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Subject: Sarah A. Davis b. 1804 wife of Rev. John Hupp
Date: 13 May 2005 21:31:50 -0600

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History of Mrs. Sarah A. Hupp
Mrs. Sarah A. Davis Hupp, who died last week in her ninety-fifth year, lived over the most remarkable portion of the nation's history and is therefore a life that is very interesting to review.
She was born in West Virginia in 1804 when that state was somewhat wild, removing to Ohio six years later where she lived for two years in a fort, that state at that time being on the frontier, the home of the Indians from whom the frontiersmen suffered greatly. A little later she moved with her parents to Monroe county, Ohio, where she helped her father clear up a farm using an axe and felling trees with a dexterity equal to that of any man. At the age of eighteen she was married to Rev. John Hupp and with him in 1852 moved to Clinton county, Iowa, and in 1863 to Carroll county, where her husband died in 1872 being a minister all his life, many of the older residents of the county hearing him preach.
She never remarried, remaining in the county with her children, the most of the time residing with Mr. and Mrs. Cephas Parker. She retained full possession of her mental power up to the very last day of her death, the day before her death recalling many incidents that happened in West Virginia when she was but five and six years old. Her sight and hearing however, was considerably impaired, yet she could move about the house and to some extent wait upon herself.
She was the mother of fourteen children - seven girls and seven boys, six of whom - five boys and one girl being dead the living being as follows: Mrs. Julia Prettyman, of Butte City, Nebr., mother of John and Wm., Mrs. Rhoda A Smith of Minneapolis, Minn., Mrs. Rachal Linton, of Norman, Okla., mother of John W. Linton, Mrs. Maria J. Carmichael of Butte City, Nebr., mother of Mrs. O. W. Carpenter, Mrs. Cephas Parker, of Coon Rapids, Mrs. Mary H. Holding of Sioux Rapids, Iowa and Daniel and W. H. Hupp, of Coon Rapids. The deceased are Sarah Jane, Geoorge, Nathan, Isaac, John and Henry, the latter two dying in the army, Henry at Cairo Ills., of typhoid fever, John being killed on the battle of Lookout Mountain, the other three boys she gave to the war returning home. She was the grandmother of 65 children, 46 of whom are living, was the great grandmother of 156, 135 of whom are living.
She joined the M.E. church at the age of 17, being a member 78 years, probably the oldest member in the state. She lived under all presidents of the United States except Washington and before the discovery of telegraphy, the use of steam boats and railroads in the United States, long before Howe invented the sewing machine, before harvesters and mowers, threashing machines, rapid printing presses, steam fire engines, locomotive engines, matches, etc. She lived when Aaron Burr committed conspiracy, when commodore Perry fought the battle of Lake Erie, during the capture and burning of Washington, the battle of Tippacanoe, New Orleans, the Black Hawk war, war with Mexico, and the admission into the Union of all the middle and western states, also almost all the northren and southren states, there being but 13 states in the Union when she was born.
What a privalege it was to live through those stirring times - this great history making epock and yet the hardships endured, and the hard labor performed through the lack of almost all labor saving inventions during this period was such the the present generation would not care to endure.

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