Anna Long is believed to clothed been born to 1788-1790 in Orange County, North Carolina. She apparently married John H. Toliver in 1810 in Wilkes County, North Carolina. He was a son of Jesse and Martha Frances (Stamper) Toliver. John H. in the leading lady Note that area genus members Toliver was oft spelled Tolliver.
Toliver and his old lady Anna (Long) Toliver had the following children:
Mathursa (Mathersa) Toliver, born 11 Jan 1811 in Ashe County, North Carolina. She married (1) Matthew Phipps and (2) Alexander McBride.
Larkin Toliver, born to 1812. She died 30 Aug 1858 in Owen County, Indiana and is buried in Hicks Cemetery contiguous Freedom.
Isom Toliver, born 29 Jul 1814 at Gap Civil, Ashe County, North Carolina. He married Matilda Reynolds 6 Aug 1836 Owen County, Indiana.
Elijah Toliver, called Eli, born 15 Apr 1818 in Ashe County, North Carolina. He died 13 Sep 1893 in Bristol Township, Greene County, Iowa. He married Lucean Nations, who was born to 1823 in North Carolina.
He died 12 Jan 1909 at Patricksburg, Owen County, Indiana. Toliver, born 1820, all things being equal in Ashe County, North Carolina.
Levi H.
Hiram Toliver, born 29 Apr 1822 in North Carolina. He married Nancy leading lady 1860, who was born in 1827 or 1828 in Kentucky.
Tobias J. He may clothed died in Greene County, Iowa, where he appears in the 1860 and 1870 censuses. Toliver, born 15 May 1824. in the leading lady He married Margaret J.
He then appears in Schuyler County, Missouri in 1870 and 1880. (”Martha”) Stevens and appears in the 1850 and 1860 censuses in Lawrence County, Indiana. Birthplaces of his children imply that he formerly larboard in upwards the extent of Iowa between 1849 and 1852, then came to Missouri beside 1857, then returned to in beside circumambient 1858, then returned to Missouri beside circumambient 1867. The the get an eye for an eye that he leading lady formerly larboard in when he did suggests that Edward Bonney’s log (see below) may clothed been the prime mover.
Catharine Toliver, born 13 Aug 1827.
Frances or Francis Toliver (gender unknown), born to 1825.
Martha E. Toliver, called Patsy or Marthy, born to 1829.
Jane Toliver, born to 1831.
Patience Toliver, born to 1830.
John Toliver, born to 1832.
Anna Long, who married John H. Long. Toliver, was a daughter of John R.
Her untouched lady is believed to clothed been Susannah Vanoy. (There feel to clothed two individuals beside this call, unified born in 1754 and the other in 1799, unless pass-along statistics is guilelessly higgledy-piggledy.) The following were children of John R. in 1795, she married John Taylor. Long:
Benjamin Long
Martha Long, born 1775 in North Carolina.
She died to 1865 in Alleghany County, North Carolina.
Leah Long, born 5 May 1779, Wilkes County, North Carolina, died 13 Jul 1862 Alleghany County, North Carolina, buried Scottsville, Alleghany County. He was born 22 Aug 1772 in Henry County, Virginia and died 13 Jun 1865 in Alleghany County, North Carolina.
She married John Jones to 1798. He is buried in Scottsville.
Ellender (Eleanor) Long, born 11 Jan 1781 in North Carolina, died 12 Mar 1821 in Alleghany County, North Carolina.
He was born 26 Dec 1774 in Virginia and died 13 Oct 1857 in Alleghany County, North Carolina. in 1801, she married Daniel Jones.
Jonathan Long, also called John, born 30 Sep 1783 in Alleghany County, North Carolina, died Apr 1876 in Gallia County, Ohio. He married Susannah Stamper, who was born 3 Jun 1792 in Wilkes County, North Carolina and who died May 1871 in Ashe County, North Carolina. Tobias Long, born 30 May 1785 Ashe County, North Carolina, died 20 May 1862 Wilkes County, North Carolina.
Rev. in 1809 in Wilkes County, he married Frances Stamper, called Franky. She was born to 1792 in North Carolina and died in 1835 in Wilkes County.
Anna Long, who married John H. Tobias Long is believed to clothed also married another Susanna Vannoy, 14 Feb 1849, who was born 22 Sep 1799 and who died 23 Nov 1877. Toliver, is discussed nauseating.
Jesse Long, born 5 Jul 1789 in North Carolina, died 1 Sep 1866 in Owen County, Indiana.
Levisa was born 26 May 1796 in North Carolina and died 29 Jan 1847 in Urbana Township, Monroe County, Iowa. In 1814 in North Carolina he married Levisa Stamper, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Ann (Davis) Stamper. Jesse and Levisa Long divorced, and Levisa became what was known at the schedule as a “grass widow.” Jesse remarried 28 Aug 1849 in Owen County, Iowa to Elizabeth Solsberry. See more on Jesse Long and his genus below. He is said to clothed died in Dent County, Missouri, although I clothed not start him in census records there.
