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Scrapbook of
JOHN VARNER JR.
John's military and pension
documents
John Varner Jr.
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John's wife
Frances (Hickman) Varner
Sister of Christine (Hickman) Varner
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Taken before Alice (Varner) Flynn was born
(From Claudia Menzel)
Before 1891 (between 1888 and 1891)
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I am 90% sure that this is a picture
of Frances HICKMAN VARNER (1844-1928). She was married in 1864 to John VARNER, Jr.
(1834-1895). John was probably serving in the Civil War at the time this picture was
taken. The baby is most likely William Sheridan (Sherd) VARNER, their oldest child,
who was born in Pennsylvania in 1864. The photo is a copy of a tin type and has been
dated to the mid-1860's. It was found among the possessions of Spencer KOPFF,
grandson of Frances HICKMAN and John VARNER. (The baby resembles the baby picture of
Spencer.) Frances' hairline is very much the same as later pictures of her.
However, she is a lot thinner in this picture than on later 'older' pictures.
(From Claudia Menzel)
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Photo of headstone of William Hickman (1807-1880) and Sarah Stover Hickman (1816-1896). William and Sarah are the parents of Frances (Hickman) Varner as well as Christina (Hickman) Varner, wives of John and Lafayette Varner, respectively. The photos were sent to Claudia Menzel by a volunteer in Venango County. William and Sarah are buried in the Perry-Hickman Cemetery, Pinegrove Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania. (From Claudia Menzel) |
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Wedding Picture of
John S. Varner (youngest son of John Jr.) and
Della May Hilliard (granddaughter of David Holmes)
married 14 May 1902
Hilliard Pictures from
Hilliards in Pennsylvania (Photo from Lori Waters) |
Possibly Lettie (Varner) (daughter of John Jr. and Frances (Hickman)) and John Hilliard |
Pages from the Bible of John S. and
Della May (Hilliard) Varner |
Frances (Hickman) Varner
(sitting), Frances Varner (later Stevens) and Alice Varner (later Flynn). The picture was
taken about 1903 or 1904, a couple years after my grandmother Grace was married. Frances
is on the left and Alice is on the right. Frances would have been about 17 or 18 and Alice
about 13 or 14. (From Claudia Menzel) |
Wedding
picture of my grandparents--Grace (Varner) and Harry Kopff, taken in May of 1899.
She was 16 and he was 38.
(From Claudia Menzel) |
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Harry Ernest Kopff and Grace (Varner) Kopff
The four children, from left to right are: Isabella Kopff, Flora Kopff, Clara Kopff, and Spencer Kopff. (Notice that Spencer is the only one with curls!! and he is wearing a dress.) This photo was taken late 1905 or early 1906. One more daughter was born about 11 years later in 1917
(From Claudia Menzel) |
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Taken about 1945, of my grandmother, Grace (Varner) Kopff Heinig and her children and second husband From left to right, back row, are Grace (Varner) Kopff Heinig, Spencer Kopff, and Billy Heinig (Grace's second husband) Front row are her four daughters: Isabella (Kopff) Bohan, Clara (Kopff) Hafften, Elizabeth (Kopff) McRoberts and Flora (Kopff) Evans (From Claudia Menzel) |
1911 An old-fashioned picture postcard. On the back, my Aunt Clara had written, "Aunt Dell Varner & family were visiting Aunt Frances Stevens on this Easter Sunday." (From Claudia Menzel) |
Tom Foley, Harry Kopff (husband of Grace Varner), Frank Stevens, husband of Frances (Varner), Della (Hilliard) Varner, Grace (Varner) Kopff, probably John Seneca Varner, Grandma Frances Varner, John Hilliard, husband of Lettie (Varner) Hilliard, Letty (Varner) Hilliard holding unknown baby (could be Della's son, Chester who died in infancy), unknown girl in back (my opinion is that it is Alice Hilliard, oldest daughter of Letty, but could be Ruby Hilliard, daughter of Susan), Frances (Varner) Stevens holding baby daughter Lillebelle, Susan (Varner) Hilliard Foley, Alice Varner, probably Clide Varner--son of John and Della. (John Hilliard and John Varner may be reversed, but I don't think so.)
Now the kids in the front row:
Isabella Kopff, unknown girl but could be Frances Hilliard or Ginell Varner, Flora Kopff, Clara Kopff, unknown girl with braid on top of her head could be Rebecca Hilliard, unknown girl with shorter hair could be Ginelle Varner holding her little brother's hand. The two little boys in the front:
I think, but am not positive, that the one on the left is my father, Spencer Kopff. The other one is probably Della's son, Lloyd Varner.
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Evangeline Engels, Frances (Varner) Stevens, Frances Dorothy Engels, Rebecca (Hilliard) Jost, Isaac Stephens (Frances Varner Stevens' father-in-law). The little girl in the front is Lilibelle Adeline (Stevens) (later Bryant) Betty LaPlant's mother. The photo was taken about 1916 or so. The other 4 females are all granddaughters of John Varner and Frances Hickman. Sent to Claudia by Betty Bryant LaPlant |
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