Charles Tapp Chivaree #NotMyTapp

Okay, I thought this story was funny.  I'll let you read the article first, then we'll have a history lesson.  I expect this practice continues to some extent, which we will explore some.  I separated out this particular story because I wanted to go into this in greater detail.

1902 Charles Tapp and New Wife

Charles Tapp and his new wife
Janesville Daily Gazette, Janesville WI
15 October 1902, page 1
downloaded April 2017 from
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Great Hilarity Brings Penalty

 Young Men in Center Chirivari Newly Married Couple

 Called up Before Judge Fifield

Frenk Yees, of the town of Center, and a number of his friends, neighbors and acquaintances were given a preliminary examination before Judge Fifiled this morning in regard to the "shiveree" which was held on the occasion of his daughter's wedding.  Sufficient damage was done to justify Mr. Yees, in his estimation, in bringing a damage suit against the parties who made the trouble.  Under-Sheriff Cochrane went to Center on Monday to subpoena several witnesses, and they were called this morning.
According to the story told by Mr Yees, the trouble occurred on Saturday night.  His daughter had been married to Charles Tapp that morning, and in the evening as the family and a few guests, about thirty in all, were assembled in the parental home for a celebration, about one hundred and fifty young men from the surrounding country for miles around appeared on the scene with cow bells, horns and the instruments of torture used on such occasions.

Beer Or Cash

They demanded either six kegs of beer or six dollars, so Mr. Yees said, and this he refused to give.  They then began to sorm the house with pumpkins, apples and other fall farm products.  A stand abut thirty feet by sixteen had been erected outside the house for dancing purposes and covered with canvas.  The revelers tore off the canvas, and directed their missiles at anyone who dared show his head at a door.
No strong objection would have been made to this, alhtough it was hard on the guests assembled to be obliged to forego the dance, but soon some of the bolder spirits went so far as to hurl a couple of pumpkins through a window.  The damage done was considerable, according to Mr Yees's account, and he believes that some one should be prosecuted.  It was not until after eleven o'clock that the uninvited tuests saw fit to depart, and allow the guests within to return to their homes unmolested, after having been robbed of an evening's pleasure.

Said They Were Innocent

A more guileless lot of individuals than the witnesses who had been supoenaed from among the alleged disturbers of the peace, it would be hard to find.  They "didn't know nothing about it, and hadn't seen nothing."  They said, however, that Yees had promised them two kegs of beer and failed to deliver the goods.

History Lesson

-- or, what is this thing and why did they do it?

Basic information by way of two videos.  

We will start with a video example from an old TV show, Death Valley Days, Season 1, Episode 7 "The Chivaree."  Start watching at minute 18:00 -- https://youtu.be/VdkFa3KmFvg -- (This Is Invader, 2017)

How in the world do you pronounce this weird word?  Here's how! -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpn4Au9FaWk -- (Pronunciation English, 2016)

Definition from Wikipedia

Charivari (or shivaree or chivaree) ... are terms for a folk custom in which a mock parade was staged through a community accompanied by a discordant mock serenade.  Since the crowd aimed to make as much noise as possible by beating on pots and pans or anything that came to hand, these parades are often referred to as "rough music,"

Depiction of charivari, early 14th century 

(from the Roman de Fauvel)

(Wikipedia, 2018)

So-called "Rough Music" practices in England were known by many regional or local designations.  The very essence of the practice was public humiliation of the victim under the eyes of their neighbours.  

William Hogarth's engraving "Hudibras Encounters the Skimmington"
(illustration to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)(Wikipedia, 2018)

The charivari as celebration was a custom initially practised by the upper classes, but as time went on, the lower classes also participated and often looked forward to the next opportunity to join in.  It is possible that the blowing of car horns after weddings in France (and indeed, in many European countries) today is a holdover from the charivari of the past.

 Chariviari has been practised in much of the United States, but it was most frequent on the frontier, where communities were small and more formal enforcement was lacking. It was documented into the early 20th century, but was thought to have mostly died out by mid century.   

