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- This Martha is often confused with Martha Lester, wife of Moses Coppock who was born in 1708 instead. The older Moses was definitely married to Martha Lester as verified in NJ marriage records. This Martha might have been a Lester too for the following reasons: 1) It is passed down as Martha Lester in the descendants of this branch of the family. 2) In Pemberton's collection for the Coate Coppock estates housed in the Philadelphia Historical Society, a Charles Coppock (born in the late 1800's) lists his ancestors to be this Moses William and Martha Lester Coppock. 3) A genealogy blank was prepared for Annie Coppock Kransdorf's mother in the 1960's by the Ohio Vital Records department. They listed all the direct ancestors of Horace Coppock that they could find in their department. According to Annie Coppock who was there when the chart was created, it's formation went something like this: "From my memory, they used births, marraiges, deaths etc, from filed certificates and partial genealogy blanks which they had on file, not in history books, and not all came from Ohio; they had stuff from NC, Md, Pa, etc insofar as someone's parents were listed as being from there, and could follow up parents parents somehow... they did know that both Joseph and Moses William had sons named Benjamin born about the right time, but may not have been able to choose, because the locations were not mentioned" (E) When it came to the parents of Benjamin Coppock (husband to Susannah Jay), they tossed a coin to select his parents as they knew that both Joseph/Jane Coppock and Moses William/Martha Lester Coppock had sons named Benjamin of similar ages. Moses William and Martha Lester are listed as his parents on the genealogy chart. Although I am agast that a vital records department would decide parentage that way (and get it wrong), it does give proof that Martha's maiden name is listed as Lester is some way in Ohio records.
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