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Major Frost left a large estate by will to his widow and children. (The place of wor- ship was Newichewan Neck ( Parsons' Mem.).
Major Frost held the office of town clerk, 1669-70; selectman, 1667-70; councillor to President Danforth, 1680-85; justice of the peace, 1680-85; president of council many years. He was councillor from 1693 until his death, July 4, 1697. Up to 1693 he was in constant active military service; after that, he guarded the forts and transmitted the orders of government to the different military stations. Major Charles Frost was a Christian professor, as well as soldier and statesman, and was constant in attendance on public wor- ship. Williamson, in his history of Maine. says "Charles Frost was one of the most emi- nent and public spirited men of his time within the province of Maine. His death was deeply lamented, as it occurred in the height of his usefulness and at a time when his serv- ices were greatly needed."
Major Charles Frost married Mary Bolles,
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of Wells, December 25, 1675. She was born August 7, 1641, daughter of Joseph Bolles of Wells. Her father is mentioned in the will of John Bolles, of St. James Clerkenwell, Mid- dlesex, England, dated July 1, 1665: "I give unto my brother, Joseph Bolles, living in New England, three hundred pounds." Joseph Bolles, her father, was town clerk of Wells from 1654-1664, and while she was a child her father's house was burnt by the savages and volume (I) of the town records destroyed, so Mistress Charles Frost had some sad experi- ences with the horrors of Indian warfare dur- ing a long life. She died in 1704. (Old Kit- tery and her Families, by Stackpole).
Major Charles, and Mary (Bolles) Frost had nine children, all of whom survived them :
I. Charles Jr., born April 17, 1678, died De- cember 17, 1724; married (first) Sarah Wain- wright; (second) Jane (Elliot) Pepperrell, widow of Andrew, a brother of Sir William Pepperrell, and had ten children. 2. Hon. John, born May 1, 1682, (see Frost). 3. Nich- olas, married Dorothy Mendun, and left her a widow with two children. 4. Sarah, mar- ried John Shipway ; had one daughter. 5. Abi- gail, married Joshua Fryer. 6. Mehitable, mar- ried Thomas Lincoln. 7. Lydia, married Ben- jamin Pierce. 8. Mary, married Captain John Hill, December 12, 1694. 9. Elizabeth, mar- ried John Richardson (probably).
References: Brewster's Rambles About Portsmouth. John Salter, Mariner, by Will- iam Tibbets Salter. Parsons' Memoirs of the Frost Family, Frost Genealogy, Pepperrell Genealogy, New England Hist. & Gen. Reg., many volumes.
Major Charles Frost was killed at a place called the "Ambush," and this place has never been out the possession of the Frost Family. The grave of Major Charles Frost was on the old Berwick road, about half way between South Berwick and Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire.
(IV) Hon. John Frost, son of Major Charles and Mary (Bolles) Frost, was born May I, 1682, at Kittery, Maine, and died Feb- ruary 25, 1732, aged fifty years. (See Old Kittery and Her Families). While his father worked on the farm, he with a loaded musket watched for Indians. On one occasion the house was surrounded by savages, who were finally driven off.
Hon. John Frost was among the men of eminence in the town of Newcastle, New Hampshire. He was a member of his Majes- ty's council, being sworn in as a royal coun-
cillor July 26, 1724, by order of George II., King of England. (Acts and Resolves of Province of Mass. Bay, vol. 7, p. 430; vol. 8, P. 47 ; also "Old Eliot," vol. I, p. 25 to 101, vol. 2, p. 137). He commanded H. B. M. frigate "Edward" in 1709, and in 1717 commanded the ship "Bonetta Pinck." He married Mary Pepperrell, daughter of Lieut. Col. William Pepperrell, September 4, 1702; the clergy- man was Rev. Joseph Hammond. (Parsons' Memoirs of Frost, collection of Maine Hist. Soc., vol. 5, p. 434).
