This page is devoted to the descending family of MARY COPELAND.
JOHN ODOM (gg g-f) MARY COPELAND (gg g-m)
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b 1802 Burke Cty, Ga /b ca 1811 GA (per census)
m ca 1827
d mid 1830s Lauderdale Cty Ms /d
John Odom (b. 1802 Burke Co, Ga d 1836 Lauderdale, Ms) must have married
Mary Copeland about 1927 and he died in the mid 1930's. The children
born of this union were:
John E Odom b 1828 Ms moved to Johnson City,Tx
Mary M Odom b 1831 Ms
------>> Wm Auston Odom b 10-4-1832 Ms moved to Lincoln Par, La
Eleanor Odom b 1834
Elizabeth Odom b 1835
For the descendants of Wm Auston Odom, see the separate Odom page.
Story has it that John Odom was in bed with measles, but got out of
bed to take corn fodder in a shower of rain and the effects of the
exposure killed him.
After John's death, Mary married Trippe Pope (b 1805 GA) on Dec 25, 1844
and had several children named Pope. It is said that Mary Copeland had
a brother named Rip who had fought in the Civil War but I have not yet
verified that data. In the Roster of Confederate Soldiers 1861-1865
Vol IV, I found a reference to :
"Copeland, Ripley, Ms 8th Inf Co C.
Ripley Copeland, Private Co C, 8th Regt,
Miss, while serving in Jackson's Brigade,
Army of Tennessee, appears on a list of
killed or wounded in the 8th Miss Regt in
the battle of Murfreesboro, Tn between
Dec 30, 1862 and Jan 3, 1863."
A remark states that he was "Wounded slightly in the
hand." The company muster rolls for periods in 1861, 1862, 1863 and
1864 showed the location to be at Enterprise, Ms.
Census records reveal the following data:
1840 MS Lauderdale Co. p. 46
ODOM, Mary
1 male 5-10
1 male 10-15
1 female 0- 5
2 females 5-10
I female 30-40
1850 Census for MS, Lauderdale Co. p. 342 taken on Oct 5, 1850
POPE, Trippe 45 m Ga
Pope, Mary 39 f Ga
ODOM, Mary M. 19 f Ms
Odom, William A. 17 f Ms
Odom, Eleanor 15 f Ms
Odom, Elizabeth 14 f Ms
Pope, John W. 15 m Al
Pope, Allen T. 15 m Al
POPE, James K. 6 m
Since the above census shows children that were apparently born prior to
the marriage of Mary and Trippe, they were either born to them prior to
their marriage or they were by a prior marriage of Trippe Pope.
1860 Census for MS, Lauderdale Co. p. 207
POPE, Mary 50 F farmer Ga
Pope, James K. 15 m Ms
Pope, Joanah T. 13 F Ms
Pope,Thomas J. 11 m Ms
Pope, Edwena 9 f Ms
ODOM, Ellen 23 f Dom Bus Ms
Odom, Elizabeth 21 f Dom Bus Ms
H Cottingham 20 m farm labor Ms
Mrs Mary Odom married Tripp Pope on Dec 25, 1844, in Lauderdale,
Ms according to the Lauderdale County Ms Marriage records,
Book "A", page 39.
John Odom appears in the Lauderdale County Ms Tax rolls for
the years 1835 and 1836. There was no roll for him for 1837
and he does not appear in any roll after that date.
I want to thank Randall Buchanan, P O Box 601, Foxworth, Ms
39483, ph 601-736-1827 (Nov 21, 1991) for much of the above data.
The 1870 census for Lauderdale County,Ms shows Thomas J Pope as the head
of the house with Mary and Edwinner Pope. Also shows Ellen and Elizabeth
Odom with them as follows:
Thomas J Pope Ms
Mary 59 keeping hse Ga
Edwinner 35 Ms
Ellen Odom 35 Ms
Elizabeth Odom 30 Ms
The 1880 Census for Lauderdale County, Ms shows:
Mary Pope 69 wf keeps house
Lizzie Odom 38 wf daughter breast cancer
Any data that you can provide to add to these blood lines
will be appreciated.
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