Brief Life History of Harrison Dudley
When Harrison Dudley Shope was born on 11 October 1891, in Okolona, Clark, Arkansas, United States, his father, James K. Polk Shope, was 43 and his mother, Laura Lou Cox, was 33. He married Minnie McElhannon on 4 December 1912, in Clark, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Clark, Arkansas, United States in 1935 and Noland Township, Hempstead, Arkansas, United States in 1940. He died on 12 January 1963, in Hempstead, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 71.
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- H Dudley Shopes, "United States Census, 1930"
- Harrison Dudley Shope, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
- H D Shope, "United States Census, 1920"
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Americanized form of North German Schoppe .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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