I am interested in the Toup and Doub families that came to Louisiana. I have found a Frederick Tope on the 1837 Pike County Arkansas Tax list. All leads to the Frederick Tope in Illinois come up dead. Perhaps the Frederick Tope that I seek is from a family that was from Louisiana.
I am trying to find the unknown husband of Francis (Fanny) born abt. 1813. She had a daughter Mary Ann "Polly" Tope born abt. 1838 in Arkansas and a son James Henry Tope born February 22, 1840 in Arkansas. They may have been born in the Pike, Clark or Hempstead County area.
I assume that Mr. Tope died as Francis married a Mr. Moore 2nd and had a son John M. Moore born March 1842. I think that he was born in Little Rock, Palaski Co., AR, according to civil war military records.
Francis married 3rd John Swanson Yarbrough between 1842 and 1845. I assume in the Houston Co., TX area. I know that John Swanson Yarbrough lived in Clark county in 1820 and Hempstead County area by 1832 when he moved to Texas. He was living in the Arkansas Territory as early as 1816. Clark and Hempstead Counties neighbor Pike County AR. Pike county is where I found the 1837 tax record index for Frederick Tope.
Framily tradition says that Francis "Fanny" maiden name is Coker and her sister Cynthia "Sinthy/Cinthy" was also married to John Swanson Yarbrough previously. I can't prove that either of them are Cokers. I do know that Cynthia was still living in 1835 where she is recorded with the family on the 1835 Municipality of Tenehaw census (now Shelby Co., TX) .
I do find a Martha "Marthy" Coker old enough to be either of their mother living 1830 Clark Co., AR, and by 1840 she is living in Pike Co. near a daughter n law Lydia Davis Coker. Martha Coker is not shown to be living in any of these counties by 1850. Some of the Coker living in the area moved to Texas in the late 1830s or during the 1840s.
Anyway, was hoping that you have a Frederick Tope in your tree somewhere. If Francis was born abt. 1813 then I would assume that Frederick Tope was abt. that same age or older.
Renee Smelley
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