Other Events and Attributes:

• Name Used: Grant
• Census: 11 Jun 1870, Albany, Linn, Oregon; : 5y
• Census: 14 Jun 1900, Vallejo, Solano, California; : 34y; Address:
  726 Louisiana
• Occupation: 14 Jun 1900, Vallejo, Solano, California; Machinist
• Census: 26 Apr 1910, Vallejo, Solano, California; : 44y; Address:
  726 Louisiana
• Occupation: 26 Apr 1910, Vallejo, Solano, California; Draftsman
• Census: 9 Jan 1920, Vallejo, Solano, California; : 54y; Address:
  726 Louisiana
• Occupation: 9 Jan 1920, Vallejo, Solano, California; Draftsman
• Census: 2 Apr 1930, Vallejo, Solano, California; : 63y; Address:
  726 Louisiana
• Occupation: 2 Apr 1930, Vallejo, Solano, California; Draftsman
• Census: 8 Apr 1940, Vallejo, Solano, California; : 74y; Address:
  726 Louisiana

Notes:

Letter written by Grant Lupfer.

April 10

It took my father six months in 1853 to make only a part of that trip - and to write a little history. My Father had Jane-10; Lewis-5; James-3; George-1; when they crossed the plains. My mother's family: Father and Mother-50 and 49; Oscar Warren -22; Lansing-20; De Lavantia Elizabeth-18-my Mother; James- 14; William-13. My father got thru well - but my mother's folks when they arrived at the Fort Hall location in Idaho near Boise were so badly off that they took the rear wheels of their wagon and made a cart of it and used the best yoke of oxen from there to the Portland area and the two remaining oxen to be killed for food. And all the children walked barefoot from there to the end of the trip and only carried what had to be for absolute needs. My mother had some sheets that she had woven and carried them until she had to throw them by the wayside - she was so little - never weighed more than 108 or 110.

In later years my father's wife died and my mother had married and had Raleigh, David and Vesta Anne and became a widow. Grandmother Warren kept house for my father a while, then my mother moved in with her three children and they were married. And when I look back on that hardship, I wonder how they stood it. And my mother had the most wonderful discipline. One of our real sins was to snuff our nose instead of using our hankies. At the table once when we were all seated - help and all - about fourteen, help and all, I snuffed my nose (I was probably six) - I heard my mother's foot tap on the floor. I looked and caught her eye. A side-wise nod of the head that meant leave the table - and I quietly left until the meal was over and then I finished my meal but no one except myself and mother knew what had happened. And there were very few "don't's" in my childhood. I was allowed a lot of leeway. One day while on the old ranch, a man passing by while I was out in front, stopped to pass the time of day and asked who lived there, etc. And asked me it I was a good boy. I told him I "minded my mother". He said, "Well, you are a pretty good boy if you mind your mother."

My early childhood was a very happy one - we were never "hard up" - good horses, cattle, sheep, wagons, etc., well-kept fences, barns, harness, etc.

Source xerox page from my family history files.
pp 100, 101. Foulkes, Allied Families, 1952.

Occupation:
Industry, business or establishment: Shipyard
Employer, salary or wage worker, or working on own account: Wage earner

Occupation:
Industry: Mare Island Ship Yard
Class of worker: Wage earner

Died:
As recorded in Calif. Death Index and this matches Luper family history (presume added by Lenore Smith).

Willys married Billings, Grace on 5 Nov 1885 in Platsmouth, NE. Grace was born cal 1867 in Nebraska; died on 1 Apr 1954 in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Notation in Luper records says "Separated 2 years." US Census shows Gracie Billings, 1880 Census. Then, 1900 US Census shows Grace D Copeland with daughter Alta L. 14 years old. 1885 Platsmouth NE Census lists Grace Billings age 18. Father Clinton, Mother Ella
Same note says Alta L Luper Kinnear, 2 grand children George and Barbara. Census shoe an Alta Kinnear and George age 1, Cheyenne, Laramie Wyo. Don't find a Barbara Kinnear in later Census.
Marriage Status: Separated

1. Luper, Alta Lenore was born on 30 Jan 1886 in Kansas; died on 11 Oct 1981 in Costa Mesa, Orange, California; was buried on 11 Oct 1981 in Cheyenne, Laramie County, Wyoming.

