Posted By:	George Sapp
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	Subject:	Re: MARY KATHERINE (SAPP) PURKHISER (1791-1833)
	Post Date:	April 18, 2008 at 19:42:08
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	Forum:	Sapp Family Genealogy Forum
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Mary Katherine Sapp was the first child of John Sapp and Isabella Gray. She would have been born in KY, where they lived in 1791. They moved to Clermont Co, OH in 1802, when Mary would have been 11. Christopher Purkheiser's family moved to Clermont Co, OH about 1804. Christopher and Mary were married in Clermont Co, Jan 1812. In 1815 the Sapps moved to Washington County Indiana, and lived 4 miles west of Salem, in Mill Creek settlement. I suppose Christopher and Mary went too. In 1833 a terrible cholera epidemic hit Salem. In the space of two weeks, 100 people died. My ancestors John and Isabella Sapp died within an hour of each other, and were buried in the same coffin in the Mill Creek cemetery. According to my source Mary Katherine died a week before them, probably in the same epidemic. Here is a short ancestry: Mary Katherine (Polly) Sapp (b.15 Nov 1791-prob Madison Co,KY; d.7 Jul 1833-Salem,IN) John Sapp (b.Abt 1767-BA Co?,MD; m.Isabella Gray 5 Jan 1791; d.14 Jul 1833-nr Salem,Washington Co.,IN) John Sapp (b.Abt 1745-Prob York Co,PA; d.Abt Nov 1803-Pendleton Co,KY) Daniel Zapf (Sapp) (b.1705/1712) Immigrant from Germany, 1737.