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Hi Brenda, Its been a few years now, wondered if you found family or kept the quilt? My guess is that this was a friendship quilt for Abie/Alcie Coplin/Copeland. A friend tells me that girls would get together and each would learn to make their own quilt have their friends and relatives sign a square or she would even write them in and then embroider them. If they needed more names they would go ahead and duplicate names.

One square says Aunt Rosa, and Rosa Siddle was Lukes sister. Another has just Evelyn and one of her sisters is named Evelyn. Mother could be Ela and Granny Coplin could be Eve Copeland, or Evie as another block was signed. That how she is listed on a tree by Tommies granddaughter. Tommie would be her cousin.

"If" my guess is correct and the unfinished quilt was Arlie's... Obituary of Arlie Coplin Anderson Oct 20 2008, Lamar Co., Tx.

Arlie Anderson, 92, of Brookston passed away Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008, at Paris Regional Medical Center.
Fry-Gibbs Funeral Home conducts graveside services at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, at Restland Cemetery in Roxton with Edgar Clements officiating. The family receives friends at the funeral home Monday from 7 to 8 p.m.

She was born April 15, 1916, in Roxton, a daughter of Luke and Ela Hawkins Coplin the eldest of six children. She married Thomas "Chill" Anderson Dec. 22, 1940, in Roxton. She was a homemaker and a member of the Methodist church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas; a son-in-law, David Ferris; brothers, Jack and Jerry Coplin and a sister, Evelyn Bangs. Survivors include four children, Wanda Roberts and husband, Harold, of Honey Grove, Patsy Wilkins and husband, Bob, of Pecan Gap, Tommy Anderson and wife, Debbie, of Sherman and Nancy Ferris of Bennington, Okla.; grandchildren, Sharon Cagle, Carla Motley, Angie Hickman, Melissa Stafford, Annie Scriven; five great grandchildren; one great-great grandchild; a brother, Jim Coplin; a sister, Helen Melton and several nieces and nephews. Published October 20, 2008