This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ikJ.2ACIB/1206.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Ted, not sure what kind of cousins we are, I guess you could call it half 4th cousins. After Lott died Elizabeth Ellington (Allen) married Lewis Allen. Some of the allen family moved to Bell County Texas as did some of the Copelands and Thorntons. got a thing off the WHMC-Rolla--information Sheet ( try Http://www.umr.edu/~whmcinfo/shelf7/r163/info.html) It is Copeland Store Ledger 1857-1860--Information Sheet. It is William Copeland who married Mary Ellington. There is a lot of material and a long list on his store list. I have to just pick through what Copeland information I can find. Almost all of the information I have is in the Allen side since that is where I decended from. Lewis Allen and Elizabeth Ellington. Good to hear from you Ted, Keep in Touch. I live in Mo. Alice nothwest of St. Louis. searching Allen, Copeland, Mann, Barnes, Ellington on my mothers side Stockton ( my Nee name, Warren, Death, Talley, and a lot of others.