The Honorable John and his lady were early settled at Newcastle, New Hampshire. His place of residence was on an eminence westerly of the Prescott Mansion, commanding a view of the spacious harbor, the river, and its table lands with the lofty Agamentious in the distance. In 1859 some remains of the wharf owned by Hon. John Frost were yet to be found. Hon. John Frost was distinguished both in mercantile and civil life. His grave is in the burying-ground at New Castle, New Hampshire, close to the road. He was mar- ried to Mary Pepperrell, on her seventeenth birthday, and they had seventeen children. She survived him and married (second) August 12,' 1745, Rev. Benjamin Coleman, of Boston, who died August 29, 1747. She married (third) Judge Benjamin Prescott, of Danvers, Massa- chusetts. She was born September 5, 1685, died April 18, 1766. Mary (Pepperrell) Frost, after her marriage to Hon. John, lived in ele- gance and splendor at Newcastle, New Hamp- shire. Her bed was covered with white tabby silk. Her father (Lieut. Col. William Pep- perrell, and her husband (Hon. John Frost) were enormously wealthy, and she accumu- lated a large quantity of silver; there was enough to fill a spacious closet when she mar- ried her second husband, Rev. Dr. Colman ; this silver went with her to Boston. ( See Salter ).
Mary (Pepperrell) Frost was the third wife of Rev. Dr. Colman, and after her arrival the parsonage must have been well stocked with silver, as wedding gifts given to the clergyman in colonial times were both numerous and costly. Parson Colman lived but two years after this marriage, dying August 29, 1747, aged seventy-four years. Mary (Pepperrell Frost) Colman was a widow for the second time, and though sixty years of age she was still so beautiful and fascinating that one year after Dr. Colman's death she married (third) Judge Benjamin Prescott, of Danvers, Massa- chusetts, and became her son's mother-in-law. For years after her marriage, her relations
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talked about the chests of silver plate which had been given to Rev. Dr. Colman each time that he brought a new bride to the parsonage, and which went with Mrs. Mary (Pepperrell Frost Colman) Prescott to Danvers when she became the bride of Judge Prescott.
Children of Hon. John and Mary ( Pepper- rell) Frost : 1. Margery, born February 1, 1704. 2. William, born May 20, 1705. 3. John, born May 12, 1709; married October 31, 1734, Sarah Gerrish, daughter of Timothy, of Kit- tery; their son John was a colonel in the revo- lutionary war, and brigadier-general in the militia in 1777. 4. Charles, born August 27, 1710; moved from Newcastle, New Hamp- shire, to Stroudwater. 5. Mary, born August 19, 17II. 6. Sarah, born February 1, 1713; married (first) Rev. John (Blunt IV,) Blunt, of Newcastle, New Hampshire, (second) Judge John Hill, of South Berwick, Maine. 7. Mary, born February 26, 1714. 8. Andrew Pepperrell, born April 12, 1716. 9. Joseph, born September 29, 1717, died September 14, 1768; married Margaret, of Springfield, Mass- achusetts. IO. Abigail, born May 26, 1719, died 1742. II. George, born April 26, 1720, died June 21, 1796; married (first) widow of George Richardson, of London, England, who died about 1757. He married (second) Widow Margaret (Weeks) Smith, of Durham, New Hampshire. George was a delegate to the Continental Congress, 1776-77-79 ; was a judge and counsellor three years, 1781-84. 12. Sam- uel, born August 19, 1721. 13. Benjamin, twin, born May 15, 1722. 14. Jane, twin, born May 15, 1722. 15. Miriam, born October 8, 1725. 16. Mary, born July 2, 1726. 17. Doro- thy, born August 21, 1727.
In the old cemetery at Newcastle is the monument of Abigail Frost. The inscription reads, "Abigail, lovely daughter of John Frost, who died in 1742, aged 24." This monument presents a specimen of sculpture rarely ex- celled. (Brewster's Rambles, page 85).
(The Blunt Line).
(I) William Blunt, the immigrant, and ancestor and founder of the American family, is said to be of Irish extraction. He came from England in 1634 and settled in Andover, Mass. (Brewster's Rambles About Ports- mouth, pp. 90,-91-123-218-339).
(II) William Blunt, his son, born in 1642, lived in Andover, dying there in 1709, his whole life of sixty-seven years being spent in this town. He had three sons-William (3rd), Samuel, and Hanborough.
(III) William Blunt (3rd), son of William (2nd), was born in 1671 and died in 1737. His two sons were David, born 1699, and John, born 1706.
