Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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WICKLIFFE B. COPELAND

Wickliffe B. COPELAND, takes rank among the early settlers of Harrison County. He came to St. John's in November, 1852, and remained there two years, and in February, 1855, removed to the site of his present (1891) home, having taken claim in the fall of 1852, and moved a small pole shanty to the place (which had been built by the Mormons) which he used until he could erect a log cabin, which had the primitive puncheon floor, and shakes for roofing. Their nearest post office and trading point was Kanesville (now Council Bluffs).

Mr. COPLEAND was born in Jackson County, Indiana, in January 1823. He is the son of Hugh and Charlotte (ALEXANDER) COPELAND. The father was a native of North Carolina, born in 1786, and died in Fremont County, Iowa aged about eighty-six years. Our subject's mother was a native of the South, and died in Fremont County, Iowa, in 1861.

When our subject was twenty years old, he commenced trying the realities of life for himself. He worked as a common laborer until he was married in 1845, to Malinda FRAZIER, a native of Tennessee, who was the daughter of Thomas and Mary (SHAFER) FRAZIER. Her father died in Indiana in 1851, and her mother in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, in 1870.

Mr. and Mrs. COPELAND are the parents of nine children -- F.J.; Mary J.; Vincent S.; Amanda J.; Oliver H.; Perry; Catherine S.; William T.; and James H. When Mr. COPELAND came from Indiana to Harrison County, he made the trip by ox-teams, and was a year on the road, for they stopped at Ottumwa, and also in Missouri. He and his wife are members of the Baptist Church.

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