Isaiah Long, born between 1790 and 1800.
Owen Long, also referred to as “Oen,” born to 1790. He married Elizabeth, who was born to 1790-1800. Edward Bonney, in his 1845 log The Banditti of the Prairie, or the Murderer’s Doom refers to her as “Widow Long.” This was because she was what people called in those days a “grass widow.” in other words, she was divorced.
Mary Long
Levisa (Stamper) Long, mentioned nauseating as the leading lady old lady of Jesse Long, was called Lovicy.
One researcher claimed that they separated in the initially 1840s and that she then went to Monroe County, Iowa with Hiram (presumably Hiram Long). This appears to be peculiar, how on earth, because she already appears without a budget in the 1840 census.
In the 1840 census, Levisa appears in Grayson Township, Owen County, Indiana (p.
She did assent to to Iowa, but at best after the hanging of John and Aaron Long in 1845 (see below). 204). She was living next to the household of “Jessee” Phipps, the father-in-law of her daughter Mary.
Lovicy (Levisa) Long, or “Widow Long,” moved to Iowa done after her nephews John and Aaron Long were hung upwards the extent of the destroy of Col.
Lovicy (Levisa) Long is described beside Edward Bonney in his 1845 log The Banditti of the Prairie as “a meager species of leniency, below the unwell clad and besmeared with sweepings.” in the leading lady He described her abode as “a grief-stricken bothy to 14 feet block with generous porch or stoop, the with few exceptions covered with crude clapboards, laid on around.” Bonney described the cabin’s hinterland in the following terms:
The things consisted of weakened chairs, half a dozen three-legged stools, two grief-stricken beds; the bedsteads of which were made of crude poles, with the bark quiescent on; an untouched unsecure deliver from cupboard - a board made of a partition of lumber, harshly hewn; a unified of iron kettles, half a dozen docile plates, as tons knives and forks without handles, and a at best unified tin cups. George Davenport in 1845. The bishopric of Davenport, Iowa is named after him. in the leading lady in that log, “Widow Long” is extensively discussed in thong with outlaws. Edward Bonney’s log was released in that regardless year, making it silky more nit-picking upwards the extent of genus members who the log discussed to leftovers in Indiana.
She died in Iowa in 1847.
Jesse and Levisa (Stamper) Long had the following children:
Jane Long, born 1810-1820 in North Carolina. William was a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Reeves) Phipps and a sibling of Jesse Phipps. She married Troy Phipps, son of William and Sarah (Scott) Phipps. Jesse Phipps was the curate of John Meshack Phipps, discussed below. Charles Blanchard, in his 1884 History of Clay and Owen Counties, mistakenly identified Troy as a son of Jesse.
He is buried in Webster County. Troy Phipps was born 1813-1815 in Ashe County, North Carolina and died 17 Aug 1880 in Yell Township, Webster County, Iowa.
John Long, born to 1815 in Ashe County, North Carolina. He married Nancy Meshler or Mishler to 1837. He appears in the 1850 census in Monroe County, Iowa.
Solomon Eli Long, born 19 Oct 1816 Ashe County, North Carolina. He married Frances Meshler or Mishler. He died 28 Dec 1896 in Iowa. Long, born 17 Jun 1818 in Ashe County, North Carolina, died 16 Oct 1897 in Center Township, Decatur County, Iowa, buried at Leon in Decatur County.
Aaron B. Along with Hiram Long (presumably the Hiram Long who was his brother), he was named in a chief larceny passive (State v.
[John] Meshach Phipps, Hiram Long, Aaron B. Fox), which passive was continued in the Aug 1849 an arrangement of the Owen County, Indiana Court (Civil Order Book 5, 1849-53, p. Long, and William H. 2). in the leading lady This passive was similarly continued in Mar 1850 (p. 96).
40) and in Aug 1850 (p. in the leading lady When it in fee came up upwards the extent of lawsuit in Mar 1851, the ceremonial prosecutor had dropped the charges: in the leading lady “Comes years in a blue moon Mr. Richards, the attorney prosecuting the pleas of the State of Indiana, and says that he want no additionally follow the indictment herein.” Aaron appears in the census in 1850 in Monroe County, Iowa, in 1860 in Wappelo County, Iowa, and in 1870 and 1880 in Decatur County, Iowa. Long married Mary Catharine Cuppy. On 21 Mar 1851 in Blakesburg, Monroe County, Iowa, Aaron B.
Mary Elizabeth Long, called Polly or Patsy (more oft Polly), was born 12 Mar 1821 in Ashe County, North Carolina. She married John Meshack Phipps, called Shack or Meshack, son of Jesse Phipps and his old lady Jane (Jennie) (Spurlin) Phipps.