As practised in North America, the charivari tended to be less extreme and punitive than the traditional European custom. Each was unique and heavily influenced by the standing of the family involved, as well as who was participating. While embellished with some European traditions, in a North American charivari participants might throw the culprits into horse tanks or force them to buy candy bars for the crowd.  

This account from an American charivari in Kansas exemplifies the North American attitutude.  In contrast to punitive charivari in small villages in Europe, meant to ostracize and isolate the evildoers, North American charivaris were used as "unifying rituals," in which those in the wrong were brought back into the community after what might amount to a minor hazing.  In some communities the ritual served as a gentle spoof of the newlyweds, intended to disrupt for a while  any sexual activities that might be under way.  In parts of the midwest US, such as Kansas, in the mid 1960-1970s, shivaree customs continued as good natured wedding humour along the lines of the musical Oklahoma!.  Rituals included wheeling the bride about in a wheelbarrow or tying cowbells under a wedding bed.

Whatever happened to the Chivaree?

(Van Meer, 2010)

Lisa Van Meer writes an article for Country Magazine in 2010, describing the Chivaree put on for her big sister and her new husband in 1970.  By this time, the Chivaree has mostly disappeared, except in rural areas.  In fact, she wrote that by the time she married 10 years later, the custom was dead.

(Van Meer, 2010)

It was early evening and the honeymooners were snuggled down on the couch watching television with the bride’s parents. It was hard to believe that only a short 10 days ago they had been married at the Cherry Valley church down the road. They had been to the east coast and back. Now home in her parent’s family room the bride is anxious to move into her new home with her new husband. They were just planning to retire early and get a fresh start in the morning. As night fell the house was calm and peaceful; all of a sudden a crash echoes through the night air. The newlyweds leapt off the couch. The crash was soon followed by the whoops and hollers of a wild mob, wielding pots and pans, garbage can lids and anything else that makes a noise. The couple race out to the deck to witness the Chivaree that is taking place on the yard in their honour. -- (Van Meer, 2010)

She watched an episode of The Walton's, set in the 1930s, in which the community Chivaree'd a newly married couple.  Season 3 episode 20.  She was flooded with the memories, and tried to explain the event to her city-boy husband who had never heard of such a thing.  She then conducted an informal survey of family and friends.  She found -- not surprisingly -- that the younger people her own age had never heard of such a thing, although some remember a party with lots of noise when they were very young.  But, when she asked a couple at their 40th wedding anniversary what they remembered most, she wrote -- "The night they came home from their honeymoon, the chivaree was at my parents house. However, the guys still got into the trailer and messed around with the bed."

She writes that everyone in her family had been chivareed (is this really even a form of the word?) except for she herself.  Apparently, her father organized quite a few noisy bands in his day.  One couple she interviewed remembered her chivaree experience:

Marion ... remembers when she and her late husband Claude were married in 1943.... Their bed was short sheeted, corn flakes in the sheets and the bed was rigged to fall when they climbed in it that night.  Her daughter Vicki and hubby Mike were married 36 years ago. When they arrived home to her parents place ... the guests were there waiting. It turned out to be a big party but sort of a Community Shower as well. She remembers one thing they did back then that they wouldn’t do today was cigarettes were handed around on trays just like h’our derves.    -- (Van Meer, 2010)

 She recommends that rural people bring back this memorable custom -- "let them know you care by scaring the bejeepers out of them!"  -- (Van Meer, 2010).  But, she recommends checking with the local law enforcement.

Shivaree: The traditional hazing of our newlywed ancestors

More recently, Frederick Wertz wrote on his Find My Past blog about the Shivaree.   He says that if your ancestors married on the frontier, they may have been the subject of the traditional custom -- "wedding guests would often return uninvited to the homes of newlyweds, banging pots and pans, shooting guns and forcing entry into the matrimonial residence."  He further says that the newlyweds were sometimes "kidnapped and paraded through town, or dunked in a horse trough and abandoned in the countryside, - anything to mischievously disrupt the presumed wedding night activities of a newly married couple."  It became sort of a "hazing inducting them into the community of married couples."  Sometimes the crowd could be bribed to disperse and let them consumate their marriage.

