Charlestown (VA) Free Press, “The Re-Interment of Coppic [Coppoc],” January 12, 1860

    Source citation
    “The Re-Interment of Coppic [Coppoc],” Charlestown (VA) Free Press, January 12, 1860, p. 2: 5.
    Newspaper: Publication
    Charlestown Free Press
    Newspaper: Headline
    The Re-Internment of Coppic
    Newspaper: Page(s)
    2
    Newspaper: Column
    5
    Type
    Newspaper
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Don Sailer, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

    THE RE-INTERNMENT OF COPPIC [COPPOC]. – The remains of Edwin Coppic, one of the Harper’s Ferry insurgents, were disinterred on Monday, the 26th ult., from the burying ground about five miles from Salem, Ohio, where they had been quietly buried by his Quaker relatives, for a more imposing burial by his sympathizers in the neighborhood, on Friday the 30th ult. The body was placed in the hands of experienced persons to prepare it for the occasion. The wooden coffin from Virginia was replaced by a handsome metallic one, the body being robed in white flannel, and taken to the Town Hall in Salem, where, on Friday, it was exposed to view for four hours. The hall accommodating six hundred was filled, and then some four thousand persons, it was estimated, passed through the room to view the corpse, several ladies, on seeing the blackened face, bursting into tears. In the procession to the burying-ground, in sight of the town, the relations followed first, then the citizens generally. A monument is to be erected to the memory of the deceased.

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