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This page traces the family history of the family of John Elmer Bopp (1895-1974), which is connected to the Koppelmans through his marriage  to Bertha Anna Koppelman, the second-youngest daughter of John Harman Koppelman.

 

John Bopp (b. March 31, 1844, Segnitz, Bavaria; d. December 25, 1899, Baltimore, MD8) m. K. Elizabeth (b. approx. 1845, Hannover, Germany; d. December 11, 1910, Baltimore, MD9) They are buried in Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore. The 1880 census lists the Bopps living on Frederick Road near Mt. Olivet Cemetery in the village of Millington, which has disappeared from maps of Baltimore County. John Bopp was a coal merchant. They had two sons1:

 

a. John Bopp (b. March 13, 1869, Baltimore Co., MD; d. April 1, 1911, Baltimore Co., MD) m. Barbara A. Lang approx. 1895 (b. August 19, 1874, Baltimore, MD; d. July 12, 1946, Baltimore, MD10) Barbara A. Bopp was the daughter of butcher John E. Lang (b. Germany) and Mary A. Kramer (b. Baltimore, MD) 10. Barbara and John Bopp are buried in Loudon Park Cemetery. In 1900 the Bopps were living on Stinson Street, not far from where he and Barbara had grown up. John and Barbara Bopp had two sons and two daughters2:

 

          1) John Elmer Bopp (b. June 11, 1895, Baltimore Co., MD; d.

                   September 1974, Baltimore, MD) m. Bertha Anna

                   Koppelman 1922 (b. March 16, 1902,  Baltimore Co.,

                   Maryland; d. June 19913 of cancer) They are buried in

                   Parkwood Cemetery, Parkville, MD. When John was drafted in

                   June of 1917, he was living with his mother and siblings on

                   Furley Avenue, east of Belair Road, in Gardenville. During 

                   WW I, John E. Bopp served as a private in the American

                   Expeditionary Forces, first in Company M of the 5th Maryland

                   Infantry and then in the 115th Infantry, in the Meuse-Argonne. 4

                   After the war, he worked as a steam-fitter. By the time he was

                   married, John E. Bopp had became an ice dealer. He was well-

                   known and well-liked in Gardenville as a friendly and sociable

                   man. He always stopped to chat with his customers when he

                   made deliveries, and was almost never seen without a pipe and

                   a bag of Edgewood tobacco. He and Bertie are buried in

                   Parkwood Cemetery, Parkville, MD. For their descendents,

                   click on her name above.

 

          2) George H. Bopp (b. September 1896, Baltimore Co., MD; d.

                  1959, Baltimore, MD) m. Elizabeth Marx approx. 1925 (b.

                  approx. 1900, MD), the daughter of another Gardenville truck-

                  farming family; there is still a Marx Avenue in the

                  neighborhood. George started out as a carpenter and by 1930, he

                  was a builder who owned a home worth $8,000 on Furley

                  Avenue. Also living with them were ElizabethÕs sister Marie

                  Marx (b. approx. 1902, MD), a seamstress. 5

 

               3) Emma Bopp (b. October 1898, MD) In 1920, Emma was

                   living with her mother and siblings on Furley Avenue, and

                   worked as a machine operator in a clothing factory. 6

 

               4) Leona Bopp (b. approx. 1906, Baltimore, MD)

 

 

           b. George (P.?) Bopp (b. January 2, 1871, Baltimore Co., MD; d.

               December 9, 1936, Baltimore, MD) m. 1) Mathilda approx.  1897 (b.

               August 29, 1876, MD; d. November 2, 1909, Baltimore Co., MD); 2)

               Marie A. approx. 1911 (b. December 30, 1884, MD; d. December 25,

               1940, Baltimore, MD) George, Mathilda, and Marie are all buried in              

               Loudon Park Cemetery. George Bopp followed  his father into the

               coal business. In the 1910 census, he described himself as proprietor

               of a coal yard, owned his home, and was prosperous enough to keep a

               servant. By 1920, his business had expanded; it was now a coal and

               lumber yard. He, like his parents, raised his family on what was in

               1900 called Old Frederick Road near Mt. Olivet Cemetery. By 1920,

               Old Frederick Road had become Frederick Avenue. With his first wife,

               Mathilda, he had three daughters and two sons7:

 

                 1) Hellen Bopp (b. April 1898, Baltimore, MD)

 

                 2) George Philip Bopp, Jr. (b. July 1899) In 1920, young

                     George was working as a clerk at his fatherÕs coal and wood

                     yard.

