Nancy Copeland (Washburn)

he Mounds Independent, Friday, 20 Mar 1942:

Mother of C. S. Copeland Dies in Accident at 97

            Vienna'---A sad accident occurred at Ozark Thursday afternoon of last week which resulted in the death of Mrs. Nancy Copeland, 97, on the following Sunday evening.  Mrs. Copeland died of burns received when her clothing became ignited and the lower part of her body was badly burned.  For the past six years Mrs. Copeland has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Charles Underwood.  Thursday afternoon she took a nap and got up.  Her daughter, Mrs. Underwood, was sitting in the front room of the house.  She heard Mrs. Copeland go to the kitchen.  Mrs. Copeland, like many women of the older generation, smoked a pipe.  Mrs. Underwood thought that she was going to the kitchen to get a match to light her pipe.  She soon heard her cry in pain and she ran to the kitchen.  She found her mother's clothing in flames and she was standing beside the kitchen sink.  Mrs. Underwood grabbed some rugs from the floor and with these rugs and her bare hands beat out the flames.  In so doing she was badly burned on the hands.'---Vienna Times

            Note---Mrs. Copeland was the mother of Charles S. Copeland of this city.

            (Richard J. Copeland married Nancy A. Washburn on 27 Aug 1862, in Johnson Co., Ill.  Her death certificate states that Nancy Ann Copeland, of Ozark, New Burnside, Johnson Co., Ill., was born 7 Apr 1845, in Metropolis, Ill., the daughter of George Washburn and Miss Deans, died 1 Mar 1942, in Johnson Co., Ill., the widow of Richard J. Copeland, and was buried in Zion Cemetery.'97Darrel Dexter)