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Abner Copeland

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Abner Copeland

Birth
Alamance County, North Carolina, USA
Death
1 Nov 1907 (aged 69)
Independence Township, Montgomery County, Kansas, USA
Burial
Bolton, Montgomery County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
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I wrote "An American Genealogy: The Copeland Family of Montgomery County Kansas." Before 2008, I did not know anything about my grandfather William Quincy Copeland and his family. By 2009, I found out about his parents Abner and Samantha, and his 9 brothers and sisters, and then I found all of the living descendants of his family. I gathered information and photos and put them in a wonderful book. I connected with a part of my late father and grandfather, and all of their late relations - joining a wonderful circle of Copeland descendants. While doing so, I gathered photos of headstones, which I want to make available for future generations.
Abner is descended from a famous Quaker martyr - Earless John Copeland who came to the colonies in 1635 to escape punishment because his father was a Round Head who lost to King Charles.
Abner was born in N.C. to a long line of Quaker families. His parents and some of his siblings moved to Parke County, IN in 1851. He married Samantha Jane Finney in 1868. By 1882, he and his family, along with her parents Wesley and Mary Finney and siblings, moved to Harrisonville in Montgomery County KS.
Abner and Samantha helped build the Harrisonville community and the first Quaker Meeting House, which later moved to Bolton and continues to operate to this day.
- Cousette Copeland, great granddaughter of Abner Copeland

I've made links to 8 of the children. There are 4 other children that I cannot find graves for - Elbert Epps Copeland (buried in Yakima WA) and Pearl Copeland Koons (buried in Hominy, OK) - and 2 children who died in infancy - Sabina Eveline Copeland and John Wesley Copeland - they are buried in Parke County IN.
I wrote "An American Genealogy: The Copeland Family of Montgomery County Kansas." Before 2008, I did not know anything about my grandfather William Quincy Copeland and his family. By 2009, I found out about his parents Abner and Samantha, and his 9 brothers and sisters, and then I found all of the living descendants of his family. I gathered information and photos and put them in a wonderful book. I connected with a part of my late father and grandfather, and all of their late relations - joining a wonderful circle of Copeland descendants. While doing so, I gathered photos of headstones, which I want to make available for future generations.
Abner is descended from a famous Quaker martyr - Earless John Copeland who came to the colonies in 1635 to escape punishment because his father was a Round Head who lost to King Charles.
Abner was born in N.C. to a long line of Quaker families. His parents and some of his siblings moved to Parke County, IN in 1851. He married Samantha Jane Finney in 1868. By 1882, he and his family, along with her parents Wesley and Mary Finney and siblings, moved to Harrisonville in Montgomery County KS.
Abner and Samantha helped build the Harrisonville community and the first Quaker Meeting House, which later moved to Bolton and continues to operate to this day.
- Cousette Copeland, great granddaughter of Abner Copeland

I've made links to 8 of the children. There are 4 other children that I cannot find graves for - Elbert Epps Copeland (buried in Yakima WA) and Pearl Copeland Koons (buried in Hominy, OK) - and 2 children who died in infancy - Sabina Eveline Copeland and John Wesley Copeland - they are buried in Parke County IN.

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