Ninth Generation (Continued)
Eulalie CLOPP.
Born on 27 Mar 1906. Eulalie died on 10 Nov 1982; she was 76.12 Buried in Maple Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, KS.
On 7 Dec 1925 when Eulalie was 19, she married
Mearl GEORGE.
Mearl died ca 1953.12
They had the following children:
Arthur Merly CLOPP.
Born on 3 Apr 1908 in Linncreek, Camden Co., MO. Arthur Merly died on 30 Apr 1973; he was 65.
Arthur Merly first married Ruth FIZER.
They had the following children:
Arthur Merly second married Nora O'NEAL.
Earl Victor CLOPP.
Born on 22 Apr 1910 in Linncreek, Camden Co., MO. Earl Victor died in Reading, Lyon Co., Kansas, on 23 Jan 1993; he was 82. Buried in Reading, Lyon Co., Kansas.
On 18 Jun 1932 when Earl Victor was 22, he married Francis Viola FOUST, daughter of Charles Fred FOUST (1895-1943) & Margaret Lucinda Jane LEFFERT (1900-1974), in Linncreek, Camden Co., MO. Born on 22 Feb 1917 in Beggs, Okmulgee Co., OK. Francis Viola died in Reading, Lyon Co., Kansas, on 19 Apr 1995; she was 78. Buried in Reading, Lyon Co., Kansas.
They had the following children:
Robert Cuneetus CLOPP.
Born on 25 Nov 1912 in Linncreek, Camden Co., MO. Robert Cuneetus died in Camden Co., MO, on 13 Mar 1956; he was 43.
Robert Cuneetus first married Flora May HEALY.
Robert Cuneetus second married Ruth HEALY.
Jewel Wesley CLOPP.
Born on 11 Mar 1914 in Linncreek, Camden Co., MO. Jewel Wesley died on 31 Oct 1976; he was 62.
Jewel Wesley first married Gladys.
Jewel Wesley second married Lillian.
Virgil Edward Pershing CLOPP.
Born on 4 May 1917 in Linncreek, Camden Co., MO. Virgil Edward Pershing died in Platte Co., MO, on 15 Feb 1979; he was 61. Buried in Myetta Cemetery, Camdenton, Camden Co., MO.
The following from Mary Bobbitt, Virgil's daughter:
Virgil moved to Kansas City from Camdenton to try to better support his growing family securing work where he could. He worked for Cudhay Meat Packing until he was hit by a swinging side of beef which knocked out some teeth and otherwise injured him. For a time he worked in roofing until he secured a position with the Missouri Highway Dept. where he worked until an accident with the road grader turning over on him and injured his back. Family History: Virgil Pershing Edward Clopp and Lilly Irene Foust Clopp as told to daughter Mary L. (Clopp) Bobbitt. "Our Clopp family came over from Germany," dad said as he strained to remember what he recalled from what his dad had told him, "and seems to me there were two or three brothers who came here with there families." When I ask about what time this would have happened, mom answered that Granpa Rufus had told them that he thought they were young boy's about twelve or so but he didn't know for sure. And they were not certain of which one it had been, the grandfather of Rufus, or farther back in the family, just that the story had been told and passed down to the next generation as I am attempting to do. Dad said they had come to Pennsylvania. He wasn't certain of when or where the family originally landed in America. It had been a long time since the conversation with his father and I wish I had asked sooner. Mom and dad both agreed that the family coming to America was due to being persecuted for their religous beleifs. I don't know what that religion would have been nor did mom and dad. Dad and mom said the Clopp family had uprooted the entire household including the family servants and came to America . I was told by mom that they didn't want the servants to be persecuted because of them so they brought them as well. They also said that a castle bore the Clopp name in Germany not that they knew it was theirs but that there was one. They also had been told by Rufus the Clopp name had been changed but they didn't know if it had been shortened orjust how it had been changed but that it had been changed. And that the father of Rufus had been a carpenter and that their had been ministers in the family on both sides and there had never been a time when the Clopp, Foust and Leffert family were not connected or following the other to another place. We now know that indeed the Clopp name had been changed from Klopp to Clopp and yes, there is a castle that bears that name. Our Clopp/Klopp family comes from the Bingen Rhine area in Germany and Darius Stein Klopp, the father of Rufus Ceopalus Clopp, was indeed a carpenter, a minister, and a farmer, and did in fact live in Pennsylvania with his parents. The family history has come from Darius to Rufus to our parents to us and now hopefully our children and grandchildren. And they will not forget and will care that all these generations strived to pass the history of our family down for those who want to know.3
On 22 Jun 1938 when Virgil Edward Pershing was 21, he married
Lilly Irene FOUST, daughter of Charles Fred FOUST (1895-1943) & Margaret Lucinda Jane LEFFERT (1900-1974), in Linncreek, Camden Co., MO.
