Cripe Kissin Cousins

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Comment by Gladys Mae Mercier on October 14, 2009 at 7:16pm

That is pretty exciting. Is he going to send you a picture? Maybe Marvin or Kenny would call him.

Comment by Diana L. Carlson on October 14, 2009 at 2:39pm

I met a new Cripe Kissin Cousin, about 2-3 weeks ago. He sent me an email saying "someone told him he should contact me". He's REALLY a Cripe! All four of his grandparents are Cripes, he has FIVE lines back to Jacob Greib, maybe more! He sent me a bunch of stuff on the first five generations of Cripes (thru Jacob's son: Jacob). He also runs a Cripe newsletter and he goes to the Cripe reunions...did you know there were Cripe reunions? I didn't. He lives in Elkhart, so he can do a lot of Cripe research that I can't get to easily. Oh, his name is Jeff. He's a pretty neat guy. He would be my 3rd cousin once removed. David, he would be your 3rd cousin once removed too, since his great-great-great-grandfather is our great-great-grandfather.

Comment by Diana L. Carlson on July 26, 2009 at 6:03am

Hi, Spencer! I have Millers in my line as well. In fact, two of the Miller brothers married two of the Cripe sisters, so yes, you're right about that. I suppose I should have also added MILLER in the title for this discussion because they are as embedded as the CRIPEs and ULRICHs. I would be interested in your ancestry thru the MILLER/CRIPE line. It might fill in a few gaps that I have. I can't show you mine right at this instant, only cuz I'm on the road. We'll talk later. If you want to email instead, use
Diana(dot)L(dot)Carlson(at)gmail(dot)com

Comment by Spencer Miller on July 25, 2009 at 7:40am

I only have a handful of Cripes in my tree, but to show that they belong in our family..... I have a Miller couple that I can get back to 8 different ways.

Comment by Gladys Mae Mercier on July 19, 2009 at 8:19pm

I just talked to Jolie on e mail and told her about this so hopefully she will join.

Comment by Diana L. Carlson on July 19, 2009 at 8:06pm

That was later. When he was about 20 yrs old, just out on his own he was a gardener at Notre Dame for a short time.

Comment by Gladys Mae Mercier on July 19, 2009 at 7:50pm

I thought Irving was the brother that was a city councilman in S. Bend. I just remember hearing what Bob said.

Comment by Diana L. Carlson on July 18, 2009 at 8:04am

Hi, Gladys! Now if we can just interest other CRIPES! I just found "Irving" CRIPE in the 1900 census, as an employee at University of Notre Dame as a farm laborer. He's also listed in the 1900 census with his parents in South Bend, IN. These are duplicate entries; just goes to show the enumerators don't always get it right. With the family history thru Sadie CRIPE's interview, I already knew that her brother Irvin also worked at University of Notre Dame.

Comment by Gladys Mae Mercier on July 17, 2009 at 6:38pm

I am related to the Cripes by marriage.

Comment by Diana L. Carlson on July 17, 2009 at 7:18am

Hello to all. I'm a Cripe descendent. My grandmother was a Cripe. In fact, her parents and siblings are in the picture attached to this group above. She's in the second row ( her name is Dorothy) next to my grandpa Eli. Dorothy was the youngest of 11 children and is left off of most Cripe family trees, because she was born well after them (her closest sibling is 9 years older) and because she was born in North Dakota while all the rest were born in Indiana. Based on my grandfather's marriage to her, this dates the above picture to after 1927, but probably not much later than 1927.

I became fascinated by the interbreeding of the Cripe family which is uttlerly rampant. I'm actually related to Jacob Greib's FATHER thru two different lines (I'm related to Jacob's sister thru the ULRICH side also). Then when I saw Alice Marie Beard's published tree, it became oh so obvious that my cousins did this all the time: first cousins marrying, second cousins marrying, and so on. So I decided to start an all-surname study of the CRIPE family in the USA. I started with the first all-name census of 1850, went backward to 1830, and so far, I've gone up to 1900 census, which I'm working on now. There are a few CRIPES that I can't identify where they fit in, so if you have more information, I surely want to talk to you. Meanwhile I'll continue plugging away at this nice little jigsaw puzzle of a family tree. Eventually, I'll make my results available to the public.