Last week, I gave you some information about John Cuppy, Abraham's father, by mistake. John Cuppy is a fourth great grandfather. Abraham is our third great grandfather who was born on the 12th of December in 1763 in Mill Creek, Hampshire County, Virginia. Mill Creek is a 14 mile-long tributary stream of the South Branch Potomac River, belonging to the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay watersheds. The stream is located in Hampshire County in today's West Virginian Eastern Panhandle. Mill Creek flows into the South Branch west of Romney Bridge near Vanderlip along the Northwestern Turnpike (U.S. Route 50).
Abraham and his brother John were soldiers in the Revolutionary War, who served as spies and scouts on the Ohio River. Abraham is listed on a DAR plaque in the Jefferson County Courthouse in Steubenville, Jefferson county, Ohio. I hired a researcher in April 2003, named Reva Ashcroft of Steubenville, and she is the person who told me about the plaque.
Abraham married Susannah Perrin in Antietam, Washington County, in Maryland in 1786 and they resided in Virginia until about 1797 when they migrated to Smithfield Township in Jefferson, Ohio. Abraham was on a tax list there in 1806 which means that he was a land owner. In the 1810, 1820, 1830 and 1840 Federal Censuses, Abraham and his family are listed in Mt. Pleasant, which is in Smithfield Township. Susannah and Abraham had a large family of thirteen children.
Abraham died on the third day of November in 1840 in Mt. Pleasant. He is buried at the Highland M.E. Cemetery in Mt. Pleasant. His will was probated on the 23rd of November in 1840.
ABRAHAM CUPPY
BORN: 12 Dec 1763 in Mill Creek, Hampshire, VA
MARRIED: 1786 in Antietam, Washington, MD
DIED: 3 Nov 1840 in Mt. Pleasant, Jefferson, OH
BURIED: Highland M. E. Cemetery in Mt. Pleasant
SOURCES:Find a Grave Index online #64459185; Will Book 3-199, Last will of Abraham Cuppy. See Will Book 3-199, Last will of Abraham Cuppy...born 12 Dec 1763
in<BR>Hampshire County, VA; 1806 Tax List of Smithfield Twp., Jefferson, OH; Federal Censuses 1810-1840 of Smithfield Twp., Jefferson, OH; Abraham's Will examined and copies sent to Marjorie Shepard by Reva Ashcroft, researcher; Ohio marriages 1800-1958.
