Husband Johann Henrich Lupp (details suppressed for this living person)
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Father: Henrich Lupp ( -1733)
Mother: Anna Catherina Wiederstein ( -1727)
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Wife Anna Elisabeth Rubsamen (details suppressed for this living person)
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Father: Henrich Rubsamen
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1 M Ludwig Christian Lupp
Born: January 7, 1732/33 at: Hof, Germany
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Died: June 28, 1798 at: Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
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Spouse: Anna Maria Spath (1732-1794)
Marr: 1756
Notes for Child: Ludwig Christian Lupp
He came to America at age 20 on the ship Rowand, arriving in Philadelphia on 29 Sep 1753. From Hinke, Ministers of the German Reformed Congregations in Pennsylvania[:ITAL]: "Shortly after his arrival, Lupp settled near Strausstown, in what is now Upper Tulpehocken Township, Berks County. Here he was at first the schoolmaster of the parochial school. But, owing to the lack of duly ordained ministers, he gradually assumed all the duties of a pastor . . . He was one of the numerous independent ministers . . . as there were not enough ordained ministers to supply all the Reformed congregations." For many years he ministered to parishes in Strausstown and Bern in northern Berks County. He then moved to the Lebanon area (in the next county west of Berks County) and served many parishes in what were then Lancaster and Dauphin Counties. He married three times, although only two of his wives' names are known. Hinke's book quotes from the "Hebron Diary": "[In 1789] I was in town and heard the Reformed pastor Lupp deliver a funeral sermon. I rejoiced over his evangelical discourse, since he is at other times a legalistically pious man, who attacks sins and evils with the thundering words of the law, which may result in shocks, but in the end the sheep that go astray are not sufficiently directed to the source of healing and life." Hinke also quotes one of Ludwig's successors, Rev. Henry Wagner: "He was not a man of classical education, and had not been regularly prepared for the ministry; he was, however, a well-read man, and pious servant of Christ, and much devoted in his pastoral attention to the people of his charge. It was his regular custom, in his pastoral visits, wherever he remained over night, to have the neighbors invited, in order to spend the evening with them in prayer and religious conversation. He seems to have been untiring in his pastoral labors to promote true piety and godliness among the people entrusted to his care, as a true shepherd of his flock." In 1792 he laid the cornerstone on the First Reformed Church in Lebanon, which still stands, on 10th Street, as the UCC Church. His grave marker is a replacement. The original was in German and translated: "Here sleeps a grey head Ludwig Lupp Minister for 12 years in Lebanon 1733, he was born January 7, 1733 Married 3 times He had 12 children, of whom 5 survive him. He died June 28, 1798 His age 65 years, 5 mos. and 3 weeks. It was my profession and my worldly office To teach what God and Jesus pleased To preach the gospel pure and true And to call sinners to pennance [sic], attonement [sic], and penitence So adieu! Friends, follow my teaching and my word Then we will see each other again at heaven's gate."
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