Ida SHUPPY, Walnut Township's oldest person - 1955

RIES, SHUPPY, MANNHARDT

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/15/2011 at 21:56:40

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Saturday, April 23, 1955
Page 5, Column 2

Mrs. Ida RIES SHUPPY (Picture) has lived in same house 62 years. About 14 miles northeast of Fairfield. Oldest person in Walnut township.... When she was a girl there was very little canning done on the farm. Most all food was dried for winter use, including dried elderberries, blackberries, apples, peaches, etc. Before they could be used they had to be soaked over night.... Purchased Lyons & Arbuckle coffee at 5 to 10 cents per pound.... In the "bean stage".... coffee mill. They didn't purchase flour at the store. They raised their own grain and had it milled at the old Merrimac Mill on Skunk river. Pete Salzman operated the mill.

Mrs. George SHUPPY was born Apr. 18, 1869, Ida A. RIES, daughter of Jacob and Barbara MANNHARDT RIES, in Pleasant Plain. When a young girl the family moved to a farm north and east of Germanville where she attended Burr Oak School; married Mar. 3, 1887 George F. SHUPPY and went to housekeeping on a farm west of Germanville. Their daughter Dora was born in 1888. In 1889 the family moved to the Richwoods community and a year later to a farm known as the Chris Schafer farm.... located some distance from the graveled county road and is reached by a lane. Off to the west a short distance is an old cemetery. Mrs. SHUPPY said it is the old German Methodist cemetery. She recalled that a church stood nearby at one time but it has been gone for many years. The quaint old house shows its age. Speaking of the good old days, Mrs. SHUPPY recalled that it took all day to go to Fairfield by horse and wagon. She told how her father got up at 3:00 a.m. to do the chores so they could get an early start.....

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I am not related to the person(s) mentioned.