Part 3. Genealogical Information relating to Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel Kendig Rupley

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Part 3.
Genealogical Information
relating to
Ancestors and Descendants
of
Samuel Kendig Rupley
The final section of the family album assembled by A. S. Rupleyhas genealogical information on
the Rupleyand Kendig ancestors and the Rupley, Schwartz and Wyatt descendants of S. K.
Rupley. This information is givenina series of documents that are listed below. Following the
introductory text pages, each document is attached in sequence.
DOCUMENTS:
Jacob Rupley(Rubli).
7pages, including 2 pages of church records supplied by the Staatsarchiv
Zurich and a map of the region of Switzerland where are found the towns
of Laufen and Dachsen.
NancyRupleyArmstrong of Houston, Texas, and Dr. Poucher,who carried out
research on the Rupleyfamily,supplied information on Jacob Rupley, birth name
Rubli, the immigrant patriarch of the Rupleyfamilies in America, including: his
birth in Switzerland, his emigration to this country,his Revolutionary War service,
his marriages and family,and his death and burial. A.S. Rupley, through the
good offices of the European Manager of W. R.Grace, obtained the church
records listing the christening of Jacob Rubli at Laufen on July 9, 1724.
The Last Will and Testament of Jacob Rupley.
6pages.
His second wife Mary is bequeathed 50 acres, a 20x30 ft log cabin, beds, and
cattle, so that she can live comfortably. Inthe division of his property,the seven
children of his deceased first son George are included [George and his son John
are in the line of descent from Jacob RupleytoS.K.Rupley]. Thehusbands of
four of his female children are listed. The executors are his wife Mary,his son-in-
lawAdam Fonderau, and "his trusty friend George Kober", of East Pennsborough.
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Line of Descent: Jacob Rupleythrough Samuel Kendig Rupleybranch, following Rupley
name.
1page.
Alist of 9 men bearing the Rupleyname, born overa242-year span. As far as
can be determined, each is the oldest male child with male issue [a question is
whether Isaac (b 1813), the older brother of Samuel Rupley(b1815), had male
issue].
Several comments on the data:
• The name of S. K. Rupley’smother,Martha in this table and in other
Rupleyfamily records (possibly collected by Mary/Martha (Kendig) Rupley
herself), is givenasMary Magdalena in LDS records for Samuel Rupley
(her husband), as Mary M. in LDS records for S. K. Rupley, and variously
as Mary and Martha in census records where she was head of household.
• The date of birth of S. K. Rupley, 1844 in this table, is givenas17Jul 1843
in his 1861 christening record (which givesanerroneous middle name,
Kendrick, and thus may be suspect) and implied as 1843 in his Civil War
military discharge papers, which state 21 years of age on 14 Jun 1865 (but
the age may have been rounded offtothe nearest year).
• The date of marriage of S. K. Rupleywith Jane E. Shurter is not given; it
can be inferred as 1865-1866 from the date of SKR’smustering out of Civil
Warservice and the date of birth of Harry M. Rupley.
• The name of John Rupley’swife, Ann Gener in this table, is givenasAnna
Sener,with marriage date 19 Apr 1804, in LDS records.
• The name of George Rupley’swife, Marta Kauffman in this table, is given
as Maria Kaufman in LDS records and as Ann Kaufman with marriage date
7Nov 1770 in records of Lancaster County marriages.
Note that both the last twoitems above can reflect transcription errors: "G" for
"S", and "t" for "i".
Descendants of Samuel K. Rupley.
3pages.
This table lists dates of birth, marriage and death and names of spouses for the
descendants of S. K. Rupley, describing about 100 years of family events, from
the birth in 1866 of Harry Mortimer Rupleytoabout 30 Mar 1970, when the data
were assembled. The table appears to be complete and accurate, except of course,
it lacks information on family events from 1970 to the present.
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Family Tree: Genealogical Information Assembled by Harry Mortimer Rupley.
3images of manuscript sheets. Agedcom file for a database constructed
from this tree, exactly as givenbyH.M.Rupley, without modification, is
available on request.
H. M. Rupley(HMR) connected 321 names in a genealogical tree, giving
information on:
• descendants of Samuel Kendig Rupley(SKR) and of his Rupleysiblings,
twoofwhich had issue (Susan and Daniel E.);
• Kendig ancestors of SKR, including their siblings, back to the immigrant
patriarch, Martin Kendig (five generations);
• descendants of some siblings of Kendig ancestors, i.e., descendants of
selected aunts and uncles, greataunts and greatuncles, etc.
