Charles Elmer Zopp

1927 - 1953  (26 years)

• Name	Charles Elmer Zopp
  Birth	14 Feb 1927	Rupert, Greenbrier Co., WV   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1 Jul 1953	Rupert, Greenbrier Co., WV   [1]
  	Cause: run over by train - head severed from the body
  Burial	5 Jul 1953	End of the Trail Cemetery, Clintonville, Greenbrier Co., WV   [1]
  Person ID	I17221	Meadow Bluff Meanderings
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2009

  
  

  Father	Lloyd Elmer Zopp,   b. 15 Feb 1900, Rupert, Greenbrier Co., WV d. 4 Aug 1970, Beckley, Raleigh Co., WV (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Etta Elizabeth Moses,   b. 1 Sep 1900, Rupert, Greenbrier Co., WV d. 11 Jul 1985, Fairlea, Greenbrier Co., WV (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	30 Oct 1916	Rupert, Greenbrier Co., WV   [2]
  Family ID	F5607	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Audrey Raine Carr,   b. 17 Oct 1928, Greenbrier Co., WV d. 28 Aug 1991, Clarksburg, Harrison Co., WV (Age 62 years)
  Children	1. Mary Ann Zopp
  Family ID	F7413	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2009

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 14 Feb 1927 - Rupert, Greenbrier Co., WV Death - Cause: run over by train - head severed from the body - 1 Jul 1953 - Rupert, Greenbrier Co., WV Burial - 5 Jul 1953 - End of the Trail Cemetery, Clintonville, Greenbrier Co., WV  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  The Charleston Gazette, 2 July 1953 Train Kills Man In Greenbrier RUPERT, July 2 ? (Special) ? Charles Delmer, Zopp, Jr., 26, of Rupert, Greenbrier County, was killed last night by a train on the Nicholas, Fayette and Greenbrier Bailroad, a mortuary attendant at Wallace and Wallace in East Rainelle reported. He was a coal miner and veteran of World War II. Surviving are his wife Audrey; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Zopp of Rupert; nine sisters, Mrs. Louise Kayser of Charleston; Mrs. Ruth Coalane of Augusta, Ga.; Mrs. Loetta Longbeam of Detroit, Mich.; Mrs. Edith Robinson of Pasadena, Calif.; Mrs. Lorene McClung of Rupert; Mrs. Arlene Zopp, Eleanor, Velma, and Shirley, all of Rupert and three brothers, Colbert of St. Albans; Albert of Marfrance, and Hayward of Rupert. Service will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Amwell Baptist Church with Rev. Joe E. Brown and Rev. Joe E. Smith officiating. Burial, directed by Wallace and Wallace mortuary of East Rainelle, will be in the End of the Trail Cemetery near Cllntonville. The body will be taken to the home of his father-in-law, Dillon Carr at 5 p.m. Saturday. The Charleston Daily Mail, 2 July 1953 Train Kills Rupert Man Special To The Daily Mail RUPERT ? The Decapitated body of a Greenbrier county miner was found yesterday on the railroad track about 250 feet west of the U.S. Rt. 60 crossing here. He was Charles Delmer Zopp, Jr., 26, who left a Rupert tavern Tuesday before 9 p.m. The miner apparently went to sleep on the track. Sometime between 9 and 9:30 p.m. a Nicholas, Fayette and Greenbrier railway train passed over the track. Zopp's body was discovered after daylight when a motorist started over the Rt. 60 crossing.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1071] West Virginia State Department of Health Death Certificate, #8553, Dist. No. 130, Serial No. 191 (Reliability: 3). [S1086] Zopp, Al, Zopp Family Home Page, (Name: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/z/o/p/Albert-M-Zopp/index.html, 1998;).