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The
following was given to me over twenty years ago . Validation
is left to the researcher. But, it is what the Dupy family
has passed down, and I will reprint it here, exactly as it
was given to me. The first letter was written by Helen Dupy.
Two boys came to the U.S. from France. They hid on
a ship and were found and taken care of by the crew. They
were seven and nine years old.
They were put off at New York where they drifted around until
they became separated, and the youngest one wandered to Iowa
where some good people raised him. Being too young to spell
his name it was probably spelled the way it sounded to the
folks who raised him. He never saw or heard of his brother
again.
This boy, believed to have been called Gent (John) Dupy, and
his wife, he sometimes called Ladybird, or Lady, raised a
family of sixteen. One boy and one girl were dark
complexioned while the rest were not. His wife was believed
to have been Canadian French or Scotch-Irish descent.
Walter L. Dupuy of Kansas City, Kans. believes his
Grandfather Monroe Dupuy is the older brother of Gent Dupy,
because he came over on a ship from Avery, France with a
younger brother about the same time and has never heard of
his brother since. Walter's father, Marcus was born in 1850.
Gent Dupy's youngest son John Dupy was born in 1855. (Darrel
Dupy has a negative of a picture of Gent Dupy and his
wife). Grandad Dupy told me (Helen Dupy) that the boys [goes
off bottom of copy]-------------so I go with the first story.
Other versions of the Dupy History [still a part
of Helen's Letter]:
John Dupy's (The Old Gent) folks were on a ship
and died of some contagious disease. Before they died they
bound their children (number unknown) over to a Mr. Hubbard
who raised them. Enoch Dupy said his father and his father's
sister were raised by a Mr. Hubbard and that James Hubbard
was named after him. This was told by Mrs. Cora Lea Tracy,
daughter of Enoch Dupy, who was a son of Gent (John).
Also heard that the ship was wrecked and the
children saved.
It is said the Dupy's ran some kind of Freight or
shipping business between France and the United States.
In a letter sent to James Milton Dupy from Darrel
Dupy , dated 1951:
Two boys came to the U.S. from France. They hid on
a ship and were later found and taken care of by the crew.
They were seven and nine years old.
They were put off at New York where they drifted around until
they became separated and the youngest one wandered to Iowa
where some good people raised him. Being too young to spell
his name it was probably spelled the way it sounded to the
folks who raised him. He never saw or heard of his brother
again.
This boy believed to have been called Gent Dupy, raised a
family of sixteen, eight boys and eight girls. One boy and
one girl were dark complexioned while the rest were not. His
wife was said to be Scotch-Irish.
His boys were Lafe, Enoch, Jerome, Hubbard, Milton, Winchell,
Pierson (Bub), and John. Only three of the girls are known:
Mattie, Kate and Tillie. John, the youngest boy, was born
about 1857.
Milton Dupy married Catherine Wolfe and raised four boys and
six girls. These were: Elmer, John O., Warren, Calvin,
Maggie, Laura, Mollie, Minnie, Emma and Meade.
Pierson (Bub) Dupy married Hattie Sapp, and raised five boys
and one girl. These were: Fred, John (Jack), George, Frank,
Jay and Lura.
John and Elizabeth Dupy raised four boys and one girl. They
were: Hocey (Sam), Earl, George (Mike), Lafe (Gent) and Mary
Ellen.
Nothing is known about the other thirteen brothers and sisters
at this time.
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