Do you know about any Indian connection for this family???? The reason being, my husband is a Copeland, and there was the Indian legend. I noticed in my research that some of the Copelands seemed to travel ahead of the forced removals. My husbands family went to Indiana. The Arkansas (That was Arkansas birth state wasn't it?) birth state could be right. My family had the Indian legend also. The same pattern was true for them. When I traced back to no records, that may have been the reason, and that may be the reason for evasive information on the census, if they could pass. Lillian