Stories about the POW’s abound in East Texas.

When a little girl wandered away from her home in Chireno, townspeople searching for her found her in the arms of a German. They were petting a cow.

It turned out that the prisoner, Hans Klepper, saw the little girl standing too close to a railroad track as a train rumbled by. He gently picked her up and, as they walked toward Chireno, they stopped to pet a cow. That’s where the searchers found them.

Using only shovels, German prisoners built at Center an Olympic-size swimming pool that was used for years by the town. Center Mayor John Windham, who helped dedicate Center’s historical marker in January, recalled that County Agent John Mooseburg was instrumental in bringing the POW’s to the town as labor for agricultural work.

With a peak capacity of 700 prisoners, Camp Center was the largest POW camp in the U.S.

The rest of this story is at http://www.texasescapes.com/AllThingsHistorical/POWs-in-East-Texas-BB908.htm

Political Ancestors

Please let us know if you have any details on Klepper and Clepper family members that have been politically active.


Klepper, Frank B. (1864-1933) — of Kingston, Caldwell County, Mo. Born in St. John, Putnam County, Mo., June 22, 1864. Republican. U.S. Representative from Missouri 3rd District, 1905-07. Died August 4, 1933. Interment at Evergreen Cemetery, Cameron, Mo.

Klepper, George M. — of Memphis, Shelby County, Tenn. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Tennessee, 1940 (alternate), 1944 (alternate), 1948. Still living as of 1948.

Klepper, Milton — of Portland, Multnomah County, Ore. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Oregon, 1932. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown.

http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kleindienst-klima.html

Kleppers of Boone County, Arkansas

When climbing around your family tree don't forget to check http://books.google.com and other online publishing sources.
Boone County, Ar By Boone Co. Historical Society, Turner Publishing Company

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Klepper's Mill South of Harrison. one of the skirmishes fought in Boone County was near Klepper's Mill. It took place March 31, 1863. The mill was operated by the Klepper family. Sons John and Peter Klepper were in Company D of the 16th Arkansas Confederate Infantry. The mill appears in the Official Records as Clapper's Mill" or "Clapper's Saw Mill" and in Turnbo's writtings as "Clepper's Mill", but it was Klepper's. The action took place near what is now Union Baptist Church on Highway 206 south of Harrison...

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The old Flat Rock school was well know in the early 1900s. A 1907 Flat Rock School publication says its board consisted of W. W. Turney, H. H. Cecil, and I. Ruckman. In 1907, the teacher was J. H. Hathcoat. [Boone County Historian, vol XIII, no. 1, 1990. p. 250]. A Baptist church was organized there about 1911. It was located two miles east of the mouth of Huzzah Creek. J. H. Klepper was pastor. It moved to Olvey and changed its name. Its pastors included Rev. John Stratton and the author's grandfather, G. V. Logan. [Logan, History of North Arkansas Baptist Association, pp 181-182].

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Page 55 has a picture of John Klepper and Peter Klepper

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KLEPPER - In the year 1928, Fount W. Klepper and and Alma (Sharp) Klepper married. They grew up and lived in the White Oak Community. After marriage, Fount farmed and Alma minded the children and house.
They were five daughters born to this union. They were Anna Mae Odell , Angele Virginia Fae, Hallene Olivia, Eunice Lois and Orpha Sue.
Fount and Alma went to the White Oak School, a one-room edifice. They are buried in the Blue Springs, MO, Cemeter. They were Baptist. They were definitely part of the history of White Oak. They moved to Kansas City, MO, in 1942.

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Clarendon S Roberts married Esther Klepper on April 16. 1917. in Boone County. He was a school teacher and taught at While Oak School.

Asteroid 7130 Klepper

Per Wikipedia.com, asteriod “7130 Klepper (1992 HR4) is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on April 30, 1992 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.”

Per the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names by Lutz D Schmadel posted on Google Books, 7130 Klepper was “named after the German novelist and lyric poet Jochen Klepper (1903-1942), with The Father and important representative of the Christian historical novel. He was dismissed from the post at the Berlin Radio already in 1933 because his wife was Jewish. by courageously raising his voice against Hitler’s terror he consoled people who suffered from the system. His letters and diary Under the Shadows of your Wings are moving. Pressed by the circumstances, he decided to die voluntarily with his wife and daughter in order to protect them from the concentration camp.

http://Books.Google.com/
http://www.nofs.navy.mil/festsci/list/astname.html

1892 Oct 10 - George Klepper

The Lock Haven Express newspaper from Lock Haven, Pennsylvania on Tuesday, October 10, 1892 listed George Klepper as selling his farm.


SUGAR VALLEY GLEAMINGS.
From the Journal.
George Klepper has sold his farm near Booneville and will quit farming. Next spring he will move to Lock Haven and work in the furniture factory.
The number of people in this vicinity afflicted with rheumatism at present is greater than at any other time within a period of ten years. The air seems to be full of it and almost every third person one meets limps or carries a cane.
A band of about fifty genuine Berks county gypsies pased through town on Monday on their way to Brush Valley, where they intend to camp a week or ten days before returning to their winter quarters. Their outfit consisted of fourteen wagons, thirty horses, three tents and a log of cooking utensils.
Operations at Brungard's saw mill in the Long Narrows has been suspended owing to the prevalence of typhoid fever in the camp. Four members of one family - father, mother, son and daughter - are afficted with the disease. One death is reported, the victim being a young man named Strobble.


Source = PaperOfRecord.com

1890 Apr 01 - George Klepper

The front page of The Lock Haven Express from Lock Haven, Pennsylvania on Tuesday, April 1, 1890 list George O Klepper as being one of the citizens selected for Jury Duty


Source = PaperOfRecord.com

Routh Cemetery - Plano, Texas

   One of the oldest in Collin County, the Routh Cemetery (32°59'36"N at 96°42'13"W) is located just north of the Dallas County line on Glenville Road and is less that two miles east of U.S. Highway 75.  This is a wooded area is on a high point southwest of the Spring Creek between the Renner and Campbell Roads.
    Tennessee Baptist Preacher Jacob Routh and his wife Lodemia Ann Campbell Routh purchased 640 acres of land in 1851 or 1852 from John Vance.  Routh's land was located south of the Joseph Klepper land grant that developed into the downtown area of Plano, Texas.  At that time, there were three graves on the land; William D. Klepper, son of Joseph and Nancy Klepper (plot 51), William's aunt Nancy DeLozier Beverly (plot 52), and the unmarked grave of a girl who's family was traveling though the area when she died.  By February 2000, it was estimated that there were 95 marked graves and another 100 unmarked.
    Nancy DeLozier married Civil War Captain William Beverly on 28Apr1828.   She was born on 10Mar1806 and died on 16Jun1651.  William also died in 1851 but the unknown girl is said to have been the first burial at this cemetery.  There is a legend that an indian was buried at this site before any of these people, but there are no records or written stories to back this claim.  We do know that the site was chosen because it is high above the Spring Creek and because the girl's family was camped near the creek when she died.
    Just at Christmas 1845, Nancy Russell died of what was believed to have been the cold of winter combined with a rough trip into Texas and premature child birth.   She was the young married daughter of Joseph Russell and she died just after the family arrived at their new land in Plano.  With no wood available for building as winter began, the family was forced to tear apart the bed of a wagon to build her coffin and they lined it with her mother's hand made quilts.  Nancy may be the travelers daughter that died while they were camped by Spring Creek and may be the first grave at the Routh Cemetery.

