• Traveled with his wife and their two children. Juletta and Elias were the only two children who would have been living in the Copeland household at this time, so it is assumed it was them who made the trip with their parents. The family returned to Iowa after only a short stay in the Valley.

Alvus H. Patterson Company (1863)

• Age at Departure: 53
• Head of Household

Sources

• A. H. Patterson Emigrating Company, Journal, 1863 June-Sept.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4 September 1863, 2.
• Zyderlaan, Martin, Camp journal, in Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4 Sept. 1863, 1-12.