Preacher, physician, and son of hymn publisher. Starke Dupuy Jr. was born Feb. 22, 1817, in Shelby County, Kentucky. His parents were Rev. Starke Dupuy (b. 1779, Powhatan County, Virginia) and mother Anne Polly Webber. Around (2) years of age he moved to south-west Tennessee with his father, Rev. Starke Sr., who had been sent to north Mississippi territory as a Baptist Missionary to the Choctaws and Chickasaws about 1819. His father was a prolific Baptist hymnal compiler and editor whose legacy had produced nearly 22 hymnal editions from 1811-1843. Starke Dupuy Jr. married Rose B. Abingdon (b. 1818; d.1845) on Feb. 15, 1838, in Fayette County Tennessee. To this union, Mary E. Dupuy was born in 1839 in Mississippi. After His wife Rose died in 1845, he was remarried on July 6, 1846 to Sarah Jane Webber in Memphis, Tennessee. To this union, five children were born in Marshall County, Mississippi. He graduated from the Botanic Medical School in Memphis in 1847. He began a wholistic medicine practice in an office on Front St. near the river. In addition to being a medical doctor, Starke Dupuy Jr., like his father, was also a minister of the gospel and signed numerous marriage licenses. {Source: Desoto County Marriage Records Volume C/1854 to April 1860}. It is believed that he left his Baptist roots - following the teachings of the Church of Christ Restoration Movement - and served as the minister of the Thyatira Church of Christ in northwestern Mississippi from 1848 to his death in 1857. He lived to be only 39.
Preacher, physician, and son of hymn publisher. Starke Dupuy Jr. was born Feb. 22, 1817, in Shelby County, Kentucky. His parents were Rev. Starke Dupuy (b. 1779, Powhatan County, Virginia) and mother Anne Polly Webber. Around (2) years of age he moved to south-west Tennessee with his father, Rev. Starke Sr., who had been sent to north Mississippi territory as a Baptist Missionary to the Choctaws and Chickasaws about 1819. His father was a prolific Baptist hymnal compiler and editor whose legacy had produced nearly 22 hymnal editions from 1811-1843. Starke Dupuy Jr. married Rose B. Abingdon (b. 1818; d.1845) on Feb. 15, 1838, in Fayette County Tennessee. To this union, Mary E. Dupuy was born in 1839 in Mississippi. After His wife Rose died in 1845, he was remarried on July 6, 1846 to Sarah Jane Webber in Memphis, Tennessee. To this union, five children were born in Marshall County, Mississippi. He graduated from the Botanic Medical School in Memphis in 1847. He began a wholistic medicine practice in an office on Front St. near the river. In addition to being a medical doctor, Starke Dupuy Jr., like his father, was also a minister of the gospel and signed numerous marriage licenses. {Source: Desoto County Marriage Records Volume C/1854 to April 1860}. It is believed that he left his Baptist roots - following the teachings of the Church of Christ Restoration Movement - and served as the minister of the Thyatira Church of Christ in northwestern Mississippi from 1848 to his death in 1857. He lived to be only 39.
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