His source for this information is -- Michael Taft, "Shivaree", Encyclopedia of the Great Plains David J. Wishart, Ed. Accessed 2/11/2016 at http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/e...

One commentor says that her small German community in the midwest had a coustom of pancaking the newlyweds, by banging on the door in the middle of the night demanding to be fed pancakes.

Chivaree!

Matthew Burns writes on his Appalachian Lifestyle blog in his post Chivaree! -- 

The best time to start a chivaree was after the newlyweds turned out the lights.... Then, all of a sudden the boisterous crowd gathered outside the house.... On cue, the crowd started hollering at the top of their lungs, banging on pots and pans, setting off firecrackers, beating on windows and doors, and hollering out the names of the newlyweds and yelling “chivaree”. This usually scared both of the newlyweds half to death, especially if one or the other had never heard of chivaree before. It really depended on the crowd, but sometimes they’d force the door open and gather up the bridegroom and rough him up a little. -- (Burns, 2009)

He recounts when his cousin and her city-bred husband were the victims of "a pretty lively chivaree"  The family decided to give the city man a REAL introduction to mountain life, a chivaree "like they did in the old days" -- (Burns, 2009).  His cousin's name was Sal, and her new husband was Kingfisher.

A crowd of about 50 people surrounded the honeymoon house and were hollering out the names of Sal and Kingfisher ... [who] panicked and couldn’t understand why this crowd was gathered all around their house, hollering and screaming, banging on the windows and doors…and some of them were even carrying lit torches!

... a bunch of men ... dragged Kingfisher out of the house kicking and screaming, and he was wearing nothing but his underwear! They ... hoisted him up on the greased rail and paraded him all around the community, fully thinking that they were honoring their sister’s choice of husband by doing this.

 ... they brought Kingfisher back to Sal and expected to get asked in for some drinks and such, as was the custom. By this time, Kingfisher was fit to be tied, and was really angry at everyone, and started hollering at everyone to leave them alone and to leave. Well, that just offended Sal’s brothers, who really had thought that they had honored Kingfisher by riding him around the community on a greased rail, so they figured they cool him off a little. They grabbed Kingfisher again, and this time tied his arms and legs, and grabbing the greased rail again they tied him to it, they carried him to the water trough that was used for the stock. They dipped Kingfisher into the trough a few times, and each time they’d pull him up out of the water, they’d holler, “Chivaree…Chivaree”. Well, Kingfisher caught on pretty quick and told the boys, “Let’s go back to the house and have a drink.” They did, at which time Sal hastily explained to Kingfisher what a chivaree meant, and this time he listened intently, so as not to again offend the family he had just married into. He didn’t make that mistake again, and resigned himself to celebrating the marriage with his newly acquired family. An hour or so later, everyone left the honeymoon house ... still beating on their pots and pans, and hollering out the names of the newlyweds and “chivaree’.  -- (Burns, 2009)

One commentor, Granny Sue, suspects that the custom of tying cans to the back of the wedding car may have come from the Chivaree.

Another commenter, Bruce L, wrote --

 I was 10 years old in 1960, when my oldest sister got married. The family and many friends got together, a bit after midnight, with the usual hollering and noise making outside. We had woke them up. I remember dragging my new brother in law out of his bed (along with my sister). The "mob" tore their house up,meaning, they up ended furniture, tore off labels from cans, and filled their bed with cereal. We left them standing in their house wondering what had just happened in such a short time! But the night wasn't over! My cousin also had just been married in another town, 20 miles away, so off we went to their house. Once again, they did everything to them, but also dragged him to the main street of the little town, where they made him carry his wife up and back in the center of the main street (I think the town was asleep, as we were the only ones awake then!), in a wheel barrow.

