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generations of Wabash Valley Tapscotts Edna Earl (Wright )Tapscott, Nellie (Tapscott) Tingley, Jerry Berbaum, Dolores Hope (Tingley) Berbaum, July 1943. |
Dolores Hope (Tingley) Berbaum,
who passed away 22 Nov 2016 in Urbana, Illinois (obituary),
was my cousin and the source of much Tapscott information for my still
unfinished book “The Wabash Valley Tapscotts.” She gave me her copy of The Merry Cricket, which describes the
lives of the relatives and neighbors of the Tapscotts who inhabited
Martinsville, Auburn, and Anderson townships in Clark County, Illinois, at the
turn of the last century (blog of 29 Sep 2015) and provided for copying several
photos of Tapscotts and their relatives (e.g., blog of 9 Aug 2016). Dolores and
her son Jerry also allowed the recording of an extensive oral history of the Clark
County Tapscotts. And she authored a detailed “John Wesley Tapscott Family” tree
for June Tapscott Leathers, who passed it on to me. Besides, Dolores was a friend
who will be greatly missed.
Dolores was the daughter of
Nellie Pearl Tapscott and Walter Albert Tingley, the granddaughter of John
Wesley Tapscott and Edna Earl Wright, the great granddaughter of William
Tapscott and Mary Angeline Wallace, and the great great granddaughter of Henry (“The
Traveler’) Tapscott and Susan Bass who founded the Wabash Valley Tapscotts.
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