Some History of Sonny's Honey Farm
Sonnys Honey Farm is 93 acres of rich farmland with a long history. It adjoins the original home place of Sonny's ancestors who came over from Alabama via covered wagon in the late 1800's. Granny, (Willie E.), said it took over a month of travel. The home place still remains in the Copeland family today and is used for overflow guest at the family reunions and such. Roots, heritage and family were instilled deep within all the Copeland children, as many still reside in the Mexia area today. Early settlers, Rufus and Luella White/Copeland, (Sonny's Great Grandparents), as well as his Grandparents, his Father and 6 sibblings worked and farmed their land. They also worked for others around the Shiloh community to provide food and a meager living through what were always hard times. J. W. Copeland was heard to say many times (I never knew them to be the "Good OLE Days", it was tough as hell to survive). As children they would work from daylight to dark pulling cotton for a penny a pound on the same land that is now Sonnys Honey Farm. Grandpa Parsons kept the community supplied with honey from his ten hives untill a team of plow horses knocked them over and were stung to death before anyone could get them away. Although a lot of trees have grown on some of the land and the only things we raise and grow are cattle, hay and honey; it's still hard work. But no matter how hard it seems, there is something special knowing that your steps through the field are carefully placed atop of your fathers, and his father before him and his father before him.

IN MEMORY OF

To my father, my mother, and all my loved ones who no longer walk the green pastures of Shiloh.

"Guide my bees

through the blooms of the land.

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