This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: COPELAND, COPELIN, COPLAND Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ikJ.2ACIB/1176.1 Message Board Post: The following is from the marker placed at the original Copeland Bridge. Since you mention wife being N.C. Mackey, I assume this is the same one you are talking about. Hope this helps. "Native of North Carolina. Homesteaded one hundred acres on west bank of Wills Creek. He erected the first bridge across this creek in 1875 thereby enabling early settlers to establish Copeland’s Bridge Community. He married Nancy Catherine Mackey of Leesburg, Cherokee County and reared a family of twelve. Copeland carried the mail from Rome to Huntsville by stage coach and later blazed a mail route from Dawson, Ala to Rising Fawn, Ga."