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Parcus Copeland
PARCUS COPELAND, farmer, P. O. East Hickory, was born in what is now
Harmony township, Forest Co., Penn., April 10, 1837, and is a son of Ira and
Lydia (Thompson) Copeland, natives of Vermont and New York, respectively. The
paternal grandparents of Parcus Copeland were among the pioneers of Harmony
township, and Ira Copeland cleared and improved the farm taken up by his
father, and lived and died there. He reared a family of ten children, named as
follows: Mandana (Mrs. Alden Handy), Sarah A. (Mrs. Azro Copeland), Ora (Mrs.
Peter Herring), Rhoda (Mrs. Philip Stitz), Clarissa (Mrs. David Metcalf),
Eliza, Julia (Mrs. Wes. Hayes), Parcus, David and Rufus. Parcus Copeland was
reared in Harmony township, and in 1855 settled in Hickory township, where he
cleared and improved the farm he now occupies, and has since resided. He was
in the Civil war, enlisting November 18, 1861, in Company H, Fourth
Pennsylvania Cavalry; was wounded at Travillion Station, taken prisoner at
Ashby Gap, and spent one month in Libby prison, when he was paroled; six
months later he was exchanged, and joined his regiment at City Point, Va., and
was honorably discharged after three years service. In 1855 he married
Lucinda, daughter of Moses and Laura (Barnes) Walters, of Hickory township,
and to them have been born eight children, of whom six are living: Lydia M.
(Mrs. P. C. Hill), Milda (Mrs. Joseph Schwab), George S., Della, Lizzie and
Moses. Mr. Copeland is a member of the G. A. R., and in politics is a
Democrat.Source: Page(s) 944-945, Chapter 15 Biographical Sketches – Tionesta Township
and Borough of Tionesta
Hickory and Harmony Townships
History of Counties of McKean, Elk and Forest, Pennsylvania.
Chicago, J.H. Beers & Co., 1890.
Transcribed December 2005 by Nathan Zipfel for the Forest County Genealogy
Project
Published 2005 by the Forest County Pennsylvania Genealogy Project
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