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    Person Info
  • Name: Ursinus Melancthon SHAPPELL
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 28 Feb 1858 in Hume, Shawnee Twp, Allen Co, Ohio b
  • Death: 17 Jul 1938 in Allen Co, Ohio d


  • Parents:
  • Father:
  • John George SHAPPELL Birth: 17 May 1832 Death: 28 Jun 1900 in Allen Co, Ohio
  • Mother:
  • Harriet BOWSHER Birth: 15 Sep 1836 in Shawnee Twp, Allen Co, Ohio Death: 26 Apr 1921 in Allen Co, Ohio

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Harold Metheany SHAPPELL Birth: 22 Dec 1884 in Allen Co, Ohio Death: 4 Jul 1966 in California
  2. George Levering SHAPPELL Birth: 5 Jul 1886 in Allen Co, Ohio Death: 15 Dec 1936 in Allen Co, Ohio
  3. Richard Avery SHAPPELL Birth: 10 Oct 1890 in Bluffton, Allen Co, Ohio Death: 26 Jun 1968 in Delaware, Ohio
  4. Frederick Bowsher SHAPPELL Birth: 2 Jul 1893 in Allen Co, Ohio Death: 4 Dec 1973 in Ada, Ohio

Bibliography
  1. 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]*].
  2. 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: Burkhardt BOUCHER p340],
place:
Hume, Ohio [Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p339]
Shawnee Twp, Allen Co, Ohio [Ref: Kay Bowsher 9/10/2001],
parents:
[Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p340]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Kay Bowsher 9/10/2001],
place:
[Ref: Kay Bowsher 9/10/2001]
Sources with Information about marriage to Ada L METHEANY
date:
[Ref: Kay Bowsher 9/10/2001],
child:
[Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p340]
Research Notes:
graduated from Ohio Northern Unviersity [Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p340]

served as County Examiner and as Superintendent of the Bluffton, Ohio, Schools for several years [Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p340]

1892: elected Clerk of Courts of Allen Co; served until 1899 [Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p340]



Pedigree of Ursinus Melancthon SHAPPELL
          /-----George SHAPPELL
 /-----John George SHAPPELL
|         \-----Mary RIGGLE
Ursinus Melancthon SHAPPELL
|                           /-----Johan Daniel BOUCHER
|                  /-----William BOWSHER
|                 |         \-----Anna Maria (BOUCHER)
|         /-----Benjamine BOWSHER
|        |         \-----Sabina SMITH
 \-----Harriet BOWSHER
         |                                             /-----Abraham LANGER
         |                                    /-----Pyeter DeLANGHT
         |                           /-----Henrich DeLONG
         |                          |        |         /-----Jacob WEBER
         |                          |         \-----Eva Elizabeth WEBER
         |                          |                  \-----Anna Elizabeth (WEBER)
         |                  /-----Johann Henry DeLONG
         |                 |         \-----Susanna Margaretha (DeLONG)
         |         /-----Jacob DeLONG
         |        |        |                  /-----Johann SOWATCH
         |        |        |         /-----Johann Heinrich SOWATCH
         |        |        |        |         \-----Susanna (SOWATCH)
         |        |         \-----Susanna SOWATCH
         |        |                 |         /-----Ulrich SCHNEIDER
         |        |                  \-----Maria Anna Esther SCHNEIDER
          \-----Elizabeth DeLONG
                  |                           /-----Adam MAURER
                  |                  /-----Johan Michael MAURER
                  |                 |         \-----Maria Catharina (MAURER)
                  |         /-----John Johannes MAURER\MOWERY
                   \-----Catherine MOWERY
                            \-----Elizabeth Sarah STIMMELL



Descendants of Ursinus Melancthon SHAPPELL
1. Ursinus Melancthon SHAPPELL m. Ada L METHEANY
m. Ada L METHEANY father: Richard METHEANY mother: Esther Ann LEVERING

2nd generation

3. George Levering SHAPPELL m. Rachael Ann BOUTWELL
m. Rachael Ann BOUTWELL father: Josiah BOUTWELL mother: Abigail GARLINGER
4. Richard Avery SHAPPELL m. Grace TERREE
m. Grace TERREE