This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Copeland, Wise, Cox Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ikJ.2ACIB/1224.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Do you have any information for a John Copeland, b21FEB1821, in Loudoun county, VA? I don't believe his parents lived there but John always claimed it as his birthplace. At sometime before 1844 he left VA and ended up in OH where he married, Emaline Wise, abt 1844/5 and started his family. He then migrated west with his wife's parents, Abraham and Mary (Cox) Wise. In early 1847 their 2nd child was born in Iowa. The earliest public record I have found for John is the 1850 census. Hope you can help. Bill