Title	Mrs.
Last Name	Copeland
First Name	Susan
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Place of Birth
Date of Birth	1803?
Place of Death
Date of Death	1892-01-26
Publication	The Eastern State 1-28-1892
Obituary	A Sad Accident. Saturday evening Mr. 0. P. Parcher and two others were standing on the Grove street railroad crossing facing the house of Mrs. Susan D. Copeland, widow of the late Calvin Copeland, when they saw a sudden flash and bright light inside. Mr. Parcher at once ran in and found Mrs. Copeland enveloped in flames. She had made her way to the sink and was trying to extinguish the fire with water. Her dress was nearly burned from her and her face was terribly burned. Her left hand also was very badly burned. The most tender care was given her, but it was known from the first she could not recover. A young person could not have withstood such injuries, much less one nearly ninety years old. Still her vitality was so great she lingered considerably beyond the time the physicians deemed possible her death not occurring until Tuesday morning. The funeral was from the Baptist church yesterday afternoon, Rev. S. C. Fletcher officiating. Rev. Mr. Hinckley of Good Will Home, a warm friend of hers, was sent for, but was ill and could not come. Mrs. Copeland would have been ninety years old next May. She married Daniel Ellis when quite young, and went to live at what is now Flanders' Mills, in 1832 or 33, when that settlement was but just begun, and when there was no road from Dexter to that place. Several years ago she gave the writer an interesting account of how she came to Dexter to church when the road was first cut through, she riding in the chaise, her husband leading the horse. Her first husband dying, she afterwards married Calvin Copeland one of the best known men in Penobscot county. He was long very prominent as a business man and manufacturer in Dexter. Mr. Copeland died in 1867 and since then Mrs. Copeland has lived alone in her house on Grove street. A few years ago she gave the Baptist society $1,000 for an organ, and about the same time made a will giving her house on Grove street to Good Will Farm for Boys, a charity in which she took great interest. She also gave other of her property to the Baptist church of which she was a member. She was in many respects a remarkable woman, intelligent and very pleasant and kind. Her many friends had protested against her living alone as she did, but it was her wish and she could not be argued into a different course.