Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . placethat we should expect to give birth to any one whoshould startle the community or aid in startling theworld. And yet on some subjects these people thought seri-ously and profoundly. The slavery question was to themone of absorbing interest. On it they read and medi-tated. To many of them it was a source of became familiar with all the anti-slavery argu-ments. To remember those in bonds as bound withthem, was for them invested with all the force a directcommand from Mt. Sinai. Opposition to slavery grewwith the passing years and
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . placethat we should expect to give birth to any one whoshould startle the community or aid in startling theworld. And yet on some subjects these people thought seri-ously and profoundly. The slavery question was to themone of absorbing interest. On it they read and medi-tated. To many of them it was a source of became familiar with all the anti-slavery argu-ments. To remember those in bonds as bound withthem, was for them invested with all the force a directcommand from Mt. Sinai. Opposition to slavery grewwith the passing years and the appeals of Lundy andGarrison found a fervid response in this farming com-munity. We have heard much of the isolation of the ruraldistricts. This did not apply to the region of whichwe write in the three decades before the Civil War, forit was located in Columbiana County and only six milesdistant was the town of Salem, a center of anti-slaveryagitation, from which radiated the itineraries of theagents of the Western Anti-Slavery (399) 400 OJiio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications. In this community, when the movement was in fullswing, the Coppoc brothers, Edwin and Barclay, wereborn. Their grandfather John Coppock and his wifemoved to Mount Pleasant, then in the NorthwesternTerritory, but one year later in the state of Ohio. Inthe year following, 1803, he moved to what in 1806 be-came Butler Township, Columbiana County, Ohio. John Coppock was descended from Aaron Coppock,of Cheshire, England, who was born August 19, 1662and came to America in 1683. He was a minister ofthe gospel forty-two years. His son John, born July 1,1709, married Margaret Coulston. To them were bornfive children. The youngest son, Samuel, born Novem-ber 3, 1748, married Anne Stillwell. Their oldest son,John, born November 4, 1776, married Catherine son, Samuel, married Anne Lynch. Of this unionsix children were born, Levi, Maria, Edwin, Barclay,Lydia and Joseph L. Levi and the tw
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