Isaac Jessup and family
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The following story was added to Ancestry.com in the Public Family Stories section by lkfredb on June 29, 2010. I haven't been able to verify all the information yet and there is an interesting discrepancy (the text mentions 7 children of Isaac but then lists 9 names). However, I have verified some information and this story could enlighten others:
The father of Isaac Jessup (Jessiop), a Methodist minister, came from England to settle on the coast in Perquimans County, North Carolina. There Isaac was born September 25, 1805. His father - believed to be Timothy Jessup - died when he was quite young and he was “bound out” to a man who mistreated him until a Mr. Elliot, who had been a friend of Isaac’s father, took him into his home. He attempted to teach him the ship building trade. One of his sons, Cam Elliot, went as far down the coast as Charleston, South Carolina plying his trade. But, Isaac had no hand for this work. When he was twenty-one, he was to receive a horse, saddle, and supply of clothing. But before he reached this age, he eloped with Sarah Ann (Sallie) Elliot. She had never worked and never did learn. Her parents sent her old colored nanny to her in the mountains of North Carolina (the same nurse who had helped her bathe and dress for elopement). When their son, Winslow, was three years old, they went northward via the Cumberland Gap and crossed over the Ohio River into Ohio. Seven children were born to them: Winslow, Thomas, William, Hugh, Miriam, Francis, Sophia, Evelyn and Mary. The Jessups moved from Xenia, Ohio to Howard County, Indiana and settled between Sims and Converse, Indiana. In 1873, Isaac furnished the land and lumber for building the Poplar Grove Methodist Protestant Church. The church was torn down some time in the 1940’s.
Sophia Evelyn(b.1836-d.1900) was born in Darke County, Greenville, Ohio. She married Benjamin Rush Maple, from Rush County, Indiana, in 1854. The story of their meeting involves the old tin bugle or horn that the family brought with them when they moved from out east.
Tradition has it that Isaac used the horn when they blazed the trail through the woods (now highway 513) from Xenia, Indiana(now Converse) to where the family settled. Whether the purpose was to scare away wild animals, or to assist in locating the others in the group, is uncertain. Probably, the horn was also used to call in the menfolk from the woods or field when dinner was prepared. But the most consistent family story involves Sophia. It seems Benjamin Rush Maple and his cousin were lost in the woods near the Jessup family’s cabin. The Jessups heard shouts for help coming from the woods, so Isaac told his daughters to get the bugle out and keep sounding the horn until the two lost young men appeared at their door, clothes torn, and all scratched, tired, and hungry. The Jessups made the men welcome. Some time later, Benjamin and Sophia were married.
Benjamin Rush Maple served in the Union Army as a private and the company cook. He reportedly fought at Lookout Mountain. He became ill with liver and digestive problems while in the Union Army and was disabled much of the rest of his life because of the problems. Extensive records exist from his doctors trying to help him obtain disability or pension from the military. He died in the Old Folk’s Home in Marion, Indiana January 16, 1916.
Benjamin and Sophia’s children were Viola(who died in infancy), Seneca Scott(who died as a young doctor just starting his practice in Burlington, Indiana), Frank(Lillie)Sims, Ellen(Mitchell), Emma Jeanette(Parson), Charles, William, Anna(Simpson), Ida, Thomas, “Sallie” Maude (Burger).
Emma Jeanette Maple(b 16 Oct 1863-Oct.1939) married Joshua Leroy Parson(1860-1931) on
Feb.7, 1883. Their children were: Leroy(died at 18 months), Edna(Niccum) (d. 1912), Etta DeCosmo Myers Forkner,(d.1969), Ava(d.14 Dec 1975), Furr(d. Mar 1968), Lola(d. 1909 at age 16), Clayton(d. 24 Aug 1974), Fayne, Frankie, Anna and Pauline R. Norris Coffman.
The old tin bugle was handed down from the Jessups to the Parsons and is now in the Norris family’s possession. It still produces a very nice sound despite the fact that the mouthpiece in deformed by years of travel and use.
The father of Isaac Jessup (Jessiop), a Methodist minister, came from England to settle on the coast in Perquimans County, North Carolina. There Isaac was born September 25, 1805. His father - believed to be Timothy Jessup - died when he was quite young and he was “bound out” to a man who mistreated him until a Mr. Elliot, who had been a friend of Isaac’s father, took him into his home. He attempted to teach him the ship building trade. One of his sons, Cam Elliot, went as far down the coast as Charleston, South Carolina plying his trade. But, Isaac had no hand for this work. When he was twenty-one, he was to receive a horse, saddle, and supply of clothing. But before he reached this age, he eloped with Sarah Ann (Sallie) Elliot. She had never worked and never did learn. Her parents sent her old colored nanny to her in the mountains of North Carolina (the same nurse who had helped her bathe and dress for elopement). When their son, Winslow, was three years old, they went northward via the Cumberland Gap and crossed over the Ohio River into Ohio. Seven children were born to them: Winslow, Thomas, William, Hugh, Miriam, Francis, Sophia, Evelyn and Mary. The Jessups moved from Xenia, Ohio to Howard County, Indiana and settled between Sims and Converse, Indiana. In 1873, Isaac furnished the land and lumber for building the Poplar Grove Methodist Protestant Church. The church was torn down some time in the 1940’s.
Sophia Evelyn(b.1836-d.1900) was born in Darke County, Greenville, Ohio. She married Benjamin Rush Maple, from Rush County, Indiana, in 1854. The story of their meeting involves the old tin bugle or horn that the family brought with them when they moved from out east.
Tradition has it that Isaac used the horn when they blazed the trail through the woods (now highway 513) from Xenia, Indiana(now Converse) to where the family settled. Whether the purpose was to scare away wild animals, or to assist in locating the others in the group, is uncertain. Probably, the horn was also used to call in the menfolk from the woods or field when dinner was prepared. But the most consistent family story involves Sophia. It seems Benjamin Rush Maple and his cousin were lost in the woods near the Jessup family’s cabin. The Jessups heard shouts for help coming from the woods, so Isaac told his daughters to get the bugle out and keep sounding the horn until the two lost young men appeared at their door, clothes torn, and all scratched, tired, and hungry. The Jessups made the men welcome. Some time later, Benjamin and Sophia were married.
Benjamin Rush Maple served in the Union Army as a private and the company cook. He reportedly fought at Lookout Mountain. He became ill with liver and digestive problems while in the Union Army and was disabled much of the rest of his life because of the problems. Extensive records exist from his doctors trying to help him obtain disability or pension from the military. He died in the Old Folk’s Home in Marion, Indiana January 16, 1916.
Benjamin and Sophia’s children were Viola(who died in infancy), Seneca Scott(who died as a young doctor just starting his practice in Burlington, Indiana), Frank(Lillie)Sims, Ellen(Mitchell), Emma Jeanette(Parson), Charles, William, Anna(Simpson), Ida, Thomas, “Sallie” Maude (Burger).
Emma Jeanette Maple(b 16 Oct 1863-Oct.1939) married Joshua Leroy Parson(1860-1931) on
Feb.7, 1883. Their children were: Leroy(died at 18 months), Edna(Niccum) (d. 1912), Etta DeCosmo Myers Forkner,(d.1969), Ava(d.14 Dec 1975), Furr(d. Mar 1968), Lola(d. 1909 at age 16), Clayton(d. 24 Aug 1974), Fayne, Frankie, Anna and Pauline R. Norris Coffman.
The old tin bugle was handed down from the Jessups to the Parsons and is now in the Norris family’s possession. It still produces a very nice sound despite the fact that the mouthpiece in deformed by years of travel and use.