This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Copeland, Dunn, Gatewood, Perry, Waters, Holloman, Tally, Moseley, Reeves Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ikJ.2ACIB/532.543.692.720.722.724 Message Board Post: I believe this Obediah to be the brother of my Richard Copeland b. ca 1750 d.05 November 1823 Putnam Co. GA. Obediah was the name of Richard's brother that was nearest his age, although I don't know if he was a year older or a year younger. I would greatly like to locate Obediah's birth date because it will narrow the possibilities for my Richard's birth year. As there was more than one Obediah Copeland, I wondered if you have any firm data that links your Obediah to mine. I have a list of Richard's other brothers and a lot of their birth dates - just not a birthdate for my own ancestor nor for his brother Obediah. Relatives of both this Copeland line and those who married into it (Dunn, Perry, Gatewood, Lantham etc.) were in Green Co. before migrating on to Harris Co. GA and into SE AL (Dorsey, etc.) - then descendants onward to TX & FL. I noticed a Jasper N. Copeland in the post civil war records of either Barbour or Coffee Co. AL when I was looking at the descendants of my Richard Copeland. But I had no link from that (SE AL) Jasper Copeland to my Copeland line, even though a lot of Richard's (1750) brother's descendants are in the area. I wondered if you have anything in your records that links that post civil war Jasper N. Copeland to the earlier Copeland line? Just curious.