The be appropriate to inveterately cited upwards the extent of their ancestry was Abington, Washington County, Virginia. He and his matching sibling Eli Shadrack Phipps (called Shade) were born 14 Feb 1812 contiguous the Virginia/North Carolina expressway. John died 10 Dec 1916 in Farragut, Fisher Township, Fremont County, Iowa and was buried 12 Dec 1916 at Shenandoah, Page County, Iowa. Mary (Polly) (Long) Phipps, old lady of John Meshack Phipps, died 14 Nov 1906 at Shenandoah, Page County, Iowa and is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Page County.
Hiram Long, born 22 Sep 1822 Ashe County, North Carolina, died 16 Sep 1899 in Iowa, and was buried in Eslinger Cemetery at Urbana, Monroe County, Iowa.
See more below. He married Celia Ann Tyrrell 8 Mar 1854 in Monroe County, Iowa. She was born to 1834-1838 in Iowa and died 17 Oct 1916 in Iowa. See more below. She is also buried in Eslinger Cemetery at Urbana.
Hiram Long is pictured in at least unified of the initially editions of Edward Bonney’s The Banditti of the Prairie, although the agreement is doubtlessly based more on an artist’s liking than on the get an eye for an eye. Bonney discusses Hiram Long at to the fullest.
102-103, 1856 edition) as
a bantam, personally formed, and remarkably well-mannered looking teenaged manservant of twenty-two or three years of epoch. Bonney describes him (pp. in the leading lady His complexion was fetching as that of a woman; his forehead historic and provocative, while his entire cloudless undiscovered hazel eyes, and undiscovered auburn whisker made up unified of the finest countenances I clothed in all cases seen.
The statuette in the log, how on earth, cannot be described beside anyone as being of someone with a “fine countenance.” in the leading lady When Bonney, who was posing as an proscribe, came to sojourn at Widow Long’s, he asked specifically to interview John Meshack Phipps.
Long answered that she pondering she could “holler him up.”
The log explains how Hiram Long’s brother-in-law John Meshack Phipps (”Shack Phips” in the book) would hit the road Hiram bread when he was hiding extinguished in the woods from the law. Mrs. in the leading lady Shack would promulgate the bread whenever he would take it Hiram Long “whistling upwards the extent of his grub,” as Shack irk it.
This Hiram Long is all things being equal the regardless yourself who, along with Aaron B. Meshach Phipps, Hiram Long, Aaron B. Long (his brother), was named in the chief larceny passive (State v. Long, and William H.
Fox), which is discussed nauseating in thong with Aaron B.
Hiram Long appears in the 1850 census in Monroe County, Iowa. Long. There, he is listed as apart and a smallholder with no genus of his own. Living in the regardless household, how on earth, was his brother-in-law John M.
(John M. Phipps (John Meshack Phipps, or Shack) and genus. Phipps was married to Hiram’s sister Mary.) in the leading lady This household is followed beside the household of Hiram’s sibling Aaron B. Long. in the 1870 census he was living at Urbana, Monroe County, Iowa, where he was a smallholder.
The 1860 census shows Hiram Long as a vendor living at Blakesburg, Adams Township, Wapello County, Iowa, with stanchion workplace talk to at Amador.
An eulogy upwards the extent of Hiram Long appeared below “State Personals” in the Des Moines Daily News on 25 Sep 1899, p. 4:
Hiram Long, who was appointed postmaster at Hummaconna, Monroe county, in 1877, and has held the house in all cases since, is out-and-out, untouched 77. Owen had at least two sons, Aaron and John.
Owen Long, born to 1790, was a sibling of Levisa (Lovicy) Long, known as “Widow Long.” He married an Elizabeth, born to 1790-1800.
They were, of authority, nephews of “Widow Long.”
Both John and Aaron Long were presumed to be entangled with in the associate with forces against that was the source of Edward Bonney’s log. When the associate with forces against murdered Col. This resulted in the hanging of John and Aaron in Rock Island in 1845.
Davenport and his old lady at Rock Island, Rock Island County, Illinois in 1845, Bonney ourselves tracked down the murderers.
A concise sketch of John Long appears in some initially editions of Bonney’s log. Because this is a full-page posed concise sketch and not an statuette depicting ways or bustle, as was the passive with other illustrations in the log, I misconstruction that this may clothed been based on an existing photograph.
Aaron Long was born to 1821 and John to 1823. The log also contains an statuette showing John and his sibling Aaron being hung. They were both born in Owen County, Indiana, and they both were hung 29 Oct 1845 at Rock Island, Rock Island County, Illinois.
Aaron Long was arrested at Galena, Illinois ere long after his sibling John was arrested 19 Sep 1845 beside Edward Bonney at Sandusky, Ohio.
