Section G
G-1
LOST FAMILIES
While some families, such as Abraham's, Emanuel's, or Balser Jr's
were large and easy to trace, others, perhaps equally large at one time
were traceable for a while, and then they vanished from any place I
searched. Mainly, these are the families of Benjamin and Jacob, but
there were also the families of Martin and Samuel, which were smaller.
Benjamin Hupp, son of Balser
Benjamin was a blacksmith, who lived for a while in Shenandoah
County, and then about 1840, he moved south, into Augusta County. He
can be found listed in the censuses of 1820, 1830, 1840, and 1850.
From the last one, I figure he was born about 1789. He was married
twice, first to Lydia Newman, the daughter of Walter Newman, on
12/30/1811 and then to Nancy McCall, the daughter of William and Jane
McCall, on 11/20/1829. All except one of his children, Benjamin F.
Hupp, were born to Lydia.
So the last of Benjamin and Lydia's children was born not long
before Balser Hupp died in 1829. Since the family was still in
Shenandoah County, Benjamin was around at the sale of his father's
estate. This is what he bought then:
10 bushels potatoes @ 20c $2.00
3 old barrels with soap .69
29 bundles rolled flax 1.04
a Quantity unrolled hemp 1.10
Some clover seed in the mow .50
3 plane cloth 1.42
1 flax wheel .50
2 Bushels dry apples @ 52c 1.04
1 pr old saddle bags .25
1 ------ with some butter 1.40
1/3 of 8 acres Wheat+rye 2-2/3 4.53-1/4
Total Amount bought: $14.47-1/4
Over the next several years, Benjamin's brothers moved away
to Ohio and Indiana. About 1840, Benjamin moved with his family (those
that were still at home), but not as far as the others. They moved to
Augusta County.
It seems that Benjamin's oldest son was Andrew J. Hupp. Evidence
that Andrew was Benjamin's son is indirect: process of elimination, and
the fact that the first purchase of land in Augusta County by Hupps was
by Andrew, and that land seems to be the same as that which Benjamin
dealt with soon after. Andrew married Elizabeth Coffman, as stated in
the Kauffman-Coffman Lineage (I have not found this recorded in any
County Courthouse, but one deed recorded at Shenandoah County said that
Elizabeth had been a Coffman). In 1846 Andrew and Elizabeth sold their
land in Shenandoah County, and after that I have never found a trace of
them. By that time Andrew would have been about 35.
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In Augusta County, Benjamin lived with his family on "the
Staunton - Port Republick Road". Since I grew up in Augusta County
myself, I knew well where Staunton and Port Republic were (Port
Republic is actually in Rockingham County, where North River and South
River join to form the South Fork of the Shenandoah River), and I also
knew that no one road connects the two. Looking at a county road map,
it is evident where this road was: Out of Staunton on 254 , then
leaving that at Barren Ridge following 786 , then following 608
through New Hope. When it reaches 865 , 608 ends, and this old road
followed 865 through Mount Meridian near 256 . This road then
followed old 256 , and then 605 on to Port Republic (see map on
G-4). I have checked the cemeteries along this road(s), but I found no
Hupps buried in any of them. There were some unreadable tombstones at
the cemetery at New Hope. Possibly some could be for members of this
family.
The deeds regarding Benjamin Hupp in Augusta County say his land
was near "the Blacksmith Shop". I do not know if it was one he built,
or one that had already been there.
Other known children of Benjamin's were Catherine, Solomon, Walter,
Amanda, and Benjamin F. Catherine married Henry Coffman, who was an
uncle to Elizabeth, Andrew's wife. Henry and Catherine lived in
Shenandoah County, I think near Edinburg, which is north of New Market.
They had eight children. What I know of their family is from the
Kauffman-Coffman book. That Solomon was a son of Benjamin's I figure
since he was recorded in the 1850 census of Augusta County, near
Benjamin (besides those I list as members of this family, there were no
other Hupps in Augusta County at this time). Solomon was listed as a
cooper, and married to Marian, with a daughter, Elizabeth. There is no
record of this wedding in Augusta County, and I find no trace of them
in later censuses. Walter was also living away from home in 1850, but
not far. He was a blacksmith. I found him in the 1860 census in
LaPorte County, Indiana. By then he had married to Louisa, and they
had two sons, Walter and Benjamin, who were most likely twins. I have
not been able to find any of them in any later censuses, either-- they
also vanished. Benjamin F., Benjamin and Nancy's son, continued to
live in Augusta County. His wife's name was Elisabeth (this wedding
was not recorded, either), and they had one son who died in infancy.
The last I heard of Benjamin F. Hupp is a recording of a lawsuit
against the executor of his estate, for mismanaging it. The date of
that was 10/2/1884, so Benjamin F. must have died shortly before then.