Source:
• Lucille Mehrkam, History and Genealogy of the Family of Jacob Klepper/Clepper Family and Malcolm McAlpine Family (The Gregath Company, 1996), Library of Congress under card number 86-62751
• The Plano Historical Committee, Plano Texas, The Early Years, Jan1986, ISBN 0-9651841-0-2 (page 105)
• Harold R. Huber, President of the Routh Cemetery Association
2037, harrold.huber@sabre.com
• Deed for this cemetery is listed in Vol. 658, page 114.
• Cathy Spaulding, Not only History, but family, (Plano Star Courier Newspaper, 04Apr1999)

Joseph C Klepper 1842-1915

    Joseph Klepper was the son of Andrew Jackson Klepper and Nancy J ______. He was born 1844 in Tennessee and died 10 Oct 1915 in Collin County, Texas. He is buried with his family at the Fitzhugh Cemetery, in Forest Grove, Collin County, Texas.
 
There is a J. C. Klepper listed as the Mayor of Plano, Texas from 1888 to 1889. 

According to Lucille's book, “He is listed in the household of his father in the 1850 Greene Co., Mo. Census. He or his father are not in the 1860 Greene Co., Mo. census, but his mother and the younger children are. His father was in Texas by 1870. Joseph must have followed with his wife, children, mother and cousins Perry R (180) and Peter F. (181) by 1874.
Married 2 Jan. 1870 in Greene Co., MO to Sadie J. ; born Sept.1846 Robertson Co., TN.”

Children:

1. Oscar Flach Klepper b. 1872 Spring, MO.

2. Andrew T. Klepper b. Jun. 1873 MO; 1910 Dallas Co., Tx.

3. Wesley M. Klepper b. Aug. 1875 Collin Co., TX.

4. Minnie B. Klepper b. ca 1878 TX.

5. John E. Klepper b. Jun. 1881 Tx.

6. Fred Beatty Klepper b. Sep. 1883 Tx.

7. Ray E. Klepper b. Oct. 1886/7 Tx.; died Dec. 1963; buried Fitzhugh Cemetery.

8. Rose Klepper b. Mch. 1888 Tx; mar. Terry Peace England.

9. Nellie L. Klepper b. Nov. 1890 Tx.
 
Source:
• Lucille Mehrkam, History and Genealogy of the Family of Jacob Klepper/Clepper Family and Malcolm McAlpine Family (The Gregath Company, 1996), Library of Congress under card number 86-62751
• 1850 Greene Co., MO & 1880-1910 censuses of Collin Co., TX. Collins Co. Cemeteries Vol. 1; Soldier's Application for a Pension # 26763

Plano Mutual Cemetery - Texas

Luille Mehrkam’s book on the Klepper/Clepper family has Andrew Jackson Klepper’s branch of the family as buried in the Pike Cemetery, but they are actually in the Plano Mutual Cemetery.
    Located at the northwest corner of 18th Street and Jupiter Road in Plano, Collin County, Texas, you will find the Kleppers in the Masonic section of the cemetery.

Andrew Jackson Klepper, 15Jan1815 - 26Mar1891
Albert Arnold Klepper, 1884-1925 (son of John and Mary)
Andy Klepper  (John Bench Klepper's father Andrew?)
Etta Ann Kendley Klepper, 11Feb1853 - 21Oct1920
Frank Earl Klepper (artist, son of John and Mary), 1890-1952
Jeveria M. Klepper (daughter of J. and M. Klepper)
John Bench Klepper, 1849-1937
Mary Caroline Klepper, 1850-1904 (wife of John Bench Klepper)
Mary E. Klepper (daughter of A. J.)
Mary Florence Bazzlery Klepper (wife of C.M.), 26Aug1876 - 20 May 1912
Mary J. Klepper (wife of A. J.), 13Jan1817 - ?
Klepper (infant), 1878-1878

Source:
Lucille Mehrkham, History and Genealogy of the Family of Jacob Klepper/Clepper Family and Malcolm McAlpine Family (The Gregath Company, 1996), Library of Congress under card number 86-62751
Alice Pitts, Cemetery Records, Volume I, Collin County, Texas

Andrew Jackson Clepper 1815-1891

  Andy was born on 15 Jan 1815 in Hawkins County, Tennessee but we are not if his father was Samuel Klepper or Frederick Klepper.   According to Lucille's book, "In the 1830 census of Hawkins Co., Tn. Frederick shows a son the correct age to be Andrew. Andrew is in the 1840 census of Hawkins Co., Tn. and listed in his household, 1 male 20/30; 1 male 15/20; 2 females 20/30 and 1 female 10/15; died 26 Mch. 1891 Collin Co., Tx.; buried" Plano Mutual Cemetery
    "Andrew moved to Mo. ca 1841 and he is in 1850 census of Greene Co., Mo., Taylor Tws. with a wife Nancy 34 born in Tn.; Joseph C. 8 born in Tn.; Sarah 4 born in Mo.; John 1 born in Mo.; Mary P. 6 born in Mo.; Minerva P. 20 born in Tn. and Stephen Galbreath (sic) 19 born in Tn.
    Andrew must have left his family in Mo. and moved to Collin Co., Tx. by 1870 to be near Joseph (James) Klepper (14). He is listed in the 1870 census of Collin County, Tx. in the household of Geo. Mason, occupation blacksmith, age 54, born in Tn.; Nancy J. came to Texas ca 1876 with her son Joseph C. and his family and she is living in his household in 1880. (it would seem that she and Andrew J. were divorced). Nancy is buried" Plano Mutual Cemetery "(death date was not recorded in the "Collin County, Tx. Cemeteries Inscriptions Vol. 1)".
    Andrew J. is in the 1880 Collin Co., Tx. census with wife Etta 27, born in Ga. and daughter Mary Etta 7/12, born Tx
    1/mar. Nancy J. Bench, born 13 Jan. 1817 Tn/Va.? (1850 census shows born Tn., 1860 census born Va.); died 22 March 1906. Nancy and four children, Sarah 13, John 10, Martha 6 and Daniel 4 are in the 1860 Greene Co., Mo. census. Andrew J. and his son Joseph C. are not found in 1860 Greene Co., Mo.
    2/mar. ca 1879 to Etta Ann Kindly, (per cemetery records). Listed as Etta in 1880 Census; born 11 Feb. 1853 in Ga.; father born in Va.; mother born in Ga. Died 20 Oct. 1920; buried in the" Plano Mutual Cemetery.  "In 1900 Collin Co., Tx. I find Eliz. E. Klepper born Feb. 1854 Tx.; Robert A., son born Mch. 1882 Tx.; Sallie Ingrum, mother, born Jan 1827 in NC.; and P. A. Ingrum, brother, born May 1862 in Ga. (Is this Etta wife of A.J.??)"

