Freed-Hardeman Connections
Researching the Restoration Movement in Mississippi and West Tennessee
H. I. Copeland
The funeral sermon tor Brother Copeland was preached by the writer, assisted in scripture reading and prayer by Clarence Dailey, minister for the Union Avenue church in Memphis. There was a large and sympathetic audience of admiring and appreciative friends and relatives in the Senatobia church, Tuesday afternoon, January 22. Internment was in the local cemetery. The text chosen was the statement made by King David concerning the death of Abner: "Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?" (2 Sam. 3: 38.) These words were descriptive of Abner and are also of H. I. Copeland. He was "a prince and a great man" in many ways, but only five shall be named and these briefly.
Brother Copeland is buried in the Bethesda Cemetery in Senatobia, MS. As you enter the cemetery, go to the top of the hill, turn left at the trees and his grave is on the right about half-way down the center row of graves. Buried in the same cemetery is James Perrin Lowrey.
