This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------7C3A325D3D1BB4F8BC3ACA64 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This was sent to me and has some information for those interested in the Boone's and Lincoln's. Don't know how factual it is, but with these two families (Boone's and Lincoln's) things are always interesting............ -- ======================================================================== Ren and Judy Neville 925-516-4976 voice/FAX "If God so clothe the grass of the field..... shall He not much more clothe you" MATT. 6:30 "My fathers badge, old Nevil's crest, the rampant bear chain'd to the ragged staff" Henry VI, part 2, verse 1........William Shakespeare http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=johnneville Ne vile velis "Form no mean wish" --------------7C3A325D3D1BB4F8BC3ACA64 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <WMCURCI@aol.com> Received: from imo-d09.mx.aol.com ([205.188.157.41]) by merlin (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id tkqknj.dkt.37tiu4s for <beschutzer@earthlink.net>; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 00:34:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from WMCURCI@aol.com by imo-d09.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v30.22.) id f.8d.937e012 (25712) for <beschutzer@earthlink.net>; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 03:34:08 -0400 (EDT) From: WMCURCI@aol.com Message-ID: <8d.937e012.287eacef@aol.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 03:34:07 EDT Subject: Shoop/Boone Family Information To: beschutzer@earthlink.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Mac - Post-GM sub 56 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Hi Ren, I was doing my usual search for "Shoup/Shoop" and discovered this biography. It certainly looks like it has a wealth of family information that fits your family. Will you let me know if there is a connection? Thanks. Jane Curci Naples FL wm curci@aol.com http://searches.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/pa/northumberland/bios2/f123148 .txt WILLIAM G. SHOOP, of Danville, Pa., one of the leading business men of that place and of the surrounding territory, was born in Danville, only END OF PAGE 125 son of Gideon M. and Amelia (Gearhart) Shoop, the former of whom was for years one of the foremost citizens of this part of Pennsylvania. George Shoop, grandfather of William G. Shoop, was born Jan. 1, 1783, in Cumberland county, Pa., son of John Shoop. He married Elizabeth Cockley, who was born in Dauphin county April 30, 1783, and she died July 21, 1832, in Sunbury, Pa., Mr. Shoop surviving until June 21, 1849. They were the parents of seven children, born as follows: Mary Ann, Aug. 30, 1804 (born in Cumberland county); John, Sept. 10, 1807 (born in Sunbury); Amelia, March 30, 1810 (born in Sunbury); George, Jr., June 14, 1813; Jeremiah, Oct. 1, 1815 (died April 19, 1847); Sarah, Aug. 24, 1818 (died Oct. 26, 1818); Gideon M., Jan. 23, 1821. Gideon M. Shoop attended public school at Sunbury until thirteen years of age, when he went to Franklin county, Pa., to learn the art of making French buhr millstones, at which he was employed for two years. When fifteen he went to Cumberland county, where he followed his trade for some time, until ready to establish himself in business. In 1841 he came to Danville as collecting agent for several stage lines, and in that capacity performed the duty of sorting and distributing the mail. In 1846 he rented the "Brady Hotel," which he repaired and improved, added another story and changed the name to the "Montour House," by which name it is still known. After eighteen months in the hotel business he sold out and went into the mercantile business, in which he was engaged for several years. On April 11, 1849, he was appointed postmaster of Danville, serving as such until Nov. 26, 1852. In 1850, when Montour county was formed out of Columbia, Mr. Shoop and Dr. Frick were the prime movers in the formation of the new county, and instrumental in its erection. For over thirty years he served as a director of the Danville National Bank, and he was influential in the promotion of various industries in Danville, was a director of the Danville Nail & Manufacturing Company, of the Danville Bridge Company, and of a number of similar concerns. Mr. Shoop became interested in the lumber business as opportunity offered, purchasing several tracts of timberland in Montour and adjoining counties, cutting the timber and building a number of sawmills in which to prepare the lumber for market. When wood grew scarce in his own locality he turned his attention to the South, where he acquired large interests. This was his last business. One of Mr. Shoop's pet enterprises was the Danville high school, of which he was one of the foremost advocates from the project was first broached. If there was one of his achievements which he valued above others it was undoubtedly what he accomplished in this direction. For fourteen years previous to his death he was a trustee of the hospital for the care of the insane at Danville. In political sentiment he was a stanch Republican, and influential in his locality, but not an office seeker; socially he was identified with Danville Lodge, No. 224, F. &. A.M., and with the Royal Arch chapter. He was a prominent member of St. Paul's Methodist