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Melissa (Shoup) Stout
née Shoup
Melissa (Shoup) Stout (née Shoup) (25 March 1829 – 26 February 1855) was born in Ohio to Jacob Shoup and Sarah (Downing) Shoup. She married Philemon Stout Jr.. Her child was Samuel Jesse Stout. She died in 1855, in Sangamon Co IL.
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- Past and Present of the City of Springfield and Sangamon County (Wallace, 1904), Samuel J. Stout bio: second wife "Emma Davidson, a sister of George Davidson"; "Mr. Stout afterward married Mamie Davidson, a sister of his second wife, and they have one living child, James."
Past and Present of the City of Springfield and Sangamon County Illinois (Joseph Wallace; S. J. Clarke, Chicago, 1904), biography of Samuel J. Stout: "He was born in Ball township, August 22, 1849, a son of Philemon and Melissa (Shoup) Stout. The father was one of the early settlers of the county, arriving in 1836. The mother was a daughter of Jacob Shoup..." Also names third wife Mamie Davidson (sister of second wife Emma Davidson) and living child James. Matches: exact birth 1849-08-22 Ball Twp; wife Miriam/Mamie Davidson; son James Howard Stout of Glenarm.
- Past and Present of the City of Springfield and Sangamon County (Wallace, 1904), Samuel J. Stout bio: second wife "Emma Davidson, a sister of George Davidson"; "Mr. Stout afterward married Mamie Davidson, a sister of his second wife, and they have one living child, James."
Past and Present of the City of Springfield and Sangamon County Illinois (Joseph Wallace; S. J. Clarke, Chicago, 1904), biography of Samuel J. Stout: "He was born in Ball township, August 22, 1849, a son of Philemon and Melissa (Shoup) Stout. The father was one of the early settlers of the county, arriving in 1836. The mother was a daughter of Jacob Shoup..." Also names third wife Mamie Davidson (sister of second wife Emma Davidson) and living child James. Matches: exact birth 1849-08-22 Ball Twp; wife Miriam/Mamie Davidson; son James Howard Stout of Glenarm.
- Penelope Anderson was a native of Mercer County, New Jersey, and died Nov. 23, 1860 in Ball Township
Portrait & Biographical Album of Sangamon County (Chapman Brothers, 1891), Philemon Stout sketch: married Melissa Shoup 1848 in Ball Township; "Of the four children whom she bore, the first-born, Samuel J., is the only survivor... Samuel J. Stout was born August 22, 1849".
- Power, Early Settlers of Sangamon County (1876), Jacob Shoup sketch: born May 9, 1780, Huntingdon Co PA; married May 25, 1802, to Sarah Downing (b. Aug. 13, 1782); moved to Pickaway Co OH, sixteen children; to Ball township 1831. Of their children: "MELISSA, born March 15, 1827, in Ohio, was married in Sangamon county to Philemon Stout." Jacob d. Dec. 19, 1849; Sarah d. April 20, 1850. Matches melissa-shoup-stout: husband Philemon Stout, Ball twp/Cotton Hill, Pickaway Co OH origin; 1904 Samuel J. Stout bio independently says "The mother was a daughter of Jacob Shoup".
Power, Early Settlers of Sangamon County (1876), Jacob Shoup sketch: born May 9, 1780, Huntingdon Co PA; married May 25, 1802, to Sarah Downing (b. Aug. 13, 1782); moved to Pickaway Co OH, sixteen children; to Ball township 1831. Of their children: "MELISSA, born March 15, 1827, in Ohio, was married in Sangamon county to Philemon Stout." Jacob d. Dec. 19, 1849; Sarah d. April 20, 1850. Matches melissa-shoup-stout: husband Philemon Stout, Ball twp/Cotton Hill, Pickaway Co OH origin; 1904 Samuel J. Stout bio independently says "The mother was a daughter of Jacob Shoup".