COPPOCK, JOHN

Homebase: Peshastin, WA. / Hollywood, CA.
Stats: 1899-1959
Misc Notes: Steel guitarist, John Coppock was the son of Jesse Coppock (1863-1951) -- a Quaker Minister from Ohio who married Luella Woolverton (1875-1953) at Red Wood Falls, Minnesota, back on December 7, 1898. Born in Minnesota on October 1, 1899, John and his family -- including brother Paul (1902-1957) -- eventually relocated to Kansas. In 1909 Jesse (probably responding to a call for a preacher from the Congregational Church) came out to Peshastin -- the tiny 1890s Great Northern Railway town in the Cascade Mountains -- and acquired some acreage comprising an apple orchard and a home-site on the edge of the Wenatchee River at a spot along the roadway (known then as the "Alternate U.S. Route 10" and renamed Highway 2 in 1946). [READ MORE...]