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- Shupe, Bishop George, was born December 25th, 1788. He was married to Elizabeth Scheirich who was born May 26th, 1795, and died June 21st, 1866. They resided in Wilmot Township, near New Dundee, where he died April 19th, 1870. To them was born a family of six children, viz: Catherine, Benjamin, Magdalena, Moses (see below), Mary, and Veronica. (Catherine and Benjamin (a minister in the River Brethren Church, aka Tunker) remained in Canada. Magdalena and her husband Abraham Stauffer settled in Michigan: Moses in Kansas; no information on Mary; Veronica (married to Joseph Burkholder) also settled in Michigan.)- Ezra E. Eby
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