Willys married Hearney, Honor on 28 Sep 1893 in Washoe, Nevada. Honor was born in Sep 1870 in California; died on 2 Nov 1905 in Sonoma, California, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Western States Marriage Index, 1809-2011 Washoe Co. Vol. B p 71

Willys married Mullaney, Mary Evelyn on 8 Feb 1906 in Norwalk, California, and was divorced in 1921. Mary (daughter of Mullaney, Patrick and Shean, Rose) was born on 30 Jul 1867 in California; died on 7 Sep 1947 in Alameda Co., California, USA; was buried on 7 Sep 1947 in Colma, San Mateo, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Aug 1921 (Lenore Luper Family History Notes)
Marriage Status: Separated

Married:
divorce

Willys married Clyde in Jun 1929 in Vallejo, Solano, California. Clyde was born cal 1879 in Utah; died on 9 Jun 1939 in Napa, California, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1 Jun 1850, Mcdonough Co., Illinois, USA; : 32y
• Occupation: 1 Jun 1850, Mcdonough Co., Illinois, USA; Farmer
• Residence: Abt 1 Apr 1853, Virgil, Fulton Co., IL, USA
• Residence: 4 Apr 1853, Illinois
• Arrival: 28 Aug 1853, Oregon City, Clackamas County, Oregon, USA; Emmigrant migration, Oregon Trail
• Occupation: Abt Sep 1853, Albany, Linn, Oregon; Farmer
• Residence: Abt Sep 1853, Albany, Linn, Oregon; Address:
  6 Miles south of Albany
• Census: 24 Aug 1860, Albany, Linn, Oregon; : 43y; Address:
  Albany
• Occupation: 24 Aug 1860, Albany, Linn, Oregon; Farmer
• Census: 11 Jun 1870, Albany, Linn, Oregon; : 52y
• Occupation: 11 Jun 1870, Albany, Linn, Oregon; Farmer
• Residence: 1878, Downey, California
• Residence: 1878, West Albany, Albany, Oregon
• Census: 1 Jun 1880, Los Nietos, Los Angeles, California; : 63y
• Occupation: 1 Jun 1880, Los Nietos, Los Angeles, California; Farmer
• Census: 1 Jun 1900, San Diego Ward 9, San Diego, California; : 82y; Address:
  710 Harrison Ave. San Diego, CA
• Occupation: 1 Jun 1900, San Diego Ward 9, San Diego, California; Not Employed

Notes:

Crossed the plains in a covered wagon, April through Sept. 1853 Have his brother John's diary pages (copied?) of the trip, started April 5, 1853, ended Sept. in Oregon. (Land claim data suggest arrival 26, 29 August

Martin Luper Land Claim
Cert. No 1493
Place of Residence: Land Co. Oregon
Born 1817
Place of Birth: Crawford Co., PA
Arrived in Oregon: 28 Aug. 1853
Date of Marriage: 14 Apr. 1846
Place of Marriage: Knox County, Illinois

MARTIN LUPER
a farmer three miles south of Norwalk, is a native of the Keystone State, born in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, in 1817, and is a son of Jacob and Nancy (McMurtry) Luper. His father moved to Huron County, Ohio, when Martin was twelve years old, and there followed farming until his death. Mr. Luper went to Illinois when a young man, and there, on October 24, 1841, married Margaret Robinson, who died April 11, 1844, leaving one child. He married Frances Dunbar, April 14, 1846, with whom he crossed the plains in the early days of California, coming with three two-horse wagons and eighteen yoke of cattle, about half of them being cows, and one span of mules and one of mares. They were on the way from April till August 27, 1853. His wife died May 16, 1859, leaving five children. He followed farming very successfully in the Willamette Valley, Oregon, till 1878, when he moved to Los Angeles County. Since coming here he has also been very successful. He owned a fine farm near Downey till recently, when he sold out at a handsome profit and bought 160 acres of land where he now lives. He has built a very commodious residence and barn, overlooking the finest scope of country toward the ocean that can be seen in this county. On this ranch he has two fine artesian wells, and has planted some fine orchards of bluegum, oranges, peaches and apricots; and in his wide and fertile pastures may be seen some of the finest horses in this or any other part of the State. Mr. Luper married Mary Gosner in Los Angeles, February 8, 1889. She is a native of the Buckeye State, being born near Mount Vernon, and is a daughter of Dr. Joseph and Sarah (Plue) Gosner. Her father was of Pennsylvania Dutch origin, and her mother of French. Her father was a farmer in his early life, but later a practicing physician. Mr. Luper has been a man of energy and eminently successful. He is one to whom " Nature has been kind," and in his old days, which are now beginning to come on, he will be able to extract as much comfort from life as any man living.