    Andrew is listed in the 1780 census of Collin County, Texas as a 54 year old blacksmith and is noted as not being able to read or write.  Voting records later show his learning to write his name (signature on voting records).
Andrew Klepper’s blacksmith shop (Wagon Yard) was located on the east side of South Main Street. It was across the street from the Holloway & Davis livery Stable which was on the west side of the city hall.
Andy died on 26 Mar 1891.

Children:
1. Joseph C. Klepper b. May 1842 Tn.
2. Mary G. Klepper b. 1844 Mo.
3. Sarah Klepper b. 1846 Mo.
4. John Bench Klepper, born Oct 1849 in Mo.
5. Martha Klepper b. 1854 Mo.
6. Daniel L. Klepper b. Apr. 1856 MO; See 1900 & 1910 Dallas Co., TX censuses.
    1/mar. Ara/Ora ?; born May 1873 Ms.
    2/mar. Fannie ?; born 1882 Tx.
1. Roy Klepper b. Jan. 1895.
2. Clara Klepper b. 1900 Tx.
7. Mary Etta Klepper b. 1880 TX.; DY.
8. Robert A. Klepper b. Mch. 1882.

Source:
• Lucille Mehrkam, History and Genealogy of the Family of Jacob Klepper/Clepper Family and Malcolm McAlpine Family (The Gregath Company, 1996), Library of Congress under card number 86-62751. (Page 9)
• Copy of his signature is from Records of Reconstruction Days in Collin County, Texas (pg56?) by Rida Bickley Roose and Jeanette Bickley Bland.  A copy can be found at the Gladys Harrington Public Library in Plano, Collin County, Texas.
• The Plano Historical Committee, Plano Texas, The Early Years, Jan1986, ISBN 0-9651841-0-2 (page 230, 1855 Plano map on page 243)
• 1850 Greene Co., MO & 1880-1910 censuses of Collin Co.
• Soldier's Application for a Pension # 26763.
• Jon P. Czarowitz, Great Great Grandson of John Bench Klepper stated that Andrew went by the name "Andy"

John Klepper of Indiana

Does anyone know how John Klepper fits into the family tree?

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One of the many German citizens who have cast their lot in Shelby county and thereby have not only benefited themselves, but the general public as well, is John Klepper, a pioneer citizen of Westphalia township. He has always been an honorable, upright, industrious, temperate and economical man in every way, and his exemplary conduct has gained for him the esteem of his fellow citizens. He has performed well his part as a part of the body politic, and no one questions his standing as one of the leading farmers and worthy citizens of the township. John Klepper, the son of Christian and Margaret (Manger) Klepper, was born in Luxemburg, Germany, January 1, 1844. Christian Klepper traveled throughout Germany, buying coal and wood for large factories, and followed this business all his life. Christian and Margaret Klepper were the parents of eight children, all of whom are now deceased except John, Annie, Lena and Anthony. These children in the order of their birth are as follows: Michael, Lena, Anthony, Margaret, John, Annie and two who died in infancy. John Klepper received his education in the schools of Luxemburg, Ger- many, and after leaving school, worked upon his father's farm until he was twenty years old. He then went to France and worked on different farms in that country for six years. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, he returned to his native land, and he continued to work in Germany at different occupations until 1877, when he finally decided to come to the United States and invest in farming lands in Iowa, where many of his countrymen had already settled. Upon coming to this country he located in Clinton county, but a year later settled in Westphalia township, where he purchased a farm of eighty acres. He succeeded beyond his fondest hopes, whereas if he had remained in Germany he would have missed the golden harvest which has attended his efforts in this county. Today, he is the proud owner of four hundred and forty acres of fine farming land and each year he sends to the market four car loads of cattle and from two to four hundred head of hogs. In 1914, he put out two hundred acres of corn, and one hun- died and forty acres of oats. Mr. Klepper was married January 25, 1880, to Susan Altman, the daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Altman, and to this union have been born ten chil- dren, Benjamin, John, Michael, Nicholas, Joseph, Peter, Frank, Alexander, Anna, and Mary. Anna married John Schmitz, and has four children, Alvin, Alphonso, Alex and Cyril. The rest of the children are unmarried and still living with their parents. Mrs. Klepper's parents were natives of Germany and early settlers in this county, where they lived until their death. John Altman and wife were the parents of seven children: Susan, the wife of the immediate subject of this review; Justine, Annie, Susan, John, Nicholas and Lena. The Democratic party claims the support of Mr. Klepper and, although interested in good government, he has never been an aspirant for public office, or taken an active part in political matters. He and his family are members of the Catholic church, and he is a member of the Knights of Columbus. Mr. Klepper is a fine type of the self-made man.

Source: 1915 Past and Present of Shelby County, Iowa, pp. 1285 - 1286
Contributed by: Marthann Kohl-Fuhs
http://www.rootsweb.com/~iashelby/1915bio/1915.htm

John Klepper and Sarah Moore

It is normally a very bad thing to post without confirming the source, but this information is to start a conversation with the visitors of this site. There is a faded stamp about the York County Historical Society, but the document’s source is unknown. Please let us know if you have any additional information.

