3. Elizabeth
Tope married Jacob
Everhart, and they lived close to Tope's
Mills and ran a still-house for
years. They had a number of children, all of
whom died without being married,
except Peter and Jacob.
"Pete" was married to a Miss Sams,
sister of Dawson Sams, of Bowerston,
and followed tanning near Tope's
Mills a while, and then moved to Iowa.
Their father died at the old place,
and, subsequently, the widow lived with her
son, "Jake," at New Hagerstown, at
which place she died. The two old folks
and three girls are buried in the
Carrollton cemetery.
Jacob Everhart, Sr., married
Christina Norricks, moved to Missouri, a
number of years ago, and they have
seven children: Jacob, Joseph, Marv E.,
and Sarah C., born in Ohio, and Wm.
L., Bertha and Maggie, born in
Missouri. Mary E. is married to
Loman Brackin, living in Missouri. Not
posted on the others.
4. Lucretia Tope had one son: Jacob
Jefferson Tope, who was born in 1818.
In early life he and his mother
located at New Cumberland, W. Va. He married, and was the father of
twelve
children, all of whose names were have not
learned, but some are as follows:
William, Frank, John, Charles, Elmer and
Ella C. We learned of their
whereabouts through two Gasho brothers, who
kept a restaurant at Sherrodsville,
0. They said some of them owned a livery
and one of them teamed at Toronto,
Jefferson county, 0. Mollie Thompson
(nee Long), of Bowerston, has also
told us of them. Jacob Jefferson died in
August, 1891, according to a card
from the daughter, Ella C., of May 20,
1893, but his wife was then living,
65 years of age.
5. John Tope, it is said, went to
Hocking county and lived and died there;
but as to dates we know not. James,
we find, is one of his children and his
history shows them to have been in
Morgan county. We have been referred to
S. H. Tope, Albany, Athens county,
0., as a grand-son of his, but letters have
brought no answer, ('Spect times are
too hard!) All should look this history
up; we give all we can.
James Tope, son of John Tope, was
born in Morgan county, 0., in 1819.
He left there and went to Illinois
in 1863, and thence to Theyer, Iowa, in 1869.
He left that place in 1883, going to
Shenandoah, in Page county, Iowa, where,
according to a recent letter from E.
R. Tope, his son, he died in 1895, at 76
years. He was married in 1848 to
Eliza A. Murray. To them were born six
children: Lewis F., deceased, Laura
E., John M., deceased, Sylvester P.,
Lyman W. and Edward R.
6. Sally Tope was married to James
Mackey. They lived in Carroll county
for a time, moved to Jackson county,
where Mr. Mackey died. Then the
widow and Silas Tope, her son, went
to Missouri, where we suppose she died.
We are told that she had a blue and
a black eye—a peculiar fact for science as
well as common observation.
7. Polly Tope died young. Somebody
thought she was married to someone,
but Mary Alien, who ought to know,
has lately told us differently. Sally and
Polly were twins.
8. Jacob Tope (a twin) was born
February 10, 1801, about two miles east of
Salem, Jefferson county, 0. He went
to Carroll county with his father's family
and assisted in the pioneer work at
Tope's Mills. He married Catherine Kail,
daughter of George Kail, then of
near Perrysville, 0. He and his brother
Stephen married cousins. The
brothers themselves looked so much alike that
either one of their wives or anybody
else might easily mistake the one for the
other, and some fun often occured by
persons making such mistakes.