Frederick
Tope was
born in
Frederick County, Maryland in 1768 near
Harper's Ferry, and died in Union County,
Illinois, probably between 27 August 1842 [
note
1] and 30 December 1842
[
note
2].
He first married
Elizabeth (Betsy) Ann Grammer, daughter of John Jacob Grammer
and Elizabeth Hopper [note 3], in Kentucky
who was was born in in 1773 in Warren County, Kentucky, and died in
1837 in Union County, Illinois.
Elizabeth was received "in relation"
into the Clear Creek Baptist church on 27 March 1819 [
note
4].
After Elizabeth's death, Frederick married Elvira
Grammer on 3 June 1839 in Union County, Illinois. Elvira was
born
in in 1816 [
note
5]. After Frederick's death,
Elvira married William Welch
on 2 April
1843 in Union County, Illinois [
note
6].
Frederick was appointed a traverse Juror
for the
1824 term of the Jackson County Court, therefore he moved to Jackson
County, Illinois before 1824 [
note
7].
Frederick and Elizabeth had 11 children:
- Joseph Tope was born in 1791
in Kentucky, died before 1795.
- Susannah Tope was born in
1793 in Kentucky was unmarried.
- Elizabeth
Ruth Tope was
born in 1795
in Kentucky, and married Young John Vancil on 23 March 1839. Her second
marriage was to Prestley W. Taylor 16 March 1834 Union County, Illinois
[note
7].
- Jacob Tope
- Malinda Tope was born in
1797 in Kentucky, married Miles H.
Coleman.
- Mary
(Polly) Tope
- Barbara
Tope
- John Tope was born in 1801
in Kentucky; married Malinda --.
- Frederick
Tope, Jr.
- William
A. Tope
- George
Tope.
Notes:
- Except
for the following sources, the
above text is constructed from Family Sheets in Now
You
Know Who This Is,
1984, By A. D. Maddux, Copyright 1984 (used with
permission) The book is out of publication. [Return
to text]
- Estate
Records of Frederick Tope, Sr.,
will signed 27 August 1842, p. 20.
Court of Probate, Frederick's will probated 30 December 1842,
p.20. [Return
to text]
- Delbert
Penrod's entry on Illinois
Trails.
- Gail Caraway to A.D. Maddux [Return
to text]
- Illinois Marriages,
1790-1860, ancestry.com
gives
her name as Elbira
Grammer and the marriage date as 8 May 1839. [Return to text]
- Gail Caraway [Return to text].
- Gail Caraway [Return
to text]. Young John
Vancil married Prudence Whitacre on 10 December 1848 in Union Co.,
Illinois. Illinois
Marriages, 1790-1860,
Source:
Family History
Library, Salt Lake City, UT Microfilm:
0963179
ancestry.com.
Updated 7
April 2009
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