This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Copeland/ Blodgett Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ikJ.2ACIB/1235 Message Board Post: Looking for info re antecedents and descendents of Charles Copeland 1823-1889, arr. in WI apparently from Mass; seems to have sib Edward b. 1825, cousin George, and either sister or cousin Catherine who m. Lewis Ryder--all in Jefferson WI in 1850s Charles m. Hannah Elizabeth Blodgett from Vermont in WI in 1853--children Sarah, Mary, Elizabeth, Alice, Annie, Charles E; brother Edward m. daughter of Rev. Evi Garfield and Sarah Bergus Blodgett-daughter Adelaide. Charles developed a shoe company which was quite prosperous and was part of a huge interconnected family full of Blodgetts, Copelands, Weymouths, Kirklands, Garfields, Birds and many many others-- my family is from a Weymouth/Kirkland blend--DFWeymouth m. the third sister, Mary Riddle Blodgett. Any info gratefully accepted!