Nancy died on 9/14/1859, aged 66. The death record says she died
at Newport, but I think it should be New Hope. There is a Newport in
Augusta County, but it is south-west of Staunton on what is now 252 .
It is also known as Moffetts Creek. If that is what the death record
meant, then she must have been visiting when this happened.
I have no idea what happened to Benjamin after that. I did not
find him listed in the 1860 census either in Augusta or Shenandoah
Counties. He was assumed to be alive when his brother John wrote his
will in 1862 (see C-3). It is probable that he died during the Civil
War.
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Known Descendants of Benjamin Hupp, son of Balser
Benjamin Hupp (1789 - after 1862) (from A-9)
m1. Lydia Newman
I. Andrew J. Hupp
m. Elizabeth Coffman
A. a dau., born before 1840
II. Catherine Hupp (1813 - )
m. Henry Coffman (1797 - 1862)
A. Mary Elizabeth Coffman (1835 - ) nm
B. Sarah Coffman
m. William Bateman
C. Henrietta Coffman (1838 - )
m. William Graybill
D. Caroline J. Coffman (1840 - )
m. James W. Bell on 10/14/1867
E. Amanda Coffman (1841 - )
m. Edward Knipple on 11/22/1866
F. Benjamin F. Coffman (1/17/1842 - )
m. Barbara Coffelt (11/18/1846 - 12/23/1914)
1. Benjamin T. Coffman (5/19/1876 - 8/8/1899)
G. Samuel Coffman (12/15/1845 - 5/14/1910)
m. Sarah Virginia Coffelt (11/28/1847 - 1/30/1913)
1. Ernest F. Coffman (12/20/1880 - 12/11/1948)
m. Lou Hammer (3/3/1887 - 2/24/1946)
H. Ann A. Coffman (1846 - )
III. Solomon Hupp (1825 - )
m. Marian --- (1826 - )
A. Elizabeth Hupp (1849 - )
IV. Amanda M. Hupp (1827 - )
V. Walter B. Hupp (1827 - )
m. Louisa ---
A. Walter N. Hupp (1859 - )
B. Benjamin F. Hupp (1859 - )
(Benjamin)
m2. Nancy McCall (1793 - 9/4/1859) on 11/20/1829
VI. Benjamin F. Hupp (1831 - before 1884)
m. Elisabeth F. ---
A. John William Hupp (3/16 - 5/16/1856)
G-4
in Augusta County, Virginia
<hand-drawn map>
Benjamin Hupp and his family lived somewhere along the old Staunton-
Port Republic Road, near "the Blacksmith Shop". This map shows the
modern roads, with the dotted line indicating the old road.
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Jacob Hupp
Like Benjamin's family, Jacob's has been lost to my search, also.
In the mid 1800's, Jacob's family lived in LaPorte County, Indiana,
along with the families of his brother Isaac and nephew Abram. Isaac's
descendants either stayed in the area or were traceable (see section F)
and Abram moved his family to Missouri, where they are traceable
(see section B). Jacob continued to live in LaPorte County after Isaac
died and Abram moved away, yet his sons disappeared in the 1860's.
Jacob was the second youngest son of Balser Hupp and Barbara Grove,
with only Isaac being younger. He was born about 1799. He married
Phebe Ann Sheen on 6/12/1824 (the Shenandoah County marriage register
incorrectly states that Jacob was the son of Abraham-- this threw me
off for some time). A Jacob Hupp was the administrator of the sale of
Abraham's estate in October, 1829, but I do not know whether it was this
Jacob, of Abraham's son Jacob. This Jacob was about 30, and Abraham's
son Jacob was about 22.
The month after that, Balser Hupp had died, and his estate was
sold. Here is a list of what Jacob Hupp bought:
81 1/2 bushels Oats @ 37 1/2c $30.56-1/2
500 bush. Corn @ 32c 160.00
20 bushl Brace @ 8c 1.60
1 small fallen leaftable 2.01
1 feather bed bedstead and bedding 10.25
1 feather bed bedstead and bedding 6.50
3 Bed quilts 1.32
2 sheets 1.00
3 sheets 2.10
1 sose blanket 1.49
2 sose blanket 4.85
1 double covertal 6.99
1 double covertal 1.00
1 double covertal 2.02
8 Pillow cases 1.61
4 hand towels .81
1 table cloth 1.80
2 sheets 4.00
1 small pitokes +c .25
59 Hard soap @ 6c 3.54
1 case with 4 bottles & glass 2.00
1 bed bedsteads + bedding 14.75
1 box with some lard .64
Total amount paid: $261.09-1/2
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To Jacob and Phebe, there were born six children: Anderson,
Reuben, Ann, Amanda, Martha, and Asbury Franklin. The first three were
born in Virginia, Amanda was born in Ohio, and the last two in
Indiana. So it appears that this families moving times were close to
that of Abraham's family (see section B). It was probably about 1833
when this family moved to Ohio. I would suppose they lived in
Champaign County, as did the other Hupp families that moved about this
time. Then they moved to LaPorte County, Indiana about 1836. They
lived in Pleasant Township (see map in Section F).
