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          Martha Josephine Bumpass, daughter of Doctor Benjamin F. Bumpass and Mary W. Weldon, was born on 19 January 1855.¹
     Martha married James M. Hutchison on 15 October 1871 at Maries County, Missouri.²

          Oliver Perry Bumpass, son of Doctor Benjamin F. Bumpass and Mary W. Weldon, was born on 4 October 1856.¹
     Oliver married Mary Hallie Murphy, daughter of Lorenzo Boone "Lannie" Murphy and Judah C. Crismon, in 1880 at Maries County, Missouri.²
     Oliver Perry Bumpass received a land grant, issued under April 24, 1820 Cash Entry Sale (3 Stat. 566) on 1 May 1906 at Missouri. The land was described as 40 acres in SENE part of section 7, township 39N, range 11W.³
     Oliver died on 15 September 1922 in Missouri at age 65.⁴ Conflicting evidence placed his death in 1919 (Rootsweb Woodward Family Web Site).¹ He was buried in September 1922 in Bumpass Cemetery in Weldon, Maries County, Missouri.⁴

     
     Mary (her first marriage)married (?) McAfee (his first marriage) before 1896.² Mary C. (?) lived in October 1897 in Hickory County, Missouri.²
     Mary (her second marriage)married Doctor Benjamin F. Bumpass (his second marriage) , son of William Weldon Bumpass and Hannah Eads, on 13 October 1897 at Humanville, Polk County, Missouri.^1,2

     
     Elizabeth married Isaac Perkins, son of Levi Perkins and Elizabeth "Sallie" Eads.¹

          Isabelle C. Perkins, daughter of Isaac Perkins and Elizabeth F. Lewis, was born on 10 October 1848 in Missouri.¹
     Isabelle married Wiliam D. Bumpass, son of Francis Ulyssis Bumpass and Elizabeth Miller, on 26 January 1868 at Gasconade County, Missouri.^1,2
     Isabelle married Mark West, son of Martin West and Catherine Williams, on 23 July 1882.³ At the time of Mark's death in 1912, Mark and Isabelle resided at Miller Township in Maries County, Missouri.⁴ Her husband, Mark West, died on 29 November 1912 at age 74.^3,4
     Isabelle died on 23 January 1942 in Arlington, Phelps County, Missouri, at age 93.¹ She was buried in Kenner Cemetery in Dixon, Pulaski County, Missouri.¹

          Emmett E. Bumpass, son of Wiliam D. Bumpass and Isabelle C. Perkins, was born circa 1869 in Missouri.¹
     Emmett married Millie R. Sherell on 12 February 1891 at Maries County, Missouri.^1,2
     Emmett died on 8 August 1902 in Dixon, Pulaski County, Missouri.¹

     
     Millie married Emmett E. Bumpass, son of Wiliam D. Bumpass and Isabelle C. Perkins, on 12 February 1891 at Maries County, Missouri.^1,2

          William Bumpass, son of Wiliam D. Bumpass and Isabelle C. Perkins, was born in May 1870 in Jefferson Township, Osage County, Missouri.¹

          Thomas B. Bumpass, son of Wiliam D. Bumpass and Isabelle C. Perkins, was born circa 1874 in Missouri.¹
     Thomas died in 1893 in Missouri.¹

      Alora Bumpass was also known as Lola.²      Alora Bumpass, daughter of Wiliam D. Bumpass and Isabelle C. Perkins, was born on 2 June 1876 in Missouri.¹
     Alora (her first marriage)married Marion Alphie "The Bee Hunter" Eads (his first marriage) , son of George Washington "Pappy" Eads and Frances "Franky" Simpson, on 19 December 1897 at Hughes Chapel Methodist Church, Maries County, Missouri.^2,1 Alora Bumpass and Marion Alphie "The Bee Hunter" Eads were divorced after 1900.²
     Alora (her second marriage)married (?) Martin after 1901 at Denver, Denver County, Colorado.¹
     Alora died on 13 November 1938 in Colorado at age 62.¹ She was buried on 15 November 1938 in Colorado.¹

     
     (?) married Alora Bumpass (her second marriage), daughter of Wiliam D. Bumpass and Isabelle C. Perkins, after 1901 at Denver, Denver County, Colorado.¹

