This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Copeland, Hatley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ikJ.2ACIB/1611.1 Message Board Post: Dan's father had died by 1850, but his mother was a Mary from SC. Dan first married Rebecca Hatley and had a son John about 1866. He is on the 1870 census in Montgomery Co AL. In 1880 he is widowed and evidently John has also died; Dan is listed as "D Copeland" and living with Rebecca's brother W J Hatley in Washington Co TX. Unfortunately Dan's mother Mary Copeland did not know where her husband was born, and Dan therefore did not know. However, the family had to have traveled through Georgia because Dan's older sister Sabra was born there about 1839. Dan is on the 1850 census in Montgomery Co AL as Daniel "Coplan", age 18. In 1900, Dan calls himself "65" which is older than his real age, and does not know his birth year.