Excerpt from the March 8, 1896 issue of the Tennessee Daily Journal Mr. W.C. Chumlea, our hustling pension attorney, has recently succeeded in securing pensions for the following persons: Dr. P.M. Barrett – for services rendered as Chaplain in the first regiment of New York Battles, during the late war Mrs. Louisa Henderson Mrs. Araminta [...]
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Obituary of William “Fightin’ Billy” Tipton
Posted in Deaths, Military, tagged Crockett, Jackson, Langdon, Tipton on June 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
William “Fightin’ Billy” Tipton was one of the sons of Col. John Tipton. I’ve done a few posts on the Tipton family before and while at the Tennessee State Archives recently, I noticed an article in the Blount Journal about Fightin’ Billy. The article appeared in the Fall 2005 issue and is very interesting. In [...]
Col. John Tipton
Posted in Websites/Resources, tagged Tipton on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve added a new link to the Bibliography page of this blog – a website with information about Col. John Tipton and sons. On a previous blog entry, I’d posted some information about the Tiptons summarizing some resources online and John, a descendant of Tipton, commented and put a link to his website dedicated to [...]
Tipton Family
Posted in Military, tagged Tipton on November 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In an earlier post this month, Polly inquired about George Washington Tipton, whom she believes may be a son of Lt. Benjamin William Tipton & Rebecca Cusick. George Washington Tipton died in Blount County in 1807 and is buried in Ellejoy Cemetery. Source: Photo from FindAGrave It looks like this Tipton line is of interst [...]
Query: Tipton Families
Posted in Query, tagged Cusick, Reneau, Tipton on November 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Polly has made the following inquiry “I am researching Tipton families of Blount Co TN, especially ancestors of George Washington Tipton 1807-1886 and Martha (unkn). I have pictures of grave markers in Morgan Co AL where he was buried in Crawford Cemetery. I think he was the last son of RS Lt. Benjamin William Tipton and Rebecca Cusick. [...]
Blount County Men in Notable Men of Tennessee
Posted in Celebrities, tagged Craig, Cunningham, Dearing, Farmer, Foster, Goodard, Hackney, Henry, Kirckpatrick, Lamar, Matthews, McBath Eagleton, McDowell, McTeer, Rowan, Tipton, Wright on December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Notable Men of Tennessee, a book that was published in 1912, has been digitized by Google and is in the public domain. It contains sketches of individuals from Tennessee. The full-text of the book can be downloaded as a PDF file from Google Books. There are not character sketches from Blount County, but there is [...]
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