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THE DESCENDANTS OF 
JOHN KLEPPER AND SARAH MOORE

1. INTRODUCTION

For several decades the descendants of John Klepper and Sarah Moore have been holding an annual Klepper reunion. In the early years, Nora Klepper Krall gathered information about the family and it seems desirable to put her information on paper before it is lost. This report will supplement her information with that obtained from Mr. Kauffman of Florida Ave., New York, and from the York County Historical Society.
Certain questions arise naturally: “Who are the Kleppers?”, “Where did they come from?”, “Why did they settle in Pennsylvania?”, etc. Complete answers are, of course, impossible buy partial answers can be given.

2. THE GERMANS IN PENNSYLVANIA

Near the end of the 17th century (1684), Louis XIV of France, desiring military glory, moved his armies northward toward the Netherlands and in passing through the Rhineland devastated the countryside. In particular, the Palatinate, Wurtenburg, Baden and parts of Hesse were severly damaged and the Germans living in this area left without homes of means of making a living. These wars of Louis XIV lasted quite a few years and the area was overrun several times so that living conditions were almost impossible and the peasants were ready to move to almost any country that would have them.
One large group is interested in that they first went to England and after a few years some went to Ireland, some to the Carolinas andabout 3000 landed in New York in June 1710 on their way to Schoharie County, New York. They were badly treated in New York State and within ten years separated into four groups; some stayed in Schoharie County, some went to New Jersey along the Raritan River, some moved back to the Mohawk Valley, and the largest group, having heard good reports about the Pennsylvania Quakers, followed the Susquehanna River south to Swatara Creek and then moved east along this creek; quite a few of these Germans settled in Lebanon County. It is probable that some of the descendants of these early emigrants have, within the past fifty years, intemarried with the Lebanon County Kleppers

3. THE KLÖPFER: JOSEPH, FREDERICK, AND JOHN

Future German emigrants learned of these events and most of them landed in Philadelphia and settled in Pennsylvania. In particular, the ship Sandwich landed in Philadelphia November 30, 1750, and amoung the passengers were Joseph Klöpfer and his son Lorenz. Almost certainly his wife Anna Christina and his other children were with him, but the ship list contains only the names of the adult males (over 16). The children of Joseph and Anna Christina were: 1) Lorenz 2) Elizabeth 3) Joseph Jr. 4) Marie Catharine 5) Dorothy 6) Michael 7) George 8) Frederick 9) Jacob 10) Eve 11) Simon.
The name Joseph Klöpfer , appears May 30, 1757 as one of the organizers of Strayer’s Church near Dover. It also appears on the 1764 tax list; he owned 167 acres north of Dover which extended for about 1/2 mile along the eastern side of the York-Carlisle Road, somewhere near the former big elbow on the hill up the mountain. This farm was later owned by the Spahrs (Dorothy Klöpfer, Joseph’s fifth child, married Philips Adam Spahr on March 24, 1765).

John Valentine Klepper

    Some family members believe that John Valentine Klepper or Johnathan Valentin Klopper is the earliest known Klepper ancestor but at this time there is NO PROOF that he is the father of Jacob Klepper (1741-1828); however, we do know that like Jacob, John was born in Germany and died in Pennsylvania, USA.  John is listed on the September/October 1766 voyage of the 'Chance' from Germany.

    One problem we must face in Genealogy research are the social genealogist and their lack of detail in records.  While they mean well and are very excited at learning about themselves through learning about their family history, they may be doing more harm than good.  A family genealogist once wrote to me that “There are so many Jacobs, Phillips and Mary's, I am becoming confused. Trying to check dates and yours seem to be about right.”

Source:
• http://www.searchforancestors.com/passengerlists/chance1766.html
• Lucille Mehrkam, History and Genealogy of the Family of Jacob Klepper/Clepper Family and Malcolm McAlpine Family (The Gregath Company, 1996), Library of Congress under card number 86-62751

John Clepper 1816-1885

JOHN KLEPPER/CLEPPER (P.James, Phillip, Jacob Sr.), was born 30 July 1816 (bible), 12 June 1812 (cemetery), 1814/15 (according to the 1850-80 census); son of P.James and Christiana (Collier) Klepper/Clepper; died 19 Jan. 1885 at his home, Brad, Palo Pinto, Tx.; buried Brad Cemetery, Palo Pinto Co., Tx.

Married 26 Apr. 1838 (according to entry in the bible of her nephew John Brown Birdwell in Ark., as copied by Jessie M. Parker) to Amanda M(enerva) Birdwell; born ca 1823, Franklin Co., Tn.; daughter of Moses and Sarah (Duncan) Birdwell; died after Feb. 1886 in Grimes Co., Tx.; burial place unknown.

Probate records of Palo Pinto Co., Tx. dated 19 Nov. 1885 state he left a wife, Amanda, and the following children: L. D. Clepper, age 47 years, resident of Coryell Co., Tx.; C. D. Clepper age 45 years, resident of Grimes Co., Tx.; Lem Clepper age 41 years resident of Palo Pinto Co., Tx.; Mrs. S. E. Evarett age 38 years, resident of Coryell Co., Tx.; Wm. Clepper age 33 years, resident of Palo Pinto Co., Tx. and two grandchildren, Miss Amanda Ketchler (sic) age 15 years resident of Washington Co., Tx. and Josy Clepper age 3 months, resident of Palo Pinto Co., Tx., infant daughter of a son, Joseph Clepper, decd.

His father was in White Co., Tn. in 1811 and Franklin Co., Tn. by 1812. Marion County was taken from Indian lands in 1817 and his father P. James and uncle (V). John Clepper (234) purchased 106 acres for $700.00 (B-297) from Isaac H. Roberts and John Mc Murray on Battle Creek 15 July 1826. Flossie Hines found three folders in the National Archives on John Klepper. (1) Card #24612889, Cherokee War, John Klepper, Mounted Tn. Mil, 1st Corp. Capt. Champion's Co. 1 Reg't. Tn. Mounted Mil. Enrolled 22 June 1836 at Marion City for 6 months. Traveling to place of rendezvous 90 miles from place of discharge to home. (2) John Klepper, Robert's Co. Muster Blues Tn. Pvt. Roll for May 17 to June 16, 1836, 1 month. Called out for the protection of the Sabine Frontier under authority of General Gaines, approved by War Department R&P 330401. (3) John Klepper, 2 Mounted Vols. Al., 1st Corpl. Capt. Norwood's Co. 2 Regt. Al. Jackson Co. Mounted Gunmen (Creek War). Mustered in Montgomery, June 1, 1836 for 3 months. Valuation of horse $140. Company muster out roll Huntsville, Aug. 17, 1836. The first two are the service records of John Klepper (333) and the 3rd is V. John Klepper (234).

