Charles S. Shoup and Jennie E. Pierce

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Husband Charles S. Shoup ¹

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           Born: 1856 - Pennsylvania 2
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         Father: Barney Shoup (      -1887) 3
         Mother: Henrietta Mays (1824-1896) 4 5

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       Marriage: Jan 1878 - Cochranton, Crawford Co, PA 6

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Wife Jennie E. Pierce ¹

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         Father: William Keller Pierce (      -      ) 2
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Children

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1 F Mae K. Shoup ¹

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         Spouse: John Bernard Elliott (1881-Aft 1919) 7
           Marr: 1904 - ? Venango Co, PA

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2 F Edna R. Shoup ²

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         Spouse: Charles C. Moore (      -      ) 2
           Marr: 1904 - ? Venango Co, PA

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General Notes: Husband - Charles S. Shoup

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He and his brother Edward were associated in business as drilling contractors and oil producers, having followed drilling beginning in 1875. They sank about one hundred and fifty wells in Sandy Creek Township, and a town which grew up around their operations was named Shouptown in their honor.

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 900, 923.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 923.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 843, 923.

4 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1028.

5 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 843, 854, 923.

6 Joan S. Hanson & Kenneth L. Hanson, Marriages from Venango County Sources (Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 1994), Pg 222.

7 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 724, 900.