Clackamas County OR Archives Photo Tombstone.....Roop, Jacob 
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Cemetery:           Rock Creek Cemetery
Name:               Jacob Roop

Date Of Photograph: July 17, 2004
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Jacob Roop stone in Rock Creek Cemetery.

JACOB ROOP was born 09 March 1817 in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the son of
Christian Roop and Ann Brubaker.

On 27 Dec 1843 in La Grange County, Indiana, Jacob married his first wife,
Sevilla Groves. She was born 10 Aug 1821, but she died 03 April 1848 -- only a
few years after they were wed. Sevilla left Jacob with a several young children,
a daughter, Frances, and sons John and Lonson.

Four and a half months later, on 24 Aug 1848, still in La Grange County,
Indiana, Jacob wed again, this time to Jane Young. Jane was born 16 Dec 1825 in
Adams County, Ohio, but she also died within a couple of years after their
marriage, leaving Jacob with another young son, Christian. (Jacob's second wife
Jane died 13 Oct 1851 in La Grange County, Indiana.)

After Jane's death, Jacob travelled to Oregon with his young children, arriving
on 26 Aug 1852. He settled a claim in Clackamas County, Oregon on 24 Feb 1853.
Nine years later, Jacob married the twice-widowed Rachael Ruth (Center) Tull
Powell.

Jacob's third wife, Rachael Ruth Center, was born 14 Apr 1819 in Ohio, the
daughter of Ebenezer Center and Mary Fetter. She married her first husband,
Aaron Tull in Edgar County, Illinois on 04 Nov 1835. Aaron died of tuberculosis,
leaving Rachael with a young son, William Tull, born in 1838. Rachael next
married Theophilus Powell, a circuit preacher more than 26 years older than
herself. They married on 01 Nov 1841 in Van Buren County, Missouri, but came
west to Oregon in the great wagon train of 1845. Rachael had another 5 children
with Theophilus, but then he died 20 Jan 1861 in Waldo Hills, Oregon. A year and
a half later, on 13 July 1862, Rachael married Jacob Roop.

She evidently made the home a happy one, as years later William Tull, Rachael's
first son, married Frances Roop, one of Jacob's daughters. Rachael died on 24
Dec 1890 in Clackamas County, Oregon at the age of 71 years. Jacob passed on a
few years after her, on 27 Aug 1894 at the age of 77. They are both buried in
the Rock Creek cemetery, which is about only a mile away from the Roop farm.


Photograph taken by Kirsty Haining on 17 July 2004.



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