Family register
Col. Jacob A. Van Riper
1807–1888confirmedGeneration 6
Col. Jacob A. Van Riper (25 April 1807 – 30 June 1888) is part of the Riper family recorded on Mayflower.family. His child was Isabella Van Riper Furman. He died in 1888, in Spring Valley, Rockland County, New York.
Life and records
Rockland News 11 Feb 1921: Isabella Furman, daughter of the late Col. Jacob A. Van Riper.
Identity confirmed as Isabella Van Riper Furman's father by the Rockland News 11 Feb 1921 obituary. Dates unknown. Wife/Isabella's mother not named — spouse not invented.
Family
Sources
- Named as the only surviving son of Isabella Furman in the 1921 obituary: Louis H. Furman, assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Spring Valley and Spring Valley fire chief. Therefore brother of Mrs. John W. Sanford (Bertha M. Furman), not her child.
daughter of the late Col. Jacob A. Van Riper
- Death identity: Rockland County Journal deaths column names J. A. Van Riper died at Spring Valley 30 Jun 1888, aged 81 years, 2 months, 5 days (same man named as Isabella Furman’s father in her 1921 obituary).
VAN RIPER — At Spring Valley, June 30, 1888, J. A. Van Riper, aged 81 years, 2 months, 5 days.