Contributed by Karen Mabry Rice, great niece of Ernest Coplen

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The Bernice News-Journal, Wednesday, February 6, 1974

SHILOH NEWS

  We regret the passing of Mr. Ernest Copeland last Friday.  Mr. Copeland 
represented a pioneer family in this area, prominent in early church work, both at 
Shiloh and First Baptist Church at Bernice.  He descended from the Moores, too, 
that settled in the Shiloh area before the Civil War.

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The Bernice News-Journal, Thursday, February 7, 1974

DEATHS

Elzie Ernest Coplen  (died 1 Feb 1974)

  Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday for Elzie Ernest Coplen, 82, of
Bernice, who died last Friday morning in a Baton Rouge hospital following a long
illness.
  Services were held in the chapel of Farrar First National Funeral Home of
Farmerville and burial followed in the Shiloh Cemetery near Bernice.
  A life-long resident of Union Parish, Mr. Coplen was a professional bird dog
trainer.
  Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Ollie Coplen of Bernice; one son, Reggie Coplen
of Ruston; one daughter, Mrs. C. R. Harkins of Bernice; two grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.
  Serving as pallbearers were Jimmy Long, Mikey Reeves, Dennis Reeves, Kenneth
Reeves, Tommy Moore, and Sonny Moore.

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