HUSBAND..(full name ): LOOP, Simon (Dr.) BORN.....(date/place): about 1804 VA CHR......(date/place): MAR......(date/place): 17 NOV 1836 ______, Mercer, OH DIED.....(date/place): 27 MAR 1848 Wabash, Wabash, IN BUR......(date/place): HUSBAND'S FATHER.....: LOOP, Simon Compiled by: HUSBAND'S MOTHER.....: HECK, Mary Elizabeth Victor L. Bennison HUSBAND'S OTHER WIVES: 2 Georgetown Drive ---------------------------------------------------------- Amherst, NH 03031 WIFE.....(full name ): DAVIS, Mary C. BORN.....(date/place): about 1817 OH CHR......(date/place): DIED.....(date/place): 1879 Memphis, Shelby, TN (yellow fever) BUR......(date/place): WIFE'S FATHER........: WIFE'S MOTHER........: WIFE'S OTHER HUSBANDS: FILE: LUSISI.FGSV ----+-------------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+ # / | CHILDREN | WHEN | WHERE OR TO WHOM | SEX | surname / given names | | town, county, state or country | ----+-------------------------+---------------+--------------------------------| 1. | LOOP, Charles Linnaeus |b. 6 MAR 1840 | Thorntown, Boone, IN | M | |m. 1871 | YEARGER, Harriet | | |d. 17 NOV 1915 | Chattanooga, Hamilton, TN | ----+-------------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+ 2. | LOOP, Ephraim |b. 1843 | prob. Thorntown, Boone, IN | M | |m. | | | |d. 1879 | Memphis, Shelby, TN (yel. fev.)| ----+-------------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+ NOTES: History of Hamilton County, Tennessee, by Armstrong, p. 428: Charles Linnaeus Loop, son of Simon and Mary Davis Loop, was born in Thorntown, Indiana, March 6, 1840. He died in Chattanooga, November 17, 1915. After the death of Simon Loop, Charles L. Loop lived with his paternal grandfather and attended school in a log house. Later he studied in Carlisle, Ind. He became identified with the express business and was an express agent before he was 15 years of age. He assisted the railroad agent and succeeded him in that position... As soon as he was old enough he was appointed messenger for the Adams Express Company with headquarters in St. Louis and later in Memphis. He was appointed cashier and auditor of the Southern Express Company after the [Civil War] and in 1887 he was made Auditor-General. The offices of the company were combined in a general office in Chattanooga and Mr. Loop was made Traffic Manager and Vice President. He was a Mason and a member of the Presbyterian Church for more than forty years. He was a Knight Templar and a Shriner. He was a member of the Mountain City Club, the Lookout Mountain Club, The Chattanooga Golf and Country Club, the New York Athletic Association, the National Security League, The Chattanooga Chamber of commerce, The National Geological Society ... He married Harriet Yearger, who died in Chattanooga, October 10, 1900, a daughter of Judge E. M. Yearger, of Memphis. They had five children, Chester Henning, who married Madge Ingalls of Memphis and resides in that city; William Rush, who married, 1911, Julia Allen of Chattanooga and resides [there]; John Ellis, who married in 1911, Sue Mills of Chattanooga and resides [there]; Mary Davis, who married twice, first Dr. George Manning Ellis, and second Lt. Walter Ellery Moore of the United States Navy; and Jensy, who married in 1914, Commander Spencer Lewis of the United States Navy. A History of Tennessee and Tennesseans, by Hale and Merritt, Vol VIII, 1913: Charles L. Loop, the vice president of the Southern Express Company... Mr. Loop [resided in] Chattanooga for the last twenty years... His father was Simon Loop, a native of Virginia, who accompanied his parents to Ohio, where he helped to clear a farm out of the wilderness, and where he was a school teacher and paid his way through Maimi University at Oxford, Ohio, later engaged in teaching at Troy, Ohio, and after his marriage there moved to Indiana, in which state Charles L. Loop was born. The mother, whose name was Mary C. Loop, was a woman of strong character and great strength of mind. After the death of her husband she lived to rear her two sons until she became a victim of yellow fever at Memphis in 1879. One of her sons, a brother of Charles L., was a Union soldier and went unscathed through all the hard fighting in Virginia, only to be stricken down by the yellow plague in 1879 at Memphis. Charles L. Loop, after his father's death, spent several years on a farm with his paternal grandfather, and during that period of his life attended the log cabin school situated in the woods. For a time his home was with a paternal uncle at Carlisle, Indiana, one of the old settlements of that state, and from there he moved west... In 1871 Mr. Loop married Harriet Yerger, a daughter of Judge E. M. Yerger, of Memphis, who died in Chattanooga in 1900... History of Hamilton, Knox, and Shelby Counties of Tennessee, Goodspeed, 1887: C.L. Loop, recently appointed general auditor of the Southern Express Company, was born in Indiana in 1844, and is a son of a physician. Left an orphan in early childhood, he apprenticed himself to a druggist. In 1855 [age 11, not likely] he was appointed agent of the Adams Express Company at Carlisle, Ind., at a salary of $5 per month. In 1860 Mr. Loop was given a run as messenger on the Illinois Central Railroad, and soon after acted as agent at Cairo, Ill... Mr. Loop was afterward sent to St. Louis, and in 1862 was detailed by manager Gaither to go to Memphis, where he filled the position of cashier until December, 1865... IGI: Simon Loop m. Mary C. Davis, 17 NOV 1836, Mercer County, Ohio 1850 Census of Boone County, IN, 24 JUL 1850: 363 363 Mary C. Loop 33 $400 born OH Charles L. Loop 12 born IN Ephraim R. Loop 7 born IN Wabash Weekly Gazette, Wabash, IN, Tuesday March 28, 1848: Died in this place yesterday afternoon, Dr. Simon Loop in the 42d year of his age. Dr. Loop has been a citizen of our town about 3 years and as a physician, citizen, and christian, was esteemed and loved by all." Wabash (IN) Courier, Saturday, Nov 23, 1878: Mr. Rush Loop, a citizen of Wabash County some twenty five years ago, died in Memphis, Tennessee on the 15th inst.