 So, back to the article with which we started this admittedly long post.  The young boys got out of hand with their drinking and throwing things.  Had they not caused real damage and frightened the good folk and their celebration, it may not have become such a big deal.  However, if you decide to throw a Chivaree yourself, make sure you are out in the country, that your subjects don't have a sawed off shotgun they are willing to use on you, and that you don't break anything in your partying.  Oh, and get the okay from your local sheriff.

Resources

Burns, M. (2009, April). Chivaree!! Retrieved from Appalachian Lifestyles blog: http://appalachianlifestyles.blogspot.com/2009/04/chivaree.html -- used with written permission 10 May 2018
Pronunciation English. (2016, December 1). the correct pronunciation of chivaree in English. Retrieved from Youtube.com: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpn4Au9FaWk
This Is Invader. (2017, February 20). Death Valley Days S1E7 The Chivaree. Retrieved from Youtube.com: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdkFa3KmFvg
Van Meer, L. (2010, May). Whatever happened to the Chivaree? Retrieved from Lisa Can Write: http://lisacanwrite.blogspot.com/2015/05/whatever-happened-to-chivaree.html
Wertz, F. (2016, February). Shivaree: The traditional hazing of our newlywed ancestors. Retrieved from Find My Past: https://blog.findmypast.com/shivaree-when-the-whole-community-interrupted-your-wedding-night-1598001953.html

Charles Tapp, #NotMyTapp

#NotMyTapp   I have included the Charles Tappe family because he came up regularly in my searches.  Somebody has to be related to him.  

1888 Charles E. Tapp in Cornet Quartette

Charles E. Tapp in Cornet Quartette
Chicago Tribune, Chicago IL, 14 September 1888, page 1
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1887 Charles James Tapp, Engraved Tea Service

Charles James Tapp 1887
Richmond Dispatch, Richmond VA, 4 January 1887, page 1
downloaded 21 March 2017 from Newspapers.com

1903 Charles O. Tapp has mail

Charles O. Tapp 1903
The Decatur Herald, Decatur IL, 9 September 1903, page 3
downloaded March 2017 from Newspapers.com

1899 Charles R. Tapp, musician bought shares (could be Charles B. Tapp

Charles R. Tapp, musician in Chicago, bought shares
The Inter Ocean, Chicago IL, 1 January 1899, page 21
downloaded March 2017 from Ancestry.com

1900 Charles Tappe is guardian for Clara Tappe

Charles Tappe appointed guardian of Clara Tappe
The Pantagraph, Bloomington IL, 2 October 1900, page 8
downloaded March 2017 from Newspapers.com

I'll just leave this one here.  I have both Charles and Clara, but the dates are wrong, although the place is right.  They may be related, but I will have to get more information before I do anything more with this.  If you have any idea who this might be, leave a comment in the form on the right.

1908 Prayer Meetings at Charles Tappe house, 1007 North Prairie, Bloomington IL

Again, this isn't my Charles Alfred Tapp because he wasn't born until 1920.  However, it could be an Uncle, since the place is about right.  I don't pay too much attention to the spelling, since it is a common error, although there are some who officially spell their name with an "e" at the end.  Could be true here, I don't know.  If this were my Charles Tapp, I would look up the address, see if that could give me a clue as to who he is.

