of West Virginia · documented from the public record
The family in the record
Jacob Ropp 1818 – 1882
Jacob Ropp⚭ Catharine Riner
childrenJohn Peter Ropp · Mary Eliza Ropp · Emily Catharine Ropp · Daniel Henry Ropp · Jacob Luther Ropp · Sarah Elizabeth Ropp · Margaret Ropp · Martha Jane Ropp
Their story
What the record says
Father of subject Jacob L. Ropp.
One of the children of the original Rupp/Ropp homestead family.
Farmer.
Married Catharine Riner in 1840.
Died March 4, 1882 at age 64 (birth year approx).
Active Republican.
Elected county treasurer in 1865 and a member of the West Virginia state legislature in 1868.
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