The tree is drawn on three manuscript sheets. The main sheet is signed, "HM
Rupley, March 20, [18]93." Tw oshorter,secondary sheets that link into the main
sheet have information on the Samuel K. and Daniel E. Rupleybranches,
comprising 18 and 22 entries, respectively,ofnames not on the main sheet. The
additions extend the Samuel K. Rupleybranch to 1933.
Essentially no date information was included by HMR. The tree describes family
relationships only.
Some place information was included, for the location of various children and
grandchildren of Abraham Kendig and Mary Lane. [The default, in the absence
of a stated location, presumably being Lancaster,Pennsylvania.]
No sources were cited, i.e., the information is from written or oral records of
Kendig family history,possibly kept by Mary/Martha (Kendig) Rupley.
There is a major connectivity error:
• Martin Kendig (wife BetseyNeff, givenasKeffbyHMR) is listed by HMR
as the son of the immigrant patriarch Martin, not as the son of John Jacob
Kendig and Alice Wade, as giveninvarious documented sources.
Except for the above,casual comparison of parts of the tree with online sources
(especially,the Kendig Genealogy project, at www.genealogy.kendig.info, and the
LDS site, www.familysearch.com) indicates that the HMR information is
substantially correct, e.g.:
• The siblings of SKR’sKendig grandfather Samuel (the children of
Abraham Kendig and Mary Lane), agree in number (8) and in name; HMR
lists the spouses of 7 of the siblings and giveslines of descent for 5 of them
-information that is not found in the comparison online sources.
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• The siblings of SKR’sKendig greatgrandfather Abraham (the children of
John Jacob Kendig and Alice Wade) agree in number (8 including Martin)
and in name except for Ann, who is listed as Esther in the online sources;
the names of spouses of the siblings agree, except for Isaac and a probable
misspelling of Herr as Hem, as the spouse of Ann/Esther.
The tree is incomplete (as is to be expected):
• Except for the Rupleybranch, entries are for people born before about
1850. [thiscutoffdate and the focus on Kendig ancestors of SKR suggests
that much of the genealogical information may have been assembled by
Mary/Martha (Kendig) Rupleyand later transcribed and lightly fleshed out
with newer information by HMR, her grandson.]
• Unlisted children and unlisted marriages result in selective truncation of
branches of the tree and thus a focus on particular lines of descent.
HMR not unreasonably emphasized the Kendig descendants associated most
closely with the line leading to marriage into the Rupleyfamily: the descendants
of Abraham Kendig and Mary Lane are followed for twoorthree generations.
This information appears to fill gaps in Kendig family information found online:
• Spouses and descendants are listed for 5 of the 8 children of Abraham
Kendig and Mary Lane;
• These comprise about 240 people not listed in the other sources of Kendig
family tree information that were checked; these people and their
descendants (presumably in total much greater than 240 in number,taking
into account those born between about 1850 and the present) are linked into
the Kendig family tree by the HMR genealogy.
The spelling by HMR of some surnames is suspect, e.g., Honery (Howry?),
Deherau (Dehaven?), Lighton (Lightner?), Keff(Neff?), Hoorn (Hoover?),
Medinan (?), Mussleman (Musselman?), Sides (sometimes Seitz?), Gofo (Goff?),
Hem (Herr?), etc. [One imagines HMR might have made errors transcribing
information assembled by his grandmother Mary/Martha (Kendig) Rupley.]
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Henry Clifford: Naturalization Papers.
Images of these documents are not attached below.
Henry Clifford, father of Jane Clarkson "Jennie" Clifford, wife of H. M. Rupley,
wasborn in England. It was said that his daughter Jane was born in Mexico,
when he was in that country as an engineer engaged in construction of railroads.
Later,inthis country,inPoughkeepsie, he was manager of the city water works.
• On 2 Oct 1868, in the ninety third Year of Independence of the United
States, he was naturalized (admitted to become a citizen) in the Supreme
Court of Duchess County,NY. Hethen resided at Middle Granville,
Washington County,NY.
• On 27 Apr 1875, in the 99th year of the Independence of the United States,
he was naturalized (for the second time?) in the Court of Common Pleas
for the City and County of New York.
OTHER DOCUMENTS:
Part 2: Personal Papers and Letters of Samuel Kendig Rupley.
Images of these documents are not attached below.
The personal papers and letters of S. K. Rupleyare described in Part 2 of this
three-part description of the album assembled by A. S. Rupley. Byvirtue of
describing events and aspects of S. K. Rupley’slife, the papers of Part 2 constitute
part of his genealogy,which fact deserves to be noted and made reference to here
in Part 3.
Jacob Rupley(Rubli).
7pages,
including 2 pages of church records supplied by the StaatsarchivZurich
and a map of the region of Switzerland where are found the towns of
Laufen and Dachsen.