Jacob and Louisa had eleven
children:
- Leodocia Alice Tope
was born 21 August 1847, and died 5
August 1882. She married Thomas Stevenson who was born in 1843
and
died in 1907. Leodocia and Thomas are buried
in Riverview
Cemetery, Columbiana Co, Ohio [note 5].
- Lucretia Tope
- George Taylor Tope, born
1851, died 1885.
- James
Burns Tope.
- William Joseph Tope born 23
March 1856,
Hardin Run, Virginia.
- Mary Virginia Tope born
about 1858 married Joseph
W. Peterson,
4 March 1881.
- John M Tope born about 1860.
- Della Louisa Tope
- Thomas J. Tope was born in
Hancock County, on 27 April 1862. He married Florence
Anderson, daughter of John and
Lydia Anderson,
on 5 May
1886 [note 6].
- Charles
Wilders Tope
- Ella Cordelia Tope
Notes:
- Except for the following
notes, names and dates for the
Jacob Jefferson family provided by
Elizabeth
Paynter.
- History
of the Tope Family, Melancthon
Tope, 1896, revised 1980 by
A.D. Maddus, page 33. (Used with permission).
- obsit, according
to a card from the daughter, Ella C,
of May 20, 1893.
- 1870
Unites States Federal
Census, Clay, Hancock Co., West Virginia. Louisa was 41 years
old. The census does not list Lucretia or Ella.
- Email,
emsdrake@yahoo.com from
Elaine Drake to Donald Kear, 4 December 2009.
- Jefferson
J. Tope,
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohjeffer/1890bioindex/jjtope.html
Updated 4
January 2010
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