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LUCRETIA TOPE

   Lucretia Tope, daughter of George Tope and Catherine Straddler,  had one son, Jacob Jefferson Tope, who was born December 1818 in Hollidays Cove, Brooke Co., Virginia [note 2], and died in August 1891 [note 3]. In 1845 he married Louisa Langfit, who was born in 1828 to William Langfitt [note 4].

Jacob and Louisa had eleven children:

  1. 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].
  2. Lucretia Tope
  3. George Taylor Tope, born 1851, died 1885.
  4. James Burns Tope.
  5. William Joseph Tope born 23 March 1856, Hardin Run, Virginia.
  6. Mary Virginia Tope born about 1858 married Joseph W. Peterson, 4 March 1881.
  7. John M Tope born about 1860.
  8. Della Louisa Tope
  9. 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].
  10. Charles Wilders Tope 
  11. Ella Cordelia Tope


Notes:
  1. Except for the following notes, names and dates for the Jacob Jefferson family provided by Elizabeth Paynter.
  2. History of the Tope Family, Melancthon Tope, 1896, revised 1980 by A.D. Maddus, page 33. (Used with permission).
  3. obsit, according to a card from the daughter, Ella C, of May 20, 1893.
  4. 1870 Unites States Federal Census, Clay, Hancock Co., West Virginia.  Louisa was 41 years old. The census does not list Lucretia or Ella.
  5. Email, emsdrake@yahoo.com from Elaine Drake to Donald Kear, 4 December 2009.
  6. Jefferson J. Tope, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohjeffer/1890bioindex/jjtope.html

Updated 4 January 2010
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