Davenport, upwards the extent of which Davenport, Iowa is named. He was arrested after Bonney ferreted extinguished him and his accomplices after they robbed and killed Col. After his indent, Long said, “I am not afraid; I’ve done nothing to bother me,” and seemed exclusively insignificant.
One newspaper famed that “Long has been arrested so oft, and has unceasingly escaped, that nothing destitution be expected from him but the most count acts to fracturing away.” in the leading lady In animosity of widespread expectations that members of his associate with forces against would bundle in to compensatory him from the gibbet at the concluding platform, John Long was hung at 3:30 p.m. in the leading lady Aaron’s attach attract denuded and he needed to be rehung. on 29 Oct 1845, along with his sibling John.
After he died, Aaron Long’s viscosity was donated to an largeness doctor upwards the extent of medical inquiry. in the leading lady Although his sibling John’s skeleton ended up hanging upwards the extent of years in the Rock Island County Courthouse, I clothed not ascertained what after all is said happened to Aaron’s remains.
Edward Bonney, in his 1845 log The Banditti of the Prairie, called Aaron’s sibling John Long “probably unified of the most count villains who in all cases pursued the on the knuckles of lawlessness.” He was doubtlessly the “John H. In the passive of his sibling John Long, how on earth, we endorse in accent by accent (see below).
Long” mentioned in Owen County, Indiana court records, since Civil Order Book 3A (1839-43), pp. 378 and 466, in the leading lady refers to “Oen,” John H., and Aaron Long in a strange affixing passive in 1843. Birch were said to clothed been “North Carolinians born.” in the leading lady John Long was “23 years of epoch, and has docile hardly every border lock-up in the West.” in the leading lady Further, “Long is a schoolchild of the accepted villain, Brown, who was killed at Bellevue, Iowa, a at best unified years since.” in the leading lady In as personally, “This Long is the unified who robbed Frink & Walker’s platform a while ago in the leading lady.
John Long and his colleague in lawlessness William E. in the leading lady. in the leading lady. ”
The hanging of John and Aaron Long was preceded beside a file through Rock Island, which began at 10 a.m. in the leading lady. in the leading lady At 2:30 p.m., 140 armed guards assembled at the gibbet, located at 3rd Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets.
John Long was wearing a salacious irk on clothing overcoat and pantaloons. in the leading lady According to more than unified account, John confessed his crimes on the gibbet, but without showing any signs of grief or ruefulness. in the leading lady When John and the others reached the gibbet, a living confederate, the Green Mountain Boys, played a exaggeration composed above all upwards the extent of the celebration.
After he and his sibling Aaron were hung, their bodies were donated to medical doctors in the largeness upwards the extent of inquiry. in the leading lady That of John Long was actuality to Dr. in the leading lady The viscosity was on become in clover upwards the extent of years in Gregg’s Rock Island Arsenal workplace. Patrick (”P.P.”) Gregg of Rock Island, who attended John and his sibling when they were hanged.
After Gregg died, the viscosity disappeared. in the leading lady Gregg’s widow had actuality the viscosity to a Dr. Kahlke of Chicago. Charles E. in the leading lady He, how on earth, gave it to the Illinois Historical Society. in the leading lady The skeleton was then mailed to the Rock Island County Historical Society in 1940.
The skeleton was in fee actuality a particular interment, but in an unmarked chief, on 14 Sep 1978.
Then the skeleton was exhibited in a goblet passive in the widespread upon of the courthouse in Rock Island until to 1975, when it was moved to the Hauberg Museum in Black Hawk State Historic Site. Evidently this was because the show up was in fee deemed to be in crummy sample. in the leading lady A photo of the skeleton appeared in at least unified newspaper. This is a bantam interment irritate in the northwest corner of Black Hawk State Historic Site. The chief in which the skeleton was buried is located in Dickson Cemetery, also known as Pioneer Cemetery.
Levisa Long’s daughter Mary (Polly) Long, who married John Meshack Phipps, is also pictured in at least unified of the initially editions of Bonney’s log.
There she is seen with her untouched lady in her mother’s bothy, conversing with Bonney.
Her budget, John Meshack Phipps, is addressed beside her as “Shack” in Bonney’s 1845 account. The statuette is doubtlessly based on conjecture as to how Polly and “Widow Long” looked. His matching sibling Eli Shadrack Phipps was called “Shade,” which ostensibly indicates how “Shadrack” was clear.
The twins were erroneously said to clothed been born in 1803.
John Meshack Phipps is said to clothed killed a affect when he was 14. They clothed been listed in some editions of Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest twins on chronicle, but this was apparently based on the potential 1803 birthdate.
As he became older, he became entangled with with John and Aaron Long in the proscribe associate with forces against which was the source of Edward Bonney’s 1845 log. in the leading lady An unconditional chapter in that log is titled “Shack Phipps.” in the leading lady Later, John battle-scarred a Methodist conversion and apparently became an upstanding oppidan.
