My aunt by marriage only.
Born: 1 Sep. 1914, Georgia. 2 3
Parents: JOSEPH VIRGIL WELLBORN AND ELIZABETH MCCLAIN
Married: 7 April 1934, Madison, GA. 4
Death: 11 July 2000, Abbeville Nursing Home, Abbeville, SC. 1 3
Funeral: 12 July 2000, @ 3 p.m., Harris Funeral Home Chapel. 1
Burial: Forest Lawn Memory Gardens, Abbeville, SC. 1
Notes:
26 April 1929 SANDY CREEK NEWS, The Madisonian, Madison, GA: "Mr. and Mrs. Willie Copeland and Miss Bessie Wellborn spent Sunday with their aunt, Mrs. Ben Stapp, of Rutledge."
Social Security Death Index:
Name: Bessie W. Copelan
Last Residence: 29620 Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina, United States of America
Born: 1 Sep 1914
Died: 11 Jul 2000
State (Year) SSN issued: South Carolina (Before 1951)
OBITUARY
Greenville News, Greenville, SC, 12 July, 2000:
Bessie Wellborn Copelan, 85, formerly of 103 Pineview St., died Tuesday, July 11, 2000, at Abbeville Nursing Home.
Born in Madison, GA., she was a daughter of the late Joseph Virgil and Elizabeth McClain Wellborn. Retired: Abbeville Manufacturing. Member: VFW Ladies Auxiliary and Friendship Baptist Church.
Survivors: a number of nephews.
Service: 3 p.m. today at the Harris Funeral Home Chapel. Burial: Forest Lawn Memory Gardens.
Family: 59 Whip-O-Will road.
Spouse: JAMES COBB COPELAN
Sources:
1. Greenville News, obituary, Greenville, SC, 12 July, 2000.
2. 1920 Federal Census, Harris, Morgan, GA.
3. Social Security Death Index.
4. Marriage Records of Morgan Co., GA, 1808-1973.
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