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One source gives his birthdate as 1768. If this is true his mother wo u l d be Catherine Mosser/Musser. John migrated to Pulaski County, KY in 1 7 9 8-1799 where he was a farmer. Many years later he and some of his fa m i ly removed to Jackson County, AL John, his wife, and one daughter l i e b uried in the Jacoway Cemetery in Dry Cove off Highway 117 in Crow C r e ek Valley. Hannah purchased a tombstone for her husband; bought tomb s t ones are very rare in the greater Stevenson (Alabama) community befo r e t he 1840's. John Copenhaver was somewhat affluent, owning land a n d s laves. The cemetery where he is buried should be called the Copenh a v er Cemetry as John gave the land for it and is the first buried there , b u t it goes by the name Jacoway Cemetery because his daughter Mary wh o m a rried Wiliam U. Jacoway inherited the old Copenhaver place; both Ma ry a n d William are buried in the cemetery, hence the name. ("The Steve nso n S tory" by Eliza B. Woodall, Stevenson Depot Museum, Stevenson, Ala ba ma 3 5772, pp. 414-415) -- MERGED NOTE ------------ One source gives his birthdate as 1768. If this is true his mother wo u l d be Catherine Mosser/Musser. John migrated to Pulaski County, KY in 1 7 9 8-1799 where he was a farmer. Many years later he and some of his fa m i ly removed to Jackson County, AL John, his wife, and one daughter l i e b uried in the Jacoway Cemetery in Dry Cove off Highway 117 in Crow C r e ek Valley. Hannah purchased a tombstone for her husband; bought tomb s t ones are very rare in the greater Stevenson (Alabama) community befo r e t he 1840's. John Copenhaver was somewhat affluent, owning land a n d s laves. The cemetery where he is buried should be called the Copenh a v er Cemetry as John gave the land for it and is the first buried there , b u t it goes by the name Jacoway Cemetery because his daughter Mary wh o m a rried Wiliam U. Jacoway inherited the old Copenhaver place; both Ma ry a n d William are buried in the cemetery, hence the name. ("The Steve nso n S tory" by Eliza B. Woodall, Stevenson Depot Museum, Stevenson, Ala ba ma 3 5772, pp. 414-415)

Birth	Abt 1779	Rural Retreat, Wythe, Virginia, United States
Death	17 Feb 1836	Jackson, Alabama, United States

Father	Johann Thomas Koppenhoefer (1739 - 1802)
Mother	Elizabeth Miese (1747 - 1783)
Sibling	Henry Copenhaver (1781 - 1825)
Sibling	Samuel Copenhaver (1783 - 1835)