FOURTH GENERATION

30. Isabella Gordon Lummis was born on 22 Mar 1880 in Mille Isles, PQ. She was christened on 1 Apr 1880 in Mille Isles, PQ. She died on 20 Nov 1966 in Waterloo, PQ. She was buried in Boscobel?. Auntie Bell lived just over the covered bridge in Boscobel where our family spent our vacations between my age 4 and 10.(1941-1948). I remember her as a wonderful cook who made pies and high choclate cakes covered with thick icing.

She and Dad were close,probably as I learned later, because she was like a mother to him. She was 19 when Oswald was born.

She married William Copping who owned and operated a large farm and sawmill in Boscobel with his brothers.

They had two children -both boys. Stanley married and had a family. They lived in Waterloo PQ. Clarence L. (who they called Bud) was a WW II air pilot. He was shot down but was able to make his way back. He was sent home to recoperate,and later returned to war. He was shot down a second time and never returned.

Many years later I decided to return to see the old house-probably about 1975. Amazingly the house had burned the night before and the only visable sign of the house was the foundation. There under where the porch had been located were the words in white paint --BUD 1942-.

She was married to William Copping. Isabella Gordon Lummis and William Copping had the following children:

+64 i. Stanley Copping.
65 ii. Clarence L. Copping. Clarence "Bud" was in the RAF as a wireless operator and an air gunner who crashed twice during World War 11. The first crash was after they had been blown off course by a storm while on an operational flight in Africia while serving with the RAF West African Command. The forced landing was in a jungle peanut field. After a long trek through mosquito-infested forests where they contacted malaria, they made it to civilization and got back to England. He was sent home to Boscobel to recoperate. Later he returned to England and was reported missing when the Flying Fortress of which he was a wireless air gunner failed to return from an anti-submarine patrol. He enlisted in 1940,"won his wing at paulson Man.,and went oversees in 1941."

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