Karenhapouch "Happy" Hapouch Wiley

Karenhapouch Gatliff4, "Happy". Born before 1758, married William Wiley at Greenbrier, Virginia on 24 May 1784. Wulfeck, supra, where her name is spelled Karanhapouch. This is repeated in Virginia Marriage Records, 975.5 V817ma, p.613. They were married by Rev. John Alderson, Sr. or Jr., possibly at the Linvill Creek Baptist Church in Rockingham County, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, or the Greenbriar Baptist Church at Alderson in Greenbriar County, Va., now Monroe Co., West Virginia. A photostatic copy of the Linvill Church Book is in the Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, Philadelphia. Faulkner calls her "Hoby", a certain corruption and mispronuciation by family recalling her name. Alsip says she was born about 1755 in Augusta County, Virginia. On 21 May 1782 Happy Gatliff was presented to the Grand Jury of Greenbrier County, Virginia, on the charge of having had a bastard. Greenbrier County (West) Virginia Records, supra, v.1, p.106. As an odd coincidence, I found a female Hilliard whose first name was Keron Happuck, in Warren County, North Carolina! See Warren Co. North Carolina Records, 975.652 K41, p.55. In later Hilliard research I found not only her, but another by essentially the same name.

It is variously spelled, sometimes Karen, sometimes Keron; also, the second portion is always Happuck, and the two sections are sometimes separated and sometimes run together. So, it was a name used with some frequency, at least in the mid to late 18th century.

The name derives from the name of Job's third daughter born after the end of his Tribulations, Keren-Happuch, which translates as "container of antimony." Job 42:14.