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Subject: [HUPP] Re: Casper Hupp/ Peter Hoop from Shenendoah Co. VA
Date: 21 Feb 2004 13:00:39 -0700


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Last summer, I visited a house that was marked as an historic landmark in the Shenandoah Valley - located at Hupp's Hill - about 30 miles north of Harrissonburg, VA and just south of the Andrew Jackson Museum.The town is Strasburg, VA. I visited with the Hupp descendant who lives at the house. I'm sorry I can not remember all of the details AND when I sent my notes by U.S. Mail from Harrisburg, PA to Eureka, CA, the package broke open and although some of my notes were found and forwarded, some have never been returned to me. However, the lady to whom I spoke, told me that there were two Hupp families who came to the area in the 1700's - one via ship to Philadelphia. She said that her father, who died last year, was a geneology buff and that she had lots of his notes in the attic. Now, of course, I do not remember her name and the notes that I took at her kitchen table are lost except for my memory - which of course, included her first name! I am so disappointed, but I plan !
to return this coming summer. There is a Judge Tim Hupp in the area who has written a book, a copy of which is in the Harrisonburg, VA library. Tim speaks of a Casper and brothers, some of whom migrated to southwestern Pennsylvania. I copied a few of the pages and mailed them. I have not reorganized the mess of papers that the Post Office forwarded to me, so I do not know if those pages are with me now or not.
My grandfather was a Hupp, descended from Hupps who migrated from VA to PA and eventually to WVA before it was legal to do so. I also drove to PA and found a creek named Ten Mile Creek. I did not have time to spend much time in the area such as visiting a library. However, Ten Mile Creek is memtioned in a piece that I read on the web yesterday as well as in a little pamphlet that details the Flin/Flyn? family and can be found in the library at Indianapolis, IN library.
Sincerely,
Gay Gilchrist

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