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/jdJBAEB/683 Message Board Post: The Couper family is connected through Margaret Couper, the daughter of James Hamilton Couper (1794-1866), who married Robert Mackay Stiles (1836-1874), son of Elizabeth Mackay and William Henry Stiles. (more on website) I am not related to this family, just passing on this information, which comes from a website called "Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations." The link for the site is listed below. Joyce http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj4.asp