Jessup Clan

William Alvin Jessup Jr. -approx 1917 and May 2011

Here are some pictures and report on William Alvin Jessup Jr. from his grandson Brian Jessup. William Alvin Jessup Jr (aka Billie) is the little baby in the first photo and the elderly gentleman in the second. The second photo also features Billie's grandson Brian with his children Sophie Marie Jessup and Nicholas William Jessup. From Brian:

We made a trip out to West Texas to visit family over the Memorial Day holiday, and I found the attached picture of attached picture. From the writing on the back of the photo, it appears to be Mary Lindsey Goodale, Abbie Goodale Jessup, William Alvin Jessup, Sr., and William Alvin Jessup, Jr.
 
My grandfather, William Alvin Jessup, Jr., is still doing well and will turn 95 on June 17th. It was a brief visit, but he was happy to see the great-grandchildren, Sophia Marie and Nicholas William. I attached a picture from that visit as well. It was a blistering hot day peaking at 111F, and the area has not seen rain since September of last year. Lawns were very crunchy.   

John VanDuzer Jessup Family

Found this print that was a bit faded out in a pile of photos. No date. I'll guess 1915 as John Goodale Jessup looks to be about 15. Love Aunt Esther's dress. Parents: John Van Duzer Jessup and Abbie Elaine Goodale Jessup. Teenagers left to right: John Goodale Jessup, Esther Linsley Jessup (Wagner), William Alvin Jessup. 

William A. Jessup and men folk of the family sometime in the 1950s.

Top: William A Jessup Sr, Manley T Jessup, Nicholas Veenstra, William A Jessup Jr. Bottom: Billie Veenstra, Richard Jessup, Karl Jessup. (source: William Brian Jessup, son of Karl Jessup!)

Esther Linsley Jessup Wagner family picture

Here is a picture of Esther Jessup, Abbie and John Van Duzer Jessup's only daughter her family. So this would be William Alvin Jessup Sr and John Goodale Jessup's sister. Esther married a " railroad man", Aurthur Wagner. I remember visiting them in Aurora IL where they lived in the '60's. They had two daughters: Sarah Wagner and xxxxx. Esther was a nurse and she is mentioned frequently in Abbie and John VD's diaries as tending this or that ailing relative over the decades. I think she must have been a very busy lady.

Abbie Elaine Goodale Jessup Picture

Abbie lived 1868 - 1962. She and her husband, John Van Duzer Jessup (1856 - 1939) farmed Springmere Farm near Oswego, IL. She and John Van Duzer kept a daily diary which was transcribed by one of their sons, John Goodale Jessup (my grandfather). More to come on that. Thanks to Brian Jessup (descended from their other son, William Alvin Jessup, Sr.) for the picture. Abbie and John VD had one daughter -- Esther Linsley Jessup (Wagner).

William Alvin Jessup Sr and family picture

The little boy in the lower right of the 1903 photo, is my grandfather's older brother William Alvin Jessup Sr (son of John Van Duzer and Abbie Goodale Jessup). (When I was young looking at the picture, I always thought he looked like Gerry Mather of the TV show "Leave it to Beaver" in that particular picture)

William took over the Springmere farm as a young man, following in his father's footsteps. He lived in one of the houses with his wife and their children while his father and mother continued to live in the other house. Here is a picture of William Sr and his wife and children in the photo:

• William Alvin Jessup Sr.
• Caroline Ruth Sorensen Jessup
• William Alvin Jessup Jr. (still reported alive and at 93+ in Texas!)
• Ruth Jessup
  

Thanks to Brian Jessup for the picture) (more to come on the story as I go through the Abbie and John VD diaries and ask some questions of members of the family to get it straight).

1903 extended Jessup Family at Springmere Farm

Here is a photo of the  family and friends who attended the Golden Anniversary in 1903 (subject of the documents below). This would be the 50th wedding anniversary of the couple who settled Springmere Farm near Oswego Illinois in the 1860's.  You can make them out as the older couple seated at the base (and slightly right) of the right post of the porch. They had traveled west after the Civil War as a young married couple from New York state along with many of their family and friends. New opportunity-- think of the adventure. The following pdf attachment is is the identification of the people in the photo hand written by John Goodale Jessup (my grandfather). John Goodale, his brother William A. Sr and Esther are all children in the lower right hand corner. William A. Sr is the last boy on the very far right lower corner (see above for pictures as he grew up. Download 1903LgPicID011

Graveyard Rubbing - Fit for Halloween

Our Jessup clan resided in New York State for many generations before moving to the Midwest. We located some Jessup graves on Long Island on a family vacation in the 1960's. I imagine they are still there. We all helped my mother make some rubbings of the gravestones. This spooky image from Mehetabel Jessup's stone came out pretty well.  And here is what we recorded on Mehetabel's husband's stone (I really wish I knew what is meant by the description of his birth):

THOMAS JESSUP

Whose remains are here interred

Was born February 28, 1721, old style

And deceased the 20 of May, 1809 in the 89 year of his age. He sustained for many years

with great reputation to himself and

with much usefulness, the office

of Deacon in the church in South Hampton. He was pious and exemplary;lived respected and lamented died.

"Those shalt come to thy grave in a full age like a shock of corn cometh in his season" John 5.26

Death kills the body, but the soul his stroke survives and by the blood of Christ redeem'd to mansions celestial.

1903 Jessup History - Golden Wedding Anniversary Part 2 Decendant List

This is part of the larger document in Part 1. It is simply a list of the descendants of Daniel Jessup as of 1903 (so it is a bit out of date!). The notes in the margins were added by John Goodale Jessup in the 1970's when he was putting his history of the family together. Download 1903GoldenPt2Decendants010

1903 Jessup History - Golden Wedding Anniversary Part 1

 
Scanned from the 1903 original booklet by Theodore Jessup written in honor of the 1903 50th anniversary of the wedding of William A. Jessup and Mary Jane VanDuzer Jessup (great grandparents of Grandpa Jack). Pictures of the entire family who attended the event included. Read the couple of paragraphs on page 23, and I think it will tweek your interest. See Part 2 for the listing of ancestors going back to the mid-1600's.

As of this posting, the original is in the picture chest in Boyne City.Download 1903GoldenJessupHistory002

12 MB file in pdf