(IV) Rev. John Blunt, son of William (3rd), was born in 1706; married Sarah (Frost) Blunt, died in 1748. He graduated from Har- vard College in 1727, and was ordained minis- ter at Newcastle, New Hampshire, in 1732. He was a most distinguished and eloquent preacher, and a conscientious, loving and help- ful pastor. A monument erected to his mem- ory bears the following inscription :
"Soft is the sleep of saints, in peace they lie; They rest in silence, but they never die.
From these dark graves, their flesh refined shall rise
And in immortal bloom ascend the skies-
Then shall thine eyes dear Blunt, thine hands, thy tongue,
In nicer harmonies each member strung, Resume their warm devotion and adore,
Him, in whose service they were joined before."
On his death, the town voted to continue his salary to his widow, Sarah (Frost) Blunt, for nine months, and to pay two hundred pounds (old tenor, about thirty or forty dollars) on account of his funeral expenses. Some of the items of these expenses were as follows: For coffin, sixty-six pounds; rings, thirty pounds ; gloves, twenty-eight pounds; for a grave, two pounds; rum, two pounds ten shillings ; tobacco and pipes, one pound. The use of rum as a cordial to the afflicted, and of tobacco as an assuager of grief, was in those days indis- pensable.
Rev. John Blunt married Sarah Frost, in Andover, Massachusetts, in December, 1732. She was born in Newcastle, New Hampshire, July, 1713, and died in South Berwick, Maine, August 13, 1772, daughter of Hon. John Frost and Mary Pepperrell, of Kittery, Maine. (See Frost). Rev. John and Sarah (Frost) Blunt had three sons-William, Charles and John ; and three daughters-Sarah Frost, Abi- gail Frost and Dorothy. Sarah Frost Blunt, eldest daughter, married, at Newcastle, New Hampshire, October 4, 1765, Thomas Furber, born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, March 10, 1742. (See Furber V). Madam Sarah (Frost) Blunt, after the death of Rev. John Blunt, became wife of Hon. Judge Hill, of South Berwick, Maine, where she died in 1772. (See Brewster's Rambles About Ports- mouth).
(V) John Blunt, third son of Rev. John Blunt and Sarah (Frost) Blunt, was a ship- master and farmer; he owned and occupied
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the peninsula at Little Harbor. The family tradition is that when Washington crossed the Delaware in 1776, he asked, "Is there anyone here who is well acquainted with the Delaware river ?" Someone answered, "Here is Captain John Blunt, who is familiar with navigation." Captain John Blunt, grandson of Rev. John Blunt, had been coasting between Portsmouth, N. H., and Philadelphia for some years, and was as well acquainted with the Delaware as the Piscataqua. At the personal invitation of General Washington, "Captain Blunt, please take the helm," Captain John Blunt stepped on board the boat containing Washington, and was the navigator of the boat in which the various paintings represent Washington Cross- ing the Delaware. (See Brewster's Rambles, p. 266). Captain John Blunt was born in 1757, and was lost at sea during the revolu- tionary war.
The other sons of John Blunt (2nd) were : Capt. George F. Blunt (probably Frost), born 1761 ; Capt. Robert W. Blunt (probably Went- worth), born 1763; Capt. Charles Blunt, born 1768; Capt. Mark S. Blunt, born 1770, died at sea ; Capt. Oliver Cromwell Blunt, born 1774. All these sons were born at Newcastle, and the family regularly attended meeting at New- castle, N. H., at their grandfather's church. It was in revolutionary times when these boys were born, and the resolution and spirit which characterized their future life was inherited from their father.
On the birth of his sixth son, William was the name decided upon, and the infant boy was taken to the church at Newcastle to be christened. The Rev. Joseph Stevens of Kit- tery (a Royalist), officiated that Sabbath, and in his sermon denounced Cromwell as a revo- lutionist. This was grating to the patriotism of the father, Capt. John Blunt (2), and he determined to resent this insinuated attack upon the desired liberty of the Colonies. Con- sequently, when the boy was presented for baptism, the name "Oliver Cromwell" was given. "What did you say?" asked the wonder struck preacher, hoping that he had misunder- stood. In the sonorous tones of a boatswain the reply filled the church, "Oliver Cromwell." There was no misunderstanding now, and the boy was christened "Oliver Cromwell Blunt."
