Jessup/Jesiop Family Stories
Isaac Jessup
Isaac Jessup's name is alternately spelled Jesiop and Jessiop. As written in a biography after his death, Isaac was born in Perquimins County, N. C, on Sept. 29, 1805.
He had two wives, Sarah Elliott and then Sophia Moore. He married Sarah Elliott in 1826, according to his obituary, but court records say they were married Jan. 9, 1827. Sarah died in 1870 and he married Sophia on Sept. 10, 1870. I have not confirmed all the data in this Jessup family story, but it talks about Isaac's early life and his first wife.
His obituary says he moved to Darke County, Ohio., in 1829; was converted and "united with the M. E. Church in 1836" He moved to Jackscn Township, Howard County, Indiana, in 1849, where he obtained 400 acres of land and cleared up a farm, and "shared in the rigors of a backwoods life." He provided the land and helped back the building of the Poplar Grove Methodist Church in Poplar Grove, Indiana.
Also from his obituary: "They had no roads only as they made them by cutting a narrow way through the timber, using timber for corduroying low places. Jesiop and his boys surveyed a road, using a pocket compass for a guide, from Pipe Creek, south of Xenia meandering on the highest ground to his home, and then to Lilly Creek, near Jerome, a distance of about ten miles. On this road they went to mill and store, etc., until the settlers improved the lands and a road was placed on the section line east of his house, which is now ordered to be graveled. A railroad also passes the Jesiop horne.
During the late war the class was left without reguiar preaching for a few years, when he again invited an itinerant to his home, which he found in the person of Rev. Geo. W. Boxell -- who held a meeting in the Jesiop Schoolhouse, near the home -- and organized a class and received the family into the M.P. Church, and Grandpa, as he was called by many, was happy and energetic member. "
He died January 17, 1883. In his will, he ceded the church he built and the lot enclosing it to the M.P. Church for a house of worship.
He is buried with his first wife, Sarah, in Jerome Cemetery in Union Township, Howard County, Ind. (Note: this Isaac summary says he is buried in Webster cemetery and gives a different birth date)
His obituary can be found here. A transcript and copy of Isaac Jessiop's will can be found here.
He had seven children, 2 of them predeceased him. For more on Isaac's children, see below.
He had two wives, Sarah Elliott and then Sophia Moore. He married Sarah Elliott in 1826, according to his obituary, but court records say they were married Jan. 9, 1827. Sarah died in 1870 and he married Sophia on Sept. 10, 1870. I have not confirmed all the data in this Jessup family story, but it talks about Isaac's early life and his first wife.
His obituary says he moved to Darke County, Ohio., in 1829; was converted and "united with the M. E. Church in 1836" He moved to Jackscn Township, Howard County, Indiana, in 1849, where he obtained 400 acres of land and cleared up a farm, and "shared in the rigors of a backwoods life." He provided the land and helped back the building of the Poplar Grove Methodist Church in Poplar Grove, Indiana.
Also from his obituary: "They had no roads only as they made them by cutting a narrow way through the timber, using timber for corduroying low places. Jesiop and his boys surveyed a road, using a pocket compass for a guide, from Pipe Creek, south of Xenia meandering on the highest ground to his home, and then to Lilly Creek, near Jerome, a distance of about ten miles. On this road they went to mill and store, etc., until the settlers improved the lands and a road was placed on the section line east of his house, which is now ordered to be graveled. A railroad also passes the Jesiop horne.
During the late war the class was left without reguiar preaching for a few years, when he again invited an itinerant to his home, which he found in the person of Rev. Geo. W. Boxell -- who held a meeting in the Jesiop Schoolhouse, near the home -- and organized a class and received the family into the M.P. Church, and Grandpa, as he was called by many, was happy and energetic member. "
He died January 17, 1883. In his will, he ceded the church he built and the lot enclosing it to the M.P. Church for a house of worship.
He is buried with his first wife, Sarah, in Jerome Cemetery in Union Township, Howard County, Ind. (Note: this Isaac summary says he is buried in Webster cemetery and gives a different birth date)
His obituary can be found here. A transcript and copy of Isaac Jessiop's will can be found here.
He had seven children, 2 of them predeceased him. For more on Isaac's children, see below.