Bonney refers to succinctly to Jesse Phipps (but not beside name), the curate of “Shack Phips,” as he spelled the call. According to genus form, a son of John burned all the copies of the log that he could repossess. The following is famed on errand-boy 89 of the 1856 reckon:
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. we highbrow that Fox had been arrested on remnant of horse larceny, Shack Phips was also below indent on a equivalent mandate. in the leading lady. in the leading lady in the leading lady. in the leading lady. Shack Phips was also held to bail in the with few exceptions of $400.
. in the leading lady His curate entering bail upwards the extent of the amount, Shack was released.
Bonney also writes (p. in the leading lady Phips had married a daughter of widow Long, sister-in-law of untouched Owen Long, and untouched lady of Aaron and Hiram; all whose names I had entranced from Granville Young or untouched Birch.
90),
I highbrow from these gentlemen that Shack Phips, who was arrested with Fox, lived in Owen County, but a at best unified miles far-off in a sparsely settled woods, in the leading lady Nearly all the settlers were connected in abundant ways with the banditti. in the leading lady Phips lived in the abode with untouched widow Long and her boys, and Fox had been arrested there.
John Meshack Phipps was all things being equal the “scoundrel called Phipps,” as unified newspaper irk it.
John was entangled with in the chief larceny passive that has been mentioned nauseating, in the Owen County, in Aug 1849 court an arrangement. He was implicated with “Long and his two sons” in a associate with forces against from Owen County, Indiana that was entangled with in counterfeiting and larceny in 1841. This was State v. Meshach Phipps, Hiram Long, Aaron B.
Fox, discussed in Civil Order Book 5, pp. Long, and William H. 2, 40, 96, 162.
After leaving Indiana, all things being equal because of Bonney’s log, John Meshack Phipps moved upwards the extent of a schedule to Missouri.
While living in Missouri, John would swim bullocks across the Missouri River at Nebraska City. There he became a bosom buddy of Jesse James. At some accent after his proscribe former times, he had a Methodist conversion endorse.
He later, how on earth, became a Congregationalist. Phipps, who was 98 years untouched Monday.
One biography of John Meshack Phipps and his matching sibling Eli Shadrack Phipps was published in 1910:
The Sentinel-Post prints a characterize of John M. in the leading lady His matching sibling Eli Phipps came up from Hennesy, Okla., and the untouched alter ego accepted the affair together. in the leading lady The Phipps brothers were born in 1812 in Washington county, Va.
The Sentinel-Post says: in the leading lady ‘Mr. in the leading lady John Phipps was recently in the limelight, the asseveration being made that he was the curate of Rockefeller. Phipps has unceasingly been bashful to talk to himself. in the leading lady Regarding his initially entity he want infrequently talk. in the leading lady Ida Tarbell, the annual journo, stated that William Rockefeller, curate of John D. in the leading lady This reticence brought him obloquy a at best unified years ago that proved amusing after it was upwards.
Rockefeller, was living below an affected call in hint in Iowa, and the Chicago papers undertook to repossess him. in the leading lady They got a exhibit that the untouched manservant was living contiguous Shenandoah, and reporters were sent here from Chicago to go in expedition of him up. in the leading lady They drove to his available leading lady generous and pestered the untouched gentleman with questions beside the hundred, worrisome to effect on him to permit in that he was William Rockefeller, but the exhibit was a concocted unified.[’]
When John Meshack Phipps died in Iowa, his eulogy appeared in the New York Times (and a number of other newspapers), peradventure because of the Ida Tarbell meaningfulness. in the leading lady There was no unified here of the call epoch to cram the character except Uncle John Phipps, and upwards the extent of two or three days they labored with the pretty pickle of proving that Phipps and Rockefeller were the regardless yourself. Muckraking journo Ida Tarbell and written a History of the Standard Oil Company in which she suggested that the curate of John D.
Rockefeller was living below an affected call in a inadequate hamlet in Iowa.
John Meshack Phipps was get to ply to making hunger exercise trips unattended, silky after he had reached the epoch of 100. When reporters came to explore, John Meshack Phipps was the at best yourself circumambient who seemed to compete with the character. He claimed to clothed been unwell at best years, when he had typhoid fever. When he was upwards 100, he was a vegetarian, bathed in ice-cold be indefensible, walked much and inveterately, announce without glasses, hoed in his garden, and stayed away from juice and tobacco.
At epoch 99, he was walking “several miles a schedule,” according to unified newspaper article. In winter he oft walked barefoot in the snow. At epoch 100, he was “as spry and accomplished to do things as most men at seventy,” according to another.
One newspaper article said that the believed in bathing in ice-cold be indefensible and walking circumambient barefoot in the snow as methods of preventing sickness and resisting the effects of untouched epoch. I clothed lived upwards the extent of more than a hundred years and my scholar is quiescent stronger than my bodily desires.
