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Daniel Rupe, son of Jacob and Susanna (Long) Rupe, natives of North Carolina, was born in December, 1816, in
Wayne county, Indiana; he came with his parents to Wayne county, Indiana, and from there to Pleasant Plain, in
Elkhart county, in 1829; came to this tp. in the spring of 1831, and settled in sec. 1. His mother died in 1854,
and the father in 1868. Mr. Rupe was married in December, 1840, to Martha Stull, who was born in Jennings county,
Indiana, in 1820, and they have 5 children: William, Henry, Margaret, Melissa and George. Margaret married James
Cook; Melissa married Linus Foot, Jr., Jan. 22, 1870, who was born in 1850; his parents are William and Maria Foot,
of Centre tp., who came to this county in 1851; they were natives of Connecticut. Mr. Foot lived in South Bend
several years after his marriage, where he followed teaming; be is now engaged in farming on sec. 7; they have
one child, born in 1874. P. O., South Bend.
FROM:
History of St. Joseph County, Indiana
Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Publisher
Chicago 1880.
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