D. M. COPPOCK, farmer; P. O. Pleasant Hill; he is a son of Benjamin Coppock, and grandson of Benjamin J., Sr., who was one of a family of nine children, who came from Newberry District, S. C. about the year 1800; he settled two miles west of Ludlow Falls, Union Township, where he raised a family of ten children. He married Susan Jay in South Carolina and they both lived to an advanced age; Benjamin J., Jr., had three children - Ellwood, D. M. and Almeda; the parents still survive, residing with our subject, who was born Dec. 29, 1841, in Union Township, and raised to farm labor, and, aside from common schools, was educated in the select schools of the Friends, and was raised a Quaker; he is now a member of the Christian Church and highly respected in the community in which he lives; he is a member of the A. F. & A. M. Lodge, of Pleasant Hill. He married Jane, daughter of J. Furnas Jay, who died Jan. 17, 1879, leaving nine children; she was a good Christian woman, and a member of the Christian Church.
