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Submitted by: Susan Keister
Email address: <generation7_1@yahoo.com>
Husband: John Washburn TIPTON
Birthdate: 13 December 1840
Birthplace: Elizabethton, Carter, TN
Death date: 12 February 1919
Place of death: Emporia, Lyon, KS
Burial: Maplewood Cemetery, Emporia, KS
Father: Samuel TIPTON
Mother: Nancy LACY
Marriage date: 1839
Marriage place: Elizabethton, Carter, TN
Wife: Amanda Jane BOWERS
Birthdate: 10 March 1846
Birthplace: Elizabethton, Carter, TN
Death date: 25 September 1923
Place of death: Emporia, Lyon, KS
Burial: Maplewood Cemetery, KS
Father: David B. BOWERS
Mother: Christina JOHNSON
CHILDREN
Child No. 1: Virginia P. TIPTON
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1866
Birthplace: Carter County, TN
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Spouse's name: Unknown Parsons
Child No. 2: David S. S. Tipton
Sex: M
Birthdate: 29 August 1867
Birthplace: Carter County, TN
Death date: 16 November 1934
Place of death: Emporia, Lyon, KS
Burial: Maplewood Cemetery
Marriage date: 13 January 1887
Marriage place: Emporia, Lyon, KS
Spouse's name: Mary Rose COCHENNET
Child No. 3: Minnie A. TIPTON
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1869
Birthplace: Carter County, TN
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Marriage date: 1889
Marriage place: Lyon County, KS
Spouse's name: Charles E. Miles
Child No. 4: William B. TIPTON
Sex: M
Birthdate: 6 March 1873
Birthplace: Carter County, TN
Death date: 25 July 1951
Place of death: Emporia, Lyon, KS
Burial: Memorial Lawn Cemetery
Marriage date: 31 July 1895
Marriage place: Emporia, Lyon, KS
Spouse's name: Louise Mary COCHENNET
Child No. 5: Christina Margaret TIPTON
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1875
Birthplace: Carter County, TN
Death date: Abt. 1950
Place of death: Chatham County, GA
Marriage date: 20 April 1893
Burial:
Marriage place: Emporia, Lyon, KS
Spouse's name: John Fremont McGHEE
Child No. 6: Martha Ida TIPTON
Sex: F
Birthdate: February 1878
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Marriage date: 19 June 1907
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Spouse's name: Charles Foster Roe
Child No. 7: Theodora T. TIPTON
Sex: F
Birthdate: July 1879
Birthplace:
Death date: 13 September 1895
Place of death: Emporia, Lyon, KS
Burial: Maplewood Cemetery
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Child No. 8: Maud TIPTON
Sex: F
Birthdate: February 1883
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Documentation: Personal visit to Emporia, KS 2002 - Photo documentation
of headstones, family home, plat information; visited Emporia City
offices on 5/20/2002 and spoke with Becky Samuelson, GIS Tech. John
W.
Tipton bought Lots 43, 45, and 47 of Miller's Subdivision - on Cottonwood
St. The lot was formerly block 5 of Potwin's Subdivision, which was
divided into 3-acre lots. Ownership was transferred to C. W.
and Sara
Potwin on 3/22/1877; then to James K. Miller on 6/7-6/10/1884; it was
annexed to Emporia on 3/17/1884. John W. Tipton paid cash for
the plot
on 3/19/1887. Obituary of John Washburn Tipton in Emporia Gazette
February 13, 1919 is very detailed regarding his life. John Washburn
Tipton is listed in the 13th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment in Company
H as a
corporal, age 23, enlisted September 24, mustered October 28, 1863,
and
discharged 31 July 1864 to accept a commission as 1 Lt. in 4 Inft.
He is
further listed in the Fourth Regimental Infantry (TN), Company H, as
a
1st Lt., age 24, enlisted 1 August 1864, mustered 1 August 1864; res.
6/6/65(Source: http://www.
tngennet.org/civilwar/rosters/cav/cav13/coh5.html) He is listed
with his
family in the 1890 Emporia, KS census. .