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Henry Copeland Gravestone
Artist: Hughes, Langston
Height: 0.000"
Width: 0.000"
Oak Hill Cemetery, Henry Copeland Gravestone
The name H.E. Copeland, is engraved on the tree side of the white gravestone. Abolitionist Henry Copeland’s brother John was hanged with John Brown in Virginia.
Henry was a nephew of Mary Langston’s first husband Lewis Leary. He served as a first sergeant in the Colored Douglas Independent Battery. He also served with the U.S. Colored Light Artillery. After the Civil War, Copeland lived in Lawrence and worked as a carpenter until he died in 1895. He married Libby Miner on June 19, 1866, in Douglas County. He would have been a peer of Charles and Mary Langston.