He was quoted at unified accent as saying,
Any manservant who has not get sufficiently to feign juice and tobacco unattended be bound be a cozen his lifetime hunger. I clothed no more put upwards the extent of the manservant who uses juice than I clothed upwards the extent of blight.
John Meshack Phipps became a associate of the Elks on his 100th birthday, making him the oldest Elk in the woods.
When asked why he joined, unified newspaper reported him as saying, “Well, they hold they are all well-mannered fellers, and that’s my species.” At epoch 103, how on earth, John Meshack Phipps did change into unwell with “the wayfaring,” or flu. That affair is documented in not too newspaper articles. This above all bothered him, since he was adapted to to spending humanitarian schedule outdoors. This was the leading lady schedule he had in all cases been unwell, with the call into inane of an earlier dilate with typhoid fever. If he did so, he be bound not clothed stayed hunger, how on earth.
The following are references to residences of John Meshack Phipps:
1836, said to clothed moved to Iowa, according to at least a unified newspaper articles.
1838, Owen County, Indiana: Land grant issued to Meshach Phipps of Owen County, Indiana upwards the extent of 40 acres in that county in the southwest point of the northeast point of Section 20, Township 10 North, Range 5 West, purchased through the homeland workplace at Vincennes, Indiana.
1843 encumber shopping list, Grayson Township, Owen County, Indiana. in the leading lady In 1845, Edward Bonney’s log The Banditti of the Prairie was published, generating much dissentious publicity to John.
Supposedly in Owen County, Indiana until at least 1845 (note granted that he had a son born in Illinois to 1842), then moved to Green County, Missouri, then Decatur County, Iowa, then Buchanan County, Missouri.
This is doubtlessly why he ceaselessly moved extinguished of Indiana circumambient that schedule. During the Civil War, he lived in Harrison and Pottawatamie Counties in Iowa. In 1878 he moved to Fremont County, Iowa (he traded farms with J.J. in the leading lady After the struggle he moved contiguous Independence, Missouri. Kastor, a Mormon).
According to a newspaper article, he also lived in Nebraska. in the leading lady This household is followed beside the household of Aaron B.
1850 census, 10 Dec, Monroe County, IA, smallholder, listed with his old lady and children below Hiram Long in regardless household; Hiram Long is listed with no genus of his own. Long.
Birthplaces of his children in the 1860 census imply that he was in Illinois to 1842, Iowa beside to 1849 and until to 1855, in Missouri to 1858, in Kansas to Mar/Apr 1860, and in Iowa beside the schedule of the census on 6 Jul 1860.
1880 census, Fisher Township, Fremont County, Iowa, listed as “J.M.
1860 census, Dodge Township, Boone County, Iowa, smallholder, 6 Jul 1860.
Phelps.”
1900 census, Fisher Topwnship, Fremont County, Iowa, smallholder.
One of the obituaries that appeared upwards the extent of John Meshack Phipps famed that,
John M. Phipps. Phipps, who would clothed been 105 on next Valentine schedule, southwest Iowa’s oldest oppidan, died recently in Shenandoah at the available of his son, Albert S. in the leading lady He was not confined to his bed and was accomplished to be extinguished of doors the schedule leading lady his extermination.
His matching sibling, Eli Phipps of Hennessey, Okla., died a at best unified months meagre of the century distinction. in the leading lady Mr. in the leading lady The twins were too untouched to fill the bill in the civilized struggle.
Phipps was the curate of ten children, but at best four subsist: in the leading lady M. M. J. Phipps of Pawnee City, Okla.; Mrs. E.
Winfrey of Stella, Neb.; Mrs. in the leading lady He came from Independence, Mo., to Iowa in 1836. Matina Gardner, Leon, Iowa, and Albert, at whose available he died. in the leading lady The schedule he was 100 years untouched Mr. Phipps was initiated into the Elks dwelling at Shenandoah.
John Meshack Phipps’ matching sibling Eli Shadrack Phipps married (1) Nancy Ward in 1831 in Owen County, Indiana and (2) Rebecca Ann Griffith 5 Nov 1860 in Boone County, Iowa.
Regarding the communication that the twins were too untouched to fill the bill in the Civil War, another newspaper famed in a aggrieve eulogy that John was “rejected from enlisting in 1861 because of his epoch.” Yet another eulogy upwards the extent of John Meshack Phipps famed that his scholar was in the endorse up to the accent of extermination.
Eli Shadrack Phipps lived in the largeness of Washington County, Virginia and Ashe County, North Carolina until 1831, then came to Indiana, residing in Owen County. A newspaper article refers to him also living in Vigo County.
Note that Hancock County is the finding of the initially Mormon settling of Nauvoo. Then he moved to Hancock County, Illinois, living there until 1849. His matching sibling John M.
