The Reip family settled at the mouth of Lower Nicut in 1849
Adam and Edith Chenoweth Reip settled on a large homestead at the mouth of Lower Nicut which intersects with the Euclid-Nicut Road.
Reip, a northern sympathizer, tried to keep a low profile in a district that mostly supported the south.
He and his wife had nine children.
The Reips were among the county's outstanding farmers and business people, several of them university graduates when access to college was very difficult.
The Euclid community and post office was named after Dalton Euclid Reip, the son of the man credited with securing the post office.
Likely in
In the 1960s as a funeral director/ambulance provider in Spencer, we received an early morning call to the Reip house that someone was sick, the siblings living there were never married.
It could have been Ida Reip that was ill. We brought the cot into the living room, and out walked Ida with her finest "sunday-go-to-meeting-clothes," dressed to the tees. She was adorned with fine shoes, beautiful jewelry, an ornate broach and a small hat adorned with flowers, placing herself on the cot which would likely be her last ride.
(The Lower Nicut Reip house has now been removed)
Early settlers Adam and Edith Chenoweth Reip
Reip Sisters - Daughters of Alonzo Reip
Left to right: Roxie Reip Farrar, Cora
Reip Keen, Dora Reip Bell, Grace Reip
(Photo Courtesy of Frank Marshall)
EUCLID POST OFFICE WAS IN CLOSET - Operated By The Reip Family
SHADE AND FLOWERS ON NICUT - The Reip House
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