All of these sons were distinguished mari- ners and shipmasters, who received their pri- mary instruction, recited their advanced les- sons and graduated from the old homestead to enter upon the world to practice and adorn those principles of integrity and upright-
ness taught them by their father and grand- father. (See Brewster's Rambles About Ports- mouth, pp. 90-91-266).
Rev. John Blunt, born 1706, died 1748, mar- ried, in Andover, Mass., Sarah Frost, born in Newcastle, Maine, 1713. Their eldest daugh- ter, Sarah Frost Blunt, married Thomas Fur- ber, who was born in Portsmouth, N. H., March 10, 1742, (see Furber). Their son, Thomas Blunt Furber, married Harriet Mar- tin, of Morristown, New Jersey, January 22, 1835. Their son Edward Martin Furber, born in Boston, Mass., January 1, 1837, died in Merchantville, New Jersey, August 15, 1881 } married Mary Copeland, born in Philadelphia, January 31, 1842. Their children were :
I. Thomas Blunt Furber, born in Philadel- phia, May 30, 1863. 2. William Copeland Fur- ber, born in Philadelphia, June 24, 1866. 3. Sarah Yard Furber, born in Merchantville, January 15, 1872. 4. Edward Lewis Furber, born in Merchantville, October 26, 1873; drowned in Pensauken creek, August 25, 1880.
(References-Brewster's Rambles About. Portsmouth, Parsons' Frost Genealogy, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, and Family Bible).
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was the resi- dence in the last and preceding century of many men of mark and families of distinction, and was the theatre of not a few of the events that formed a large part of the history of the times, as well as of numerous incidents which threw essential light upon history.
Edmund M. Blunt, of New York, the author of the "Coast Pilot," and John Blunt, a mer- chant of Brooklyn, are among the descendants of the old Pastor.
(The Martin Line).
William Martin, of Morristown, New Jer- sey, called "William of Chatham," in the First Presbyterian Church Records of Morristown, New Jersey, was born in 1762, died in Phila- delphia, March 14, 1840, aged seventy-eight years, was buried in Ronaldson's burying- ground, Philadelphia.
Inscription of Tombstone: William Martin of Morristown, New Jersey, Died March 14, 1840 Aged 78
and Mary Martin his daughter died December 10th 1857 Aged 65
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William Martin married (probably) Marga- ret, born 1769, died January 1, 1833. (See Presbyterian Church Records of Morristown, New Jersey). Children of William Martin :
I. Elizabeth, born probably 1788; married September 6, 1808, Hezekiah Hurlburt. 2. Mary, born 1792, died December 10, 1857, aged sixty-five years .- 3. James, born 1796, probably, married October 1, 1817, Mary Campbell. 4. Clarissa Martin, born 1802, died in Philadelphia, 1878, aged seventy-six years, is buried in Laurel Hill cemetery, was noted for her grace, beauty and wit. 5. Harriet Martin, born about 1815, in Morristown, New Jersey, married Thomas Blunt Furber, of Boston, in 1835 ; he was sixty-five years of age and she was twenty; she died in Chelsea, Massachusetts, in 1840.
The family tradition is (told to Mary Cope- land Furber by Harriet's sister, Clarissa,) that when Harriet Martin was a child of nine years of age, General Lafayette, on his second visit to the United States, stopped in Morristown, New Jersey, for a brief visit to her grand- father, and lifting Harriet to his knees, kissed her.
(The Copeland Line).
(I) 'Lawrence Copeland, the founder of the family, an Englishman, came to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620. He was married to Lydia Townsend, by Rev. Mr. Hibbins, of Boston, December 10, 1657. He died in Brain- tree, Massachusetts, December 30, 1699. His wife, Lydia Townsend, died in Braintree, Massachusetts, January 8, 1688. His name appears as one of the signers of the Indian deed to Wheelwright in 1638. (See Provin- cial Papers of New Hampshire, vol. i, p. 134). Many authorities name his age as one hundred years. Mitchell's History of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, gives his age as one hundred and ten years.
