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Name: Sophia STAPLETON
Sex: F
Birth: 9 Feb 1810 in Fairfield Co, Ohio ^b
Death: 3 May 1901 in Gomer, Ohio ^d

Parents:

Father:
John STAPLETON Birth: 22 May 1774 in Albany Township, Berks Co, Pennsylvania Death: 24 Apr 1850 in Clearcreek, Fairfield Co, Ohio

Mother:

Mary Magdalena SCHUMACHER Birth: 12 Dec 1777 in Albany Township, Berks Co, Pennsylvania Death: 8 Apr 1838 in Clearcreek, Fairfield Co, Ohio

Family:
Marriage:

Anthony HARPSTER on 17 Oct 1827 at South Walnut, Ohio .^m1
Anthony HARPSTER Birth: 9 Jan 1807 in Northumberland Co, Pennsylvania Death: 24 Jun 1883 in Gomer, Ohio

Children:

John HARPSTER Birth: 13 Jun 1828 in Fairfield Co, Ohio Death: 29 Mar 1891 in Putnam Co, Ohio
Elizabeth HARPSTER Birth: 15 Feb 1831 in Fairfield Co, Ohio Death: 7 Nov 1909 in North Manchester, Indiana
Mary HARPSTER Birth: 1832 in Fairfield Co, Ohio Death: 12 May 1913 in Sugar Creek Twp, Allen Co, Ohio
Reuben HARPSTER Birth: 16 Feb 1840 in Allen Co, Ohio Death: 21 Jan 1929 in West Cairo, Ohio
Levi HARPSTER Birth: 1 May 1842 in Allen Co, Ohio Death: 3 Jan 1898
Jacob HARPSTER Birth: 3 Jun 1844 in Allen Co, Ohio Death: Audubon, Minnesota

Bibliography

Census 1850, Ohio, Allen Co, Monroe, p07. M432-657. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/004189787 image 749. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: 1850 OH Allen Monroe 07].
Dale, Beverly, Harpster, private email 12/28/1995. Author address: revbev at pobox dot upenn dot edu Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Beverly Dale 12/28/1995].
Burkhardt, Franklin A, The BOUCHER Family, Francis E Burkhardt Press, New York, 1917. Available at http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005712838 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p[0-9f]*].
DAR Lineage, Mrs. Okla Riley DEMING #132588 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: DAR #132588].
DAR Application 483841, Goble, Ruth Jacobs Information from this source tagged as [Ref: DAR #483841].
DAR Application 595197, Walgamuth, Betty Mort Information from this source tagged as [Ref: DAR #595197].
Harter, Fayne Ellen, Reichelderfer family. Nappenee, IN: F. E. Harter, 1993. FHL 929.273 R271h v1/v2 1993. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Harter REICHELDERFER p[0-9]*].
Hendricks, John, Six Generations of Descendants of Johannes Veit Reichelderfer. GEDCOM received 12/14/1995, JSHendricks at earthlink dot net. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Hendricks 12/14/1995].
Moschella, Julia, Harpster-Bledsoe families. Private email 9/6/2009. Author address: mpinetree at citlink dot net Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Julia Moschella 9/6/2009].
Noble, Julie, David STEPLETON, private email, 8/6/2000. Author address nobles at evcom dot net Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Julie Noble 8/6/2000].
Jones, June, Stapleton-DeLong-Mowery families, private email, 12/1/2002. Author address: JonesJuneM at aol dot com Information from this source tagged as [Ref: June Jones 12/1/2002].
Bowsher, Kay, BOWSHER Family, private email, 9/10/2001. Author address qddusa at yahoo dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Kay Bowsher 9/10/2001].

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:: [Ref: Julia Moschella 9/6/2009, Kay Bowsher 9/10/2001]; 1809 [Ref: Julie Noble 8/6/2000, June Jones 12/1/2002]; abt 1810 [Ref: DAR #595197]; age 40 in 1850 [Ref: 1850 OH Allen Monroe 07],
place:: [Ref: Julie Noble 8/6/2000, June Jones 12/1/2002]; Ohio [Ref: 1850 OH Allen Monroe 07, DAR #595197],
parents:: [Ref: Harter REICHELDERFER p52, John Hendricks 12/14/1995, Julie Noble 8/6/2000, June Jones 12/1/2002]

Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information

date:: 10 Feb 1810 [Ref: DAR #483841]

Sources for death Information

date:: [Ref: DAR #483841, Julia Moschella 9/6/2009, Kay Bowsher 9/10/2001]; "survived to a great age, in recent years" [Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p132]; after 1850 [Ref: DAR #595197],
place:: [Ref: Kay Bowsher 9/10/2001]