Thomas J. Jessup
Isaac's son, Thomas married his first wife, Elizabeth Hatfield March 6, 1851 in Howard County, Indiana. Elizabeth and Thomas had children: Sarah, Alice (Allie) and John W. Elizabeth died Dec 14, 1857* in Howard County, Ind. the same date their son John was born (according to Thomas' military papers) so it appears that she died in childbirth or shortly after. Elizabeth, who was 26 years old when she died, was buried in Jerome Cemetery in Jerome, Howard County, Ind.
Thomas married his second wife, Sarah E. Snow, on May 22, 1859 in Howard County, Ind. Their children were:
Edwin J. (b April 27, 1862), George A. (b. Jan 9 1867), Tirzy C. (b Feb 5, 1864) and Florence E. (b Feb 24, 1871).
Thomas served in the Civil War's Union forces,enlisting on August 22, 1862 in the 5th Regiment of the Indiana Cavalry (90th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers) with the rank of private. He listed his occupation as a wagon maker when he enlisted.
Thomas was badly wounded in the war suffering from: "chronic inflammation of right eye with impaired vision and a chronic abscess of sectrum, the result of injury received in the line of his duty, April, 1863, since which time he has done no duty." He was on sick furlough from May 1863 to February 1864. From March 1864 to April 1865 , he was noted as being on sick furlough and/or in the hospital in Evansville. According to the history of the Regiment, there was a skirmish at Cumberland River in April 1863, so perhaps this is where Thomas J. was injured.
Because of his injury and inability to perform active duty, Private Thomas J. Jessup was transferred to Co. G, 2nd Batt. 17th Regt. of U. S. Invalid Corps on October 31, 1863. According to his pension papers, he was "never at the front" because of his stay in the hospital. He was mustered out on June 15, 1865 in Pulaski, Tenn.
Thomas J. died Nov. 26, 1901 in Center, Howard County, Indiana. He died of stomach bowel irritation that had persisted the past 6 months. His immediate cause of death was listed as congestion of the stomach and a contributor was blood poison, which he had suffered from the past two years. His sister, Sophia Maple, died of Gastric catarrh in May 1900 (suffering the prior 5 months), which would have been roughly the time that Thomas got sick. Thomas J. and Sarah are buried in Albright Cemetery in Kokomo, Howard County, Ind.
* Elizabeth Jesiop's death date is listed as Dec. 14, 1857 according to Thomas Jessup's military pension papers but her gravestone says Dec. 18, 1857.
Thomas married his second wife, Sarah E. Snow, on May 22, 1859 in Howard County, Ind. Their children were:
Edwin J. (b April 27, 1862), George A. (b. Jan 9 1867), Tirzy C. (b Feb 5, 1864) and Florence E. (b Feb 24, 1871).
Thomas served in the Civil War's Union forces,enlisting on August 22, 1862 in the 5th Regiment of the Indiana Cavalry (90th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers) with the rank of private. He listed his occupation as a wagon maker when he enlisted.
Thomas was badly wounded in the war suffering from: "chronic inflammation of right eye with impaired vision and a chronic abscess of sectrum, the result of injury received in the line of his duty, April, 1863, since which time he has done no duty." He was on sick furlough from May 1863 to February 1864. From March 1864 to April 1865 , he was noted as being on sick furlough and/or in the hospital in Evansville. According to the history of the Regiment, there was a skirmish at Cumberland River in April 1863, so perhaps this is where Thomas J. was injured.
Because of his injury and inability to perform active duty, Private Thomas J. Jessup was transferred to Co. G, 2nd Batt. 17th Regt. of U. S. Invalid Corps on October 31, 1863. According to his pension papers, he was "never at the front" because of his stay in the hospital. He was mustered out on June 15, 1865 in Pulaski, Tenn.
Thomas J. died Nov. 26, 1901 in Center, Howard County, Indiana. He died of stomach bowel irritation that had persisted the past 6 months. His immediate cause of death was listed as congestion of the stomach and a contributor was blood poison, which he had suffered from the past two years. His sister, Sophia Maple, died of Gastric catarrh in May 1900 (suffering the prior 5 months), which would have been roughly the time that Thomas got sick. Thomas J. and Sarah are buried in Albright Cemetery in Kokomo, Howard County, Ind.
* Elizabeth Jesiop's death date is listed as Dec. 14, 1857 according to Thomas Jessup's military pension papers but her gravestone says Dec. 18, 1857.