My great grandfather. * indicates a direct ancestor.
PICTURE
Born: 25 May 1850, Georgia. 1 6
Parents: JASPER NEWTON COPELAN* AND MARY ELIZABETH FURLOW*
Marriage License: 4 Dec. 1872, Greensboro, GA. 4
Married: 4 Dec. 1872, Greene Co., GA. 2 4
Death: 9 Nov. 1941, Morgan Co., GA. 3
Burial: Greensboro City Cemetery, Greensboro, Greene, GA. 5
Funeral: 10 Nov. 1941, 3:30 p.m., Greensboro City Cemetery. 6
OBITUARY
Notes:
Community Notes from the local newspapers.
Additional Notes:
Listed as a railroad hand in the 1880 Federal Census, District 143, Greene, GA.
Listed as a farmer in the 1900 Federal Census, Greensboro, Greene, GA; lists 8 children born, 5 surviving.
Sworn in as Deputy Sheriff of Greene County in 1906 and 1910.
Listed as a night watchman at an oil mill in the 1910 Federal Census, Hutchinson, Greene, GA (indexed as Rom W. Coplan and wife Mermelar I.).
Listed as a county jailer in the 1920 Federal Census, Greensboro, Greene, GA.
Listed as a farmer in the 1930 Federal Census, Seats, Morgan, GA.
Rowan and wife Permelia moved from Greene County, GA. to Morgan County around 1924. R. W. Copelan is listed in the Morgan County Tax Digest in 1924-1932 in District 397 (Seats), which is the Brownwood Community. In 1934 they were listed as Mrs. R. W. Copelan in District 400 (Hello), which apparently was a re-designation of the Brownwood Community. In 1935 Mrs. R. W. Copelan is again listed there, with the notation "dead."
According to his granddaughter Ivor Copelan-Doggett, she used to go for walks with him during those years along Brownwood Road (then a dirt road), and she said that he liked to participate in the singing at church, and became pretty good at it, although he never sang in the choir. Rowan and Permelia often visited Ivor Copelan's family in the early thirties, and made the trips in a buggy or wagon (he owned both). He didn't own a car and Ivor couldn't recall seeing him even riding in one. Permelia was taller than Roe by about two inches, he being about 5' 8" and she 5' 10". When Permelia died in 1936, Roe moved in with Ivor's parents, William Alcestor and Nettie Baugh Copelan, at Fair Play near Rutledge.
Their grave site had no marker until a double marker was installed there in 2004 by Rachel Lovern-Wiley, wife of their great grandson, Joe Wiley.
Spouse: PERMELIA VICTORIA WINSLETT*
CHILDREN OF ROWAN WARD COPELAN AND PERMELIA VICTORIA WINSLETT:
EVIE EUFALA COPELAN b. 2 Nov. 1873 d. 9 Sep. 1879, Greene Co., GA. 7 8
LATHADDEUS T. COPELAN b. 31 Aug. 1875 d. 12 Aug. 1951, Meridian, MS.
ROWIE AUBREY COPELAN b. 15 May 1877 d. 1 Oct. 1879, Green Co., GA. 7 8
TESSIE GODFREY COPELAN b. 31 March 1879 d. 30 Oct. 1879, Greene Co., GA. 7 8
CAREY DOWNING COPELAN b. 22 Oct. 1880, GA d. 29 Dec. 1945, Spalding Co., GA.
WILLIAM ALCESTER COPELAN* b. 27 Jan. 1883, Greene Co., GA. d. 12 Oct. 1949, Rutledge, GA.
SAMUEL RODNEY COPELAN b. 14 Dec. 1890 d. 2 Nov. 1911. 7 8 OBITUARY
ZELLA ELOISE COPELAN b. 17 April 1892 d. 4 April 1910.
Sources:
1. 1900 Federal Census, Greensboro, Greene, GA.
2. Hunting For Bears, comp.. Georgia Marriages, 1699-1944 [database on-line]; Provo, UT, USA.
3. Indexes of Vital Records for Georgia: Deaths, 1919-1998, Georgia Health Department, Office of Vital Records, Cert. 27568.
4. Personal viewing of marriage license, Greene County Probate Court, Greensboro, GA.
5. The Herald Journal, Obituary, Greensboro, GA, Nov. 14, 1941.
6. The Madisonian, Obituary, Madison, GA, Nov 14, 1941.
7. The Cemeteries of Green County Georgia, E. H. Armor, Agee Publishers, 1987.
8. Personal viewing of cemetery marker in the Greensboro City Cemetery.
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