By Todd Copeland

William Henry Copeland, born in New Hampshire,

married Emma Gertrude Fox, a native of Des Moines.

Her parents were Germans originally named Fuchs.

Myron Cottrell Chaddock, born in Ipava, Illinois,

was raised in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Saskatchewan.

Caroline Maude Paul’s job brought her west

from Nova Scotia to Quill Lake and into Myron’s arms.

William Henry Hochstettler Sr. entered life in western

Ohio and found his first wife, Della May Beisel,

in eastern Indiana. August Hermann Burow left

his native village of Kölpin, in the Kingdom of Prussia,

for a better future in Ottawa County, Ohio,

where Bertha Louisa Schanke became his second wife.

A native of Sellnow, near Kölpin, she knew his type.

Todd Copeland is the author of Like All Light (2022), winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize from Gunpowder Press. His other works include the poetry chapbook The Book as Knife (Ravenna Press, 2021), and his poems have appeared in The Journal, Southern Poetry Review, Lake Effect, and Sugar House Review, among other publications. A native of Ohio, he lives in Waco, Texas. More information can be found at toddcopelandwriter.com.