     
     (?) died in 1898 in Missouri.¹      (?) Eads, child of Marion Alphie "The Bee Hunter" Eads and Alora Bumpass, was born in 1898 in Missouri.¹

          Vida Belle Eads, daughter of Marion Alphie "The Bee Hunter" Eads and Alora Bumpass, was born on 14 November 1899 in Dixon, Pulaski County, Missouri.¹
     Vida married George Henry Joseph Veasman, son of George Louis Veasman and Sarah Cecilia Duffin, on 16 March 1920 at Springfield, Greene County, Missouri.¹
     Vida died on 30 November 1942 in Pueblo, Pueblo County, Colorado, at age 43.¹ She was buried in Fairmont Cemetery in Denver, Denver County, Colorado.¹

          George Henry Joseph Veasman, son of George Louis Veasman and Sarah Cecilia Duffin, was born on 6 August 1896 in Brinktown, Maries County, Missouri.¹
     George married Vida Belle Eads, daughter of Marion Alphie "The Bee Hunter" Eads and Alora Bumpass, on 16 March 1920 at Springfield, Greene County, Missouri.¹
     George died on 27 November 1979 in Denver, Denver County, Colorado, at age 83.¹

     
     Fairmont Cemetery (Denver, MO) is located in Denver, Denver County, Colorado.
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Vida Belle Eads.¹

     
     George married Sarah Cecilia Duffin, daughter of Francis Duffin and Rose Walsh, circa 1880.¹ At the time of Sarah's death in 1917, George and Sarah resided in Brinktown, Maries County, Missouri.² His wife, Sarah Cecilia Duffin, died on 10 June 1917 at age 64. He was the informant on her death certificate.²

          Sarah Cecilia Duffin, daughter of Francis Duffin and Rose Walsh, was born on 11 April 1853 in Ireland.²
     Sarah married George Louis Veasman circa 1880.¹ At the time of Sarah's death in 1917, George and Sarah resided in Brinktown, Maries County, Missouri.²
     Sarah died on 10 June 1917 at Miller Township in Maries County, Missouri, at age 64, Doctor Adolphus J. Crider was the attending physician, George Louis Veasman was the informant on the death certificate.² Her cause of death was tuberculosis.²
     The undertaker who handled her arrangements was Grewpcqynski Brothers in Dixon, Pulaski County, Missouri.² Sarah Cecilia Duffin was buried on 12 June 1917 in Brinktown Cemetery in Brinktown, Maries County, Missouri.²

