Freed-Hardeman Connections
Researching the Restoration Movement in Mississippi and West Tennessee
Starke Dupuy, Jr.
22 Feb. 1817 - 11 Feb. 1857
Starke was born Feb. 22, 1817, in Kentucky. His parents were Starke Dupuy and Anne Webb. He moved to Tennessee with his family, Rev. Starke Dupuy, who was sent to north Mississippi as a Baptist Missionary to the Choctaws and Chickasaws about 1819, from Shelbyville, Kentucky.
Starke Jr. married Rosanna Bevis Feb. 15, 1838, in Fayette Co., Tennessee. To this union four children were born. Rosanna died June 14, 1845. Starke married a year later on July 6, 1848, to Sarah Jane Webber also of Fayette Co.
Starke graduated from Botanic Medical School in Memphis in 1847. He began practice in an office on Front St. near the River.
Starke was a Minister as he signed marriage licenses. Desoto County marriage Reocrd Volume C 1854 to April 1860. Starke Dupuy married a couple in 1854 and signed by Starke Dupuy, M.G. Ch. Of C.
Dupuy served at the Thyatira church of Christ from 1848 to his death in 1857.
An early Kentucky hymnal, Dupuy, Rev. Starke. Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Original and Selected. Frankfort (KY): David Niess, JR., 1812, 2nd ed. 24mo, leather, 288 pages, Words only. Elder Dupuy was a Baptist minister in Kentucky and Tennessee in the early 19th century. A scarce early Kentucky imprint.