Anderson Hupp was a county official in LaPorte County. Before that
he lived for a time in neighboring Porter County, where he was recorded
in the 1850 census. It appears that he married Ursula Huff in Roanoke
County, Virginia in 1852, although he was living in Indiana. Apparently
he was in touch with Abraham Hupp of Salem, who had earlier married a
Huff. The 1860 census of LaPorte County shows Anderson Hupp in LaPorte
City, and his wife's name is listed as "Zoola" (the names of the members
of this family are very hard to read as there is a blemish running down
the middle of their names in the census record). Anderson and Zoola
had two daughters, and the second one's name was Clara (the first one's
name I can't make out). After this census, I find no trace of this
family again... Except the 1900 Soundex of Illinois lists living in
Chicago an Anderson W. Hupp, born in 1861 in Indiana, who has a daughter
named "Zoola". He was certainly born to this couple just after the 1860
census. But I have been unable to find him in the 1880 or 1910
Soundexes.
Reuben Hupp had also moved out from home by 1850. By 1860 he had
married Josephine --- (no record of this marriage in LaPorte County).
They had one daughter, Mary, by 1860, and then they too, vanished from
sight.
On 3/3/1852 Eliza A. Hupp married Washington Wilson. This is
probably Jacob's daughter, Ann E. I do not find marriage records of any
of the other daughters of Jacob.
Jacob and Phebe's youngest child was Asbury Franklin Hupp (in 1850
he is listed as "Franklin" and in 1860 as "Asbury F." Knowing how
census recordings are, he could have been Franklin Asbury Hupp). It
seems odd to me that in the 1860 census, although he was the only Hupp
in the household other than his father, he was listed after a Mark
family.
Phebe Ann died in October of 1850, of chronic consumption. Also,
there was a Marion Hupp who died the next month, aged six months. He
may have been a son of Jacob and Phebe.
The Civil War could have had its toll on this family for Anderson
was about 36 and Reuben 32 at the beginning of the war, and by the end
Franklin was about 19. And even if they were not casualties, their
exposure to other places may have led them to move elsewhere (for
instance, Ormond Hupp, a native of LaPorte County, moved to Missouri
after he was a soldier in the Civil War). If the sons of Jacob Hupp
moved south after the war, I would not have followed them at all, for I
have not searched censuses and soundexes south of Virginia.
Jacob Hupp was visited in the 1860's by his surviving siblings,
Barbara, Anna, and Balser, according to James G. Hupp of Orinda, Ca.
It would be interesting to know what all they had to share with each
other about what all had happened to everyone.
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Jacob Hupp died the last week of October, 1872, according to a
weekly South Bend newspaper. He was about 73. I do not know where he
was buried. He had lived in Pleasant Township, which contains the Salem
Chapel Cemetery where his brother Isaac was buried, but there is no
marker there for him.
Known descendants of Jacob Hupp, son of Balser Hupp
Jacob Hupp (1799 - 10/1872) (from A-9)
m. Phebe Ann Sheen (1808 - 10/1850)
I. Anderson Hupp (1825 - )
m. Ursula "Zoola" Huff 1852
A. Ca--ra Hupp (1854 - )
B. Clara Hupp (1859 - )
(?) C. Anderson W. Hupp (12/1861 - )
m. Magdalene --- (1/1873 - )
1. Zoola B. Hupp (10/1896 - )
II. Reuben Hupp (1829 - )
m. Josephine E. --- (1839 - )
A. Mary Hupp (1859 - )
III. Ann Eliza Hupp (1832 - )
(?) m. Washington Wilson on 3/3/1852
IV. Amanda Hupp (1834 - )
V. Martha Hupp (1837 - )
VI. Asbury Franklin Hupp (1846 - )
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Samuel and Martin Hupp
In the three years before and after 1820, two Hupps married
Pennybacker sisters, and soon after, they moved to Wood County, which
is now in West Virginia. The Hupp men died before 1830, but their wives
continued on for decades more. I am quite sure that this Martin Hupp
was Balser's son, but I am less sure that Samuel was.
