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Facts and Events
She did not have Ann's ability for social chatting; she was honest, truthful and the most undiplomatic person Virginia ever knew. She was also one of Virginia's favorite people. Also, she and Dell were at sword points a great deal of the time.
She spent her life raising other people's children. Since she was the oldest, she had to assume some of the responsibility for her sister, Daisy Frances. She once asked her mother why she had so many children and was promptly told to mind her own business.
Like her parents, she developed tuberculosis and spent some months at Saranac Lake where she was cured. By that time both Daisy Frances and Dell were widows and so, along with Ann, all four girls lived together in the old family home in Mount Vernon. For a time Mary slept in a tent in the back yard winter and summer. It was a wonderful thing with a wood floor, two sides which opened up completely and a door with room for two beds.
When William Jr's. first wife died, she went to live with him and took care of Frances and William Baldwin until he remarried. After he remarried, she went to Pennsylvania to care for the children of some friends of the Mount Vernon Coup's. While she was at Will's, her sisters Daisy Frances and Dell were married, Ann was living with friends and Rebecca also lived with him.
After the death of John's wife, she went to Saginaw, Michigan to raise John, Jr. and Elizabeth. She remained there for the rest of her life.
These notes and comments are from Virginia Spearman to William A. Coup.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Coup Genealogical Chart by Lucy Hall Pancoast, May 1959. Copy in the possession of William A. Coup, Boca Raton.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 United States Government, Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census. 1870 Census, Ohio, Wayne County, Baughman Township - William Coup. (Name: 1870 Census, Series M593, Roll 1280, Page 241; Ohio, Wayne County, Baughman Township, Village of Orville, Chippewa Post Office, Page 14, 29 June 1870, Line 4, Dwelling 106, Family 114;).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 United States Government, Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census. 1880 Census, Ohio, Ashland County, Green Township, Loudonville - William M. Coup. (Name: 1880 Census, Series T9, Roll 991, Page 38; Ohio, Ashland County, Green Township, Loudonville, Page 43D, Supervisor's District 6, Enumeration District 80, 28 June 1880, Line 3, Dwelling 434, Family 447;).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 United States Government, Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census. 1910 Census, Ohio, Knox County, Mount Vernon - William M. Coup. (Name: 1910 Census, Series T624, Roll 1199, Page 71; Ohio, Knox County, Clinton Township, Mount Vernon City, Ward 3, 15 April 1910, Supervisor's District 13, Enumeration District 59, Sheet 1B, Line 68, 105 Gay Street, Dwelling 14, Family 21;).
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 United States Government, Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census. 1920 Census, Michigan, Saginaw County, City of Saginaw - John M. Coup. (Name: 1920 Census, Series T625, Roll 793, Page 192; Michigan, Saginaw County, City of Saginaw, Ward 7, 15 January 1920, Supervisor's District 8, Enumeration District 184, Sheet 7A, Line 6, 705 Thompson Street, Dwelling 152, Family 166;).
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 United States Government, Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census. 1930 Census, Michigan, Saginaw County, Saginaw City - Mary Coup. (Name: 1930 Census, Series T626, Roll 1022, Page 124; Michigan, Saginaw County, Saginaw City, Ward 9, 2 April 1930, Supervisor's District 9, Enumeration District 73-37, Sheet 1A, Line 10, 826 Hoyt Street, Dwelling 4, Family 4;).
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