     
     THE BRANSON FAMILY OF VIRGINIA AND MISSOURI
This information was sent to me by Joyce McKee
We do not know where it came from - If any knows
the author, please let me know so credit can be given
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The Branson Story
It is just right that the name Branson be on the map representing a thriving American town, for the Branson family for whom it is named is about as representative an American family as could be found, with members in all walks of life, in almost every state of the Union, and highly identified with every important event in American history. Other than a tiny settlement of 124 in Colorado, our White River Valley Branson is the only municipality in the nation carrying that name. Records trace the Bransons back to the hardy Norsemen, whose Viking ships were first to venture across the open sea from Europe to the western Hemisphere. During the centuries, the spelling of the name took many forms, seeming originally to have been Brownsen. Variations were Brinson, Brunson, Branston, Brandson, and Branson. As the Branson name came into this country, the first to arrive using that spelling came from England to Connecticut as early as 1636. This established one of the many branches of the family now found in the United States. Perhaps related to the two brothers who came to Connecticut was the George Branson reported killed by a bull at Dover, New Jersey, on July 4, 1640, long before that had special significance to Americans.
It is known definitely that the Virginia-Carolina branch of the Branson's, from whom the Missouri Bransons appear to have stemmed, were established in America early in the 1700's. Thomas Branson is recorded as having arrived from England in 1703, and some students of Branson genealogy believe that an Absalom Branson was in Virginia before 1700. Arrival of two brothers, Eli and Levi Branson, possible adding another branch to the family tree, places Bransons as settlers on the James River in Virginia about 1760.
Some members of the present generation of Bransons believe this Levi and Eli to be the sons of Thomas; others do not agree that this is the same Levi and Eli. The names appear often in the family tree that it is difficult to establish exact identities and lineage.
We do know from the court order books of Frederick County, Virginia, that the estate of Thomas Branson was being appraised in 1745. In March of 1744 there appeared an entry of a case filed by one Nathaniel Chapman against Thomas Branson, Sr. The case was dismissed on the grounds that Thomas Branson, Sr. was no longer an inhabitant of the county, and refiled against Thomas Branson, Jr., his eldest son. Thomas, Jr., was ordered to pay court costs, and the case otherwise dismissed.
The two eldest sons of Thomas, Sr., Thomas, Jr. and John, were involved in several litigations in the year that followed in August of 1745, we find the appraisement of the estate of Thomas,Sr.,admitted to record. This was only after judgments had been brought against both Thomas, Jr., and John Branson. May 7, 1745, the record of a case of one Robert Glenn, plaintiff, vs. Thomas Branson reads:
"The Def't being called and failing to appear, the pl't in Court produced the Def't note on hand for 300 pounds of Crop Tobacco or Two pounds
fourteen shillings and ten pence Virginia Curr'y. Therefore it is considered by the Court that the said Pl't recover ag't and said sum of 300 pounds of tobacco or 2 pounds 14 shillings and ten pence Virginia currency and costs of suit...."
However, Thomas and John, Virginia tobacco plantation owners, both stood
high enough in public esteem to be assigned public office. Thomas was appointed surveyor of a new road that October, from "Chesters Ferry to John Hite's." The orders for this road establish the "Thomas Branson place" as being on Crooked Run, which was in the eastern part of Shenandoah Valley, frontier country under rapid development in those days, and possible part of the land which George Washington helped survey as part of the disputed Fairfax land holdings. True, there were some complaints filed later that Thomas was not sufficiently active in grubbing, clearing, and keeping the road in repair. Standards for roads in those days of high-slung carriage bodies and travel
mainly by horseback were simply to keep stumps from sprouting badly and brush cut back, not to pave or grade. Stumps were chopped off at somewhere between six inches and thirty inches from the ground, depending upon the diameter of the trunk. Often, while a road supervisor was tending his tobacco crop, a road could grow back into impenetrable condition.
In 1746, John and Thomas Branson recorded the division of their father's land. The same year's record recognize the appointment of John Branson to be Constable, and two years later, Thomas held the same office.
There were always Bransons in the vanguard of westward movement, as well as in military engagements. Bransons took part in the French and Indian War. Since some of them lived in the area in which young George Washington was
militia commander, it is very likely that at least one Branson marched in those first unfortunate campaigns, which resulted in Washinton's building
of Fort Necessity shortly before Braddock's defeat.
Bransons took part in the Revolutionary War. Since many of the veterans of that war were partially paid in Ohio land grants, that may be how Bransons
came into possession of acreage in the Scioto River Valley in Ohio. A will recorded for Lionel Branson, in April of 1809, leaves to his children many acres of land, ranging from estates on the waters of the Lost River in Virginia and tracts in Shenandoah County to approximately six hundred acres of land in that Ohio region. A few years previous to that, an Abbeville Courthouse, South Carolina, record shows an estate of land and slaves being left by one Eli Branson. Hence we see that prosperity was coming to at least part of the Branson family and that its geographical representation was spreading.
The Connecticut branch of the Bransons were, in the meantime, represented in the movement of others from that state to the "Western Reserve", which was the northeastern corner of what is now the state of Ohio, including the city of Cleveland, which was founded by the Connecticut travelers who first ventured into that area for the purpose of settlement.
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Among the children of Andrew Jackson Branson, we find several who, fascinated as their ancestors had been by the magic of the words "Go West",
headed across the plains and the mountains to California, Nevada and Colorado, establishing branches of the Branson family in the far west,
where they are still well represented today. In the years that A. J. Branson's children were growing up, there were other Bransons journeying to
Califormia in the fever of the Gold Rush.
Reuben S. Branson
With the wide geographical spread of the Branson family, it is not surprising to find Bransons giving their lives on both sides of the War between the States, and there may even have been Branson brothers and first cousins fighting on opposing sides, as happened in many Missouri families.
