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Elizabeth Ann Haupt

(11/02/1850 - 7/28/1913)

		Jonathan Haupt
	Elizabeth Ann Haupt
Marriage(s)		Mary Logston
1 Andrew Jackson Beets on: 02/03/1889 Children: - William Beets - Minnie Mae Beets - Lillian S. Beets Siblings: - Adam Phillip Haupt - John Haupt - Robert Samuel Haupt - William Henry Haupt 1/2 Benjamin Franklin Haupt	Born: Baptism: Place: Sponsors: Died: Burial:Ownbey Cemetery, Kirksville, Adair County, Missouri Notes: St. Joseph Gazette St. Joseph, Missouri 31 Jul 1913, Thu ? Page 8 Elizabeth was the daughter of Jonathan Haupt (1820-1889) who was born in Hecktown, Pennsylvania, and died in Missouri; and Catherine (Lankard) Haupt (1829-1869) who was born in Lykens Valley, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and died in Bloomington, Macon County, Missouri. Elizabeth's father, Jonathan Haupt, had been married once prior to her mother. He married Elizabeth Mahney in 1842, but she died at the birth of their son Benjamin Franklin Haupt in 1842. Then, Jonathan married Catherine Lankard, who was of German descent from Pennsylvania, like himself. Jonathan was a very enterprising man for his day and apparently quite wealthy. He is credited with having built the first dwelling house in New Salem, Redbank Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. He built a Post Office there which he named Pierce and established an Evangelical Church. In the cemetery for this church lies many members of the Lanker/Lankard family. Jonathan became very interested in colonizing the west. He used his own wealth and proceeds from sale of some of his numerous land holdings in Pennsylvania to fund wagon trains west to establish colonies. After Jonathan and Catherine Haupt's 4th child was born, they took a colony to Freeport, Illinois. This was in the early 1860s and daughter Elizabeth was about 10 years old. Their other children were: Adam Phillip Haupt (1844-1903), John Haupt (1858-died young), and Robert Samuel Haupt (1862-1931). When the Civil War broke out, the colony broke up. Jonathan heard that land was cheap in Missouri, so in 1865 he took his family there. He chose north central Missouri in a place called Adair County. Jonathan purchased the townsite of Ringo's Point, expecting to bring another colony there. Of that purchase, he was able to save only a 200-acre tract of land for himself. Elizabeth's brother William Henry was born here in 1865. And, this is the place that Elizabeth met and married Andrew Jackson Beets, a Union veteran of the Civil War, in 1867. But, the year before, Elizabeth's family had already left Missouri on a new adventure, leaving her behind. In the spring of 1866, Jonathan returned to Pennsylvania, sold some of his holdings, and took a colony to Brown County, Kansas. Unfortunately, the grasshoppers and locusts destroyed all their crops in this new location, so this colony also failed. Jonathan was undaunted. He returned to Pennsylvania again and this time took a colony to Bloomington, Missouri, in Macon County. Elizabeth and her husband also moved to this area, but it became a place of deep sadness. The Haupt family took sick, and Catherine died there in 1869. Jonathan, ever the optimist, returned once again to Pennsylvania, sold more holdings, and took a colony to Jewell County, Kansas. Here a drought and grasshoppers played havoc with the crops and another colony failed. This time, Jonathan returned for the last time to Pennsylvania, sold all of his interests there, and went back to Missouri, this time settling in the town of Kirksville in Adair County close to where he had been previously. He ran the Central Hotel in that town, as well as a grocery store. He later lost these and his other financial investments, some say because business was done differently in the west than he was used to back in Pennsylvania, or maybe because he was a risk taker. Jonathan still had his 200 acres of land near Ringo's Point in Adair County, so he retired there with his two youngest sons. His oldest son Frank, from his first wife, also lived on part of this land. Later, Jonathan's son, Phillip, came down from Iowa and persuaded his father to sell his farm at Ringo's Point and move to Iowa with him, which Jonathan did. This arrangement didn't work out, so Jonathan left his two youngest sons, Robert and William in Iowa to attend school while he returned to Missouri. In 1878, Jonathan married for the third time to Mary Logston, a widow. They settled on a farm about 40 miles northwest of Kirksville, Missouri, in a small community called Pennville which is in Sullivan County, Missouri. This was about 25 miles north of where his farm had been near Ringo's Point. Jonathan died in September 1889, once among the richest men in Kirksville, Missouri, he died a poor man, but a well-respected man who was sometimes called Squire Haupt. His daughter Elizabeth and her husband Andrew in 1870 were living near Callao in Macon County, Missouri. By 1880, they had moved back to Adair County, and at one time had a farm near Novinger, Missouri, which was close to her father's farm at Ringo's Point. Elizabeth and Andrew Beets had three children: Dr. William Ervin Beets (1868-1928) Minnie Mae (Beets) Ellis (1872-1928) Lilliam S. "Lillie" (Beets) Garard (1875-1946) In their later years, Elizabeth and Andrew moved into the town of Kirksville and lived just across the street from the large shoe factory. Their granddaughter, Adah Ellis, daughter of their daughter Minnie, came to live with them when she was a teenager. Adah met her future husband there as he worked at the shoe factory across the street. Adah said that her grandmother could speak the German language because her ancestors had come from Germany, but she refused to speak any German when anyone asked her to. She only wanted to speak English. Elizabeth's husband suffered much of his life from what people today would call post traumatic stress disorder because of the horrors he witnessed in the Civil War. He also had a serious case of the mumps while he was in service, and this caused him many problems. Relatives say that he and his brother Jonathan never recovered from their war experiences. Jonathan stepped in front of a train in 1908 in Kirksville, some say by choice, and was killed. Two years later, in 1910, Andrew was declared insane and committed to the State Mental Hospital in St. Joseph, Missouri, near his son William, who was a physician in that town. In that same year, 1910, census records show Elizabeth living with her daughter Lillie in Pattonsburg, Daviess County, Missouri. By 1913, Elizabeth had moved to St. Joseph, Missouri, to live with their son Dr. William Beets. She died in July 1913 and was returned to Ownbey Cemetery in Adair County, Missouri, for burial. Andrew died in the State Hospital in St. Joseph in December 1914 and was also buried at Ownbey Cemetery. A large tombstone was placed on their graves, probably by their children. However, by the turn of the 21st century, this stone had become severely tipped. This writer, their great grandson, arranged for descendants to contribute money and have a monument company in Kirksville reset their stone. This was completed and the stone is in very good condition now at the time of this writing.
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