An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California, Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1889
Page 534
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/biographies/l/luper-martin.txt


Arrival:
Eventual destination was Tangent / West Albany, Oregon.

Residence:
About 6 Mi. south of Albany Ore, bought a claim with cabin, 320 acres of wheat land.
Oregon Land Claim No. 1493 (call no. 979.5 G 326 c 1 p. 60)

Residence:
160 Acre Farm (3 Mi. So of Norwalk)

Residence:
Tract, assigned to H. Speidel, Mrs. J. Spangler, and Luper appear on this map (See index 32, top half, 2nd page, map five)

Buried:
Buried next to wife, Mollie E Norris
Plot: DIV 6 SEC 1
Find A Grave Memorial# 41519798

James married Warren, DeLavantia Elizabeth on 17 Mar 1861. DeLavantia (daughter of Warren, Willis and Linsing, Anna) was born on 10 Nov 1835 in Illinois; died before 1910. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 11 Oct 1850, Lee Township, Fulton, Illinois; : 14y
• Occupation: 11 Oct 1850, Lee Township, Fulton, Illinois; Keeping House
• Census: 23 Aug 1860, Albany, Linn, Oregon; : 24y; Address:
  Albany
• Occupation: 23 Aug 1860, Albany, Linn, Oregon; Keeping House
• Census: 11 Jun 1870, Albany, Linn, Oregon; : 34y
• Occupation: 11 Jun 1870, Albany, Linn, Oregon; Keeping House
• Census: 5 Jun 1880, Umatilla, Umatilla, Oregon; : 45y
• Occupation: 5 Jun 1880, Umatilla, Umatilla, Oregon; Servant

Notes:

Letter written by Grant Lupfer.

April 10

It took my father six months in 1853 to make only a part of that trip - and to write a little history. My Father had Jane-10; Lewis-5; James-3; George-1; when they crossed the plains. My mother's family: Father and Mother-50 and 49; Oscar Warren -22; Lansing-20; De Lavantia Elizabeth-18-my Mother; James- 14; William-13. My father got thru well - but my mother's folks when they arrived at the Fort Hall location in Idaho near Boise were so badly off that they took the rear wheels of their wagon and made a cart of it and used the best yoke of oxen from there to the Portland area and the two remaining oxen to be killed for food. And all the children walked barefoot from there to the end of the trip and only carried what had to be for absolute needs. My mother had some sheets that she had woven and carried them until she had to throw them by the wayside - she was so little - never weighed more than 108 or 110.

In later years my father's wife died and my mother had married and had Raleigh, David and Vesta Anne and became a widow. Grandmother Warren kept house for my father a while, then my mother moved in with her three children and they were married. And when I look back on that hardship, I wonder how they stood it. And my mother had the most wonderful discipline. One of our real sins was to snuff our nose instead of using our hankies. At the table once when we were all seated - help and all - about fourteen, help and all, I snuffed my nose (I was probably six) - I heard my mother's foot tap on the floor. I looked and caught her eye. A side-wise nod of the head that meant leave the table - and I quietly left until the meal was over and then I finished my meal but no one except myself and mother knew what had happened. And there were very few "don't's" in my childhood. I was allowed a lot of leeway. One day while on the old ranch, a man passing by while I was out in front, stopped to pass the time of day and asked who lived there, etc. And asked me it I was a good boy. I told him I "minded my mother". He said, "Well, you are a pretty good boy if you mind your mother."

My early childhood was a very happy one - we were never "hard up" - good horses, cattle, sheep, wagons, etc., well-kept fences, barns, harness, etc.

Source xerox page from my family history files.
pp 100, 101. Foulkes, Allied Families, 1952.

Died:
Marriage listing to Rufus Bridges in 1884 is last record I have found. Rufus Bridges is recorded in Census of 1900 living with DeLavantia's son, Raliegh (Ralph). Marital status is Married. Rufus is recorded in 1910 census as widowed. My guess is, she had passed before 1900. Allied Famines date of death seems unlikely. Ms. Warren would have been 100 years old.

Jacob married McMurtry, Nancy on 15 Apr 1813. Nancy (daughter of McMurtry, Joseph and Kirkpatrick, Margaret) was born on 3 Feb 1792 in Harmonsburg, Crawford County, Pennsylvania; died on 11 Oct 1836 in Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Nancy Luper

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 11 Oct 1850, Lee Township, Fulton, Illinois; : 47y
• Occupation: 11 Oct 1850, Lee Township, Fulton, Illinois; Farmer

Notes:

Letter written by Grant Lupfer.