Born on 6 Sep 1922 in Beggs, Okmulgee Co., OK. Lilly Irene died in Liberty, Clay Co., MO, on 14 Aug 2002; she was 79. Buried in Myetta Cemetery, Camdenton, Camden Co., MO.
The following received from Mary Bobbitt, Lilly's daughter:
Lilly moved from Beggs, OK where she was born,traveling in a two story wagon her father made, the upper story was for the children to sleep in and the lower was for the adults. Her father would hunt and they would gather wild vegetables for their food along the way. The wagon broke down a couple times along the way and they would stay over until it was repaired. They finely arrived in Camden Co., MO in time for her to start school in Camdenton. Her father, Charlse Freddrick Foust, had to sign papers stating her age as they had no birth certificate. She lived in the Camden Co. area until after her marriage and birth of her first four children. She then moved to the Kansas City area. Lilly was a very pretty woman all her life. She had black, wavy hair, an olive complexion, and her eyes were blue and at times green. She loved to dance and loved babies which was fortunate since she was the mother of nine children of her own. After moving to Kansas City, Lilly found work with a mattress company to help suppliment the family income this set the stage for her lifelong profession. After learning to sew on industrial machines, she found employment with an uphoslstry business where she worked for thirty years as seamstress, doing the sewing on the furniture made there. Heart problems forced her to retire or she would have continued on as work had become an enjoyed part of her life. Family History: From Lilly Irene Foust Clopp as told to her daughter Mary L. Clopp Bobbitt:
I had been trying to find the family lineage information and researching the family name of Foust, Leffert, Scott, and so on. I asked mom for names and dates and any information I thought might be helpful in my research. Mom looked at me one day as I broached the subject once again and said "Mary you want to know where you came from? Where your family came from? Then look in the history books." I asked her what she meant and she gave me the following story - "Our family talked about it among themselves when I was a little girl they told how there was a great deal of fighting and killing and that they were attacked and killed by people with big long sharp swords and big hammers and other wepons. And the like of killing and blood you never saw or wanted to see in your life. The families were rounded up and placed in big ships and brought here to America and without even coming to shore they were put off into the water right in front of the Indians and turned around and left them. And others were on other ships and taken to other places where they didnt know "it's in there just look in the history books" Momma said. I asked if she recalled what country but she wasn't sure but she thought maybe Germany and she said that she did think that there was Jewish blood in the family as well. So I asked which family name was associated with it and she said the whole family talked about it among themselves and she overheard these things and as a little kid of course the story of battles caught her attention. According to mom and in her words "The Indians were real good to our family they felt sorry for us and tried to help however many of us they could but there were so many of us to help. Our family was very grateful to them for what they did." I would love to have the dates and the tales her family shared because it seems to have been carried down from one generation to another so as not to be forgotten which is why the small amount I have been told I want to share and do my part in the remembering.3
They had the following children:
Erma Francis CLOPP.
Born on 8 Sep 1920 in Camdenton, Camden Co., MO. Erma Francis died in Camden Co., MO, on 10 Dec 1993; she was 73. Buried in Myetta Cemetery, Camdenton, Camden Co., MO.
In 1937 when Erma Francis was 16, she first married Lester Alexander McQUEEN in Camdenton, Camden Co., MO. Born on 5 Jun 1902 in Arkansas. Lester Alexander died in San Diego, CA, on 31 May 1973; he was 70.
They had the following children:
On 19 Aug 1946 when Erma Francis was 25, she second married William Francis WARD, son of Robert J. WARD & Edna FORD, in Kansas City, KS. Born on 10 Dec 1920 in Philipsburg, MO. William Francis died in Lebanon, Laclede Co., MO, on 28 May 2002; he was 81. Buried in Myetta Cemetery, Camdenton, Camden Co., MO.
The below information was sent by Mary (Clopp) Bobbitt in November, 2002:
William Francis WARD
Bill Ward was awarded many medals including the Purple Heart. He was a prisoner of war in Italy and Germany during WW II. He entered the Army in Dec of 1942. He went first to Africa, then to Italy and on the front lines he was captured and put in a POW camp. The prisoners were moved to Germany in cattle cars that were unmarked and fired on by the Americans and other allies during the three or four day trip. While in Italy he was only given a cup of soup and a piece of bread a day. After arriving in Germany he was forced to work on a potato farm but did get three meals a day. The above from his step-son James Clifford Mcqueen.
They had the following children: