Individual Details

She was from around Pontotoc, Mississippi, or maybe Furr. We were told that she may have been adopted, but we have no records, birthday, etc. Her last name was always given as Furr.

She was born into the Ward family, but was adopted along with siblings by one of the Furr families in the Furrs and Bissell areas of MS.

1910 Shelby County, Tennessee, Census
Memphis, ED #320, page 69B
Church Home, 750 Jackson Avenue
George Copeland, age 8, born Tennessee, father & mother born unknown
Preston Copeland, age 5, born Tennessee, father & mother born unknown

1910 Shelby County, Tennessee, Census
Memphis, ED #239, page 145A
Bessie Copeland, age 34, Tennessee (father in Iowa, mother in Alabama), seamstress
Hattie Copeland, age 14, born Alabama (father in Alabama, mother in Tennessee)

1920 Shelby County, Tennessee, Census
Memphis, ED #240, page 14A
Paul W. Van Horn, head, age 28, born Tennessee
Bessie B. Van Horn, wife, age 41, born Tennessee
Bell Copeland, stepdaughter, age 16, born Tennessee (father in Alabama, mother inTennessee)
Preston Copeland, stepson, age 14, born Tennessee (father in Alabama, mother in Tennessee)
George Copeland, stepson, age 12, born Tennessee (father in Alabama, mother in Tennessee)
William A. Copeland, stepson, age 21, born Alabama (father in Alabama, mother in Tennessee)
Lithograph operator
Nina M. Copeland, stepdaughter-in-law, age 21, born Tennessee (father in Tennessee, mother in Kansas)

1930 St. Louis County, Missouri, Census
St. Louis City Sanitarium, ED #158, page 19B
Nina Copeland, age 26, born Tennessee, married age 23
Father born Tennessee, mother born California

1930 Shelby County, Tennessee, Census
Memphis, ED #141, page 22B
Paul W. Van Horne, head, age ?, born Tennessee
Bessie B. Van Horne, wife, age 50, born Tennessee
Preston O. Copeland, stepson, age 25, born Tennessee (father in Alabama, mother in Tennessee)
George P. Copeland, stepson, age 23, born Tennessee (father in Alabama, mother in Tennessee)
Margaret F. Copeland, granddaughter, age 9, born Tennessee (father in Alabama, mother in Kansas)

Per Carol Newman, Paul Van Horn died in Memphis in 1952.

http://www.state.tn.us/sos/statelib/pubsvs/ww1she39.htm
TENNESSEE WORLD WAR I VETERANS : SHELBY COUNTY
Last Name First Name Age or DOB Birth Place Notes Page
Van Horn Paul White 24 Sailor 1423

The Covington Leader, Volume 45--NO.22, March 3,1932
Covington, Tennessee
TOURCH BANDITS LEAVE FOR THE PENITENTIARY--Ending their long stay in the Shelby County jail, John ASHER, Preston COPELAND, W.F.JOHNSON and Chester PRYOR left Thursday morning for Nashville to begin their terms of not more than five years for the parts they played in the Barretville murder case.

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Nina was adopted by Mr. & Mrs. Sherman Ward of Lane, KS. Nina lived in Lane, KS at the time of Barbara Carman's death in 1911.

Birth	12 Oct 1898	Memphis, Shelby County, TN
Marriage	10 Nov 1919	Memphis, Shelby County, TN - William Andrew "Red" COPELAND
Death	26 Jan 1948	Vernon County, MO
Burial		Nevada State Hospital 03 Cemetery, Nevada, Vernon County, MO

Spouse	William Andrew "Red" COPELAND (1898 - 1975)
Child	Margaret F. COPELAND (1920 - 2011)
Child	Dorris COPELAND (1922 - 1923)
Child	Living
Child	Living
Child	Living

Father	Alvin FURR (1869 - 1898)
Mother	Eliza Jane "Dollie" CARTER (1869 - )
Sibling	Lura Mai FURR (1890 - 1981)
Sibling	Living
Sibling	Alva J. FURR (1894 - 1895)