Hi, is he buried in Lipan or Hightower Cemetery between Morgan Mill and Lipan? My Double First Cousin Grace Wyly Tarpley and Melvin Tarpley (She from Selden and he from Pony Creek) livebetween Hightower and Lipan and I went to Lipan for their 50 th wedding anniversary this summer. They were plasnning a trip to Los Angeles Naval Base , their first home after Selden Marriage and they and a Military Chaplain founded a Baptist Church there and Grace played the Piano there. She was from Selden, but played for Pony Creek Kids groups or Booster Band when they were dating and either Howard Keith or Bro. Pruitt was pastor and Bro. Emil Becker of Stephenville First Baptist preached several summer Revivals under the Oak trees there. Bro. Becker led the group who ordained Howard Keith as a minister. He drove a Cooper Grocery Truck out of Cleburne, based in Stephenville and his tithe was sometimes more than the total collection during bad weather. Hightower Cemetery was first posted on Palo Pinto Cemetery readings, as the ones who read it did not know it was in Erath County- barely. I saw your Copeland name- my great Grandparents Sarah Copeland and Charles Madison Hipp were married in Clinton, South Carolina Huricane Baptist Church . Sarah's first kin in the area was John Copeland , Presbyterian Scotch- Irish Elder in Duncan Creek Presbyterian Church before 1760 with his wife, Margaret Blakely. One Blakely lives in Iredell. If I am not mistaken Blakelys of the Stephenville store had Walnut Springs roots. . I have a 1937 Copeland Family History for a Reunion in either Clinton or Greer. Her Cousin Jim Nabors has ancestors buried in Clinton area and he was born in Newbury, S.C., not Maybery as the TV show he was in. my name, some of Grace's family Imogene Hatchett Garner, and sister Dorothy Irene Hatchett and Ken Carey were listed on the Copeland Family Tree and Reunion program in 1937. Now someone did a lot of searching and mailing to do that much research in 1937 for a Reunion coverring 150 years . . Grandmother Nancy Elizabeth Hipp Carey of Selden married Charles Madison Hipp and mom- Emma Carey Wyly was born in Hope, Arkansas. Copeland and Stone Cousins of Huckaby and Lingleville area were Grandmother's Cousins and so was a Hipp in Cranfils Gap and 7 Hipp Brothers in San Antonio area. 6 of the Hipp Bros. are School teachers. They are desc. from 3 Hipp brothers from Switzerland or Germany , where boundary shifted in the Palitanate Vineyards on the Rhine River. Hipp was a short for one who handled Pruning knives ( Cutting the Buds or Hipps- like Rose Hipps??- In Minnesota there are many Hippleths - no connection known. The first American home of Hipps included the " Dutch Fork Hipps" of North Carolina. a few centuries earlier some Scotch- irish went to that area- as a colony- some returned home. another Hipp ran a neighborhood Grocery Store in Temple for many years. His granddaughter and friend posted Hipp Family Tree of their line in Rootsweb or Ancestory lists. A large book was publihed last year or So of Hipp Family history including Copeland Connections. it is NORTH CAROLINA HIPPS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS- several Dillard, Vaughn- Vaughan- Nabors- Neighbors, White and other kin. Author is Dr. Sandra Hipp Lee Westbrooks of Hipp KS Farms in Dallas, Georgia. Second volume is in the works- I have her E mail if you need it. Bro. Hollis Epton was a Carey - Hipp descendant and held Grandmother's funeral in Huckaby when she birend to death in a Selden prairie fire, 1940 ish. He was also the pastor when the old European style Waxahachie First Baptist Church was built. Tqake care, Charles A. Wyly