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Subject: [HUPP] Francis "Polly" KNIGHT HUPP , obit, 1870, 1880, 1920 census Caroll Co., IA
Date: 11 Oct 2003 00:49:10 -0600

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Surnames: Hupp, Knight, Fay
Classification: Query

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GLIDDEN GRAPHIC
Jan 6, 1922
Mrs. Frances Hupp
Pioneer is Dead

Mrs. Frances Hupp died in her home where she had lived more than fortyyears,near the Oak Hill school house in Union township. She was born inOhio in 1848. When a small child she moved with her parents by river steamboat to Lee county. When a young woman she came to Carroll county,coming over land in a wagon drawn by oxen. Being a young woman of industrious habits she worked for sometime in the home of some early settlers near Old Carrollton. Mrs. John Hupp, who with her husband still lives near the Old Carrollton store, loves to tell of pleasant associations had with Frances Knight in her early girlhood.
In the fall of 1865 she was married to Wm. Hupp. She always worked hard,giving her whole life in the care of her large family of ten children,doing her best in the hard circumstances of pioneer life. Five of her children and her husband preceeded her in the great beyond, the five children dying in infancy, and her husband about thirteen years ago. The children living are four boys- Frank, Dan, Dora, and George, all near Coon Rapids, and one daughter, Mrs. Matilda Fay, who is living in the state of Washington. Her husband was a civil war veteran so[sic]rendered his country service during the darkest hours of its history.Mrs. Hupp lived to send one of her own boys out into the great world war. Her body was burried by the side of her husband in the CarrolltonCemetery.
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1) 1870 US Census , Iowa , Carroll, Union Twp

Hupp William 24 M W works on farm 500 OH
Francis 19 F W keeping house OH
William 14 M W IA ( i think his age is wrong, believe should be 4 )
Matilda 2 F W IA
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2) 1880 US Census, Iowa, Carroll, Union Twp., ED 35, page 17

Hupp William H W M 32 Farmer OH OH OH
Francis W F 30 keeping house OH OH OH
Willie W M 13 farm laborer IA OH OH
Matilda W F 11 studying school same
Jason C. W M 9 same
George W M 7 same
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1920 Us Census Iowa Carroll Union

Hupp Francis Head O F F W 72 wd no no OH OH OH farmer
Dora son M W 28 S no no IA OH OH farming
Daniel son M W 22 S yes yes IA OH OH ?????
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this is my 3rd great grandmother

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