Jessup Family History & Genealogy

Don and I were best friends through high school. We bot went to work together at Air Industries of California as wire handlers. In November of 1968 we joined the Army together. Because Don had had heart surgery when he was a baby, we went to basic training at Fort Ord a week apart. I went to Vietnam in 1969 while Don went to Korea. In 1970 Don went to Vietnam and was in the invasion of Cambodia in May of '70. During that push, Don was wounded but managed to pull his wounded comrades to safety and killed a number of the enemy until Medivacs could arrive and evacuate the wounded. Don refused medical treatment and got on another tank going into Cambodia. He was again wounded. Don received the Silver Star for Valor that day. At age 23, not 24, Don died at the hands of another in a quarry in Visalia, California. I still miss him and think of him often.,

Thomas Lee Jessup was born on September 5, 1953. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Thomas Lee Jessup.

Tommy Jessup was born on September 5, 1977 to Teri Lynn (Miles) and Thomas Lee Jessup, and has siblings Mindy (Jessup), Jessica (Jessup), Wesley Jessup, and Candace (Jessup). He married Misty (Stephenson) on January 30, 2001 and they later divorced. He also married Stephaine (Chatterton) on January 21, 2019. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Tommy Jessup.

Mindy (Jessup) Ockey was born on December 11, 1975. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mindy (Jessup).

Misty (Stephenson) Jessup was born on June 27, 1980. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Misty (Stephenson).

Stephaine (Chatterton) Jessup was born on May 5, 1976. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Stephaine (Chatterton).

John Desmond Jessup was born on April 15, 1948 in Hastings, Shire of Mornington Peninsula County, VIC Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember John Desmond Jessup.

Glenda Joy Jessup was born on January 17, 1948, and died at age 61 years old on March 21, 2009. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Glenda Joy Jessup.

Jessica (Jessup) Hansen was born on October 5, 1979. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Jessica (Jessup).

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Leslie Jessup.

Candace (Jessup) Swift was born on November 14, 1985 to Teri Lynn (Miles) and Thomas Lee Jessup, and has siblings Mindy (Jessup), Tommy Jessup, Jessica (Jessup), and Wesley Jessup. She married David Swift on October 18, 2019 and they later divorced. She married Cameron Gleave, and they had a child Trinity Rose Gleave. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Candace (Jessup).

Clarkson Germain Jessup Mr of Thatcher, Graham County, AZ was born on September 4, 1911, and died at age 76 years old on April 10, 1988. Clarkson Jessup was buried on April 10, 1988 in El Paso, El Paso County, Texas United States.

Frances Jean Jessup Ms of West Palm Beach, Florida United States was born on August 23, 1936. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Frances Jean Jessup.

Thomas Guy Jessup Mr of Katy, Texas United States was born on October 18, 1944.

Melinda S Jessup of TX was born circa 1957. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Melinda S. (Mitchell) Jessup.

Teri Lynn (Miles) Jessup was born on June 30, 1954. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Teri Lynn (Miles).

Wesley Jessup was born on August 22, 1982. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Wesley Jessup.

Lewis Jessup Mr of Manteno, Illinois United States was born on June 2, 1939 in Salt Lake City, UT. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lewis Jessup.

My grandma was a lovely, modern woman, who had a passion for reading, and was an avid crossword puzzle decipherer. Every morning my grandparents would sit together with a cup of coffee and her famous burnt toast (wouldn't eat it any other way) bantering back and forth about the answers. It was fun to watch! Amazingly, they rarely were stumped for an answer!!! She was an intellectual woman with a vast knowledge of the world ...but never went to college, instead she read minimally a book a day. She was a stay-at-home-mom, which was typical of her era & raised 3 children= first a girl in 1936, Frances Jean (my mom, whose health required the family to move from Salt Lake in 1944, when the doctors told them there was a medical need to move to a drier climate; my mom was bedbound for 2 years due to polio and rheumatic fever at age 7-8) .... and then she gave birth to my Uncle Lewis in 1939, and last my Uncle Tom in 1944... they ended up with six grandchildren (4 girls and 2 boys). Later, when my Uncle Tom married his second wife, Aunt Anita, who brought her 3 additional children (2 girls and 1 boy from a previous marriage) into our family -making a total of 9 grandchildren. One cute family story; She traveled by herself via train from El Paso to Cincinnati, Ohio, for my birth on 10/20/62...LOL...She once told me that my uncle was so sadden that she wasn't there for his 18th birthday...well, it took me 40yrs to apologize & ask Uncle Tom, if my birth ruined his day...He laughed so hard & said NO...he and Grandpa had a blast celebrating his 18th birthday together in El Paso. They just allowed Grandma to believe otherwise; making sure she felt missed. My grandma loved traveling the western states. She loved the desert, while Grandpa took beautiful scenic photos...it was harsh on her Swedish skin. Prior to Grandpa dying in 1988, she and he fulfilled a lifelong dream by vacationing in Australia. They were SO thrilled & happy! ...She's buried next to Grandpa in El Paso, Texas. My grandparents teased each other about Grandpa wanting to be placed in the mausoleum's top shelf- with him stating no other person would ever be on top of him again, after a lifetime of having bosses. He had such a dry, funny wit...and YES he got his wish.....Their passing was heartbreaking for me and the entire family. I miss them greatly~ their granddaugher, Margaret (Peggy) Hutchison-Padron P.S. Westergreen isn't her true maiden name...As a little boy, her father traveled with his little sister on a ship from Sweden (by themselves) to the USA... Her father's name was Nels Svensson and changed it to Westergreen...meaning traveling west and starting a new life. They were proud Americans.

Hannah wed on Oct.4,1732 in East Hampton, L.I., N.Y. to Daniel Leek and had 11 children.