Considering their parallel lives, it would appear that they were
brothers, but there is one problem about Samuel. The Kagey family book
states that Barbara Kagey married a son of Balser Hupp by his first
wife. It goes on to say that they had a son, Christian, and his
parents died, and that he was raised by his maternal grandfather, Henry
Kagey, but he died aged 15 or 16. There is a registration of this
marriage in Shenandoah County, saying it was Samuel Hupp who married
Barbara Kagey on 11/18/1813. It would appear that Balser's son Samuel
would have died not long after marrying Barbara Kagey. But there is the
possibility that he could have married again afterward, and his son
raised by the family of his first wife. Although this practice is rare
among the Hupp family, it was a common practice in past times. But
why did the Kagey book state it the way it did, which implied that
Samuel had died? I don't know, but I do know of another example where
a young couple had some children, then the mother died, and the
children were raised by the mother's family, and then the father
remarried, and lived much longer. One of the first children later
recalled that her parents died when she was young, and she was raised
by her grandparents-- but that was not the case (see D-15).
So conceivably Samuel Hupp could have married again after Barbara
died. I do not regard this as in any way proved, but I have no other
place for Samuel Hupp to come from, so I will include the Samuel Hupp
of Wood County in this section.
Both Samuel and Martin died before Balser did, although not much
before. Besides that, they had moved away, so even if they had been
alive, they were not around at the sale of Balser Hupp's estate. They
did, however, get a share of his land, or their heirs did, but they
did come back to it.
Samuel Hupp married Mary Pennybacker on 5/7/1817 and Martin Hupp
married Rebecca Pennybacker on 2/10/1823. Mary and Rebecca were the
daughters of John Pennybacker. These couples moved to the Lubeck
district of Wood County, which was then in Virginia, but now is West
Virginia. Lubeck district is southwest of Parkersburg, not far from
the Ohio River.
The families were there not long before the husbands died, first
Martin, on 8/9/1828, and then Samuel in 1829. They are buried in the
Humphrey Cemetery.
Martin's family was small, with three children, of whom I have no
record of their marrying. This this line of the family must have soon
come to an end (unless some of them married someplace I have not
searched). Samuel's family continued for a while, though. His son
Derrick grew up and married, but he died not long after. His children
did better, but after the early 1900's I lose record of them. The area
became flooded with Hupps moving in from the Noble County, Ohio area,
who were descendants of Phillip Hupp, and there are many Hupp births,
deaths, and marriages recorded in Wood County, but they are not of this
line, so here another family has disappeared.
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Samuel Hupp (d. 1829) (from A-9)?
m. Mary Pennybacker (11/28/1795 - 10/11/1858) do. John
on 5/7/1817 @ Shenandoah Co, VA
A. Elizabeth M. Hupp
m. Elisha T. Mitchell on 1/31/1839 @ Wood Co, WV
B. Derrick P. Hupp -- see below
C. Phebe Ann Hupp (1830 - )
m. Henry Mitchell on 5/24/1853 @ Wood Co, WV
Martin Hupp (1797 - 1828) (from A-9)
m. Rebecca Pennybacker (12/20/1804 - 8/24/1878) do. John
on 2/10/1823 @ Shenandoah Co, VA
A. William Hupp (1825 - 1850)
B. Virginia Knight Hupp (1830 - 1885)
C. Mary Hupp (1832 - )
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Derrick P. Hupp (1823 - 1853) so. Samuel Hupp & Mary Pennybacker
m. Mary Peyton Beckwith (1824 - 1911)
A. Ernest DeHaven Hupp (12/1849 - 9/2/1913)
m. Annie Gwynn (3/1852 - 12/12/1933) on 3/18/1876
1. Lyda Wardene Hupp (11/26/1877 - 10/23/1972) - Parkersburg, WV
2. Claude DeHaven Hupp (2/15/1880 - 1914)
3. Iris F. Hupp (b. 1/31/1882 @ Lubeck) - Parkersburg, WV
m. Joe R. Arnold on 6/17/1906
4. Ada Esca Hupp (b. 5/19/1884 @ Lubeck) - Long Beach, CA
m. --- McCoffrey
5. Lula Leota Hupp (b. 3/30/1888 @ Lee Creek)
6. Edwin Earle Hupp (10/4/1890 - 4/1981) - Newport, WA
B. William Beckwith Hupp (12/1851 - )
m. Frances Elizabeth Leach (12/20/1855 - 6/16/1947) on 10/18/1874
1. Albert Guy Hupp (8/30/1875 - 5/30/1884)
2. Laura Jeanette Hupp (b. 10/16/1878 @ Lubeck)
3. William P. Hupp (b. 3/27/1881 @ Harris dist)
m. Mary Regina Mitchell on 12/23/1908
4. Bettie Blanche Hupp (12/25/1883 - 8/1884)
5. Gladys Smith Hupp (b. 7/29/1895) - Eldorado, KS
m. Charles Penewell
C. Mary Elizabeth Hupp (1853 - )
m. Charles Smith on 3/30/1875
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