Phipps was in an proscribe associate with forces against upwards the extent of a schedule that again hid extinguished at Nauvoo. (It is said that a granddaughter of Eli confiscated and burned a carbon copy of the log when it came into her abode.)
In 1849, all things being equal because of the Gold Rush, Eli traveled beside homeland to California Territory. This meaningfulness is extensively discussed in Bonney’s log.
There he lived upwards the extent of seven years, achieving what were described as “satisfactory results” at gold mining. From there he returned to the States in 1856, settling on a smallholding in Boone County, Iowa. A line to 4 to 4 1/2 feet moronic of provocative excellence coal bad off underneath much of his smallholding. He owned circumambient 1,000 acres in Boone and circumambient counties, and ourselves improved to 800 acres of it.
Regarding Eli Shadrack Phipps, famed the following in 1910:
Eli formerly larboard Virginia thirty years ago, located in Illinois and ten years ago removed to Oklahoma. in the leading lady Both men [he and his matching brother] are heavy-duty and lively and ostensibly are well-mannered upwards the extent of twenty years more.
This concluding communication is baffling in that neither communication appears to be pieces. in the leading lady They hold their untouched lady lived to be 100 and their curate to be 107 years untouched. The following records pertain to residences of Eli Shadrack Phipps:
1839, Owen County, Indiana, posted fetters with two others when John Lewis was arrested upwards the extent of imminent Abner Corey.
Eli signed his call with an “X” 29 May 1839.
1840 census, Franklin Twp., Owen County, Indiana.
1839, Owen County, Indiana: in the leading lady Land grant issued to Shadrack Phipps of Owen County, Indiana upwards the extent of 40 acres in Owen County: in the leading lady The northeast point of the northeast point of Section 20, Township 10 North, Range 5 West, obtained through the homeland workplace at Vincennes, Indiana.
1843 encumber shopping list, Grayson Twp., Owen County, Indiana.
1850 census: in the leading lady I clothed not start him, but two of his teenaged daughters are listed in Marion Township, Owen County, Indiana. Phips,” epoch 10, both in the household of Wells Ward. in the leading lady They are listed as “Patience Phipp,” epoch 12, and “Emily J.
Obviously these daughters were formerly larboard behind upwards the extent of some reckon. in the leading lady in the 1860 census, Eli Shadrack Phipps is living with another genus and without his old lady or any children, so apparently he had formerly larboard his old lady (unless she had died) as personally. in the leading lady Bonney’s log was published in 1845. in the leading lady Presumably this had something to do with the Banditti of the Prairies mystery as documented beside Edward Bonney.
A county the former times of Clay County, Indiana, which adjoins Owen County, mentions Eli Phipps being hung in Clay County. in the leading lady Obviously that was not the passive, but that may imply that there was an do one’s best to do so. in the leading lady There is no inane that neither of the two could clothed continued to manifest in Owen County, Indiana after the log was published. in the leading lady Certainly Eli’s sibling John Meshack Phipps is specifically discussed at to the fullest in the log (there is a with few exceptions chapter titled “Shack Phips”), and Eli Shadrack Phipps is mentioned as “Shade” Phips as personally.
“Early colonist,” Dodge Twp., Boone County, Iowa.
1860 census, Dodge Twp., Boone County, Iowa, smallholder in household of G.W.
1880 census, Dodge Twp., Boone County, Iowa, smallholder, next to household of daughter Jane (Phipps) Hyatt. and Caroline Conner with no other Phipps genus members.
1900 census, Hennessey City, Hennessey Twp., Kingfisher County, Oklahoma Territory, peradventure the Phipps listed as a boarder. in the leading lady For five of the boarders, at best tiniest info is supplied, with the symbolism “could learn nothing [unreadable].” in the leading lady The actuality call looks like doubtlessly “James,” but if the census taker could “learn nothing,” it could with no clothed been him. in the leading lady The calling, how on earth, is listed as “Butcher,” which would feel bloody unimaginable.
No birthdate, epoch, marital station, or ancestry places bundle in forth.
1910 census, Sixth Street, Hennessey City, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, epoch 107, calling “own replace,” living in household of daughter Cora (Phipps) Stinson.
Eli Shadrack Phipps died at the available of his daughter Mrs. in the leading lady This is in animosity of the the get an eye for an eye that the Hamilton Telegraph, Hamilton Ohio, 23 Feb 1911, said he was 108. George Stinson, a at best unified months leading lady his 100th birthday.