Quincy, Massachusetts, inscription reads : "In Memory of Mr. Lawrence Copeland, who died December 30, 1699, Age 100." "Law- rence Copeland, a very aged man born in the reign of our gracious Queen, Elizabeth, of blessed memory, died December 30, 1699." (Braintree Records, Family Memorial Cope- land, p. 81).
Children of Lawrence and Lydia (Town- send) Copeland: I. Thomas, born 1652, died 1652, in Braintree. 2. Thomas, born August 10, 1654, in Braintree, died January 6, 1706. 3. William, born September 15, 1656, in Brain- tree, married Mary (Bass) Webb, a widow, and also a granddaughter of John Alden. 4.
John, born October 12, 1658, in Braintree. 5. Lydia, born March 31, 1661, in Braintree. 6. Ephraim, born November 17, 1665, in Brain- tree. 7. Hannah, born December 12, 1668. 8. Richard, born November 5, 1672. 9. Abigail, born 1674.
(II) Thomas Copeland, second son of Law- rence and Lydia (Townsend) Copeland, mar- ried widow Mehitable Atwood, February 3, 1692. Their only child was Mary, who mar- ried Ephraim Thayer, April 1, 1718; she was born November 24, 1692. Mehitable, wife of Thomas Copeland, died November 2, 1695, aged thirty. Thomas married (second) Mercy, who died February 20, 1699. Thomas married (third) Mary Arnold, May 17, 1699, daughter of John Arnold; she was born September 12, 1681. Thomas Copeland was in Captain Johnson's company in King Philip's war, 1675. (See Savage's Gen. Dictionary, Mass. Sol. & Sailors).
Children of Thomas and Mary (Arnold) Copeland : 1. Thomas Jr., born April 10, 1700. 2. Sarah, born December 22, 1701, married Jonah Hayden, of Braintree, Massachusetts. 3. Nathaniel, born April 30, 1704, died 1706. 4. Elizabeth, born June 18, 1706, married Ben- jamin Paine, May, 1725.
(III) Thomas Copeland Jr. married Susanna, 1723. Their children were: I. Susannah, born May 8, 1724. 2. Jane, born October 14, 1725. 3. Thomas, born April 30, 1729, died same day. 4. Jacob, born January 21, 1731. 5. Mary, born February 23, 1733. 6. Elizabeth, born February 7, 1735, died in infancy. 7. Gershom, born November 11, 1737; married Betsy Collier, of Hull, Massachusetts. 8. Thomas, born January 19, 1741 ; married Han- nah Whitman. 9. Josiah, born 1743.
(IV) Jacob Copeland, son of Thomas Jr. and Susanna, was born in 1731. He married Abigail, born December 15, 1729. Their resi- dence was Quincy and Boston. He was known as Jacob of Boston. During the revolu- tionary war he was in Captain Treadwell's company, Colonel John Crane's Third Artil- lery Regiment, enlisted for three years, March 23, 1781, reported joined on command Sep- tember 13, 1781; at this time he was living in Braintree, Massachusetts. Their children were: I. Asa, born about 1756. 2. Josiah, born December 8, 1763, probably December 8, 1762. 3. Elisha, born January 9, 1764. 4. Abi- gail. 5. Susannah. 6. Eliphez.
(V) Asa Copeland, son of Jacob and Abi- gail Copeland, was born in Boston, about 1756. This date is made because the "family tradi-
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tion" says that he was present at the "Boston Tea Party" December 14, 1773, "a young man about seventeen years of age." Mrs. Mary C. Furber, granddaughter of Asa Copeland, fre- quently heard his son, William Copeland, who was her father, speak of this. Letters to Asa, while he was with the main army, from Jacob, his father, and Elisha, his brother, were in the possession of Willam Henry Copeland, of Warren, Pennsylvania, while he lived. (Pho- tographs of these letters are in possession of his great-grandson William Copeland Furber, of Merchantville, New Jersey).
