Excerpts from "History of Newton, Lawrence, Barry and McDonald Counties, Missouri"
1888 by Godspeed
Page 363 - Granby, Newton County, Missouri
"Among the advertisers in the Granby Miner of 1873 were Williams Bro's; GoodKoontz and Bro's; Verdin & Co; In 1886 J C Herms; Charles Tappana & C C Ball engaged in the grocery, hardware, dry goods and general merchandise trade.
Page 807, Newton County Biography;
"Isom Ames, of the firm of Willis & Amos, abstractors, loan and insurance agents of Neosho, Missouri. On January 4, 1845, Mr Amos married Euretta Tappana who was born in Iowa. Mr Amos was elected to the "Office Of Police Judge" of the City of Neosho, the very Police judge of the city.
Page 795, McDonald County:
"Indian Springs Post #176, G.A.R., was mustered in June 16, 1884, by Captain Pate & H. J. Curtice, with 25 members. Captain R.W. Williams was Commander. C E Tappana, adjutant, W.G. Hutchins, Q.M.S.
The above excerpts are from National Archives, General Services Administratiion, Washington, D C. Information was gathered and compiled by William L Tappana, Marionville, MO
Charles Edward Tappana first married Nancy Day. She died approximately one year later in Johnson County, KS. of smallpox. He then Married Mary Melissa Sigler
Dolores:
Apparently we are cousins. We have the same great-grandfather. I am Claude LeRoy Tappana's granddaughter (his father was Charles Edward Tappana who came over on a ship from Spain, we think in the mid-1800s. My father was William LeRoy Tappana (b. 11-13-18; d. 2-7-2002). I'm the oldest (Marilyn Jeanette Tappana Eden McCroskey, b. 10-26-46; 1st husband died). My siblings are: Robert (Bob) LeRoy Tappana (b. 4-12-49); Kathryn Anne Tappana, b. 6-16-54; Gary William Tappana, b. 10-28-58). My father had a sister Geraldine, about 8 years older than Dad (b. 7-11-1910; d. 1-9-99 at age 88, leaving 5 children); and a younger brother Robert, b. 1922, d. 1943 during WWII, never married.
Marilyn Tappana McCrosky
Hi Marilyn;
I have been told similar stories but the version I have from my mother who acquired the information from her mother Blanche, (my grandmother), who was married to Don Carlos Tappana (grandfather) and the son of Charles Edward Tappana, (Don died when I was about ten years old). Also information I was given by my history teacher in the eighth grade. She selected two from my class, a boy and a girl, with my being the lucky recipient, to do a short history of families coming to America. She chose my mothers paternal side due to the unusual name with a history of coming from Spain. Please go to bottom of page for my grandmother and teachers information. Almost all versions to date were aware of a name change.
Since family legend seemed to be fairly consistent with Charles Edward's father and mother coming to America when he was a young boy and most of the family believing there was a brother and possible sister, Marilyn & Kathy joined me in a search of incoming ships to America with probable entry at New Orleans, LA, with dates ranging from 1830 to 1860, which was considered the probable dates. During this search I found this one curious site. I noted this family from Spain with the name ending in an "o" rather than an "a", but knowing that seldom if ever did a Spanish name end in "o", but an "a", I put this intriguing losting back for further research. A short time later Marilyn said she had also found this family landing in New Orleans. Below is a copy of the original ship log.
ESPANO/ESPANA
Name later listed as Espana on documents, so we found this was a misinterpretation of letter (a) to (o)
New Orleans, 1820-1850 Passenger and Immigration Lists
Viewing records 1-7 of 7 matches for:
Espana/Espano
« Global Search Results
Name Arrival Date Age Gender Port of Departure Place of Origin Ship Name
Name Date Age Sex Port Origin Ship
??? Espano Sep 29, 1846 F Havana Spain Street
Carlos Espano Sep 29, 1846 40 M Havana Spain Street
Carlos Espano Sep 29, 1846 10 M Havana Spain Street
Madline Espano Sep 29, 1846 28 F Havana Spain Street
GuillermoEspano Sep 29, 1846 8 M Havana Spain Street
Grandmother Blanche related that CE's father brought his wife and two sons from Madrid, Spain when C E (Carlos) was ten and his brother about eight. If she told me the name of the other son, I have forgotten. She said the father's name was Don Carlos and he came here in some capacity for the government in Spain into the port at New Orleans, and got into some kind of trouble with the American government, but at trial there was found to be no evidence to support the claim, although he was forced to return to Spain. She also told of C E staying in America with family or friends when the mother and father went back to Spain with the intention of getting other family members out of the civil wars that was tearing apart their country at the time. She told me that Don Carlos was tall, dark and handsome according to C E, and that his and Mary Melissa's son Don Carlos (my grandfather) looked a lot like him. She said she had heard other family members say that the mom lost a child at sea or in Cuba but she had not been told that by the family. I can't recall if she told me the mother's name.She did say that Don Carlos returned to Spain and was killed thereafter and the mother was never heard from again. If this is true, was she killed, imprisoned, or did she commit suicide and the family didn't want to talk about it. You will find additional information regarding this story on the Espana site.
My history teacher took the family name, C E's birth and brief history, and a few weeks later announced to the class, "we have quite a little celebrity in our class." She proceeded to tell of a man who came here with his family ( a wife, and two sons) from a very well known and connected family in Spain and at some point was accused of breaking an American law and of being a spy for Spain. She said it went to court but the case was dismissed for lack of evidence.
She also said Don Carlos was killed but I can't recall if she said what happened to the mother. In fairness to my memory which was considered to be superior, I was only about twelve years old and sorry to admit I was a typical kid and did in fact forget elements that she told.
Now to skip ahead to the story of finding this ship in archives of arrivals in America....................
After many months of searching, no other ships came in with a family of four from Spain in any year even close to the appointed time. From C E Tappana's CW military records, he listed his birth as 1836 in Madrid Spain. The ships log coincided with the date of Charles (Carlos) being ten years old in 1846. It also listed a brother two years younger whose name was Guillermo (William). The mothers name is listed as Madelena after a specialist was used to clean up the crossed out name where she said the writer had started to enter Charles name, then wrote the mothers name over it and entered the sons name on the next row. From this stage it was literally months and years to fit the pieces as we have today and are to be found under the Espana pages on this site. Please go to "INDEX" (home) link and follow the Espana links. After the assistance of two genealogists, a linguist, records obtained from Spain, I am convinced that the evidence is overwhelmingly conclusive that Carlos de Espana was the father of Carlos Eduardo (Charles Edward)
You will also find how and why I believe the name was changed to Tappana on this site.