April 10

It took my father six months in 1853 to make only a part of that trip - and to write a little history. My Father had Jane-10; Lewis-5; James-3; George-1; when they crossed the plains. My mother's family: Father and Mother-50 and 49; Oscar Warren -22; Lansing-20; De Lavantia Elizabeth-18-my Mother; James- 14; William-13. My father got thru well - but my mother's folks when they arrived at the Fort Hall location in Idaho near Boise were so badly off that they took the rear wheels of their wagon and made a cart of it and used the best yoke of oxen from there to the Portland area and the two remaining oxen to be killed for food. And all the children walked barefoot from there to the end of the trip and only carried what had to be for absolute needs. My mother had some sheets that she had woven and carried them until she had to throw them by the wayside - she was so little - never weighed more than 108 or 110.

In later years my father's wife died and my mother had married and had Raleigh, David and Vesta Anne and became a widow. Grandmother Warren kept house for my father a while, then my mother moved in with her three children and they were married. And when I look back on that hardship, I wonder how they stood it. And my mother had the most wonderful discipline. One of our real sins was to snuff our nose instead of using our hankies. At the table once when we were all seated - help and all - about fourteen, help and all, I snuffed my nose (I was probably six) - I heard my mother's foot tap on the floor. I looked and caught her eye. A side-wise nod of the head that meant leave the table - and I quietly left until the meal was over and then I finished my meal but no one except myself and mother knew what had happened. And there were very few "don't's" in my childhood. I was allowed a lot of leeway. One day while on the old ranch, a man passing by while I was out in front, stopped to pass the time of day and asked who lived there, etc. And asked me it I was a good boy. I told him I "minded my mother". He said, "Well, you are a pretty good boy if you mind your mother."

My early childhood was a very happy one - we were never "hard up" - good horses, cattle, sheep, wagons, etc., well-kept fences, barns, harness, etc.

Source xerox page from my family history files.
pp 100, 101. Foulkes, Allied Families, 1952.

Willis married Linsing, Anna before 1831. Anna was born cal 1806 in New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 11 Oct 1850, Lee Township, Fulton, Illinois; : 46y
• Census: 23 Aug 1860, Albany, Linn, Oregon; : 54y; Address:
  Albany
• Census: 18 Jun 1870, Albany, Linn, Oregon; : 65y; Address:
  Albany Post Office

Notes:

Family name from Emmett L. Warren Death Cert. (Ancestry.com). Is family name Lansing?

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1810, Sadsbury Township, Crawford Co. PA

Notes:

Military records of Johan Jacob, Pennsylvania Archives
Ser. 5, vol. 4, p293, 631
Ser. 3, Vol 23 p 267
Ser. 6 vol 4, p 266 & 594
Ser. 6 Vol 5 p 185, 187, 189
Ser. 6, Vol 15, p 185

Military Begining:
Revolution for American Independence (DAR 129302)

Anecdote:
From Lenore Speidel Smith's Family History notebook:
"Jacob Luper, Sen[ior?], Grandfather of Martin Luper lived on a farm, 3 mi. north of Harmonsburg, Penn, Crawford Co. with his wife, Magdalena Barnheisel Luper. They raised a large family, had a large farm. Children: Joseph, Dan, Israel, Jacob, Sam, David, Mattie, Christina, Katherine, Susan. Susan married Brown, Christine married Smith. George Luper, Son of Dan was a big insurance financier of NY City. The security trust and life insurance company, Broadway and twenty sixth st. New York, NY."

Jacob fought in War of Revolution for American Independence. Ranger on the frontier, PA archives. Soldier of the revolution, Cumberland Co Militia DAR 129302

Johan married Bernheisel, Mary Magdalene before 25 May 1797. Mary (daughter of Bernheisel, John Martin and Chateau, Anna Christina Martretha) was born on 18 Feb 1775; died in 1844. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Mary Magdalene Luper

Notes:

Thomas was a Fife Major (Recruiting?) in the Revolutionary War (1812) at Erie, PA. Three older McMurtry's were also in Revolutionary War -- source, Lenore's family history book
Imprisoned in 1781 for debt

Joseph married Kirkpatrick, Margaret about 1788. Margaret (daughter of Kirkpatrick, Andrew and Gaston, Margaret) was born on 26 Aug 1771 in Mine Brook, Somerset Co., NJ; died on 8 Mar 1855 in Harmonsburg, Crawford County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]