Asa Copeland, then about nineteen years old, was among the list of men mustered in Suffolk county by Nathaniel Barber, muster master, at Boston, Massachusetts, January 8, 1777, Major Stevens' artillery battalion. He was sergeant- major in Captain Donnell's company, Colonel John Crane's artillery regiment. He was afterwards appointed conductor of military stores, field commissary department, stationed with the main army. He was also conductor of military stores under Frothingham. Asa Copeland enlisted for the entire war. Letters from General H. Knox, chief of artillery in Washington's army, to Asa Copeland (C. M. S.), also from Asa Copeland to General Knox, showing a survey or inventory of ordnance at West Point, New York, dated April 20, 1783, were in the possession of William Henry Copeland, of Warren, Pennsylvania, who was his grandson. (For military records see Rec- ords of Commonwealth of Mass., vol. 4, p. 34, vol. 18, p. 333., vol. 17, part 1, p. 113., vol. 19, part I, p. 215, vol. 55, p. 29, file N. N. Mass. Soldiers & Sailors of Rev. War, vol. 3, p. 985).
Asa remained in Philadelphia after the war, and February 27, 1783, was married by Bishop White, chaplain in revolutionary war, and rector of Christ Church, Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, to Amelia Price. Asa died Septem- ber 23, 1797, in Philadelphia. Amelia, his wife, died April 16, 1828, in Philadelphia. Children of Asa and Amelia (Price) Cope- land: 1. Jacob, born August 28, 1784, mar- ried Elizabeth Boyen; he was a sea captain, and died at Matanzas, Cuba, October 8, 1824. 2. George. 3. Lucy, born July 12, 1792. 4. Asa Jr., born June II, 1794; was naval con- structor at Philadelphia navy yard during Fill- more's administration. 5. William, born Feb- ruary 9, 1796, died April 28, 1860.
(VI) William Copeland, youngest child of Asa and Amelia (Price) Copeland, was born in Philadelphia, February 19, 1796. He was but eighteen months old when his father died
of one of the yellow fever epidemics in Phila- delphia. He was apprenticed to Jesse Will- iamson, of Philadelphia, and learned the trade of carpenter and builder. When twenty-two years of age he went to Matanzas, Cuba, and resided there eighteen years. He was very successful in building sugar refineries, and accumulated a large fortune while in Cuba, owning a large sugar plantation and many slaves. While on a visit to Philadelphia he married Martha, youngest child of Philip McCracken, a veteran of the revolutionary war, who enlisted for the war and received his discharge in 1783. William Copeland and Martha McCracken were married by the noted and distinguished divine, Rev. Dr. Ezra Stiles Ely, of Old Pine Street Church, Philadelphia, October II, 1832. (Family Bible). This church stands at the southwest corner of Fourth and Pine streets, opposite old St. Peter's Church. Children of William and Martha (McCracken) Copeland: I. William, died immediately. 2. Mary, died one week old. 3. Amelia, born March, 1836, died August 30, 1902. 4. William Henry, born January II, 1838, died July 2, 1902, in Warren, Pennsyl- vania. 5. Mary, born January 30, 1841 ; still living at her home in Merchantville, (Furber VII). 6. Anna Read, born January 21, 1842, living in Philadelphia. 7. George, born Au- gust 21, 1846, died March 17, 1875. 8. Charles, born 1847, died 1849. 9 .- Harry, died in infancy, three months old. 10. Theodore, died two days old
William Copeland (the father), died April 28, 1860. Martha (McCracken) Copeland (the mother), died September 25, 1874. She was a loving and affectionate wife, a devoted mother, filled with love and charity towards all her friends, relations, and neighbors, and a Christian of the highest type.
(VII) William Henry Copeland, son of William and Martha (McCracken) Copeland, was born in Philadelphia, January 1I, 1838. He was educated at the Philadelphia high school. He was married to Emma Louise MacDonald, November 28, 1860, by Rev. Dr. Thomas Brainard, pastor of Old Pine Street Church, Fourth and Pine streets, Philadel- phia. He entered the army during the Rebel- lion, of 1860. After the war he moved to Warren, Pennsylvania, where for many years he was a successful merchant. The last few years of his life were spent in retirement from business, and he died in Warren, Pennsyl- vania, July 2, 1902. ( Family Bible ). "Those who possessed the friendship and acquaintance of
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Mr. Copeland, and they were numerous, knew him as a devoted husband, loving father, affec- tionate brother, and a generous neighbor. His ideals of life were the highest, ever towards the goal of truth and right. He lived and daily practiced the life of a consistent Christian, abiding always in God and the faith in which he was reared." ("Warren's Newspapers Memoriam).
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