Hannah R. Cope Plimpton

Hannah Rebecca Cope Plimpton (June 19, 1841 – July 7, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois ) was a Woman's Relief Corps worker.

Early life Hannah Rebecca Cope was born in Hanover, Ohio, on June 18, 1841. She was in a direct line of descendants from Oliver Cope, a Quaker, who came to America with William Penn in 1662. Her father, Nathan Cope, and mother, Elizabeth B. Taylor, were reared in West Chester, Pennsylvania. After their marriage, in 1833, they emigrated to the "Far West", to Columbiana County, Ohio, where their daughter Hannah was born, in the town of Hanover, Ohio.

Personal life After the close of the war, on August 29, 1865, Hannah Cope became the wife of Silas Wheelock Plimpton Jr. (1838–1927), of Providence, Rhode Island, and moved to Caldwell County, Missouri, residing there nine years, and moving from there to her home in Denison, Iowa.