This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hupp, Knight , Fay Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Gk.2ADI/1306 Message Board Post: GLIDDEN GRAPHIC Jan 6, 1922 Mrs. Frances Hupp Pioneer is Dead Mrs. Frances Hupp died in her home where she had lived more than forty years,near the Oak Hill school house in Union township. She was born in Ohio in 1848. When a small child she moved with her parents by river steamboat to Lee county. When a young woman she came to Carroll county ,coming over land in a wagon drawn by oxen. Being a young woman of industrious habits she worked for sometime in the home of some early settlers near Old Carrollton. Mrs. John Hupp,( Narcissus Sigler) who with her husband still lives near the Old Carrollton store, loves to tell of pleasant associations had with Frances Knight in her early girlhood. In the fall of 1865 she was married to Wm. Hupp. She always worked hard ,giving her whole life in the care of her large family of ten children ,doing her best in the hard circumstances of pioneer life. Five of herchildren and her husband preceeded her in the great beyond, the five children dying in infancy, and her husband about thirteen years ago. The children living are four boys- Frank, Dan, Dora, and George, all near Coon Rapids, and one daughter, Mrs. Matilda Fay, who is living in the state of Washington. Her husband was a civil war veteran so[sic]rendered his country service during the darkest hours of its history.Mrs. Hupp lived to send one of her own boys out into the great world war. Her body was burried by the side of her husband in the CarrolltonCemetery. ( This my 3rd great grandmother Matilda Fay is my 2nd great grandmother)