Records available to the author of this article are not clear as to the exact line of Reuben S. Branson, who brought the name to Taney County,
Missouri early in the 1880's. His grandfather may have been Andrew Jackson Branson's father and that individual his uncle. A Reminiscent History of
the Ozark Region, published under unidentified authorship in the last years of the nineteenth century, and reprinted in 1956 by Ramfre Press, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, states that Reuben was born in Gasconade County in 1853, the son of Valentine and Alpha M. (Sherrill) Branson, natives of Bledsoe County, Tennessee. This may be in disagreement with the theory of others that Reuben was in the same direct line as some of the other
Missouri Bransons.
This same authority states that Valentine's father was Andrew Branson, the same name given for the father of Andrew Jackson Branson, but it is very
possible that this was another man by the same name. His father, Andrew Branson, came to Gasconade County, and died there before the Mexican War, states the "Reminiscent History", which agrees with data from other sources
giving Andrew Branson's life span as 1789-1835.
Reuben S. Branson, for whom Branson, Missouri is named was one of thirteen children, who, in turn, branched out to many parts of the country. "The
Reminiscent History" reads as follows, concerning this family:
"The thirteen children... are named in the order of their births as follows: Alfred P., who resides in Mansfield, Tex., was captain of the State militia during the war; Olivia C. was the wife of Joseph H.
Barbarick, of Gasconade County; Galba E. was killed at Kirbyville July 4, 1889 while sheriff of the county (Taney), he was also in the State militia
during the war; Hanna M. deceased, was the wife of J. H. Barbarick; Lewis F., a farmer of Taney County, served three years in the Tenth Missouri
Calvary with Gen. A. J. Smith; Thomas J. is a farmer of Greene County; Mary, deceased, was the wife of Nicholas Young: Valentine II, a farmer of
Gasconade County; Reuben S., William H. of Springfield; Samuel K. of Dent County; Louisa C., wife of Ernest Loyd, died in Springfield; and Chrissa A., died when young."
We see from the foregoing that the Branson name entered the White River Valley through several channels. There may have been cousins who also migrated in this direction. Some went on to Arkansas, and descendants are living there now.
Reuben Branson came to Taney County when the center of activiity was along the White River, and Forsyth had long been established as the county seat. Kirbyville, the nearest town to the homestead site that Reuben chose, was not on the river, but on the freighting road that came up from Harrison,
Arkansas, en route to Springfield. Reuben's claim was about four miles east of Kirbyville, and about seven miles upriver from Forsyth. Reuben had been brought up as a farm boy, but had taken all the "schooling" he could get. Common school was all that was provided while he was at home, but he later obtained further formal education at his own expense, enabling him to become a teacher. He was always an avid reader. He taught school in Osage and Gasconade Counties, and in the year 1877, he married Mary T. Cooper of Osage County. The couple broke the tradition of having a
dozen or so of young Bransons, and are reported as having but two children--Lucy M. who died while young, and James J. They also raised a
neice, Mary E., daughter of Reuben's brother, Valentine II.
After his marriage, Reuben came to Green County, around 1880, and went into the drug business at Brookline Station for a few months. He then moved to Taney County, taking his stock with him, and adding to it to open a general store near the White River, "about seven miles above Forsyth," where his store also became a post office in 1882, officially listed as Branson, Missouri. Apparently Mr. Branson found a buyer for his store about 1884, when Mr. William W. Hawkins was appointed Branson's second postmaster. Mr. Hawkins was postmaster when, in 1902, the name was changed to Lucia. It was officially under that name for only two yeaars, according to United States Post Office records, and became Branson again in 1904. The Lucia post office is reported to have stood just above the present Branson High School. In the meantime, Reuben S. Branson became county assessor. The Branson name was well known in the county by then, long before Branson as a city was big enough for much notice.
A school record of Oak Grove School, just off Long Beach Road, shows among pupils in February, 1888, Sammie, Willie, and Eddie Branson, sons of Galba Branson. In Forsyth, Reuben went from the office of assessor to that of county and circuit clerk and recorder. Later he opened a distillery near Forsyth, and also operated a boarding house.
Reuben's brother, Galba, in the meantime, had become sheriff of Taney County. There was trouble at a picnic on the Fourth of July in 1889, and
"Gab" was killed before it was over, as was a United States marshall.
Interest in Branson as a community with good business prospects surged when it was learned that the railroad would soon come to it. Among the earlymerchants to open establishments was Mr. Samuel Parnell, who brought his stock of goods from his Kirbyville store to the new town in 1903. The streets had very recently been laid out and the public was advised to "look out for stumps."
In 1904, a new bank, a hotel and a livery stable were opened. A new school district was organized the following year, as the railroad's completion
continued to attract new residents. By 1912, when Mr. R.O. Whelchel, in partnership with Mr. W.H. Bennett, opened his hardware store the brick
building now housing the Security Bank and another brick structure across the street to the southeast showed the town's growing prosperity. The first steel bridge in the county was being contracted for to cross the river at Branson.
But just a few weeks after Mr. Whelchel's store opened fifty years ago this August, Branson's business section was burned down, almost in its entirety. The fire reported to have started in the Commercial Hotel, where Dillion's store now stands, when someone left the flame burning under a kerosene heated flatiron. The flames swept though the town too swiftly for effective control. The present Security Bank building was among the few
left standing when it was over. Apparently, the city that bears the name of the fine old American family of Branson, had enough of its pioneering spiit to rebuild itself better than before and to continue its growth, long before the building of the dam at
Powersite created Lake Taneycomo and inspired the tourists business which now contributes so heavily to Branson's prosperity.
Reuben Branson lived to see much change in his namesake town. He died in Forsyth in 1935. While most of the Branson family members have left the
White River Valley, there is a grandson of Reuben's brother, Lewis, still residing on one of the farms the Bransons homsteaded in Taney County. He is Albert Branson, whose farm is on bottom land a short distance above Highway K Boat Dock.
