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Catherine “Kitty” <I>Cupp</I> Dewees

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Catherine “Kitty” Cupp Dewees

Birth
Death
9 Aug 1872 (aged 77–78)
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
Plot
486
Memorial ID
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The death date is an approximation from the reported burial date of 10 Aug. 1872.

She was married to Samuel Dewees who was buried first in Odd Fellows and then removed to Lawnview. He is buried with their granddaughter Catherine Powell.

The published Dewees genealogy calls her Catherine "CULP" and cites only her three sons, omitting the five daughters. Her sister Margaret CUPP Redifer (# 95516731)'s daughter Anna E. Redifer left family genealogy notes that only called the family "CUPP. " Margaret's tombstone omits her maiden name. The sisters' burial records cites only their married names, also. Margaret, however, had a son called Joseph CUPP Redifer.

According to family records, Samuel and Catherine "Kitty's" children were George, John, Peter, Mary (married Mayhew), Sarah (married John Barry), Anna Eliza (married Pearson and was mother of Catherine Dewers/Dewees Powell, wife of Andrew Powell), Elizabeth and Almira (married Ary).

(The Elmira Hart who shares Kitty's burial group was not the same person as her daughter Almira. Elmira, instead, was born Whiteman and was a sister-in-law to Kitty's son George W, according to an obituary posted to Elmira's memorial. To get that association, Elmira could be a wife of Peter's still unaccounted-for brother John B., or it could be as a sister to one of the Dewees spouses. Despite being biologically outside this family and not married to anyone in it, Elmira was close enough socially to this Cupp-Dewees family to be buried with them.)

Kitty and Margaret's other sister was Elizabeth "Betsy" Dager Fosbenner (# 138975899).

The burial group here with Kitty, , according to Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, is daughter Sarah Dewees Barry, grandson son (of Peter) Henry G. Dewees, son George W. Dewees, George W.'s sister-in-law Almira Hart, George W.'s wife Harriet R. (Clark, Garret) Dewees, and Harriet's son by her first marriage - J. Willis B. Garrett.

The parents of the Cupp siblings are still unknown, but seem to relate to the immigrant Swiss Mennonite community several ways. Elizabeth "Betsy" Cupp Dager Fosbenner, for instance, was married at Upper Skippack Mennonite church. Margaret's husband descends from the Rev. Wilhelm Rittenhouse, first Mennonite pastor to the area.

Also of note in cross-family Cupp connections: Margaret Cupp Redifer's unmarried son George Redifer left all of his estate to his Dewees-side first cousin, Kitty's son Peter's son Everett and Everett's wife Jennie Thompson Dewees. Everett and Jennie Dewees also named one of their sons George Redifer Dewees. Jennie is buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia with her sons George and Everett Jr.
The death date is an approximation from the reported burial date of 10 Aug. 1872.

She was married to Samuel Dewees who was buried first in Odd Fellows and then removed to Lawnview. He is buried with their granddaughter Catherine Powell.

The published Dewees genealogy calls her Catherine "CULP" and cites only her three sons, omitting the five daughters. Her sister Margaret CUPP Redifer (# 95516731)'s daughter Anna E. Redifer left family genealogy notes that only called the family "CUPP. " Margaret's tombstone omits her maiden name. The sisters' burial records cites only their married names, also. Margaret, however, had a son called Joseph CUPP Redifer.

According to family records, Samuel and Catherine "Kitty's" children were George, John, Peter, Mary (married Mayhew), Sarah (married John Barry), Anna Eliza (married Pearson and was mother of Catherine Dewers/Dewees Powell, wife of Andrew Powell), Elizabeth and Almira (married Ary).

(The Elmira Hart who shares Kitty's burial group was not the same person as her daughter Almira. Elmira, instead, was born Whiteman and was a sister-in-law to Kitty's son George W, according to an obituary posted to Elmira's memorial. To get that association, Elmira could be a wife of Peter's still unaccounted-for brother John B., or it could be as a sister to one of the Dewees spouses. Despite being biologically outside this family and not married to anyone in it, Elmira was close enough socially to this Cupp-Dewees family to be buried with them.)

Kitty and Margaret's other sister was Elizabeth "Betsy" Dager Fosbenner (# 138975899).

The burial group here with Kitty, , according to Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, is daughter Sarah Dewees Barry, grandson son (of Peter) Henry G. Dewees, son George W. Dewees, George W.'s sister-in-law Almira Hart, George W.'s wife Harriet R. (Clark, Garret) Dewees, and Harriet's son by her first marriage - J. Willis B. Garrett.

The parents of the Cupp siblings are still unknown, but seem to relate to the immigrant Swiss Mennonite community several ways. Elizabeth "Betsy" Cupp Dager Fosbenner, for instance, was married at Upper Skippack Mennonite church. Margaret's husband descends from the Rev. Wilhelm Rittenhouse, first Mennonite pastor to the area.

Also of note in cross-family Cupp connections: Margaret Cupp Redifer's unmarried son George Redifer left all of his estate to his Dewees-side first cousin, Kitty's son Peter's son Everett and Everett's wife Jennie Thompson Dewees. Everett and Jennie Dewees also named one of their sons George Redifer Dewees. Jennie is buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia with her sons George and Everett Jr.


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