Martha Rebecca Schimpff
Am interested in learning of the Schimpfs of Oklahoma. My grandmother, Rebecca Martha Schimpff Harper, is giving me nothing but brick walls. Her obit said she was born in Arkansas but the legend has it that she was born on the boat "coming over" and her father died on a riverboat on Mississippi. Her mother remarried a "boat captain" in Fannin County Texas. I do know that every year before I was born, she would come down and ask that she be taken to see relatives in Oklahoma.But this could be step-brothers as Susan married Jordan who had 2 boys.
She was born about 1866 and died in the early 1940's. Her mother's name was Susan B. Schimpff and married 2nd to Elbert Jordan. Lived in Fannin County, Tx. We believe her maiden name to be Bryant (Briant). One census shows Martha's mother to be born in Tennessee so born on ocean boat is out.
Thanks so much for any help was this has been a wall for about 16 years and I am so ready for it to come down
Becky