(Acknowledgements--Several members of the Branson family very kindly sent
material to aid in the preparation of this article, and we are most grateful to each of them. Especially helful has been Mrs. Mabel McClellan of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Milissa Branson Stedman of South San Gabriel, California, Mr. Joseph M. Branson of Kansas City, Missouri, and Reuben S.Branson's granson, Mr. Dillard M Branson of Jefferson City, Missouri.)
PIONEER LIFE
by Joseph M. Branson
(Mr. Branson is now 85 years old. He very kindly sent these recollections
of a way of life now gone. Mr. Branson resides at 4228 E. 61st St., Kansas City 30, Missouri).
The first generation of our ancestors lived in conditions hard for us to realize today. No mail, no newspapers, no schools. It was a world without
steam, gasoline or electricity. No machines. Imagine our world with these important things taken away? There were no matches. Fire was kept by burying wood in ashes. Sometimes this method failed. It was serious to be without fire. Sometimes a trip to a neighbor was made to "borrow fire." This was carried back in a cast-iron frying pan. It would be a strange sight to see today! Sometimes two pieces of wood were rubbed together until they blazed (a hard job). Sometimes gunpowder was mixed with find kindling and a spark from a flint
rock and steele made a new start.
There was no kerosene oil. Light was provided by using a cup of grease with a string in it. Pine knots were collected and burned on the hearth to produce light. Rich resinous pine was split fine and tied into bundles to make a torch which provided light for a short time. Candles were made by dipping a string repeatedly into hot tallow until it became large enough to stand and burn slowly. My granadmother said she "felt aristocratic when she got her first candlemold." No orchards or "tame fruit." There was an abundance of wild berries and grapes. Wild Muscadine grapes were fine. Wild honey was plentiful in hollow trees. Hunting "bee trees" and cutting them afforded a pleasant recreation. Many families had maple sugar and maple syrup that would be luxuries today.
No drugstores. Doctors carried a small supply of medicine (mostly powders) in saddle pockets. This they dosed out in small bits of paper. "Teas"
were made of various herbs, barks, leaves and roots and used as a home rememdy. These may have done some good. Many mild cases went untreated. Our ancestors were the early pioneers who subdued the wilds and carved homes out of the deep tangled forests--a huge task! The East is humid and the rainfall double what it is in the Ozarks, and the trees grow big and tall. Grandfather had logs so large that he had to chop notches to stand in so he could reach the lowerside with his axe. He had no saw. Those who did have a saw had to cut notches on each side so a saw would reach through. Clearing away logs so land could be cultivated was no child's play. There were many old worthless logs around the fields. My Grandfather pounded these logs with a club to frighten crows and squirrels away from the grain. Ammunition was too expensive to be used.
The first settlers had to prepare stones and trees to build their plain, simple, humble homes. Houses had only one living room--no kitchen, parlor or bedrooms at first. Also a house was needed for the oxen or horse, one for the chickens, a crib for corn or grain and a smokehouse for meats. All stock lived out on the open land and fields for cultivation had to be fenced--mostly rails were used to make the old "worm fences." Forest fires were dreaded and did great damage. All able went out to fight fires.
The first houses were made of logs hewed with a "broadaxe" to about 8 inch thickness. The ends were notched to fit smugly into a tight wall. Clay or
lime was used to fill cracks. Smooth straight trees were selected to be split into boards. No sawed lumber. Nails were scarce and sometimes could not be gotten. Often the board needed to finish a log house were held in place by woooden pins. Boards of the roof were held down by placing log "riders" on them.
No stoves. each home had a chimney with a "fireplace" (hearth) which served for heating, lighting and cooking. Cooking vessels, pots and pans were of cast iron. No graniteware or aluminum. There were some copper vessels and kettles.
Glasses and tin were scarce. There were a few porcelain cups, plates and bowls. Gourds were used for cups and bowls. A large castiron pan with a castiron lid was used for an "oven." This oven was set on hot coals and hot coals were placed on the lid. Skill was required to "set the oven" to
get just the right amount of heat. Results varied.
Many early windows were without glass. Greased cloth was used to let in light. A wooden shutter protected the window. The second generation of pioneers had greatly imporved living conditions
mainly due to the coming of the waterwheel. The first generation had suffered a sad lack of power, known to us, which is furnished by steam, gasoline and elecricity. The waterwheel was the "fair angel" that came to the rescue of the first pioneers. It was the waterwheel that turned the mills that ground the meal and flour for bread--that sawed lumber and turned the wheels of a great variety of machinery. The rainfall in the East is double that in the Ozarks and there are fine streams with good locations for waterwheels.
The coming of the country general store contributed much to the welfare of the second generation of pioneers. The supplies of civilization had been
distant. Hard tiresome trips for necessary things had to be made, and transportation was crude, slow and painful. The country store furnishedmany articles that had been inconvenient to get. There were salt, soda and a few drugs. There were dried meats and lard. No canned goods. Canning was invented in 1850. There was brown sugar. No white sugar for the pioneers. Coffee was green. Each family "parched" (roasted) their own coffee. Enough for each meal was ground in a hand mill. If they did not have a handmill, the coffee was "beaten" with a hammer and boiled. No percolators or drip-pots. There were no fresh meats or milk. No butcher shops.
The country store, blacksmith shop and waterwheel mill were important items in the early days. Churches and schools came later. There were few
horses. The slow but dependable ox did most of the heavy work--was of great service to the early settlers. Oxen were trained to go right or left
by telling the words "gee" or " haw." (People thought they had to yell.) An ox driver could be heard quite a distance! Kept the country from being
lonely. And the faithful dog who Kipling says was the "first friend of man" was of great assistance in a wild, raw, hostile world.
There were a few highly prized books and a Bible in every home. Early America was intensely religious. Many settlers were religious refugees. A
high standard of justice, honesty, truthfulness and respectability prevailed, and the outlaws and rough life of the "cold west" never existed in early pioneer life.

