Chapter III (continued)
Concerning
John Tope's children, in the different generations down, it is to be
greatly regretted our information
is very meager. Most of this has been gained
from Mr. William Lease of Salem:
1.
Abram
was the oldest son.
He went to the war of 1812 and died in the
war—thought have killed battle [
Note
1 ]. Some
think he was a single man; by others
claimed he had a wife and two children, but as to what has become of
them
deponents say not. [
Note
2 ]
2. John Tope grew
to manhood and was married, but to whom we do not know. It though by
someone that he, too, went to war and died there,
but seems a mistake.
3. Henry married a Miss Hazlett, had
no children, moved to Illinois and died there. This is the one
who found Uncle Frederick and brought him to his brothers in
Ohio after they
had been separated for thirty-seven years.
Old
John, as he was sometimes called, gave the two boys, John and
Henry, a
piece of land consisting 80
acres in Union Township,Carroll co., (a
mile south-east of Petersburg now). John sold his
farm to Thomas Brooks and moved to Jackson county. The farm is now
owned
by James Brooks. This John Tope was nicknamed "Pussy John."
He had one son, Amos Tope. Henry soldto Thomas Brooks
also when he moved away.
4. Jacob Tope was married to a Miss
Cross. He
went with his uncle George to Harrison (now Carroll) county
and helped to build Tope's mill and for some years tended the
mills. He served a term or
two as a Justice of the Peace and hence was called "Squire
Tope."
From his coarse, black hair and beard he
was also nicknamed "Black Jake," to distinguish him from others of the
same
name. It is related of him, as characteristic of his genial
disposition, that when
living by the mill his only pig died, and while the friends were
lamenting the
loss and consoling him the best they could he lightly remarked,
"Them that have must lose, but them that haven't can't!" He kept tavern
for
a number of years in the town of New Rumley, Harrison county, 0., and
about 1855 moved to Iowa, where he died.
He had a number of children: Mary Ann,
Sarah, Fannie, Deliah, John,
George, Lucinda and Barbary.
While living at New Rumley, the two
daughters, Lucinda and Barbary,
started on horseback to Carrollton one Saturday to get new bonnets to
wear at
some public gathering the next day. A storm came up and when
nearing the
town (Carrollton) a stroke of lightning killed Lucinda and both
of the horses and greatly stunned the other girl. This sad event has
been so often and
generally related that almost everybody in this country has heard of it.
Barbary married a man by the name of
Ralph Joslin, of Cincinnati. He
drove stage at New Rumley, and followed tailoring at Cincinnati.
Mary Ann married John Kail, of
Algonquin, and lived w
Rutledge lives now. She died of cancer.
Sarah married John Johnson, of Virginia.
Fannie married Zephaniah Keys, of
Perrysville (post-office
Lamartine), Carroll county, Ohio.
Deliah married a man by the name of
James Reed, a tailor. They moved to
Iowa when her father went, came back in a year or so, lived in
and moved to some other town in Ohio. His daughter by his first wife
married
a man who put him in control of a tailoring establishment and he got
well off.
John married Peggy Ann Stahl, of Salem,
and moved to Iowa with his
father.
p.
22
The
above text 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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Notes:
1. The War of
1812 Service Records on Ancestry.com lists Abraham Tope in 1 Regiment
(Andrew's), Ohio Militia as a Private, Roll Box 210, Roll Exct 602. [Return to text]
2. Abram
married Elizabeth RAPP on
30 April 1811 in Jackson Co., Ohio. (Marriage information
from Gail Carraway)
Elizabeth
remarried to John FARVER on
3 Nov 1816 in
Coshocton, Ohio. (Remarriage
information from Joanette Saba-Sturm email Sep 19, 2000.) [Return to text]
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