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].
He
married Louisa
Langfit, who was born about 1829 [note 4].
Jacob and Louisa had eleven children:
- Leatecia Alice Tope, born 1850, died 1885.
- 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 [note
4] married Joseph W. Peterson,
4 March 1881.
- John M Tope born abot 1860 [note 5].
- Della Louisa Tope
- Thomas J. Tope was born on 27 April 1862,
and married Laura B. Hutson
on 15
June
1889
- 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. Louise was 41 years
old. The census does not list Lucretia or Ella.
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
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