Church, which he served faithfully as president of the board of trustees, steward and teacher in the Sunday school and his interest extended to the denomination at large. In 1880 he was elected a lay delegate to the Central Pennsylvania Conference, and the same year was elected by the Conference to the General Conference which met at Cincinnati Ohio. His death occurred March 20, 1909. On Dec. 2, 1846, Mr. Shoop married Amelia Gearhart, daughter of William and Sarah (Boone) Gearhart, both members of prominent old families of this region more particularly mentioned later in this article, and to them were born four children: Clarence and Jeremiah, twins, who died in infancy; William G., and George, who died at the age of five years. Mrs. Shoop died Oct. 17, 1896. William G. Shoop, son of Gideon M. and Amelia (Gearhart) Shoop, was given educational advantages in his youth, and upon commencing the earnest business of life became associated with his father. He has continued the sawmill successfully to the present time, maintaining the high reputation established by his father in a long and prosperous career. He has worthily worn a name which has been identified with the most progressive interests of this portion of the State for many years, and has managed all his interests with an ability which entitles him to rank among the most substantial men of the vicinity. On Dec. 2, 1906, Mr. Shoop married Mary Emma Robertson, of Galesburg, Ill., daughter of John and Mary (Wallace) Robertson, formerly of Cumberland county, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Shoop reside in the beautiful stone mansion at the corner of East Market and Fern streets, Danville. They attend the Presbyterian Church. William Gearhart, grandfather of Mrs. Gideon M. Shoop, came to Northumberland county, Pa., in 1790 with his brother Capt. Jacob Gearhart, William taking up the land between Kipp's run and the stream that enters the river above Riverside. Both had married in New Jersey, from which State they moved to this region, William (probably the elder) marrying Eleanor De Knight. They were the parents of seven children: William, Tobias, Aaron, Jacob, Elizabeth (Mrs. Amens), Mary (Mrs. Lamberson) and Ann (Mrs. Amens). William Gearhart, son of William and Eleanor Gearhart died in 1847. He married Sarah Boone, and they had five children, born as follows: Mayberry, in 1813; Eleanor, in 1814; Harriet, in 1815; Julia Ann, in 1818; Amelia, in 1821. END OF PAGE 126 The Boones, Mrs. Gideon M. Shoop's maternal ancestors, descended from George Boone (1), who lived in England. His son, George (2), was born in the city of Exeter, Devonshire, England, and died at the age of sixty years. By trade he was a blacksmith. He married Sarah Uppey, who lived to the age of eighty, and to their union was born George Boone (3), whose birth occurred in 1666 at the village of Stoak, near Exeter. He married Mary Manbridge, who was born in 1669, daughter of John and Mary (Milton) Manbridge, and died in 1740, in her seventy-second year. George Boone (3) and his wife arrived in Philadelphia Oct. 10, 1717, spent some time at Abington, Pa., then two years at North Wales, eventually moving to Oley township, Berks county, where they settled. Warrants for 400 acres of land there issued to him, dated 1718, are on record. The original homestead is now owned by Morris DeTurk. This George Boone died in Berks county July 27, 1747. He left eight children, fifty-two grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren, all of whom excepting Sarah and Squire remained and died in Exeter township, Berks county, as the records of the Exeter Friends burying ground show. We have the following record of the children born to George Boone (3) and his wife Mary (Manbridge): (1) George (4), born July 13, 1690, died Nov. 20, 1753. He was a teacher by profession, served as magistrate, and was a man of great prominence in the community. On July 31, 1713, he married Deborah Howell, who died Jan. 26, 1757. (2) Sarah, born Feb. 18, 1691 (?), married Jacob Stover. They moved to Virginia and later to Kentucky. (3) Squire, born Nov. 25, 1696, died in 1764 in North Carolina, whither he moved in 1750.About 1745 he erected what was then the largest barn in Berks county, a stone structure which remained standing until 1875, when it was torn down by Mr. DeTurk, who needed a larger building. The masonry was found to be perfect, and the walls had to be blasted to pieces in spite of the fact that they had stood for over one hundred and thirty years. In 1750 Mr. Boone sold his farm to Mr. DeTurk, and it has since remained in the latter's family. Squire Boone married Sarah Morgan, an aunt of Gen. Daniel Morgan, of Revolutionary fame, and they were the parents of eleven children, nine of whom lived to the ages of between eighty-three and ninety-one years, one of this family being Daniel Boone, the famous Kentucky pioneer. Another was Hawkins Boone, who built Fort Boone, at the mouth of Warrior Run. (4) Mary, born Sept. 23, 1699, died Jan. 16, 1774. She married John Webb, and they were the parents of eleven children, of whom Samuel moved to Columbia county, Pa., settling near Espy. His daughter Mary married Mordecai Lincoln, brother of Abraham, and son of Mordecai who died in 1735-36. (5) Joseph, born April 5, 1704, died Jan. 30, 1776; his wife's name was Catharine. (6) Benjamin, born July 16, 1706, died