Charles Tapp's house used for Cottage Prayer Meeting
The Pantagraph, Bloomington IL, 22 January 1908 page 9
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1915 City Directory 103 North Main; 1107 North Prarie

Charles A Tappe with wife Lovina, jeweler at 103 North Main, residence 1107 North Prairie
Miss Maysie L. Tappe, student residence 1107 North Prairie
Miss Nina M. Tappe, student residing at 1107 North Prairie
Miss Grace Tapp, maid residing at 303 East Cestnut

1917 City Directory 103 North Main

Charles A. Tappe, optometrist, 103 North Main
Charles A. Tappe, 103 North Main, Jeweler
Charles A. Tappe (Lovina E) jeweler and optometrist 103 North Main; residence 1107 North Prairie
Miss Maysie L. Tappe, student residence `1107 North PRairie
Miss Nina M. Tappe, teacher residence 1107 North Prairie
no other Tapp names

1919 City Directory 103 North Main

Charles A. Tappe Jeweler 103 North Main
Chas A. Tappe (Lovina E.) jeweler and optometrist, 103 N. Main; residence 1107 N. Prairie
Miss Maycie L. Tappe, teacher residence 1107 N. Prairie
Miss Nina M. Tappe, teacher residence 1107 N. Prairiee
no other Tapp names
Chas A. Tappe, 103 North Main, optometrist page 588

1920 City Directory 103 North Main

Charles A. Tappe, jeweler 103 North Main
Chas A. Tappe, 103 North Main, Optometrist
page 604 Charles A. Tappe (Lovina E.) jeweler, 103 North Main; residence 1103 North McLean
Miss Maysie Tappe, teacher Jefferson School, residence 1103 North McLean
Miss Nina M. Tappe, teacher residence 1103 North McLean
no other Tapp names

1922 City Directory 103 North Main

Charles A. Tappe, Jeweler, 103 North Main

1924 City Directory 1103 North McLean

Charles A. Tapp (corner of Empire and McLean)
Charles A. Tappe, 103 North Main, Jeweler

1926 City Directory 103 North Main

Charles A. Tappe, Jeweler
Chas A. Tappe, 103 North Main, Watch and Jewelry Repairer

1928 City Directory 103 North Main

Chas A. Tappe, Jeweler 103 North Main
page 464 Carl Tapp residence 503 south Main
Chas A Tappe (Lavina E) jewler 103 North Main; home 1103 North McLean
Maysie L. Tapp teacher residence 1103 North McLean
Nina M. Tappe student residence 1103 North McLean

1929 City Directory 103 North Main

page 556 Chas A. Tappe, 103 North Main Jeweler

1929 Charles Tapp Grocery store burns down

I am reasnobly sure this is not my Charles Tapp, since mine was about 6 years old at this time.  It may have been an Uncle.  Perhaps I will do a name study in just Illinois, some time.

Charles Tapp Grocery store burns down 1929
The Pantagraph, Bloomington IL, 18 February 1929, page 1
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I actually think this is the store owned by Charles Tappe, who is still not my Tapp.

1930 Charles W. Tapp Lancaster County Nebraska Census

Charles Tapp family, 1930 Nebraska Census

If this were my Charles Tapp family (I don't think it is, as of this time), then I would look up the address, corelate the address with other family members.  We find out the maiden name of the wife, so we could find marriage records, birth and death records of the parents and the wife's mother.  We could look up the births of the children, as well.  Quick perusal reveals the following information starting on Line 86.

1. Charles W. Tapp owns his home on North 27th Street, Lincoln Nebraska.  He is worth $5,000 and has a radio.  His home is not a farm, he is 76 years old, married at age 20 years, born in Illinois, father born somewhere in the US, mother born in Virginia.  His occupation is Night Watchman for the local stadium.  I would find out what stadium was around at that time, find photographs of that era.
2. Wife Orra M. Warriner (?) Tapp is the head of the house.  She is young, 56 years old, married at age 18 years, born in Kansas, parents born in Illinois.  This tells me Charles may have been married before, both by the age difference and that they were about the same age when they first married.
3. Mildred Tapp Cowley is his daughter, but there is no sign of the husband.  She is 20 years old, married first at age 18, born in Nebraska, she has no occupation.  Find the marriage certificate, try to find where the husband is at this time.  There were no wars at this time, but he may have been in the military, I don't know.
4. Mildred's son William E. Cowley is just a month old, born in Nebraska.  Find his birth certificate
5. Mother in law Sarah E. Warriner (?) is living with them, and is 3 years older than her son in law.  Interesting, how did this work out with the dynamics of the extended family?  She is widowed, married first at age 22, she was born in Illinois, her father born in Michigan, her mother born in Ohio.  her family moved around a lot, I see.

