Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2013, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and used with permission of Fred Smoot ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. ========================================================================== The Goodspeed Publishing Company, History of Tennessee, 1887 L. H. Copenhaver, farmer, was born in Marion, Va., May 25, 1842, the son of Chrisley and Elizabeth (Groseclose) Copenhaver, the former born in Virginia in 1793, the son of FREDERICK, a Pennsylvanian, who came to Virginia as a pioneer of Smyth County, and a prominent citizen. He married MARY PHILLIPPI, a native of Pennsylvania, and of six sons, the father of our subject was the third. Another son, HENRY, was in the war of 1812. The father was a prominent farmer, and the mother, born in 1811, the daughter of ADAM GROSECLOSE, was a native of Wythe (now Smyth) County, Va. Both parents were devoted members of the Lutheran Church. The father died in 1873, and the mother the year before. Our subject, the sixth of eight children, six brothers, all of whom were in the Confederate Army, was educated in the country schools. In 1861 he joined Company K, Sixty-third Virginia, Infantry, and served through the war, and was paroled at High Point, N. C., in 1865. He now holds, as a much prized relic, a Mexican dollar which he received a few days prior to the surrender of JOHNSTON’S Army; this sum being paid to each infantry soldier in said command. After farming one season he entered Emory and Henry College, and graduated in 1870. For eleven years he had charge of the Kingsport High Schools, and then, on account of ill health, became a farmer, and now has a fine estate of 385 acres. He is a broad-minded man, and is a Conservative-Democrat. In 1877 he married ELLEN, the daughter of JOSEPH and SUSAN (CASSELL) GROSECLOSE, natives of Virginia. She was born in 1854 near Kingsport. They have two boys and two girls. He and his wife are Lutherans. ===========================================================================