This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Ig.2ADI/213.252 Message Board Post: I have some information that may or may not help youon the Cope family in Jersey co. IL. Here it goes! george cope b. 1812 bp. Rowan Co. North Carolina m. Lucinda Lee Bullard 1834 b. 1817 bp. Hopkinsville. Ky They had 11 children: Joseph Cope m. Elizabeth Davis Milton Cope m. Hattie Thrush Verlene Cope m. JessVinson Jeff Newell Mary Cope m. Allen Milem Jane Cope m. Charlie Coats Orange Sandridge Emiline Cope m.Henery Chance Philip Decker Allen Cope m. Cynthia Warner Elizabeth Cope m.Daniel Bray Melinda Cope m. William Mackelden Caroline Cope m. Philip Mackelden Samuel Sinclair Charles Cope never married This information I got from a book at the jerseyville library. if you would like a complete copy of what i have , just send me you address. II would be more that happy to share it with you . In the cope family, i believe that i am related to : elizabeth cope m. daniel bray. (bray is a family name) caroline cope m. samuel sinclair (sinclair also shows up in the family) I Hope that this will help you in your search. if i can find the name of the gentleman that i met will at grimes cemetary (cope is bury there) i will send it to you. he also researching the Cope family. good luck!!! jacki gibson [email protected]