Oct. 14, 1762. In 1726, at Abington, Pa., he married (first) Ann Farmer, and they were the parents of John and Susanna. There were five children by the second marriage, Mary, Benjamin, James, Samuel (whose daughter married Hezekiah Pancoast) and Dinah, who married Benjamin Tallman, son of William and Ann (Lincoln) Tallman - Benjamin being their only child who reached maturity and left descendants. Ann (Lincoln), his mother, was the sister of Sarah Lincoln, wife of William Boone, and they were daughters of Mordecai Lincoln, whose will was probated in 1736. Mordecai Lincoln married (second) Mary Robinson, and Sarah and Ann were their children; there was also a posthumous son, Abram. Among the sons of his first marriage was John, who had a son Abraham, who was the father of Thomas Lincoln, who married Nancy Hanks and became the father of Abraham Lincoln, president. William and Ann (Lincoln) Tallman moved to Virginia, where they died. Benjamin and Dinah (Boone) Tallman also moved to Virginia, but about 1805-10 they settled in Ohio, where he died about 1820 and she about 1824. (7) James, born July 18, 1709, died Sept. 1, 1785. He married Mary Foulke and (second) Anna Griffiths, and by his wife Mary had fourteen children. One of his sons, James, became an astronomer; he wrote the Boone manuscript from which much of the material used in this article is taken. The eldest child, Ann, married Abram Lincoln, posthumous child of Mordecai Lincoln, who died in 1735- 36. Mordecai Lincoln, son of Abram and Ann (Boone) Lincoln, married Julia Mayberry, sister of Margaret Mayberry, who was the wife of George Boone, son of William and Sarah Boone. Margaret Lincoln, only child of Mordecai and Julia (Mayberry) Lincoln who reached maturity, married a Mr. Barto. George Boone (4), born July 13, 1690, married Deborah Howell, and they had a family of ten children, born as follows: George (5), May 3, 1713, who died Sept. 30, 1737; Mary, Feb. 10, 1716; Hannah, July 20, 1718; Deborah, Dec. 18, 1720; Dinah, Oct. 18, 1722; Wm. Sept. 18, 1724; Josiah, Jan. 6, 1726; Jeremiah, Jan. 16, 1729; Abigail, Aug. 9, 1732; Hezekiah, March 22, 1734. William Boone, son of George (4), born Sept. 18, 1724 died in 1771. His will, signed May 23, 1768 and probated Dec. 6, 1771, provides for the following: To daughter Abigail, wife of Adin Pancoast 70 pounds; to repair the Exeter burying ground; to daughter Mary, 100 pounds at age of twenty years; to son Mordecai 50 pounds before division. The remainder of the estate was to be divided equally among the sons who were to be put to trades. On March 26, 1748, William Boone married Sarah Lincoln, who was born END OF PAGE 127 in January, 1727, and died April 21, 1810. The mother and children Mordecai, William, Mary, George, Thomas, Jeremiah and Hezekiah, by certificate members of Fairfax Meeting, Virginia, Oct. 30, 1776 were dismissed from Exeter; Sarah Boone and her children Mary, William, George, Jeremiah and Hezekiah were dismissed to Exeter Meeting by certificate later. Following is the record of the children born to William and Sarah (Lincoln) Boone: (1) Abigail was married May 28, 1767, to Adin Pancoast, who died Dec. 12, 1822. Her death occurred May 14, 1808. She had a certificate to Fairfax Meeting and another to return to Exeter, June 28, 1797, and a third from Exeter to Catawissa, and in the last are named children as follows: William, Mary and Hezekiah. Of these, William married Vashti Cooper and their daughter Mary married James Evans Lindsey, by whom he had a son, William Lindsey. Hezekiah, born June 8, 1789, was married March 26, 1815, to Rachel Boone, who was born May 30, 1789, daughter of Samuel Boone, who died on Fishing creek in 1811. (2) William married Susanna Parks, of Reading, Pa., who in 1778 had a certificate to Pipe Creek. In 1782 their descendants founded Boonsboro, Md. (3) Mordecai. (4) Mary married Isaac Lee, Exeter Meeting, May 8, 1777. (5) Thomas died Oct. 28 1823, in Amity township, Berks Co., Pa. married a daughter of Richard Lee. (6) Jeremiah. (7) Hezekiah married Hannah Hughs daughter of George Hughs, in Exeter township Berks Co., Pa. He died in Catawissa township Columbia Co., Pa., and his will was probated April 5, 1827. The children of his first wife were: William and George, of Schuylkill Co., Pa.; Martha Mrs. Lewis Vastine; Ann, Mrs. J. Wolverton; and Newton, who died in Bloomsburg, Pa.; the children by the second marriage were: Milton, who died at Pottsville; Surrissa; Hannah; John; Judah, of Schuylkill County, Pa.; Willetts, who died in Bloomsburg, Pa.; and Elizabeth, who died in Pottsville, Pa. (8) George, born in 1739, died in 1824. He married Hannah Hughs, and to them were born the following children: Edward Margaret, T. Ellis, Joseph, William Ridgeway, Elizabeth, and Jeremiah, all of whom died early in life. The mother of this family died in 1774 and Mr. Boone married (second) Margaret Mayberry, of Hereford township, Berks Co., Pa., daughter of Mrs. Ann Lee, wife of Richard Lee and widow of William Mayberry. By this union there were ten children, born as follows: Sarah, May l0, 1782 (married William Gearhart); William, Nov. 12, 1783; Ann, Aug. 21, 1785; Charles, Dec. 23, 1786: Mary, Oct. 18. 1788; George, Aug. 7, 1790 (died May 30, 1860); Elizabeth, Aug. 23, 1798; Harriet, Nov. 22, 1795; Margaret, May 25, 1798; Rachel, Feb. 5, 1801. --------------7C3A325D3D1BB4F8BC3ACA64--