Frank Reip family

The old Reip farm was the home of Goldie Reip Elliott. Built, according to family recollection, by either Goldie's father Frank Reip or grandfather Peter Reip, it was in an area south of Grantsville, WV known as "up on the West Fork." The West Fork (of the Kanawha River, I believe) passes through an area in southern Calhoun County along Rt. 16.

From Page Two of the Calhoun Chronicle/Grantsville News of Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008:

Vada Reip Davis

Vada Reip Davis, 91, of Espyville, PA, died Sunday, Dec. 29, 2007, at her home.

She was born at Orma, the daughter of the late Curt and Lucy Tucker Parsons. She had been a resident of Orma until four years ago when she moved to Pennsylvania. She had been a caregiver for many people in her own home for over 30 years. She was a member of Ebenezer Baptist Church.

Edith Jane Reip was one of the 4 daughters of Frank Reip and Victoria Mace.  She was a younger sister -- by 4 years -- to Goldie Reip Elliott.

Edith was born in Calhoun County in 1909. She lived in Calhoun and in Parkersburg, and died in 1973.  The photo to the right is probably taken around 1970.

Goldie (or Golda, as it sometimes appears) Reip was the wife of Bernard Elliott.  She died in childbirth on Dec. 16, 1938 at the age of 33 with her unborn son, Lewis.  She and Bernard had four previous children:  John Francis, Maxine, Pauline, and Nina Rose.

She was the daughter of Frank Reip and Victoria Mace.  She was born in Calhoun County near the village of Orma on the West Fork.  She grew up there at the Reip family home built by Frank Reip, just down over the hill from the Reip family cemetery.

The caption on this photo from the Goldie Reip Photo Album reads, "Ira Reip Family."  But which Ira Reip family?
 
There was an Ira Grant Reip who was brother to Peter Reip and uncle to Frank Reip.  This would make him great-uncle to Goldie. If this is a photo of his family, then it is a group of Goldie Reip's second cousins (Frank Reip's first cousins).
 

Nicolas Reip was the 3rd great-grandfather of Goldie Reip, who married Bernard Elliott.  This genealogy is excerpted from Luverne Hartstine's Reip Family History.

Descendants of Nicholas Reib

Generation No. 1

1.  NICHOLAS REIB was born Abt. 1755, and died Bet. May 14, 1790 - February 1816 in York, PA.  He married JULIANA. 

Notes for NICHOLAS REIB:
--Listed by Luverne as possibly Nicholaus Rub (with 2 apostrophes over the "u")

View the Goldie Reip Photo Album here

This is the album in the possession of Nina (Elliott) Nicholas. It contains photos spanning an undetermined period of time, although presumably during Goldie's lifetime which was from 1905 to 1938. Some of the photos appear older, however.