Bounty Land Claim dated 6 Apr. 1855 from National Archives for John Klepper, age 39, shows he was a private soldier in the company commanded by Captain Isaac Roberts in the Tennessee Volunteers. Volunteered at Coffee County, Tn. 16 May 1836 for six months, and was honorably discharged at Nashville, Tn. on June 1836. He further states that he is the same John Klepper that was 2Lt. in the company commanded by Capt. Willis Champion in the 2 Brigade Tennessee Mounted and Infantry Volunteers commanded by Brig. Gen. R. G. Dunlap and musted into the service of the United States 8th of July 1836. Application signed by J. H. Conatser and Sarah Birdwell. On 3 Mch. 1855 J. Minot, Commissioner of Pension Office, Washington, DC wrote "that the Bounty Land claim of John Klepper filed under the act of 3rd Mch. 1855 for service rendered under Capt. Roberts has been examined. As it is shown by documents in possession of the government,that the forces of which Capt. Roberts company furnished a part were not raised by any State or Territory; and as the benefits of the above, and all other Bounty Land acts, extend only to those who were called into service by the authorities of a State or Territory, and have been paid for the same by the United States, or who have served in some one of the several wars in which this country has been engaged since 1790, said claim CANNOT be allowed". John Klepper wrote back to Commissioner of Pension, Washington City on Feb 20, 1856 "I see from the decision of the Secretary of the Interior of date the 18th Dec. last, and from your circular of the same date, that the claims of those Soldiers who have been rejected because their service was not performed at the act of war, will now be taken up and allowed, under the provision of the act of Mch. 1855; I therefore returned the report and your letter rejecting my claim with the request that the same be taken up and allowed. You are hereby requested to address all letters on the subject, and warrant when issued, if I am entitled, to R. B. Roberts of Altamount, Tennessee, who I have constituted my attorney for that purpose."

In Marion Co., Tn. Deed Book G pg 285 dated 29 May 1856 Samuel A. Anderson, Jr. issued Deed to John Klepper "for the love and affection I entertain for John Klepper do hereby give transfer and convey to him six negroes named Milly 32, Houston 10, Elizabeth 8, Alexander 6, Hannah 2 years and 6 months, and, Elle 15." Deed Book G dated 18th Sept. 1856 from Sarah Birdwell to Amanda Klepper, "for the love and affection I entertain for my daughter, Amanda M. Klepper, I do hereby give transfer and convey to her and her bodily heirs the following negro slaves, Will, Louisa 22 and her three children Kiscoh 4, Reuben 2 and Allen nine months." John is still in Tn. on 27 Oct. 1856 as he gave a statement to the county clerk on some land he had sold to John Smith 30th day of May 1852. In the "Old Cahaba Land Office Records and Military Warrants 1817-1853" by Hahn page 187, Military Warrants Book 320, "Monthly abstract of locations on unclaimed, unsettled lands 'subject to private entry' made for the month at date of return at the Land Office at Cahaba, Al. on military land warrant certificates, issued pursuant to the 9th Section of the Act of Congress, approved 28 Sept. 1854", I find a John Clipper applied for land in Pike Co., Al. Oct. 23rd, 1852. (V.John Klepper (234) was already in Ar. and had received a land grant for his service in the Creek Indian War, and stated that he had not received a previous grant). Is this our John???

It is believed that John and Amanda (Birdwell) Klepper left Marion Co., Tn. shortly after Oct. 1856 with their family, her mother Sarah (Duncan) Birdwell and nephew John Brown Birdwell and his sister Mary Jane Birdwell for Arkansas, probably going thrugh Boone Co., Ar. to visit with John's uncle V.John Klepper (234), and his sister, Lucinda (Klepper) Turney (334).

John Birdwell and his sister stayed in Franklin Co., Ar., and John Klepper with his mother-in-law set out for Texas where his brothers Lemuel Gilliam (331) and Joseph C(ollier) (337) Clepper had moved ca 1837/8 and Amanda's grandfather John Birdwell had moved from Al. to Rusk Co., Tx. about 1847/8. Arriving in Montgomery Co. by 12 Sept. 1857, he purchased two tracts of land from N. B. Thomas, 177 acres in headright of Jas. Gibson and 179 acres in W. Johnson Survey.

His father P.James Clepper left Tn. ca 1863 and after staying in Al. for a time moved to Montgoemry Co., Tx. ca 1865/6. John and his father sold out in Montgomery Co. in Jan. 1867 and moved on into Washington Co., Tx.

John's father, P.James Clepper moved to Whitney, Hill Co., Tx. were he died in 1880. John lived in Coryell Co., Tx. from 1872-7. He purchased land 23 miles west of Gatesville on the waters of House Creek. According to a letter dated 23 Oct. 1979 from Bettie Rexroat, "I wrote to my mother before she died and ask her to tell me what she knew about the Cleppers, she wrote me that when the Cleppers were in Coryell County located on the Cow House Creek, a big flood came and destroyed all their houses and everything. They got out alive, but no food, cattle or anything and they were about to starve so they tried to buy a yearling to kill and eat and no one would sell them any, so as cattle were running at large they killed a yearling and skinned it and hung the hide on a bush and wrote on a sign, if anyone would claim the hide that they would pay for it but no one ever claimed it". My first cousin said she has my great grandpa John Clepper's Bible that our grandmother Amanda (Hamilton) Clepper had given to her in 1926. The bible is water damaged and on the flyleaf is written "In the overflow of the Lampasas River in 1872". My cousin said Amanda lived with her grandfather Wm. Marshall and Amanda (Hamilton) Clepper after John's death and she remembers her grandmother telling her how unhappy she was. She went to visit her son, Charles in Grimes Co. and died"; John and his sons, Wm. (500) and Lemuel C. Clepper (497), purchased land from the State of Texas in Palo Pinto Co. in 1879.

Children:
1. Lorenzo Dow Clepper b. 30 Jan. 1839 Tn; CW.
2. Charles Duncan Clepper b. 5 Nov. 1840 Tn; CW.
3. James (R/L) Clepper b. 23 Nov. 1842 Tn. (In 1850 Marion Co., Tn. and 1860 Mo. Co., Tx. Censuses. Mar. to M. E. Clepper in Hill Co., Tx. on 24 Nov. 1882. Unable to find in 1870 census are the Probate records of Palo Pinto Co., Tx).
4. Lemuel C(ollier) Clepper b. 18 Sept. 1844 Tn; CW.
5. Sarah Eliz. Clepper n. ca 1847 Tn.
6. Emily J. Clepper b. ca 1849 Tn.
7. Wm. B. Marshall Clepper b. 26 Jan. 1852 Tn.
8. A(ugustus) E(dward) Clepper b. 1854 Tn.
9. John Clepper b. Dec. 1855/6 TX. (In 1860 Mo. Co., Tx. his age is listed as 5 born TX and 1870 Wa. Co. census as 14 born in Tx. Not found 1880 Texas census are his father's probate records of Palo Pinto
10. Thomas Clepper b. ca 1858 Mo. Co., TX. Not found 1880 census and not listed in father's probate records.
11. Joseph F. Clepper b. 3 June 1861 Mo. Co., Tx.



