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This is a family story of westward settlement. It began in England with emigration to the American colonies of North Carolina or Virginia. By the late 1700s the William Cope family moved west to Eastern Tennessee. Wiliam Cope's son William Andrew Cope had settled in Hawkins County, Tennessee by 1812. Sometime after 1855 his son, William Cope, Jr. moved his family to White County in Central Tennessee where in 1861 four of his sons enlisted in the Confederate Army. Following the Civil War, William's son, Larkin Cope, who was too young to fight in the Civil War, moved through Kentucky and in the late 1800s settled for a time in Bloomfield, in Stoddard County, Missouri. His son, George Dewey Cope married Theresa Loretta Tucker in St. Louis, Missouri.
Cope Genealogy with photos!	Cope Descendant Tree		Cope Central The place to start for Cope research
Cope Genealogy Forum	Keathley Website	Keathley Genealogy Forum
White County, TN	Hawkins County, TN	Stoddard County, MO
Civil War memories of Robert C. Carden Company B, 16^th Tennessee Infantry, CSA	Confederate Regimental Histories	Fifth & Sixteenth Tennessee Murfreesboro, TN	Click for larger version