Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Jessup, Lafayette 1836 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

    LAFAYETTE JESSUP was born in this county December 13, 1836. His father,
Caleb Jessup, was a native of Surry County, N. C., where he was reared to
manhood and married a Miss Clark, also a native of North Carolina. This lady
died after a few years, and was the mother of two children. His second wife was
Miss Rachel Clark, a sister to the first. This lady bore him nine children, one
of whom, Verlin Jessup, became well known to the people of Greene County. Caleb
Jessup and family, with several of his brothers and John Sanders and family,
came to Indiana, and in 1818 located in Eel River Township. Here Caleb Jessup
always remained engaged in farming and stock-raising. He was married three
times, his last wife being Miss Margaret Huey, who bore him seven children, one
of whom, Lafayette, is the subject of this sketch. He was the father of eighteen
children by his three wives. He held to the religious tenets of the Friends or
Quaker Church, and was noted for his strong anti-slavery views, kindness of
heart and nobility of soul. Few if any of the early settlers of Greene County
were better known or more highly respected. Lafayette Jessup (subject) was
reared upon a farm, receiving such education as the common schools of that day
afforded. His father died when he was but seven years of age, and when he was
about twenty he began for himself as a farmer, a business he has been very
successful at. He began with limited means, but by economy and hard work has
accumulated considerable property, now owning 280 acres of land which is highly
improved and well stocked. He also owns property in Worthington. He was married
to Miss Lydia A. Heaton in 1857, She was born in 1838, and died in 1868. From
that union four children were born—Isaac, Edward, Maria and James. Mr. Jessup
again married, in 1874, Miss Harriet E. Miller, who was born in Wayne County,
Ohio, in 1844. By this union there is a son, viz., William. Mr. Jessup is a
Republican, but has never aspired to any political prominence. He takes an
interest in all moral, educational or other enterprises that go to build up the
community in which he lives, or benefit the condition of his fellow-man. He is a
practical farmer and one of the county's best citizens.

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Jefferson Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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