Tope Family Page

Chapter II (continued)

After they came from Pennsylvania, the Cores and the Topes all worked together, but had different houses. Jacob Core was married and lived in the neighborhood a number of years and finally moved to some other part; and probably those spoken of as being in college are descendants of his.
It is claimed that Elizabeth Core was married three times. Her first husband's name was John Huston, and they only had one or two children. The daughter was named Lucretia, who married a man by the name of William Moreland and had a large family of children who have always claimed great friendship and relationship with the Topes. From two of the Moreland brothers, John and Thomas, the writer has received quite a good deal of information. John Moreland thinks his grand-mother was married to Huston at Redstone, Pa., and that Lucretia, his mother, was ten years old when they came to Ohio, but says he might be mistaken about the exact age. Barbary McQueen has told us that her Aunt Liz, as they called her, lived in the town of Salem for several years, and that she remembered well of being at her house often. Someone has told us that John Huston died at Philadelphia Crossings, Harrison County, Ohio, and was buried at Tabor.
Elizabeth Huston (nee Core) was married the second time to a Mr. Benjamin Hough, who has some children by a former wife. Enoch Hough, already mentioned as the son-in-law of John Tope, was the only son. Benjamin Hough died in Morgan County, O.
In moving from Redstone, Pa., Frederick Tope became separated from his brothers and never saw them again for forty-seven years, and, presumably, but this once afterward in all their lives. He and John Core traveled down the Ohio River together and Frederick went to Illinois. Henry, a son of John Tope, went to Illinois to see the country, and on making inquiry on the boat as to the best place to land, a boatman asked him if he was going to see his Uncle. The man on the boat knew Frederick and directed young Henry how to find him, and in this way the brothers found one another. Frederick at once came with his nephew and paid his brothers a visit. George Tope, of Gallia County, writes that he saw all the brothers together when they were gray-haired. This meeting was at George's, who must have lived then where he died, - on what is now called the old Freshwater place near Petersburg, in Union township, Carroll County, Ohio.
Of course, Frederick went back home; and here his history, as does also that of John Core, drops out. This place where Frederick lived is thought to be Peru, Illinois. Barbary McQueen and others have thought he was married and had a family, but we could not find out for sure where he lived, nor anything about his posterity or property. Perhaps he shall yet be able to learn more of them and their connections. However, for the present let us here erect another monument in honor and loving remembrance of the unknown dead: (sic)