John Allen Lupton was born on 21. Mar. 1866 at Salem, Henry County, Iowa. He married
Lydia Jane Smith on 17. Mar. 1898 at Henry County, Iowa; by Jacob Hinshaw.
John Allen Lupton appeared on the census of 1900 at District 36, Henry County, Iowa. He died on 29. Apr. 1945 at Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas, at age 79. Al Lupton spent most of his life in Arkansas as a farmer. When he first came west he may have taught schoo near Enid, OK. He was a farmer. He had a sugar cane press with wich he made molassesfor his family and for his neighbors. Jennie was having a hard time getting over the death of their smal two year old daughter, who had pulled the coffe pot off onto herself, so they thought if they left the place that the tragedy would be over. Al traded his farme for a stud hourse and $1000.00, (hestill owed on the farm) and moved to Hahoma, OK. He planned to get rich offbreeding Indian ponies since it was thought there were no work horses there. They had not been there very many months when they realized his horse plan was not making him rich. In less than a year they moved to Enid, OK. The horse was mortgaged so the banker kept the horse and he got a job shoveling coal. In a year or so Harvey (his brother) heard of free land in Oklahoma, but he shoveled coal from rail road cars until he got his land, then he went west to Beaver County to live on it. From 'A Historical and Pictorial Record of Samuel and Sarah Lupton and Related Families' -------------------------------------------------------- Lupton, John A. State: Iowa Year: 1900 County: Henry Township: District 36; Salem Page: 148 a Household: 241 Lupton, John A - Head, white, male, March 1866, 34, married-2 yrs, born in IA, fatherin NY, mother in IN, farmer, rents, farm 164 Lupton, Jennie S. - wife, white, female, Apr 1871, married-2yrs, bore 2 children, 2 children living, born in IA, father in OH, mother in IN Lupton, Archibal - son, white, male, Nov 1898, 1, single, born in IA, father in IA, mother in IA Lupton, Max - son, white, male, Apr 1900, 2/12, single, born in IA, father in IA, mother in IA.