1930 City Directory 103 North Main

page 558 Chas A. Tappe, 103 North Main

1932 City Directory 103 North Main

Chas A. Tappe, 103 North Main, Jeweler

1935 City Directory 103 North Main; 1103 North McLean

Charles A. Tappe and wife Lovina E, jeweler at 103 North Main; home 1103 North McLean
Maysie L Tappe, teacher at Irving School, residing at 1103 North McLean
Nina M. Tappe, teacher residing at 1103 North McLean
pge 563 Chas A. Tappe, Jeweler, 103 North Main

1937 City Directory 103 North McLean, Bloomington IL

Chas A. Tappe, Jeweler 103 North Main
Chas A Tappe jewelr 103 North Main home 1103 North McLean
Maysie L. Tappe teacher Irving School

1938 City Directory 103 North Main

page 362 Chas A. Tappe, Jewelery Store (Nina M. and Maysie L Tappe) 103 North Main
page 363 Maysie L. Tappe, teacher Irving School residence 1103 North McLean
Nina M. Tappe (Chas A. Tappe Jewelry Store) home 1103 North McLean ((did his wife die and now Nina owns the home?))

1938 city directory Bloomington Indiana

page 369 Chas H. Tapp (Jessie) chauf Gordon and Anderson Oil Co residence 400 west 2nd
Fred E. Tapp (Myrtle) residence 413 Howe
Martha E Tapp b 400 west 2nd (boarder?)
Noa Tapp carp B.E Curry Bldg Corp residence Route 3
Robert H Tapp b 400 west 2nd (boarder?)
Wayne E Tapp (Golda) Stockman S.S.Kresge Co b 413 Howe

1940 directory Bloomington Illinois

page  367 Chas A Tappe, Jewelry Store (Nina M and Maysie L Tappe) 103 North Main
Maysie Tappe teacher Irving School residence 1103 North McLean
Nina M. Tappe (Chas A Tappe Jewelry Store) home 1103 North McLean

1943 City Directory 103 North McLean

page 308 Charles A. Tappe, jeweler at 103 North Main
Maysie L. Tappe, teacher at Irving School, renting 1103 North McLean
Nina M. Tappe (with Charles A. Tappe) home at 1103 North McLean

1945 City Directory 103 North Main

page 284 Chas H. Tapp (JessL) weighmaster Ralph Rogers Stone Co home 400 West 2nd

Fred Tapp (Myrtle A) water works operator Bloomington Water Dept home 104 East Davis

Mrs Mary S. Tapp home 817 South Rogers

Ray L. Tapp US Navy residence 400 west 2nd

Wayne E. Tapp (Golda G) US Army home 1208 South Fess Avenue

1946 City Directory 103 North Main

Charles A Tappe, Jeweler at 103 North Main.  Living with Maysie L. Tappe , a teacher at Irving School, renting at 1103 North McLean; and Nina M. Tappe, (wife of Charles A. Tappe) living at her home at 1103 North McLean.
page 464 Chas A. Tappe, Jewler, 103 North Main (in the Hodnett Building)

1949 City Directory 103 North Main

Chas A. Tappe, Jeweler, 103 North Main, page 577

1950 City Directory 1307 Missouri Avenue, Peoria Illinois

page 667 Chas A. Tapp, cleaner Caterpillar residence 1307 Missouri Avenue
Clara Tapp (Wid Overton) home 707 Fayette apartment 2
Harry E (Elisabeth N) lab Hiram Walker home 921 Pekin Ave (CC)
Howard O Tapp (Mable L) boilermaker home 810 North Underhill
Jesse Tapp (Juanita M) driver Consolidated Beverate home 838 North Main (EP)
Jos W. Tapp USA (US Army) residence 1212 5th Ave (living with Harry B and Clara F Tapp
Juanita Tapp, waitress Unique Tavern residence 838 North main (EP)
Robert E. Tapp, student residence 1212 5th Avenue (living with Harry B and Clara Tapp)

