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Descendants of Anton Sop

Generation No. 1

1. ANTON¹ SOP was born 1799 in Germany/France, and died September 15, 1859 in Zanesville, Ohio. He married ELIZABETHA SCHMITT March 04, 1834 in St. Louis Roman Catholic Church, Buffalo, New York, daughter of JOHANNES SCHMITT and CATHARINA HEYD. She was born January 04, 1813 in ALS, Oberlauterbach, Alsace, France, and died June 25, 1902 in Zanesville, Ohio.

Notes for ANTON SOP:
Most likely he traveled by the Erie Canal to the Buffalo, NY area and lived there before moving on to Zanesville.
In the 1850 Muskingum County census, Anton was listed as "Anthony Soup," a cabinetmaker.

Burial record for St Nicholas Cemetery list his name as "Anthony Saup."

More About ANTON SOP:
Name 2: Anthony Saup
Name 3: Anthony Soup
Burial: 1859, St. Nicholas Cemetery (across from 1647 Wheeling Ave), Zanesville, Ohio
Emigration: Abt. 1815, The family came from ALS

Notes for ELIZABETHA SCHMITT:
In the 1850 Muskingum County census, Elizabeth was listed as 39, born in France. That would mean she was born in 1811, not 1813.

1860 Census show her age as 47 and head of the household. This agrees with her birth year being 1813 and the reported death of her husband the previous year.

Living with Martin Cavanaugh and John Adam Yaest in 1900

Children of ANTON SOP and ELIZABETHA SCHMITT are:

2.	i.	ANTHONY² SAUP, b. January 26, 1835, Buffalo, Erie, New York; d. February 25, 1915, Zanesville, Ohio.
3.	ii.	ELIZABETH SAUP, b. November 02, 1836, Buffalo, Erie Co, NY; d. August 12, 1926.
	iii.	JOH. PETER SAUP, b. August 16, 1838, Dunkirk, Erie Co, NY; d. April 03, 1930, Zanesville, Ohio; m. PHILAMENA BOTTO, November 17, 1872, Cairo, IL; b. 1840, Italy; d. Unknown.

Notes for JOH. PETER SAUP:
OBITUARY: Peter SAUP, Zanesville Signal, Friday, April 4, 1930

PETER SAUP RITES TO BE HELD HERE MONDAY MORNING

Funeral services for Peter Saup, 92, civil war veteran who died Thursday afternoon, will be held at 9 o'clock Monday morning at St. Nicholas church, of which he was a member. Burial will be made in Mt. Olive cemetery. Friends have been asked to omit flowers.

Mr. Saup died following a general breakdown in health at the house of his niece, Mrs. Elizabeth Saup of 509 South street. He had been gradually declining for the past six weeks.

Mr. Saup was born in Dunkirk, N.Y. (on) August 18 (?), 1828 [NOTE: correct date should be 1838], but, with his family, moved to this city at an early age. At the age of 21 years he left Zanesville and located in Cairo, Ill., where he resided until one year ago, when he returned to Zanesville to spend his last days.

The deceased was one of the most prominent residents of Cairo, Ill., and served that city as councilman and sheriff for several terms. For over 40 years he was deputy U.S. marshall of that district. He retired from active business about four years ago.

On May 7, 1864, he enlisted in the 1(?)43rd Illinois, V.L. as a corporal and re-enlisted at Cincinnati Jan. 14, 1854 [NOTE: date cannot be accurate] in the Hancock Veterans' corps as a private and was honorably discharger [d] May 19, 1865, at Grafton W. Va. He then returned to Cairo, Ill., where he resumed his business career.

Mr. Saup had traveled extensively within the United States and Eu(rope?) and was a man of high attainments. He was a member of St. Nicholas Catholic church and is survived by one brother, Phillip Saup, of Ocean Park, Calif. and a number of nieces, grand-nieces, and grand-nephews.

Photocopy of obituary provided by Hilda E. Yinger, volunteer researcher, Zanesville, Ohio, July 7, 2001, at request of Susan B. Mullins, 2G-Niece of Peter Saup and Great-granddaughter of Phillip Saup.

Note: The information above has been copied directly from the photocopy of the Zanesville Signal newspaper obituary. Printing that was difficult to make out on the photocopy has been enclosed in parentheses. Comments by Ms. Mullins concerning the data have been enclosed in ellipses.

4.	iv.	MARY SAUP, b. Bet. 1841 - 1842, Zanesville, Ohio; d. April 05, 1915, Zanesville, Ohio.
5.	v.	KATHRYN SAUP, b. Abt. 1845, Zanesville, Ohio; d. Bet. 1916 - 1926.
6.	vi.	ROBERT MICHAEL SAUP, b. January 29, 1846, Zanesville, Ohio; d. December 31, 1915, Zanesville, Ohio.
7.	vii.	PHILLIP H SAUP, b. June 01, 1849, Zanesville, Ohio; d. June 21, 1943, Santa Monica, CA.
	viii.	CHARLES SAUP, b. Abt. 1853; d. Unknown.

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