Warren County Iowa Genealogical Society

Lacona, Iowa 1856-2006, by the Lacona Heritage Committee, 2006, p. 248: "Elzinah SHUPE, oldest child and daughter of Jacob J. SHUPE and Cynthia Ann MYERS, was born Jan 11, 1830, in Fairfield County, Ohio. On November 28, 1847, she married Enoch BROWER.  When Enoch died on June 7, 1854, he and Elzinah had three children: Emanuel, Lucetta, and Cynthia. Jacob SHUPE was appointed guardian of the three children. About 1857 they decided to move to Iowa. The farm in Allen County, Ohio was sold and the money invested for Elzinah and the children in a farm in Iowa. That land was section 20 in White Breast Township. It has remained in the family since it was purchased for Elzinah and her children. In 1857 Elzinah married Nathan MILLER, also of Ohio. They became the parents of four children: Mary Lydia MILLER SINIFT, Jacob who married Eliza NEEDLES, George, and Emily who married J.L. EDGINGTON. It must have been a busy household with seven children. Nathan died May 18, 1881, and is buried in the Shupe Cemetery. On September 2, 1886, Elzinah married Jonathan BEARD, a minister in the German Baptist Brethren Church just as Elzinah's other two husbands also had been. He died October 23, 1889, and is buried in the Breckinridge Cemetery, near Knoxville, beside his first wife. Elzinah died October 16, 1896 and is buried beside Nathan Miller in the Shupe Cemetery."

(Source - Information gathered by Karon K. for the Warren County Genealogical Society picnic on June 23, 2014 at Shupe Cemetery, Lacona, Iowa)