1951 City Directory 221 Spencer, Glendale CA

page 610 -611 Chas A Tapp (Ora B) (Tapp Market) home 221 Spencer ((this would be the grocery store that burned down?)
Dorothy A Tapp, widow of Thomas H. Tapp, home 853 Burchett
Felix Tapp, general manager Windsor Sup Co residence Los Angeles
Henry L. Tapp residence 221 Spencer
Tapp Market (Chas A Tapp) grocery 475 West Colorado
Mrs Meda Tapp nurse residence 227 North Everett

1953 city directory Glendale California

page 578 Mrs Almeda J Tapp residence 227 North Everett
Chas A Tapp (Ora B; Tapp Market) home 221 Spencer
Tapp Market (Chas Tapp) grocery 475 West Colorado

1954 city directory Glendale California

page 473  Chas A. Tapp (Ora B; Tapp Markets) home 221 Spencer
Dorothy A Tapp (widow Thomas H Tapp) home 1121 North Cedar
Tapp Markets (Chas A Tapp) grocery 475 West Colorado
Mrs Meda Tapp residence 227 North Everett

1955 city directory Glendale California

page 470 Chas Tapp (Ora B) home 221 Spencer

Do any of these people belong to you?  Collect them all!

Charles Tapp, Horseman #NotMyTapp

A really interesting story, worthy of a movie.  #NotMyTapp

Charles the Horseman

1897 Charley Tapp, Horse Trainer

This article introduces Charley Tapp as the horse trainer for R. L. McDonald of St Joseph Missouri

Charley Tapp, Horse Trainer 1897
The Inter Ocean, Chicago IL, 13 June 1897, page 11
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1898 Charles Tapp at the races with two horses

Charles Tapp either owns, trains or rides two horses 1898
The Des Moines Register, Des Moines IA
24 July 1898, page 6
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Newspapers.com

1901 Charles Tapp purchases a horse

Charles Tapp purchases a horse 1901
The Inter Ocean, Chicago IL, 13 October 1901, page 20
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1902 Charles Tapp with two horses

Charles Tapp enters two horses 1902
The Decatur Herald, Decatur IL, 4 September 1902, page 5
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1903 Charles Tapp races his horse Ogress

Charles Tapp races Ogress, 1903
The Daily Review, Decatur IL, 5 July 1903, page 3
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1903 Charles Tapp races Showers and The Crescent

Charles Tapp races Showers and The Crescent 1903
The Decatur Herald, Decatur IL, 8 August 1903
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1908 Charles Tapp, Horseman, shot

Charles Tapp is Slain, 1908
The Des Moines Register, Des Moines IA, 28 December 1908, page 6
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1908 Charles Tapp shot dead

Charles Tapp, Turfman, Shot Dead
Dixon Evening Telegraph, Dixon IL, 28 December 1908, page 7
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1909 Charles Tapp murderer acquitted

Charles Tapp murderer acquitted, plea of self-defense
The Daily Free Press, Carbondale IL, 17 July 1909, page 1
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What kind of argument did they put up?

Charles Y. Tapp and General Tapp

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• WikiTree has some Tapps on tap --
• https://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/TAPP
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• The following information can be accessed from http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txkusa/Cemeteries/creedcem.html.  
• This 2002 website expressly denies permission to copy/paste to another website, that this information is for personal use only, not for adding to a website.  This site includes listings for Charles Y. Tapp 1803-1858; wife Mary Caroline Tapp, daughter of Elias and Annie White, married Charles Y. Tapp about 1850, and it lists her seven children by name.  Graves include Charles Y Tapp jr, 1856-1881; Infant Tapp 1850-1851; James M. Tapp 1853-1855.