REFERENCE:
James Klepper bible; John Brown Birdwell bible (copied by Jessie M. Parker (1980), 19 French St., East Wenatchee, Wash. 98801)
Land record Marion Co., Tn.
Bounty Land Records of Tn. and the Cherokee War of 1836 records
Land records of Montgomery Co.; Washington Co.; Coryell Co.; and Palo Pinto Co., TX
Probate Records of Palo Pinto Co., TX
Land records as filed Austin Co., TX
Tax records of Montgomery and Washington Co., TX; " Texas Land Titles 1885" by Giles; General Land Map of Palo Pinto 1898
Letter from Bettie Rexroat, Gordon,Tx. 76453
"Abst. of all Original Texas Land Titles, Vol. 2" 1941. T33.1T
"Grays Cemetery Records" 976.G781
"Settlers of Stephens Co." by Adelle Olney
"The Palo Pinto Story" by Mary W. Clarke
Indian Wars, on filed National Archives as copied by Flossie Hines.

Source:
* Mrs Lucille Clepper Mehrkam
* 1981 "Montgomery County (TX) History" by the History Book Committee of Montgomery Co. Gen. Society (from Lucille Mehrkam 5/1984; FHL book 976.4153 H2mo) - Page 226
* 'Fugitives from Justice; The notebook of Texas Ranger Sergeant James B. Gillett'    ISBN 1-880510-37-5    State House Press of Austin, Texas 1997

P James Clepper 1793-1880

P. James Klepper/Clepper was born 15 Feb. 1793, son of Philip and temperance (Gilliam) Klepper and grandson of Jacob of Rebecca Klepper. The Klepper family came from Germany to America in 1766. They settled in Pennsylvania and Virginia into the Tennessee at an early date.
James Clippert is listed in the White County Tennessee Tax Book for 1811 showing a taxable property of 1,400 acres in the bounds of Capt. Wm. Ridgest Co. of Militia. He is found in the 1812 Franklin County, Tennessee Tax List. He purchased 10 acres 19 Jul 1826 on waters of Battle Creek at the food of the Cumberland Mountains in Marion County, Tennessee. He received land grant #8934 for 2,000 acres in 1837 from the state of Tennessee located on the west side of Battle Creek. James married Christian Collier 12 Aug 1812 and they had 13 children. Christian died 8 Oct 1837 and James married Mary “Polly” Jones at Franklin County, Tennessee 19 Mar 1838. They had 8 children. James had 21 children. On 18 feb 1863 he sold 4,700 acres and set out for Montgomery County, Texas. He sold 177 acres in the Mary Conner Survey 9 Oct 1866 and moved to Washington County, Texas in what is now Lee County, and believe died there after 1870 [01 May 1880 in Hill County, Texas, buried Ft. Graham Cemetery, Whitnet, Hill County, Texas].

His children are:
1. Lemuel Gilliam, born 28 Oct 1813, died Magnolia, Texas ca 1893. He left home at an early age and went to Alabama. He married 1836 to Rebecca A. T. Broudnax and moved to Texas with his brother Joseph in 1837. He married (2) Frances Faulkner. Children Francis, James B., Lemual D., Mary, Virginia, and Rhoda.
2. Moses, born Dec 1814, moved to Alabama 1836, married (1) Molly Motley, and married (2) Juliannete M. Presley 1853. They family was in Oklahoma 1900 and wife died Collingsworth County, Texas 1918. Children: Amanda, Frances, Sophie, Joseph, Moses, Augustas, and James Franklin.
3. John, born 30 Jul 1816, died 19 Jan 1885 Palo Pinto County, Texas. He married Amanda M. Birdwell.
4. Lucinda, born 1 Oct 1818, married Jacob B. Turney, Jr. 7 Mar 1830 and moved to Arkansas in 1847 and Brown County, Texas 1880.
5. James, born 22 May 1820 married 1848 Alabama to Eliz. C. Robinson.
6. Mary Angeline, born 19 Jan 1822, died 1894 Wasco County, Oregon. She married Arch Wood Harris.
7. Forester Mercer, born 10 Feb 1824.
8. Isabella, born 12 Feb 1826.
9. William, born 25 Nov 1827.
10. Sarah A., born 5 Sep 1829, married Wm. Long.
11. Joseph C., born 30 Jun 1831. He came to Texas 1837, and was sherrif of Montgomery County, Texas 1866 and married Penelope?. In 1880, he is in Caldwell, Burleson County, Texas. He operated a hardware store until his death in 1910.
12. Thomas Wesley, born 4 Mar 1833, died in Tennessee, married Mary Jane Gilliam.
13. Anna Frances, born 13 Dec 1836.
14. Martha G., born 30 Mar 1839.
15. Temperance, born 1 May 1841, married Wm. A. Ballard.
16. Eliz., born 21 Jun 1843, married J.M. Fuqua.
17. Jabes Julies, born 23 Feb 1845, married (1) Letha Ann?, married (2) Mary Woodall 1893 Bosque County, Texas. Children are Alice, Eliza, Maude, Lemuel G., Emmett, Emma, Hazel, Zepharah.
18. Pleasant Gilliam, born 27 Dec 1847, died 1921 Waco, Texas. He married Elvira Harris. Children: Annie, Tennessie, Edna, Bertha, James B.
19. Virginia, born 8 Nov 1848, married Reddrick Overton. Children: Joseph, Daisy, Tennessee.
20. Tennessee, born 11 Aug 1850, married James B. Arnold. children: Jacob B., Laura.
21. Eliza Ross, born 13 Sep 1852 Tennessee, dies 18 Apr 1937 Hill County, Texas. Never married.

Source:
* Lucille Clepper Mehrkam

Spinster Twins - Bessie and Dessie

Bessie Allie Klepper and Dessie Sol Klepper were born on 30 Nov 1906 and were the daughter of Joseph Ellis Klepper. They are listed on page 63 of Lucille Mehrkam’s book on the Clepper Family (LOC 86-62751).

