Tupper, Ansel

Born: 1832-06-05 New York

Died: 1862-04-06 Tennessee

Flourished: Decatur, Illinois

Ansel Tupper, a farmer, lawyer, and soldier, was born in Lawrence County, New York. Tupper moved with his family from his native New York first to Akron, Ohio, and later to Wisconsin, where he read law in his brother's law office. Tupper earned admission to the bar and commenced practicing law in Hartford, Wisconsin, where he met and married Mary Wiley in December 1855. At the request of his brother, Tupper and his wife moved to Decatur, Illinois, where Tupper resumed the practice of law. In 1860, Tupper and his wife had two children, Leonidas and Ella. At that time he was employed as a lawyer and had a personal estate value of $500. At the outbreak of the American Civil War, Tupper joined the U.S. Army, enlisting in the Forty-First Illinois Infantry with the rank of lieutenant colonel in July 1861. He was killed in action by a bullet at the Battle of Shiloh.

U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Summit County, OH, 279; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Ward 2, Decatur, Macon County, IL, 56; Illinois, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1772-1999 (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2015); U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1861-1985 (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2012); U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2009); Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; Daily Milwaukee News (WI), 30 April 1862, 2:3; The Daily Review (Decatur, IL), 6 April 1912, 4:1-2; Gravestone, Greenwood Cemetery, Decatur, IL.