Mary Belle and all - I have a lot of LUPHERs and I notice several of them are in here; (also I wonder about the Looper and Loper). Some of the Luphers lived in Blooming Valley I know. I will be glad to provide more Lupher information for anyone that needs it. Jan MARY BELLE A KIMMY wrote: > > Edward SMITH/Martha HAMMOND: > The Crawford County History (page 871) says "James Smith settled in this > County about 1796... > >From Minnie Trapani's papers and from Francis Waid's Souvenire, both to > be found in the Historical Society of the Meadville Public Library, is > the following information: > James was forn in 1750, died in 1836 at Blooming Valley. He came from > England from wealthy parents. He was disowned and left home at age 14. He > married Ruth Ann ?? around 1777-1780. Ruth was also born in England and > had been married previously. Tommy Morgan moved to Pennsylvania with her. > Perhpas he was a brother? or a son from the first marriage? > James and Ruth Smith raised a large family, including two sets of twins, > 16 children total. The older children were born in New Jersey; Edward > somewhere in Pennsylvania (probably Susquehanna County.), Mary in Vernon > Township, Crawford County. They moved to Crawford County in 1800 from > Susquehanna, PA and settled permanently in Blooming Valley about 1802/03. > All of the children were married after moving to Crawford County. Nothing > is known of Ruth's brothers or sisters (according to the Trapani papers > and Crawford County History. James is buried in the Smith Cemetery just > west of Blooming Valley to the south of State Route 77. > James brought his family to western PA in 1800. For at least one year > they remained with friends or relatives in or near Vernon Township. this > family operated a mill. In the fall, Ruth took William and Robert to > Blooming Valley. In the spring all moved there. Tommy Morgan lived with > one and then another of his brothers and sisters until an advanced age. > He worked among the early settlers making the clothes once a year for > whole families of men and boys. > Following is a list of names of the children of James and Ruth Smith's > children: > 1. Elizabeth (Betsy), b 1774/1777, d 1878/1808or09, married Hugh Fitz > Randolph > 2. Sarah (Sally) m Seth Nicholls > 3. Andrew, died 5-12-1882 m Martha Loper who was b 7-11-1804; d 9-8-1893 > m 4-15-1824 > 4. William, b 1785; d 1-12-1858 > m Rebecca (Betsy) Lupher, b 1789; d 5-1-1854 > 5. Robert, b 1787; d 10-26-1853; m 9-24-1818 (see Waid's Souvenirs) > m Mary (Polly ) Lupher, b 1797; d 4-30-1886 > 6. George, b 2-14-1791; d 12-17-1886 > m 1. Charlotte Fredabaugh, b 1791; Oct. 1843 > m 2. Sally Ann Sutton on 10-2-1844 > m 3. Mary Yarrington, b 1804; d 1-19-1887 > 7. Jeremiah, b 1794; d 12-28-1878 > m Catherine (Kate) Ritenour > 8. Edward > m 1. Martha Hammond, b 1819; d 1871 m about 1833 > m 2. Mrs. Susan ________ > 9. James, b 1789; d 3-10-1875 > m 1. Catharine Looper, b 1797; d 5-1-1849 > m 2. Eleanor Robinson Lord > m 3. Mrs. Almena Boyles, b 1807; d 10-7-1871 > 10. Joseph, b about 1798 > m 1. Bashi Anthony (?) > m 2. Mrs. Sally Warner Buck > m 3. Mrs. Katheryn Weidner Norris > 11. Mary (Polly), b 1801; d 9-8-1891 (bur. Blooming Valley Cemetery) > m 1. Joseph Smith on 12-29-1821; d 8-1-1843 bur. in Blooming Valley > Cemetery. > m 2. Isaac Kiser, b 1782; d 12-16-1870 > P.S. Charlotte Fredebaugh (sometimes spelled Friedebaugh) was the > daughter of John Fredebaugh, one of Meadville's earliest settlers. > (Atlas, p 241.) All of George's children were born to Charlotte. > > Now, to answer the inquiry re Edward and Martha Hammond Smith. They had > the following children: > 1. Sally Ann, b about 1834 in Blooming Valley; d 185_; m David Willis, b > 7-25-1818; d t-26-1894 > 2. Isaac, b 6- -1835 at Brown Hill, Rockdale Tp, PA. m 4-5-1854 Sophia > Naomi Bresee, b 6-2-1843; d 10-1-1915 > 3. Harriet, b about 1836/7 > 4. Harrison, b about 1836/37 > 5. Nancy, b 7-28-1839 m 9-4-1856 Leonard Dine, b 11-10-1831;d 6-27-1915 > 6. Mary Jane m ________Willis > 7. Emmeline m Henry Beers > 8. Martha Rebecca, b 1847; d 1925 m Newell Bunting, who died about 1938 > 9. Jaspar, b 9-18-1849; d 12-30-1921; m 7-3-1870 Willie Ann Still, b > 5-27-1851; d 1-10-1922-bur at Brown Hill. > 10. Edward Robert, b 9-1-1851; d 10-18-1923, bur at Blooming Valley; > m Eva Dexter, b 2-17-1864; d 2-1-1881 > 11. Flora Sylvana, b 1855; d 1919; > m about 1871 John Kuhns, b 1839; d 1915 > 12. Roseanna, b 1-22-1859 in Blooming Valley; d 4-4-1948 m 7-4-1885 > Frank Charles Greenleaf, b 9-18-1855 in New York; > d,4-19-1931, bur Lyona,Richmond Tp, PA. > > If more information is required after the above, please let me know. > Mary Belle Kimmy > > ___________________________________________________________________ > You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. > Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html > or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] > > ==== PACRAWFO Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political > announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, > etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal > and exclusion from this mailing list. Spam crashes our servers and we have > to take a stand. For comments or list administration questions,please > Barbara Farthing Bonham msb@myfamily.org -- Janice Frank <janiceaf@ix.netcom.com> Researching names: BISCHOFF, DIETRICH, FRANCK/FRANK, KELLER, KUNZ/KUNTZ, LUPHER/LUPFER/LUPER, SCHULTZ/SHULTZ, TAYLOR