This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ikJ.2ACIB/1175 Message Board Post: Hi, I'm looking for anyone out there who is related or knows of the distinguished Copeland family. Royal Copeland married Alice Davis about 1812,and they had 11 kids, all born in Maine. Their oldest son, Joseph, was a Michigan State Senator, Supreme Court Judge, and a Brigadier General during the Civil War. Their youngest son, Roscoe, had a son named Royal. This Royal Copeland was a United States Senator from New York.