Brief Life History of Alexander
Alexander Copeland was born in 1844, in Alabama, United States. He married Mary J Oliver on 30 November 1870, in Lauderdale, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Lauderdale, Alabama, United States in 1870.
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Family Time Line
Sources (2)
- Alex Cokeland in household of Daniel Oliver, "United States Census, 1870"
- Alexander Copeland, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from Copeland in Cumbria or Coupland in Northumberland, both named with Old Norse kaupa-land ‘bought land’, a feature worthy of note during the early Middle Ages, when land was rarely sold, but rather held by feudal tenure and handed down from one generation to the next.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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