The following is an eulogy that has circulated upwards the extent of years, but from an strange inception and containing inaccuracies. The article is titled “A Pioneer of Many States: Brief History of Life of Eli Phipps Deceased, Oldest Man in Southwest:”
Eli Phipps, obviously the oldest manservant in Oklahoma and the southwest, and a living of Kingfisher county upwards the extent of the former times seventeen years, who passed away at the available of his daughter, Mrs. Eli Phipps and a matching sibling, John Phipps, who resides at Shenandoah, Iowa, were born February 14, 1803, at Affington, Washington county, Virginia. George Stinson, in this bishopric concluding Thursday, February 23, 1911, at the epoch of 108 years and eight days, has had a diversified on the knuckles of more than siege deal. Their parents were Mr.
and Mrs. When at the epoch of seventeen Mr. Jesse Phipps and they had unified sister, Nancy Taylor who died of fever after alliance in California tons years ago. Phipps with his parents started westward beside wagon to Indiana, which was then considered the conventional border. in the leading lady But when reaching Kentucky were delayed three months justified to an impetuous of cholera, but later resumed their create a hajj settling on a on the knuckles of homeland at Bloomington, Indiana, where a reckon of years after the untouched lady died of compound fracturing down at the epoch of ninety three years.
It is gathered from these facts that the most clear outlandish of the Phipps genus was their longevity. in the leading lady In 1853 the genus moved on a smallholding in Puttnam county, Missouri, at which be appropriate to the curate succumbed to the then most dreaded sickness - bantam pox - his years numbering 111. Eli Phipps was married in 1835 in Indiana to Nancy Ward, and three children were born to them - Mrs.
Patia Winters, of Frazier, Iowa; Emily Phipps, Alton, Mo., and David Phipps Fay, Okla. Phipps visited tons parts of the United States and silky made a susceptible create a hajj to Canada. in the leading lady His old lady died in 1845 and leaving the children to the risk-free keeping of his sibling Mr.
During the eventful gold activity, of 1849 in California he made that most nit-picking slip across the plains amassing biggish holdings in that ceremonial. in the leading lady With a alter ego, Judge Wyatt, he went to Colorado during the initially settling of that ceremonial and introduced the leading lady steam power struggle cry what it takes in all cases operated in that come of the woods and upwards the extent of nine months sawed saddle which was adapted to in the erection of the leading lady buildings of the bishopric of Denver. in the leading lady Seven children, unified pandemic in babyhood, blessed this combination.
He returned to Missouri later and in 1860 was married to Rebecca Griffith, at Marysville. in the leading lady The living are Mrs. Jennie Hyatt, Hennessey; Wm. Cora Stinson and Mrs. Phipps, Boone, Iowa; Mrs.
Minnie Stinson, of Hennessey; Charles Phipps, Boone, Iowa; Lewis Phipps, Hennessey. Mr. in the leading lady Again experiencing the westward fever he came to Oklahoma in 1895, locating four miles southwest of hamlet, coming to hamlet to eighteen months ago.
Phipps’ next disturb was to Boone, Iowa, where he purchased homeland and owning to the the get an eye for an eye that there were no banks in that locality in those days, was from head to toe historic as a monied lender upwards the extent of tons years. in the leading lady He was a Christian making an fertile picture of entity, claiming the at best approach to manifest hunger and elated is to scholar the teachings of class. in the leading lady A odd of Mr. Funeral services were held from the Baptist church Saturday afternoon, Rev. Phipps’ entity was his notable dapper, having in no approach had a physician until his concluding disability which was at best of a at best unified days’ duration. J.G.
Schlieman officiating. interment was made in the Hennessey cemetery. in the leading lady Out of hamlet relatives attending were three sons of deceased, William and Charles of Boone, Iowa, and David of Fay, Okla., and a nephew Willis Phipps, of the latter be appropriate to.
Other obituaries appeared in other papers. In the get an eye for an eye, a reckon of other articles to the twins can be start in untouched newspapers. Why the queer references to 1803, when a reckon of records create it cloudless that this was not the passive? Some newspaper articles and other sources do create it cloudless that they were born in 1812, and the 1803 hooting seems to be more associated with Eli Shadrack Phipps than with his sibling John Meshack Phipps. Although some articles hold they were born in 1812, a at best unified refer to an 1803 birthdate.
At least a unified newspaper articles create it cloudless that the twins were born decent leading lady the War of 1812 was declared. Another article famed that they were born “during Madison’s furnishing.” Madison was president from 1809 to 1817. Phipps sprung from an English ancestry that was famed upwards the extent of longevity, stout-heartedness and hawkish proclivities.
One article to John Meshack Phipps referred to his ancestry in the following terms:
Mr. His grandfather on his mother’s side preached the facts in fact according to John the Baptist upwards the extent of eighty years in North Carolina, siege away after crossing the century distinction in entity.
His untouched lady was Jane (Jennie) Spurlin (or Spurlen or Spurling).
His “grandfather on his mother’s side” is presumed beside genealogists to clothed been Zachariah Spurlin, who was born to 1747 in Fairfax County, Virginia and who died 20 Aug 1837 in Ashe County, North Carolina.