no image
Privacy Level: Open (White)

Peter Shupe (1781 - 1849)

Peter Shupe aka Shoop, Schupp
Born in Montgomery County, Virginia, USAmap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 20 Sep 1804 in Wytheville, Wythe Co., Virginiamap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 67 in Smyth County, Virginia, USAmap
Problems/Questions Profile manager: Rebecca Morris private message [send private message]
Profile last modified | Created 4 Oct 2014
This page has been accessed 689 times.

Biography

Flag of Virginia
Peter Shupe was born in Virginia.

Peter Shupe was born in August 1781, Montgomery CoUnty, Virginia.[1]

Peter married Mary Polly Slemp on 20 September 1804 in Wythe County, Virginia[2]

The 1810 census lists Peter Shoop as head of family and a male under 10 years, 2 females under 10 and a female 26 to 44 years. The children would be William born 1807 and his sisters, Sarah born 1805 and Elizabeth 1809.[3]

He is on the 1815 Southwest Virginia Tax Assessment listing a 150 acre farm on the head of the South Fork of Holston. He has a cabin, one stable, loom, meat and spring houses, and wagon makers ship of logs. The value is $400,[4]

Peter and family are on the 1820 census living in Evensham, Wythe County, Virginia. The total of the household is 10.[5]In 1830 the family remains in Wythe County, Virginia with a total of 13 persons.[6]The 1840 census lists 59 year old Peter and 6 family members living in Smyth County. Smyth was formed in 1832 from from Wythe County.[7]

Peter passes away in July 1849 from Dropsy. He had been sick for 5 months.[8]

Sources

  1. 1850 Smyth Co., Virginia U. S. Mortality Schedule, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSDY-JG6
  2. Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940, FHL Film Number: 34254, Reference ID: Page 21
  3. 1810 Wythe County, Virginia U. S. Federal Census, page 855
  4. Historical Society of Washington County, Virginia, Inc., Page: 145
  5. 1820 Wythe County, Virginia U. S. Federal Census
  6. 1830 Wythe County, Virginia U. S. Federal Census
  7. 1840 Smyth County, Virginia U. S. Federal Census
  8. Federal Census Mortality Schedule, 1850-1885, Line: 32, Archive Collection Number: T1132




Is Peter your ancestor? Please don't go away!
 star icon Login to collaborate or comment, or
 star icon contact private message the profile manager, or
 star icon ask our community of genealogists a question.
Sponsored Search by Ancestry.com

DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Peter: Have you taken a test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.


Comments

Leave a message for others who see this profile.
There are no comments yet.
Login to post a comment.

Featured German connections: Peter is 21 degrees from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 23 degrees from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 22 degrees from Lucas Cranach, 20 degrees from Stefanie Graf, 19 degrees from Wilhelm Grimm, 20 degrees from Fanny Hensel, 20 degrees from Theodor Heuss, 11 degrees from Alexander Mack, 30 degrees from Carl Miele, 16 degrees from Nathan Rothschild, 18 degrees from Hermann Friedrich Albert von Ihering and 19 degrees from Ferdinand von Zeppelin on our single family tree. Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.

S  >  Shupe  >  Peter Shupe