year he erected in Chester County his log house, still standing in 1863. One of his descendants, a native of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, removed to Westmoreland County at an early day. He was an industrious and thrifty Quaker and cleared out a large and valuable farm.

The Cope family was among those that came to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in the pioneer days and made its home prior to that time in the state of Maryland. Its migration to the western part of Pennsylvania was made in the person of George Cope, He settled in Westmoreland County about 1790, Seanor's Church, in Hempfield township. There he purchased a farm of considerable acreage, or rather he purchased woodland with the intention of making it a farm. Most of the country was in its original state at that time, covered with the great forest which had stood there from primeval ages. He cleared up the forest and established his home in the midst of the great wilderness. Here he spent the remaining years of his life, which, however, were few in number.
George Cope was a Quaker and a staunch upholder of the principles and beliefs of that body. He was the father of a large family of children, all of whom went West with the exception of two brothers, George and Joseph, both of whom remained in Westmoreland County.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 174.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 67.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 175.