He is listed as Edward in his baptism record and with his parents in 1850.
In 1860 he seems to be listed with his parents in Jefferson Twp as George E. (28), and also listed next to the Colopy family in Union Twp as Edward (26) a farmer with his own farm ($6,000 land, $500 property) with only a 16 year old hired hand living with him. In both cases, Lyman Dial is also listed, as age 15 and a servant with the family, and age 16 as a farm hand with Edward.
In 1870 he is married and has 5 children. In 1880 he is listed as Edward G. Calopy (misread as Eduard S. in online data) with 8 children, indicating that John, and the twins Bernard and Leander were deceased. Two of his children are listed as being buried in the Danville Cemetery in Kansas in 1883, indicating that he moved from Ohio to Kansas between 1880 and 1883.
The SAPP family history comments “Edward moved his family of about a half dozen children to Kansas. I think it was a bad move for him. He lost one girl and finally he died himself.”
He is listed in 1886 as E. Colopy, owning 3 quarter-sections (480 Ac) in sections 8 and 9 of Twp 32 S, Range 5 W near Danville. He died later that year and the land was divided among his children.
[Obituary] Weekly Bulletin - 7 Aug 1896
G. E. Colopy living south of Danville, died at home last Saturday evening after a lingering illness. And after appropriate ceremonies Monday morning at the Catholic church, of which he was a consistent member, was silently laid to rest in the Danville cemetery. Mr. Colopy was so well known in this county that only the mention of his name bespeaks many good traits of character. The bereaved family certainly have the sympathyof all who have the priviledge of their acquaintance.
He is listed as J. E. Colopy on his headstone in Fairview (Danville) Cemetery, and as C. Colopy in the online cemetery listing, but his Affidavit of Death states his name as George E. Colopy and is signed by his son James. His probate records indicate that 3 more children died before his death in 1896 - Joseph, Camilla, and Emma.
To further the confusion about his name, he is referred to as Mark Colopy in his wife’s obituary when she died in 1915.
Danville Cemetery is also know as both Calvary Cem and Fairview Cem. The Catholics were buried to the south and that part is sometimes called the Calvary Cemetery. The Protestants were buried in the north part of the cemetery. It was the Fairview Cemetery Company that originally purchased the land from David Shippen in 1881 for a cemetery and that is how the Fairview name came into it.