Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Couper, Eliza Chickering Ball July 20, 1939
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Montclair (NJ) Times July 21, 1939
Mrs. Elisa Ball Couper, daughter of one sculptor and wife of another, died 
yesterday morning at her home, 14 Berkeley Place, after a long illness. Private 
services at her home tomorrow will be followed by interment in the family plot 
at Norfolk, Va.
Wife of William Couper, Mrs. Couper was the only daughter of the late Thomas 
Ball and Mrs. Ellen Ball. She was born in Boston, Mass., on May 26, 1857, and 
was taken to Florence, Italy, as a young girl. It was at her father’s studio at 
Florence that she met Mr. Couper, who came to study under the then outstanding 
American sculptor. They were married on May 9, 1878, in Florence.
HERE IN 1897
Nineteen years later, Mr. and Mrs. Couper and their sons came to Montclair, 
making their first home in South Mountain Avenue, a few doors from the site of 
the Montclair Art Museum, in the organization of which both Mr. and Mrs. Couper 
played an active part. They later had a house erected for them at 105 Upper 
Mountain Avenue and finally moved to the Berkeley Place residence.
Spending her entire life in an artistic millieu, Mrs. Couper was acquainted with 
most of the well-known artists of the past two generations. She was an 
accomplished musician, having studied piano under the best of European 
instructors of the time, but never appeared on the concert platform. Of her 
three sons, one became a musician and another a painter.
SIX GRANDCHILDREN
Mother of Thomas Ball Couper of 11A Oxford Street, William A. Couper of 
Cortland, N Y., and Richard H. Couper, Mrs. Couper is survived by the first two 
and by her husband, two granddaughters, Mrs. Rosalind Nordlie and Miss Nancy 
Couper; four grandsons, Thomas Couper, William Couper, Clive Couper and Henry 
Rusby Couper, and one great-grandson, Eric Nordlie.
She was a communicant at St. Luke’s Church and was interested in several local 
philanthropies. She was the donor of two pieces of sculpture by her father, now 
in the sculpture hall of the museum.

COUPER – At Montclair, N.J., on Thursday, July 20, 1939, Elisa Ball, beloved 
wife of William Couper, mother of Thomas B. and William A. Couper. Private 
services will be held at her home, 14 Berkeley Place, Montclair, on Saturday, 
July 22. Interment private. Kindly omit flowers.



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