Martha Scarr

1739 - 1797  (57 years)

• Name	Martha Scarr  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Birth	18 Sep 1739  [5]
  Gender	Female
  Death	28 Feb 1797	Bush River, Newberry, South Crolina   [2, 5]
  Person ID	I7880	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Family	Moses William Coppock,   b. 14 May 1736   d. Aft 23 Jul 1816, Bush River, Newberry County, South Carolina, USA (Age > 80 years)
  Married	22 Sep 1740	Burlington, New Jersey, USA   [5, 6]
  Married	22 Sep 1748	Burlington, New Jersey, United States
  Marriage	3 Jul 1758
  Children	1. Martha Coppock,   b. 1763, Newberry, South Carolina, USA d. 1815 (Age 52 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. James Coppock,   b. 1767   d. Aft 23 Jul 1816 (Age > 49 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Hannah Coppock,   b. 1771, Newberry, South Carolina, USA d. 1798, Newberry, South Carolina, USA (Age 27 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. John Coppock,   b. 1770, South Carolina d. 9 Apr 1838, Hamilton, Indiana (Age 68 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Mary Coppock,   b. 6 Jul 1776   d. 21 Sep 1856 (Age 80 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Isaac Coppock,   b. 4 Feb 1768   d. 3 Aug 1804, Newberry, South Carolina, USA (Age 36 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. Benjamin Coppock,   b. Aft 1758   d. Aft 23 Jul 1816 (Age > 57 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F1530	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

• Notes

  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 tooe 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1921] Good, Mary, Email dated 2002 from mjgood@hotmail.com. [S713] Copy of the Coate Coppock Land Lease dated July 23, 1816 noting that the original was never found and therefore might be a fabrication (State of Pennsylvania, Chester Co, Philadelphia County and Venango Co as copied by Esther Wolslager, stenographer). [S712] Keller, Roberta, Roberta Coppock Keller to L. Dudick Email letters dated 1999 at robertak@ix.netcom.com. [S2019] Ancestry.com, New Jersey, Marriage Records, 1670-1965, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Date:2016 Place:Lehi, UT, USA;), 1,61376::0. [S25] Ancestry.com, Geneanet Community Trees Index, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2022;). https://gw.geneanet.org/denniso?n=lester&oc=1&p=martha [S25] Ancestry.com, Geneanet Community Trees Index, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2022;). https://gw.geneanet.org/denniso?n=coppock&oc=&p=william+moses