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This information comes from "The Good Cemeterian" on Facebook who is the one who cleaned up this stone and wrote the following bio about Mr. Coapman. It is with his permission that I share it:
"New York native David Sands Coapman was born in the township of Aurelius on December 30th 1844 to Jacob Coapman and Lydia Titus Davids Father Jacob passed away when David was only 3 years old His Mother Lydia was a widow for the 2nd time and raised her children alone with the support of her immediate family who lived nearby
The announcement of the wedding for David Sands Coapman to Elsie Ann Yawger on October 29, 1863 in Union Springs was published in the Aurelius Daily Advertiser The wedding took place at the home of Elsies parents, John Yawger and the late Adaline Starkweather.)
David enlisted to serve the Union Army as Private in Company H 3rd New York Regiment of the Light Artillery Private Coapman was mustered out in Richmond, Virginia on June 24, 1865... After the war he made his way back home to Aurelius
David and Elsie welcomed their first child a Daughter Marian, into the World on March 17th 1867 David supported the family as a grocer for the Mud Lock Canal Stores When David was 33, he worked as a Railroad Watchman and was eventually elected to serve a Constable in the Town of Aurelius While he served as Constable, David left town an article was published in New Yorks The Auburn Bulletin June 12th 1888 in regards to his disappearance:
Cayugas Constable CoapmanThe Guardian of the Game Laws Goes West---
Wherever in all this region the fisherman pulls his illegal net, the name of Constable David Coapman is known and feared. He has been so energetic in the neighborhood of Cayuga in prosecuting violators of the game laws, and their name is legion, that his fame has spread through all the country round. But there is no longer any fear of David Coapman, constable. He has left his accustomed haunts and departed.
Gossip has associated his departure with the name of a lady who became widow something over a year ago. She left town several days before Coapman and asserted that she was going to New York where she had an engagement to teach music. There is nothing to show that she did not go there. When Coapman left, he told his friends that he was going to California. After he left, one of his daughters received a letter from him dated at Cleveland, O., and that is certainly on the route to the Golden State. There is nothing but rumor to connect the name of the constable and the widow and the stories bear unjustly on the estimable people who are left behind. Mr. Coapman leaves, besides his wife, two handsome daughters, both engaged in teaching school and one son who is clerking in a grocery store and is an industrious, capable fellow.
The grand fact impresses itself upon Cayuga and all the region round that Coapman, the inflexible enforcer of the game laws, hes gone and not likely to come back.
Elsie moved to live with their Son, George Coapman David married a woman by the name of Isabelle while his family in New York went on with their lives Eventually, David Coapman moved to Tampa, Florida In 1909, David became ill and wrote his last will
He bequeathed $5 to his Wife Isabelle who he stated lives separate and apart from me He bequeathed his household and kitchen furniture along with $300 to a woman named Annie Johnson .
David Sands Coapman passed away April 19th 1910 at the age of 66
David Sands Coapman... Union Army Veteran of the Civil War...
Before & After...
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This information comes from "The Good Cemeterian" on Facebook who is the one who cleaned up this stone and wrote the following bio about Mr. Coapman. It is with his permission that I share it:
"New York native David Sands Coapman was born in the township of Aurelius on December 30th 1844 to Jacob Coapman and Lydia Titus Davids Father Jacob passed away when David was only 3 years old His Mother Lydia was a widow for the 2nd time and raised her children alone with the support of her immediate family who lived nearby
The announcement of the wedding for David Sands Coapman to Elsie Ann Yawger on October 29, 1863 in Union Springs was published in the Aurelius Daily Advertiser The wedding took place at the home of Elsies parents, John Yawger and the late Adaline Starkweather.)
David enlisted to serve the Union Army as Private in Company H 3rd New York Regiment of the Light Artillery Private Coapman was mustered out in Richmond, Virginia on June 24, 1865... After the war he made his way back home to Aurelius
David and Elsie welcomed their first child a Daughter Marian, into the World on March 17th 1867 David supported the family as a grocer for the Mud Lock Canal Stores When David was 33, he worked as a Railroad Watchman and was eventually elected to serve a Constable in the Town of Aurelius While he served as Constable, David left town an article was published in New Yorks The Auburn Bulletin June 12th 1888 in regards to his disappearance:
Cayugas Constable CoapmanThe Guardian of the Game Laws Goes West---
Wherever in all this region the fisherman pulls his illegal net, the name of Constable David Coapman is known and feared. He has been so energetic in the neighborhood of Cayuga in prosecuting violators of the game laws, and their name is legion, that his fame has spread through all the country round. But there is no longer any fear of David Coapman, constable. He has left his accustomed haunts and departed.
Gossip has associated his departure with the name of a lady who became widow something over a year ago. She left town several days before Coapman and asserted that she was going to New York where she had an engagement to teach music. There is nothing to show that she did not go there. When Coapman left, he told his friends that he was going to California. After he left, one of his daughters received a letter from him dated at Cleveland, O., and that is certainly on the route to the Golden State. There is nothing but rumor to connect the name of the constable and the widow and the stories bear unjustly on the estimable people who are left behind. Mr. Coapman leaves, besides his wife, two handsome daughters, both engaged in teaching school and one son who is clerking in a grocery store and is an industrious, capable fellow.
The grand fact impresses itself upon Cayuga and all the region round that Coapman, the inflexible enforcer of the game laws, hes gone and not likely to come back.
Elsie moved to live with their Son, George Coapman David married a woman by the name of Isabelle while his family in New York went on with their lives Eventually, David Coapman moved to Tampa, Florida In 1909, David became ill and wrote his last will
He bequeathed $5 to his Wife Isabelle who he stated lives separate and apart from me He bequeathed his household and kitchen furniture along with $300 to a woman named Annie Johnson .
David Sands Coapman passed away April 19th 1910 at the age of 66
David Sands Coapman... Union Army Veteran of the Civil War...
Before & After...
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