Fairfield Ledger Sept. 14, 1887 Page 3 col. 8 MARRIED SIXTY YEARS. On August 30, 1827, in Ohio, BENJAMIN PIERCE was married to MISS. RACHEL COPPOCK….Few people in our midst have done more through charitable work and more eventful histories than MR. and MRS. PEIRCE[sic]. Both were reared according to the strictest tenets of the orthodox Friends, but gradually grew into what they are pleased to term liberal ideas, relying more upon faithful works and less upon creed and form….The spirit of abolition was born in both of them. MRS. PEIRCE[sic] came from the celebrated COPPOCK family. Two of her cousins, ED. and BARCLAY COPPOCK, enlisted under JOHN BROWN’S standard in Cedar County, this state, and were with him in his famous Harper’s Ferry raid. BARCLAY escaped to the mountains after the encounter with the troops, but ED. was hung on the same scaffold with the martyr BROWN. In all these troublous times both these good people risked life and fortune for the slave. For years their home was a station on the great underground railroad, on which so many of these poor people took passage, and many is the weary refugee who has received aid at their hands. With the means at their command they not only gave succor to the fleeing slave, but the widow and the orphan have never gone from their home empty handed, and though never blessed with children of their own their roof has sheltered many a fatherless and motherless child. The works and memories of MR. and MRS. PEIRCE will live long after they have gone, and their simple lives and excellent example will long remain in the minds of those who knew their history. Fairfield Tribune Wed. Apr. 1, 1896 Page 2 col. 2 DEATH OF BENJAMIN PIERCE, in the city of Fairfield, on the 26th day of March, 1896. Born in Grayson County, Va., Sept. 25, 1804. In 1809 he, with his father ’s family, moved to Miami Co., Ohio, at that time a wilderness, where in 1827 he was married to RACHEL COPPOCK who preceded him to the grave about six years. They moved to Wayne County, Indiana, and in 1841 moved to Henry County, Iowa, then moved to Jasper County, Iowa, and about 1856 came to Fairfield, where they resided until their deaths…. Fairfield Ledger Dec. 31, 1932 Page 3 col. 3 HOMES OF FAIRFIELD. 307 South Main St. Built by BENJAMIN D. PIERCE originally and once rebuilt, and his home until death…. http://www.rootsweb.com/~iajeffer Jefferson County, Iowa