George Washington Tope ,
son of Jacob Tope and Elizabeth Fisher, was born 12 May 1824 [
note 1],
in Cobden, Union County, Illinois, and died 12 Aug 1895 in the St.
Louis Baptist Hospital St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri [
note 2].
He is buried in Pottersfield Cemetery, St. Louis, St. Louis County,
Missouri. He first married Barbara T. Hodges, daughter of Hezekiah
Claibourn Hodges and Nancy O. Daniel [
note
3], on 10 August 1847 in Anna,
Union County, Illinois [
note
4].
Barbara was born in 1827 in Alabama,
and died in 1860 in Rockwood, Randolph County, Illinois.
George's occupation was that of an
engineer and a hotel keeper.
George and Barbara
had two
children:
- William D. Tope, born 1855 in Jackson
County, Illinois.
- Dewitt Clinton Tope, born 1859
in Rockwood,
Randolph County, Illinois., and died 17 January 1884 in Topeka, Shawnee
Co., Kansas. He married Iowa Shively, daughter
of William T. Shively and Nancy Marshall,
after 1880. Iowa was born
31 August 1853 and died 5 September 1917 in Topeka, Shawnee Co., Kansas
[note 5].
Dewitt is buried in the Topeka City Cemetery. Shawnee Co.,
Kansas.
Dewitt and Iowa had two children:
- Elizabeth
Tope, born December 1881
- Will Clenton Tope was
born 11 June 1884 in Topeka, Shawnee
Co., Kansas [note 6].
After Barbara's death, George
married Catherine Spears
(Spherse)
on 21 March 1861
in Chester, Randolph Co., Illinois [
note 7].
Catherine was born in 22
September 1835 in Goldust, Lauderdale Co., Tennessee [
note 8],
and died
1 July 1898 in Rockwood, Randolph Co., Illinois [
note 9].
Catherine was the sixth of eight children
George and Catherine had three children:
- Chloe
Elizabeth Tope
- James
Harvey Tope
- William
Hezekiah Tope
George enlisted on 24 June 1846 a Private in Company I, 2nd
Regiment,
Illinois Volunteers, serving under Captain Madison Miller [
note 10].
He
saw action in the battle of Buena Vista on 23 February 1847 [note 8],
and Mustered out 18 June 1847 at Camargo, Mexico [
note 11].
The
text above was comstructed from data
in Now
You Know Who That Is, by A.D. Maddux (used with
permission.)
Notes:
- Mexican War Pension Records, Act of January 29,
A.D.
1887,
Declaration of Survivor For Pension, State of Illinois, County of
Monroe, statement by George W. Tope dated 18 April 1887, "That I am 65
years of age having been born in Illinois on the 12th day of May 1821,"
cited by Maddux, p. 27. [Return
to text]
- One World Tree (sm),
ancestry.com, not confirmed [Return to text]
- Death Records, St. Louis County, Missouri, No. 5549. [Return to
text]
- Marriage Records,
Union County, Illinois, Book I, p.
207. [Return to
text]
- Email from Gail Caraway
to Donald Kear, 15 December 2006
citing research by herself and Patricia Staley. DeWitt's death
notice was in 26 January 1884 issue of Jonesboro Gazette. [Return
to Text]
- Op sit. The middle
name is from
World
War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Roll 1683382 [Retrun to text].
- Marriage Records, Randolph County, Illinois, Book A,
No.
469.
[Return to
text]
- Mexican War
Pensions,Declaration of Widow For Pension,
State of
Illinois, County Randolph, cited by Maddux, p.30. [Return to
text]
- U.S. Pension
Agency, Chicago, Illinois, August 17 1898,
cited by
Maddux. [Return
to
text]
- Record and
Pension Office, War Department, June 21
1893,
cited by
Maddux, p. 28.
- Ibid.
- Mexican War
Pension Records, ob sit, cited by Maddux.
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