This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Copeland, Davis, Erskine Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ikJ.2ACIB/1175.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for responding! When I first put out this query, I knew very little about the Copeland family but in the ensuing months I have found out countless amounts of information about him and all of his 10 siblings. I'd heard about the grave problem as well....I guess he just had to be back in Michigan. There are a few books that talk about Joseph Copeland's family, but as they were all written by distant relatives of Joseph's father, Royal, they do not provide any information on his mother's side of the family. I am related to Copeland through his mother, Alice Davis, and have quite a bit of information on his mother's lineage.