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Spinster twins Bessie and Dessie kept the men guessing 
By BILL WHITAKER
05 Dec 1996

Even at age 90, spinster twins Bessie and Dessie Klepper can wear a fellow out faster than your everyday, ordinary curmudgeon.
Although Abilene's most vintage old maid twins attribute their long lives to "the Lord, three square meals a day and a good walk every morning," I wouldn't be surprised if being totally contrary - and for the sheer joy of it - has also had something to do with it.
No wonder no one's ever dared write about this pair before. If one of the Klepper twins wasn't threatening me, the other one was.
During the course of what one might only liberally call an interview, the two switched off playing "good cop/bad cop" on me. First Bessie refused to have anything to do with me and only Dessie would answer questions, and when she did Bessie got onto her.
Then, in a move I almost failed to notice, the twins slyly switched places and Bessie began answering questions and Dessie refused to talk.

ONLY THE DOG KNOWS

To complicate matters further, they really are hard to tell apart. With most twins you can usually pick up on something about one - a distinguishing blemish, a weight difference, a skin hue - but Bessie and Dessie look so much alike I'm told many of their kinfolks can't tell one from the other.
"Even their daddy couldn't tell," Jan Tally said of the twins and their father, a Callahan County rancher and one-time deputy sheriff. "He lived with them from the day they were born till the day he died, and he never could tell 'em apart."
"Our great nephew's little dog is the only one that can tell us apart," Dessie volunteered at one point.
A family friend later explained this is because Bessie feeds and pets the dog while Dessie shows it disdain at best. Anyway, if kinfolks want to know whether they're talking to Bessie, it helps to have the dog around because it'll cotton to her.
Considering the above, it may surprise you to learn I'd been invited to the house on Grape Street - a home they've lived in 51 years now - during what appeared to be a very lively birthday party attended by friends and family, including their 85-year-old sister, Pearl Roberts.
No sooner had I entered than Pearl beseeched me to put a photo of Bessie and Dessie into the newspaper, so the spinsters might finally be married off.
Old photos reveal the Klepper twins were a fetching pair in their youth. Ask why they never got married, though, and you open up another can of worms.
"Well, it isn't any of their business," Dessie told me, "but I guess nobody wanted a couple of ugly, red-headed girls."
Bessie, however, confirmed what some of the other kinfolks told me - mainly that the Klepper sisters have never been able to resist the urge to mix things up. Maybe that's a natural drive when you look exactly like someone else in West Texas.
At any rate, the girls would occasionally pull switcheroos on their dates, so an innocent suitor (or even one not-so-innocent) was never quite sure which girl he happened to have with him. This reportedly created enough havoc and embarrassment for suitors that the girls stayed single all their lives.

WOMAN'S WRATH TIMES TWO

If the girls created a lot of nonsense in their girlhood, they certainly refused to tolerate it from others. When they were 6 or 7, they became so mad at their cousin Perry who broke their dolls they put him in a tow-sack, set fire to it and threw it over a barbed-wire fence.
At least, that's what kinfolks say - and the spinster sisters do nothing to discourage the story.
Supposedly some parents on the scene at the time put out the fire and rescued the lightly singed boy. But word of that kind of thing will get around, especially if you're in Callahan County, and so the girls have always represented a frightening challenge for the opposite sex.
This much we can tell you. The twins did volunteer they were born Nov. 30, 1906 on a ranch north of Clyde during a snowstorm, that they each weighed a pound and a half at birth, and that Bessie is the oldest, by about a half hour.
"Daddy put both of us in a shoebox for a bassinet," Bessie said.
Besides themselves, they had a brother and sister who were twins and their mother was a twin.
I also understand they've been members of Emmanuel Baptist Church for 64 years, that they both worked in department stores much of their lives (Bessie at Lintz, Dessie at Minter's) and that, as contrary as they are, their kin relish them because there's never a dull moment when they're around.
"It was a precious time," Dessie said after all the company left and their 90th birthday bash came to an end. "But then every day is precious to us - and we enjoy it."

Bill Whitaker, who understands the Klepper twins each got a dollar for every year of their lives and are now expecting their kinfolks to do the same next year, can be reached at 670-5293, ext. 325. Or you can e-mail him at WTWARN@aol.com.

http://www.texnews.com/reality/brazosbill/bill120596.html

Klepper name changed to Clepper

There are a few versions as to how the spelling of the Klepper name changed to Clepper but each story tells of the family running from the law after one or more murders.  Many of the Great Aunts and Uncles did not want the story told but the records are still available...  According to Texas Ranger Sergeant James B. Gillett, John Clepper and his son Lem Clepper were wanted for an "assault to murder" committed on 15 Oct. 1866 in Montgomery County, Texas.  Given the phrase "assault to murder," there may not have been an actual murder but they were fugitives from justice.

"Clepper, John; Clepper, Lem C... Assault to Murder; committed October 15, '66; indicted November 15, same year.  John Clepper is 66 years old, 5 feet 10 inches high, weight 160 pounds, grey hair, dark eyes and complexion.   Lem C. Clepper is 32 years old, 5 feet 11 inches high, weighs 150 pounds, eyes, hair and beard black, dark complexion, is a photographer.  Father and son supposed to be in Bosque County."

Then again, there may have been more than one case... "If my memory is correct - old Pleasant James Klepper (I'm told) killed a man and came to Texas - changing the name to Clepper - so when our John Klepper came to Texas he also changed his name to Clepper.  William Turney Klepper came to Texas but used the Klepper spelling."  -  Lucille (Clepper) Mehrkam, 31 Dec. 2001.

Source:
Lucille Mehrkham, History and Genealogy of the Family of Jacob Klepper/Clepper Family and Malcolm McAlpine Family (The Gregath Company, 1996), Library of Congress under card number 86-62751, Page 165
'Fugitives from Justice; The notebook of Texas Ranger Sergeant James B. Gillett'    ISBN 1-880510-37-5    State House Press of Austin, Texas 1997

Ms Ruby Kendrick 1883-1908

The information below is from The Star Courier newspaper of Plano, Collin County, Texas on Thursday, 13 Aug 1908.
The article was transcribed from Microfilm at the Glady Harrington Library in Plano, Collin County, Texas by Conan Massey Jr.
Ms Ruby Kendrick, daughter of John T. Kendrick and Kate Barnett Kendrick, died in Korea as a Missionary. John’s sister, Rachel White Kendrick, married Isaac Klepper of Plano, Texas before 1880. While Rachel and Isaac had no children of their own, Rachel helped raise John Kendrick’s children after John’s wife died.

