The year of birth comes from his headstone (his funeral record listed 1881), and the day of his death comes from his death and funeral record (it is November 24 on his headstone). While his death record attributed the cause to suicide (via ingestion), the newspaper accounts relate the cause as a heart attack that occurred while he was milking their cow at a lot in the vicinity of their home (a daily morning habit). Joe was the son of Jacob and Mary (Duncan) Shoopman. (John Shoopman, who was the husband of Rhoda Bunch's sister, Polly, was Joe's brother. Moreover, Rhoda and Polly's sister-in-law, Sarah [Duncan] Bunch, the first wife of their brother, Granville, was a half-sister to Joe and John's mother, Mary.)
The year of birth comes from his headstone (his funeral record listed 1881), and the day of his death comes from his death and funeral record (it is November 24 on his headstone). While his death record attributed the cause to suicide (via ingestion), the newspaper accounts relate the cause as a heart attack that occurred while he was milking their cow at a lot in the vicinity of their home (a daily morning habit). Joe was the son of Jacob and Mary (Duncan) Shoopman. (John Shoopman, who was the husband of Rhoda Bunch's sister, Polly, was Joe's brother. Moreover, Rhoda and Polly's sister-in-law, Sarah [Duncan] Bunch, the first wife of their brother, Granville, was a half-sister to Joe and John's mother, Mary.)
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