      Missouri S. Bishop was also known as Bishoff.      Missouri S. Bishop, daughter of John Bishop and Martha Serilda Elrod, was born in February 1872 in Maries County, Missouri.^3,2,1,4
     Missouri married John Burton Copeland, son of Calvin Columbus Copeland and Paulina "Uriles, Perline, Purlina" Wild, on 7 November 1889 at Missouri.^1,3,5
     Missouri was enumerated as the wife of John Burton Copeland under the name of "Missouri Copeland" on the 1900 U. S. Census for Jackson Township, Maries County, Missouri. She was listed as a 28-year-old female born in Missouri, married for ten years with seven children, only two of whom were still living.³
     Missouri was enumerated as the wife of John Burton Copeland on the 1910 U.S. Census of Jackson Township, Missouri, listed as a married 38-year-old female born in Missouri. She had been married for 20 years and had 12 children, five of whom were still living.⁶
     Missouri was enumerated as the wife of John Burton Copeland under the name of "Missouri Copeland" on the 1920 U.S. Census of Jackson Township, Missouri, listed as a 48-year-old married female born in Missouri as were both of her parents.⁴
     Missouri died in 1959.² She was buried in 1959 in Vienna Public Cemetery in Vienna, Maries County, Missouri.^2,7

Missouri S. Copeland Tombstone.⁸

          John Bishop was born on 21 April 1836.^1,2
     John married Martha Serilda Elrod circa 1861.¹
     John died on 4 May 1884 at age 48.² He was buried in Vienna Public Cemetery in Vienna, Maries County, Missouri.²