Sources with Inaccurate death Information

place:: Allen Co, Ohio [Ref: DAR #595197]; Sugar Creek Twp, Allen Co, Ohio [Ref: DAR #483841]

Sources with Information about marriage to Anthony HARPSTER

date:: [Ref: Kay Bowsher 9/10/2001]; 1827 [Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p132, DAR #132588, DAR #483841, Harter REICHELDERFER p117]; abt 1831 [Ref: DAR #595197],
place:: [Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p132, Harter REICHELDERFER p117]; Walnut, Ohio [Ref: DAR #483841],
names:: [Ref: Beverly Dale 12/28/1995, Julie Noble 8/6/2000]; Anthony HARPSTER & Sohpia ___ [Ref: 1850 OH Allen Monroe 07],
child:: [Ref: 1850 OH Allen Monroe 07, Burkhardt BOUCHER p132, Burkhardt BOUCHER p136, Burkhardt BOUCHER p137, Burkhardt BOUCHER p138, Burkhardt BOUCHER p139, Burkhardt BOUCHER p140, DAR #132588, DAR #595197, Harter REICHELDERFER p118, Julia Moschella 9/6/2009]

Research Notes:

Pedigree of Sophia STAPLETON
                                     /-----Philip STAPLETON
                            /-----Robert STAPLETON
                           |         \-----Margaret GAGE
                   /-----Tobias STAPLETON
                  |        |         /-----Michael WEIGAND
                  |         \-----Anna Maria WEIGAND
                  |                  \-----Anna Catharina (WEIGAND)
          /-----Jacob M STAPLETON
         |        |         /-----Andreas HAGENBUSCH
         |         \-----Anna Barbara HAGENBUCH
         |                  \-----Catharina (HAGENBUSCH)
/-----John STAPLETON
|        |                  /-----Johannes Veit REICHELDERFER
|        |         /-----Frederich Jacob REICHELDERFER
|        |        |         \-----Anna (REICHELSDORFER)
|         \-----Maria Margaret REICHELDERFER
|                  \-----Anna Christina (REICHELSDORFER)
Sophia STAPLETON
|                  /-----John George SCHMACHER
|         /-----John Jacob SCHUMACHER
|        |         \-----Anna Barbara (SCHMACHER)
\-----Mary Magdalena SCHUMACHER
         |                  /-----Johannes Veit REICHELDERFER
         |         /-----Johann Heinrich REICHELSDORFER
         |        |         \-----Anna (REICHELSDORFER)
          \-----Maria Magdalena REICHELDERFER
                  |         /-----Ulrich LIEBENGUT
                   \-----Maria Catherina LIEBENGUTH
                           |                           /-----Hans HENNI
                           |                  /-----Nikli HENNI
                           |                 |         \-----Barbli KLAUS
                           |         /-----Michael HENNI
                           |        |        |         /-----Hans EICHELBERGER
                           |        |         \-----Barbel EICHELBERGER
                           |        |                  \-----Elsbeth RAEBER
                            \-----Anna HENNI
                                    |                           /-----Hans SCHWYTZER
                                    |                  /-----Hans SCHWYTZER
                                    |                 |         \-----Sara PFAEFFERLI
                                    |         /-----Benedicht SCHWYTZER
                                    |        |        |         /-----Peter FARNI
                                    |        |         \-----Verena FARNI
                                    |        |                  \-----Vernea PIERIS
                                     \-----Anna SCHWYTZER
                                             |         /-----Peter GASSNER
                                              \-----Anna GASSNER
                                                      |         /-----Hans KROPF
                                                       \-----Barble KROPF
                                                                \-----Barbli TSCHABOLT

Descendants of Sophia STAPLETON

1. Sophia STAPLETON m. Anthony HARPSTER

m. Anthony HARPSTER father: Peter HARPSTER mother: Elizabeth BOWSHER

2+ John HARPSTER m. Elizabeth McMELLON

3+ Elizabeth HARPSTER m. Joseph MORT

4+ Mary HARPSTER m. Eli RIDENOUR

5+ Reuben HARPSTER m. Lucy Ann THOMAS

6+ Levi HARPSTER m1. Harriet SNODGRAS m2. Harriet J MILLER

7+ Jacob HARPSTER m. Ann FORSYTH

2nd generation

2. John HARPSTER m. Elizabeth McMELLON

m. Elizabeth McMELLON

8 Mary Elizabeth HARPSTER m. Amos TONGS