John Shupe 1888 Lunenburg Progress Published: December 26, 1888. We are called upon to announce the death of Mr. John Shupe of Martin's Point, brother of William Shupe, who passed away on the 18th. instant. He returned from the Banks in June last, in the agonies of rheumatism so excruciating that wild screaming became chronic, weakening his lungs till they became the subject of consumption, from which disease he died.