 

                 3) Edna M. Bopp (b. approx. Baltimore, 1901, MD)

 

                 4) Edwin Bopp (b. approx. 1903, Baltimore, MD) (May have

                     died before 1920)

 

                 5) Evelyn M. Bopp (b. approx. Baltimore,1904, MD)

 

             With his second wife, Mamie/Marie, he two more sons and two

              more daughters7:

 

                 6) Gertrude G. or J. Bopp (unconfirmed: b. September 13, 1911,

                      Baltimore, MD; d. March 3, 1996, Baltimore, MD) may have

                      married William or Warren W. Wallring (b. January 6, 1906)

                      She is buried in Loudon Park Cemetery, in the plot of her

                      grandparents. One son has been documented:

 

                      a. Warren W. Wallring11

 

                 7) Raymond R. Bopp (b. February 28, 1916, Baltimore, MD; d.

                     March 2, 1997) His grave stone in Loudon Park Cemetery says

                     that he served as a private in the U.S. Army during World War II.

 

                 8) Ernest John Bopp (b. October 23, 1917, Baltimore, MD; d.

                     March 28, 1990) According to his grave stone in Loudon Park

                     Cemetery, he served as a Tec 5 with the U.S. Army during World   

                     War II.

 

                 9) Ruth M. Bopp (b. December 29, 1919, Baltimore, MD; d.

                     September 23, 2004, Berlin, Worcester Co., MD) m. Joseph C.

                     Robb (b. July 24, 1924, Baltimore, MD; d. September 5, 1990,

                     Baltimore, MD) Joseph Robb attended Polytechnic Institute.

                     After serving in Europe in the ArmyÕs 157th Engineering Company

                     during World War II, he became a Baltimore firefighter. He received

                     a citation for bravery from the city in 1970 when he and a fellow

                     firefighter pulled three elderly people from a burning nursing home

                     in West Baltimore. He may have been a member of Most Precious

                     Blood Roman Catholic Church, as his burial mass was offered

                     there on September 10, 1990. According to his obituary, he and

                     Ruth had two daughters12:

 

                     a. Patricia Robb m. Mulford

 

                     b. M. Denise Robb m. Gangler

 

1 Source: 1880 Federal Census for Baltimore Co., ED 219, p. 18.

2Source: 1900 Federal Census for Baltimore, MD, 19th Ward, ED 244, Sheet 13.

3Source: Social Security Death Index.

4Source:  Maryland in the World War, 1917-1919; Military and Naval Service Records, Vol. I-II (Baltimore, MD: Twentieth Century Press, 1933)

5Source: 1930 Federal Census for Baltimore, 26th Ward, ED 4-419, Sheet 25-A.

6Source: 1920 Federal Census for Baltimore City, 26th Ward, ED 441, Sheet 10-A.

7Sources: 1900 Federal Census for Baltimore City, 19th Ward, ED 242, Sheet 2; 1910 Federal Census for Baltimore City, 20th Ward, ED 242, Sheet 17-A; 1920 Federal Census for Baltimore City, 20th Ward, ED 337, Sheet 6B; 1930 Federal Census for Baltimore City, 20th Ward, ED 4-635, Sheet 7-B.

8Sources: Walter E. Arps, Jr., Maryland Mortalities, 1876-1915, from the Baltimore Sun Almanac; burial records of Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, MD; grave stone inscription.

9Source: Burial records of Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, MD; grave stone inscription.

10Source: Baltimore City Death Certificate #G42043, Maryland State Archives

11Source: Burial records of Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, MD

12Sources: Obituary of Joseph C. Robb, Baltimore Sun, September 10, 1990; Obituary of Ruth M. Bopp Robb, Baltimore Sun, October 2, 2004; Social Security Death Index.

 

Special thanks to Frank Sloat for his photos of Bopp graves in Loudon Park Cemetery, which can be seen at http://www.findagrave.com .