James
Fremont Tope, son of George William Tope and Elizabeth Donaldson,
was born 27 January 1863, and died 7
March 1949 [note 1]. He married Martha "Mattie" L. Warner
[note
2], was
born 8 September 1865 and died 28 August
1891. James died in Columbus, Ohio, but was buried
in
Myrtle Hill Cemetery, Tampa, Florida.
James and Mattie had three
children:
- Chester
Tope was born 15 March 1886 and
died 1 April 1886.
- Vossie
E. Tope was
born 7 August 1887 and died 11 November
1955. She married Thomas
R.
Noggle, and they had two children:
- Robert E. Noggle was born
20 July 1913
and died 24 October 1972 in Columbus, Franklin Co., Ohio.
- James E. Noggle was born 7
January 1917 and died 7
October 1994 in Fort Myers, Lee Co., Florida.
- Laura P.
Tope was born 21 March
1890 and died 3 October 1925. She married Walter Carl
Gundelfinger
on 6
March 1910.
After Martha died in 1891, James
married Susannah "Susie" Thornton, daughter of Henry
Warden
and Susannah "DeWitt" Thornton, on 8 November 1892. Susannah was
born 16 December 1832 [
note
3], died 2 April 1932 in
Hillsborough Co., Florida [
note
4], and was buried with James in Myrtle Hill Cemetery.
James and Susannah had two children:
- Heber
Roy Tope was born 9 April 1894 and died 8 March 1967 in
Tampa,
Hillsborough Co., Florida [note
5]. He married Marie
Humerick on 4 January
1917. Marie was born 17 February 1894, died 27 December 1981,
Hillsborough Co., Florida [note
6]. They had a son,
Carroll W. Tope [note
7].
- Emmet Emerson Tope was
born 1 November 1895 and died 13 April 1987 in Riverview,
Hillsborough County, Florida [note
8]. Emmet married Myrtle Denny,
daughter of Obediah Liston Denney and Isa Dorah Stevens [note 9],
on
31 October
1918.
- Except
as noted, all data were
furnished
by Martha
Kelley,
descendant of Laura P.
Tope.
- Ancestry.com, One World
Tree (sm), Provo, UT, USA: The
Generations Network, Inc., n.d., Online publication., and Heber Roy
Tope draft registration:
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918,
Ancestry.com.
- Ancestry.com, One World Tree
(sm), Provo, UT, USA: The
Generations Network, Inc., n.d., Online publication - Ancestry.com.
OneWorldTree [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations
Network, Inc. [Return
to text]
- Florida Death index
1877-1998, Vol. 532, Number 2302. Correction of Susan's parent by Michael
L. Brown Santa
Cruz, Bolivia,
South America. [Return
to text]
- Florida Death index
1877-1998. [Return to text]
- Ibid. [Return
to text]
- Carroll W. Tope, age 12, son
of Heber R. and Marie Tope,
1930 census, Columbus, Franklin county, Ohio.
- Florida Death index
1877-1998. [Return to text]
- Email, subject, JAMES
FREMONT TOPE, Friday, August 01, 2008 11:44
AM, from Marie Denny, great-great granddaughter of Obediah and Isa.
Updated 19
May 2012
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