Ann Maupin Maupin

Mary was a highly educated woman and took a keen interest in the history of the Maupin and Spencer families. She taught her grandchildren much concerning the early generations in America and many records have come to us through those who had the story from the lips of this venerable member of the Maupin-Spencer family. She was born before the death of old Daniel Sr. and she knew all of his sons and daughters and their families. Since she lived to the great age of ninety, she was able to give much Information on the Maupins to Dr. Socrates Maupin, her son, and to Charles Smitt'l Maupin, a grandson. Both of them kept copious notes of this information and it is now priceless to the family historian. The mother of Mary Graves Spencer lived to the age of 97. Her grandfather Graves was 120 years old when he died, and tradition says that her great grandfather Graves lived to the extreme old age of 130 years.

Info added per The Story of Gabriel and Marie Maupin by Dorothy Maupin Shaffett, 1993

Attached is a file of 2 letters, one of which written in 1834 by Ann to her son Joel Rice Maupin while he lived in Missouri. The other letter is also to Joel, but from his brother John in 1859. The file was made from copies obtained from DAR's copy request service.