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I am Pam Schupp Greenway. Homer Ficken has been sending and forwarding messages to you for me regarding the Schupp family that I am researching.

Let me give you a brief history of my Schupp branch. John Anthon Schupp with wife Elizabeth Knoth, son, Wilhelm (approx 21 years old) and daughter Charlotte (age unknown) left Ems (Bad Ems) Germany for the United States in 1847. Travelled on the Ship Charlemagne arriving in New Orleans in May of 1947. There were other Schupps aboard the ship, also from Bad Ems. I have yet to find a link to them. The family history tells us that upon the John Anthon Schupp's family arrival in Boonville, he wrote to a brother who was living near Florence, who came to collect the family. It is said that the two families lived together until John Anthon purchased a farm on Haw Creek, 5 miles SW of Florence (farm purchased from Christopher Rogers). I can tell you where/how the links to the Jost (Yost) and Raiffeisen families occurred, if you are interested.

It appears to me that all of this must have occurred in Morgan County. At some point, land was purchased in northwestern Morgan county south of Otterville (just south of the new highway and on the west bank of the Lamine River. This land was in the August Schupp family (son of Wilhelm, grandson of John Anthon) until it was finally sold in the early 1990's - last owned and farmed by Edna Schupp McGuire and Uncas McGuire.

During a family reunion and research trip to Missouri last summer, I discovered the Carl Schupp family. They were also from Ems and settled in the eastern part of Benton county near where the old St Pauls cemetery is. In fact, there is a small Schupp cemetery in the same area. It seems to me that this is west and very near the original Schupp farm on Haw Creek, but I could be mistaken.

I am trying to figure out who the brother was that the John Anthon family stayed with upon their arrival in the United States. I have seen via interenet research that there was also a "group" of Schupp's in Cooper County. As the August Schupp farm was so close to Otterville, they did their business there and participated in business there. I believe August was once on the board of the Otterville bank. That puts them into the history of Cooper County. In the early 1900's August sold his farm (I have to assume it was sold to a family member as it remained in the family until just recently) and the August Schupp family moved to south Texas, USA. The land they had purchased in Texas, USA sight unseen did not have water. At some point most of the family returned to Missouri as they could not make a living in South Texas, USA farming this land.

That's it in a nut shell. I will request films of Ems church records at my local FHC and see what I can find. Please tell me what I might be able to find at the Cooper County Historical Society. As I am the current Schupp Family historian, I plan to be back in Missouri for the annual family reunion this summer. Maybe I could do some research while I am there.

Thanks for your help -- and wading all the way through this!

Pam Schupp Greenway
Dallas, Texas, USA

Searching:
Petrie, McLaren, Ferguson, Peebles: Scotland
Smith and Jane: England
Schupp, Yost, Riesterer, Metzner, and Dohrman: Germany
Winters: IRELAND
Lambe, Greenway, Metz, Lehardy: ?

John married Knoth, Elizabeth in 1824 in Germany. Elizabeth was born on 27 Mar 1800 in Bad Ems, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany; died in 1860 in Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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