I am also searching for Tepe ancestry. My great, great grandfather was named Henry Tepe born in 1847 in Germany. (I have found his children listed on the Ohio 1900 census where it states that both father and mother were from Germany). He died June 12, 1886 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
He married Agnes Burdick, born 2/23/1848 in Osnabruck, Germany, died 12/12/1921. They had four children all born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Children were:
Henry b. 6/3/1873
George b. 10/1/1875
Anna b. 7/14/1879
Frances b.6/10/1886