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Charles

Copke
Birth Date:

January 1879

Birth Location:

Otto Township,
Kankakee County, Illinois

Death Date:

December 28, 1960

Death Location:

Manteno, Illinois

Burial:

Illinois Veterans Home Cemetery
Manteno, Illinois

Parents
Father
Charles Copke a.k.a. Karl Kopke
(1844-1906)
Mother
Sophia Wagner
(1839-1911)

Half Siblings

Full Siblings

1
Henry
Hummel

1862-1924
1
Augusta
 Copke

1867-1941
2
Lorena
Copke
1870-1927
3
Lena
Copke
1872-1948
4
Mary
Copke
1875-1953
5
Almina
Copke
1877-1949
6
Charles
Copke
1879-1960
7
Ernest
Copke
1881-1951
8
Mabel
 Copke

1883-1920
Notes
A photo of Charles taken at the Pratt School in about 1891.

Charles Copke, Jr. spent his adult life in mental institutions.

In 1910, Charles is living in the Kankakee State Hospital, Kankakee, Illinois.

In 1920, Charles is living in the Kankakee State Hospital, Kankakee, Illinois.

At some time, Charles was transferred to the state hospital in Manteno, Illinois.

Charles outlived all of his siblings, dying on December 28, 1960.
No death notice or obituary was printed in the newspaper for him.

Charles is buried in what is now called the Illinois Veterans Home
 Cemetery in Manteno, Illinois.  His grave marker has become unreadable.

 

 

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