Clarence Edward Tope, son of Selam Howard
Tope and Emeratta Selina Porter [note 1], was born 14 March 1897 in
Athens Co.,
Ohio, and died 19 June 1963 [note 2]. He married Margaret Gooden on 19
June 1915.
Clarence and Margaret had four children: - Clarence
Edward Tope was
born 17 November 1916 in Ohio, and died in Spokane, Washington on 19
January 1993 [note 3]. He married Blanch Irene Bushman in 1939. Her
surname prior to adoption by the Bushmans was Anderson. Irene was born
8 July 1922 and died on 19 January 1993 [note 4].
- Millard R. Tope was born 17
February 1919 in Ohio, and died 14
June 2008 in Bend, Deschutes Co., Oregon. He married Iris Collings on
14 August 1942. Iris was born 4 May 1919, and died 16 June 2010 [note
5].
Clarence and Iris had two children;
- Raymond Tope whose son,
Marc Ray Tope, was born 11 October
1965 and died 14 October 1965.
- Terri K. Tope.
- Wanda May Tope married Jack
Chirrick.
- Clarence Emerson Tope was
born in 1921 and died in 1995 in
Phoenix, Maricope Co., Arizona.
Notes:
- Except as noted, all data
are from M. Ray Tope, email Saturday,
November 22, 2008 12:35 AM, to Donald L. Kear.
- California
Death Index, 1940-1997 [database
on-line].
Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000. Original data:
State of California. California
Death Index, 1940-1997.
Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services,
Center for Health Statistics.
- Ancestry.com. Social
Security Death Index [database
on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2008. Original
data: Social Security Administration. Social
Security Death Index,
Master File. Social Security
Administration. Social Security number
was issued in Utah before 1951.
- Ibid.
- Email from M. Ray
Tope, September 17,
2010.
Updated
18 September 2010
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