          Martha Serilda Elrod was born on 1 October 1840.²
     Martha married John Bishop circa 1861.¹
     Martha died on 13 November 1921 at age 81.³ She was buried in Vienna Public Cemetery in Vienna, Maries County, Missouri.³

          Henry B. Bishop, son of John Bishop and Martha Serilda Elrod, was born circa 1867 in Maries County, Missouri.¹

          John B. Bishop, son of John Bishop and Martha Serilda Elrod, was born circa 1869 in Maries County, Missouri.¹

          Daniel B. Bishop, son of John Bishop and Martha Serilda Elrod, was born circa 1874 in Maries County, Missouri.¹

          Adam Bishop, son of John Bishop and Martha Serilda Elrod, was born circa 1890 in Maries County, Missouri.¹

          Louisa Jane Breeden was born on 22 September 1852 in Maries County, Missouri.^2,3,4
     Louisa married Albert Wiseman Copeland, son of John Richard Copeland and Mary America Wiseman, on 8 January 1871 at Missouri.^1,5,4
     Louisa was enumerated with Albert Wiseman Copeland, as "Jane Copeland", on the 1910 U.S. Census at Jackson Township, Maries County, Missouri, listed as a 57-year-old female born in Missouri, her father was born in Tennessee and her mother in Missouri. She could not read or write.⁴
     Louisa was enumerated as the wife of Albert Wiseman Copeland under the name of "Jane Copeland" on the 1920 U.S. Census of Boone Township, Maries County, Missouri, listed as a 67-year-old married female born in Missouri.⁶
     Louisa died on 6 January 1936 at age 83.² She was buried in Vienna Public Cemetery in Vienna, Maries County, Missouri.^2,7

Louisa Jane Copeland Tombstone.⁸

          Edward A. Copeland, son of Albert Wiseman Copeland and Louisa Jane Breeden, was born in February 1892 in Maries County, Missouri.^1,2 Conflicting evidence placed his birth in 1891 (Maries County Cemeteries Book).³
     Edward married Catherine Roberds.¹
     Edward was enumerated with Albert Wiseman Copeland on the 1910 U.S. Census at Jackson Township, Maries County, Missouri, listed as a single 18-year-old male born in Missouri. He was working on the home farm and attending school.⁴
     Edward is a head of household on the 1920 U. S. Census for Boone Township, Maries County, Missouri, listed as a married 28-year-old farmber born in Missouri as were both of his parents. He owned a mortgaged farm listed on farm schedule 282. Enumerated with him were: his wife, Catherine, his son Kenneth.²
     Edward died in 1975.³ He was buried in 1975 in Vienna Public Cemetery in Vienna, Maries County, Missouri.³

          Catherine Roberds was born in December 1893 in Maries County, Missouri.^1,2
     Catherine married Edward A. Copeland, son of Albert Wiseman Copeland and Louisa Jane Breeden.¹
     Catherine was enumerated as the wife of Edward A. Copeland under the name of "Kate Copeland" on the 1920 U.S. Census of Boone Township, Maries County, Missouri, listed as a 26-year-old married female born in Missouri as were both of her parents.²

          Kenneth Copeland, son of Edward A. Copeland and Catherine Roberds, was born in 1915 in Maries County, Missouri.^1,2
     Kenneth married (?) Keeny, daughter of Sylvester Keeny.³
     Kenneth was enumerated as the son of Edward A. Copeland on the 1920 U.S. Census of Boone Township, Maries County, Missouri, listed as a five-year-old boy born in Missouri.²

          William Cox was born circa 1855 in Maries County, Missouri.¹
     William married Lou Ellen Murphy, daughter of Lorenzo Boone "Lannie" Murphy and Judah C. Crismon, between 1875 and 1880 at Missouri.¹