Biographical Sketch of James H. B. Cope, Wright County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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James H. B. Cope, a farmer of Elk Creek Township, Wright Co., Mo., was
born in Middle Tennessee in 1831, being the son of Stephen and Comfort
(Bolin) Cope.  The paternal grandfather was born in one of the Carol-
inas, was a farmer and a member of the Baptist Church.  He was a 
pioneer settler of Warren County, Tenn., was the father of four child-
ren, and died in Tennessee at the age of ninety-eight years.  Stephen
Cope was born in Warren County, Tenn., in 1803, and was a farmer by
occupation.  He was always a Democrat in his political views, and was
constable in Warren County for six years.  He was also justice of the
peace for twelve years, and died in 1887.  His wife, Comfort Cope, was 
also a native of Warren County, Tenn., and is still living.  They were
the parents of sixteen children, James H. B. Cope being the seventh in
order of birth.  He grew to manhood in Warren and Grundy Counties, 
Tenn., where he received a fair education in the common schools.  At 
the age of twenty-six he married Miss Minerva J. Roberts, a native of
Tenn., born in 1835 and died in 1863.  They became the parents of four
children: William, who died at the age of two years; Sarah A., died at
the age of twenty-three years, was married and left one child; James 
T., and elizabeth, who died at the age of one year.  In 1865 Mr. Cope
married Mrs. (Nichols) Young, and the fruits of this union were seven
children: Fannie E., Alonzo, James Newton, Cinda, Flora, John and 
Harvey.  Mrs. Cope was the mother of two children by her former marri-
age: A. L. and Sarah J.  Mr. Cope immigrated to Missouri in 1857,
locating in Wright County, and has made his home here ever since, with
the exception of a short time during the war, when he refugeed to 
Phelps County.  He never took up arms against the Union, but his symp-
athies were with the South.  He is a Democrat in politics, and a member 
of the Wheel.  The maternal grandfather, Lewis Bolin, lived in Warren
County, Tenn.  He was a hero of the War of 1812, and the first man to
enter the British fort at the battle of New Orleans.  He had fourteen
holes shot through his coat as he went in.  He witnessed the death of
Packenham and the general withdrawal of the British from American soil.
He afterward served all through the Texas War, and when it closed he
wrote to his family and said: "Come to Texas!" for he had enough land
for all his children.  He was never heard from afterward.  He was a
great traveler, and had been all over the Union.

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