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THE TRIBE OF GEORGE -- FIRST WIFE

Chapter V
      
    Jasper R., born Dec. 6, 1859. As a boy he worked on the farm, studied music and was making success in this line, when unfortunately he went west and took dumb ague, which eventually deranged his mind, necessitating confinement in the State Asylum, Columbus, 0.
    Mary J., born Sept. 25, 1861; was married to James Campbell and has one daughter, Grace. Address is Leavittsville, 0.
    George B., born Sept. 11, 1863, is unmarried and at home on the farm. But he may be married some day!
    Nancy L., born Sept. 6, 1865, was married to Benjamin Gartrell, a farmer of Leesville, 0. They have three children.
William J., born May 10, 1867, lives at Dell Roy, 0.; was married to Sib Albaugh; they have three sons whose names we have forgotten.
    The mother of these seven children died April 3, 1868, and was buried in the Tabor cemetery. Jackson was married again to Susan J. Simpson, daughter of Thomas Simpson, of Harrison county, 0., and four children more were born: Martha Bell and Virginia V., deceased, and
    Lettie J., born Sept. 16, 1874, married to Peter Robertson, a miner. They have no children. Address is Leavittsville, 0.
    Thomas 0., born April 19, 1876, who is at home, single.
    (f) Jasper, was married to Rebecca Brackin. Have no children. He worked on the farm and at carpentering in early life, studied medicine with Dr. Samuel Stockin, of Carrollton, and has become a splendid physician. He is especially noted for success with typhoid fever. His home is at Algonquin, the former Tope's Mills, Carroll county, 0.
    (g) Levi, was married to Isabel Logan, of Virginia, and lived on a farm in Perry township, Carroll county, 0., for a number of years working at the carpenter trade as well as farming. To them were born two children: William and Maggie. His wife died of cancer; he married again, Mrs. Huston, and they all went west to Wichita, Kan., and the last account we had was that they were
in Nebraska.
    (h) Maria, was married to John Butterfield and lived in Perry township, Carroll county, 0., a few years and then moved to near Rosemond in Christian county. 111., where they are well-fixed on a big farm. They have had three children: Harvey S., married to a Miss Emory, and Eva and Albert Clinton.
    (i) Martha, was married to Isaac B. Tripp, a farmer of Orange township, Carroll county, 0. After his father-in-law's death he bought the home Tope farm and lived on it a few years and then traded it for one near Leesville, 0., where he now resides. They had three children: James, married to a Miss Easterday and lives near Leesville, 0., and Cora May and Bert at home. From some physical ailment Mrs. Tripp's mind became affected a few years ago and
she had to be taken to the State Asylum.
    (j) George B., born Aug. 19, 1843, was married to Margaret Jane Dunlavy (born July 10, 1842) on Dec. 1, 1864; (died Aug. 20, 1894, of typhoid fever, hastened by paralysis.) He has been a farmer all his life; emigrated to Kansas in 1871 and saw the ruins of the Chicago fire at that time, but soon returned to Ohio, and has resided in this State ever since, now at Mechanicstown. Their children were: M. E., married to Ora L. Seekings Dec. 27, 1891; he is bookkeeper in Carnegie's office. Homestead, Pa. Jesse L., married to Agnes M.
Moore Sept. 15, 1891; he is now clerking in a store in Wooster, 0. Clara B., married to Wm. G. Hahn Mar. 14, 1894; living on a farm near Minerva, 0. Lizzie M.. married to John C. Unkefer March 31, 1896; living on a farm near

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The text above is from History of the Tope Family, by Melancthon Tope, 1896, revised by A. D. Maddux, Copyright © 1981, 1989 (used with permission)

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