I was so glad to hear your CULP'S are really CUPP'S!!
My CUPP'S begin with John b. 1790 in GA. m. Nancy 1812.
Their daughter Rosiana b.1833 in MS. m. James Andrew Jackson SMITH in Claiborne Parish, LA. 1851. Their daughter Melvina SMITH was my grandfather's mother. My grandfather was b. in Red River Parish in 1906.