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A SOLDIER OF THE CROSS

What People say about a Plano girl who laid down her life for others

HER GREAT SACRIFICE

What was said at the meeting of the Epworth League

The Houston Post of Monday gave an account of a meeting of the Epworth league at Corpus Christi the Sunday before as follows:
In memory of a Texas girl who volunteered for service under the banner of the cross and fell on the firing line last June, services were held at Epworth-by-the-sea yesterday and tributes to her life of devotion and death of sacrifice were paid to be eminent churchmen of Methodism.
A year ago, when the State Epworth League met in its annual encampment for 1907, Miss Ruby Kendrick, a young leager from Plano was there to tell her comrades of the ranks of young Methodism good-bye. She was to depart for a month for Korea. Since girlhood she had been devoted to the church in its religious services, in its prayer meetings, in its activities of mercy, and blessing and helpfulness she had found increasing joy, and with the reading of reports of the remarkable receptiveness of the Korean people, to whom Christianity had just come, there deepened within her piety the desire and the purpose to have some active part in this great warfare of the Prince of Peace, whose soldier she had pledged herself to be.
“Show me your marching orders,” said Lord Wellington to the disheartened missionary. And to the young girl in the Texas town there came this marching order, “Go ye unto all the world and preach My gospel.” And she made ready to go. They bade her good-bye at Epworth last summer, there was a great farewell service where all had the opportunity to grasp her hand and bid her God’s speed and in a few weeks she was flying across the Pacific, leaving America farther and farther below the water’s broad horizon.
Two months ago she died. Out where Christianity has planted its outpost, in the field where the struggle against the ancient gods of the ancient East is being _____ for the triumph of the W____ Christ, the Texas girl fell in the trenches, fell in the ministry to which she had pledged her young life with its fair future, and they laid her to rest in peace and quietness in that land of the Morning Calm.
The friends who bade her God’s speed a year ago met to commemorate her devotion to faith and splendid loyalty to the Great Commission yesterday, and the scene at that vase memorial service held in honor of a woman’s sacrifice has touched the great hear of Texas Methodism. at the memorial service held in her home conference, a short time ago, twelve young women volunteered to take the place of the fallen missionary, and from all parts of the State comes reports of the significant influence which the sacrifice of this young life has brought to bear upon the hearts and lives of the young people of the denomination.

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"One well-known Texas Epworth League project was the Ruby Kendrick Memorial Fund. Ruby Kendrick volunteered as a missionary to Korea in 1907 but died in less than a year, and Texas leaguers ultimately raised nearly $120,000 in her memory as a mission project." - http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/EE/ixe1.html

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Walter N. Vernon et al., The Methodist Excitement in Texas (Dallas: Texas United Methodist Historical Society, 1984).

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Tombstone inscription at the Seoul Foreigner's Cemetery

Ruby Rachael Kendrick
B. Jan. 28. 1883
D. Aug. 15. 1908
"If I had a thousand lives to give Korea should have them all" - Ruby Kendrick

http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~schipp/Memorials/kendrick.html

Routh Cemetery - Richardson, Texas

   One of the oldest in Collin County, the Routh Cemetery (32°59'36"N at 96°42'13"W) is located just north of the Dallas County line on Glenville Road and is less that two miles east of U.S. Highway 75.  This is a wooded area is on a high point southwest of the Spring Creek between the Renner and Campbell Roads.
    Tennessee Baptist Preacher Jacob Routh and his wife Lodemia Ann Campbell Routh purchased 640 acres of land in 1851 or 1852 from John Vance.  Routh's land was located south of the Joseph Klepper land grant that developed into the downtown area of Plano, Texas.  At that time, there were three graves on the land; William D. Klepper, son of Joseph and Nancy Klepper (plot 51), William's aunt Nancy DeLozier Beverly (plot 52), and the unmarked grave of a girl who's family was traveling though the area when she died.  By February 2000, it was estimated that there were 95 marked graves and another 100 unmarked.
    Nancy DeLozier married Civil War Captain William Beverly on 28Apr1828.   She was born on 10Mar1806 and died on 16Jun1651.  William also died in 1851 but the unknown girl is said to have been the first burial at this cemetery.  There is a legend that an indian was buried at this site before any of these people, but there are no records or written stories to back this claim.  We do know that the site was chosen because it is high above the Spring Creek and because the girl's family was camped near the creek when she died.

    Just at Christmas 1845, Nancy Russell died of what was believed to have been the cold of winter combined with a rough trip into Texas and premature child birth.   She was the young married daughter of Joseph Russell and she died just after the family arrived at their new land in Plano.  With no wood available for building as winter began, the family was forced to tear apart the bed of a wagon to build her coffin and they lined it with her mother's hand made quilts.  Nancy may be the travelers daughter that died while they were camped by Spring Creek and may be the first grave at the Routh Cemetery.

Source:
• Lucille Mehrkam, History and Genealogy of the Family of Jacob Klepper/Clepper Family and Malcolm McAlpine Family (The Gregath Company, 1996), Library of Congress under card number 86-62751
• The Plano Historical Committee, Plano Texas, The Early Years, Jan1986, ISBN 0-9651841-0-2 (page 105)
• Harold R. Huber, President of the Routh Cemetery Association

• Deed for this cemetery is listed in Vol. 658, page 114.
• Cathy Spaulding, Not only History, but family, (Plano Star Courier Newspaper, 04Apr1999)
• Lester Floyd quoted Willard Reese, son of N. D. Reese, who quoted Mrs. Clepper.   (This was a common saying of this time.)

William D Klepper 1843-1851

    William D. Klepper, son of son of Joseph and Nancy (Beverly) Klepper, was born in 1843 Illinois and died at the age of seven (1851) in Texas.
    William (plot 51) was the second marked burial in the Routh Cemetery (32°59'36"N at 96°42'13"W), east of US75, north of Glenville Drive in what is now Richardson, Collin County, Texas.   His aunt Nancy DeLozierr Beverly (plot 52) of Illinois was the third burial at the Routh Cemetery.

Source:
• Lucille Mehrkam, History and Genealogy of the Family of Jacob Klepper/Clepper Family and Malcolm McAlpine Family (The Gregath Company, 1996), Library of Congress under card number 86-62751 (Page 7)
• Harold R. Huber, President of the Routh Cemetery Association
2037 Colborne Drive in Plano, Texas 75025-3014, 972-517-6661, harrold.huber@sabre.com
• Collin County, Texas Deed for this cemetery is listed in Volume 658, page 114.
• Latitude and Longitude information is from http://landmark.granbury.com/collin.htm