Lourana Klepper

Lourana was born in 1830 in ,Hawkins, Tennessee.¹   Lourana's father was Peter Klepper and her mother was Catherine Myers. She had three brothers and seven sisters, named Barnabus M., William, John M., Mary Or Polly, Nancy, Elizabeth, Jane, Katherine, Susannah and Margaret.  She was the fourth youngest of the eleven children. She had three half-brothers and five half-sisters, named Joseph, Cornelius Or Nealy, Francis Marion, Susan, Phebe, Sarah, Martha Ellen and Barbara.