Laura S. Copenhaver

Born: Au­gust 29, 1868, Mar­i­on, Vir­gin­ia.
Died: De­cem­ber 18, 1940, Mar­i­on, Vir­gin­ia.
Buried: Round Hill Cemetery, Mar­i­on, Vir­gin­ia.

Copenhaver was a pro­fes­sor of Eng­lish Lit­er­a­ture at Mar­i­on Coll­ege, which her fa­ther John Ja­cob found­ed and where her sis­ter May was dean of wo­men. She wrote a num­ber of hymns and mag­a­zine ar­ti­cles, and served as chair­man of the ed­u­ca­tion com­mit­tee of the Wo­man’s Mis­sion­ary So­ci­e­ty of the Unit­ed Lu­ther­an Church.

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