• General Notes

  William Park Shipley was born about 1812 in Tennessee the third identified son of Richard Shipley, Sr. and Hannah Retta Hughes.(1)   He married Martha Patsy Roller about 1835 in Sullivan County, Tennessee, USA.(2)   She was born about 1811 in Sullivan County, Tennessee, USA to George Roller and Elizabeth Shipley.(3)   They began their family in Sullivan County and then moved on down to Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA.  William was heavily in debt(4)  when he was murdered or committed suicide the 25th of March 1843 in Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA.  Martha’s brother, George Roller, came to Hamiliton County, and brought her and the children back to Sullivan County, to live with him and his family.   She died after 1870 in Sullivan County, Tennessee, USA.  They had four children.
  
  Footnotes:
  (1) R. Cecil Shipley’s sources on the descendants of William Park Shipley are:  1) C.M. Crawley, Sr., 2)Bess H. Howard, 3)Elisabeth Shipley Collins, and 4) Holston Territory Genealogical Society, Families and History of Sullivan County, Tennessee, USA, Vol. 1, 1779-1992.
  
  (2)  Bess Howard <Besshhoward at aol dot com> Feb. 12, 2002.
  
  (3)  Lynne Chandler’s Shipley Descendancy Chart sent Jan.25, 2000 "LynneC8296 at aol dot com"
  
  (4)  Bess Howard <Besshhoward at aol dot com> Feb. 12, 2002.
  
  Compiled and written by Susan Kimes Burgess
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  "Park and Martha Shipley went westward and entered the Transylvania Purchase and lived there until he died. My grandfather, George Roller II, took the wagon and went after his sister and her family and brought them back to live on the old Roller farm."
  
  Written by Miss Anna Lee Mitchell, Teacher, Sullivan County, Tennessee, 1925.
  
  1850 United States Census: Division 1, Sullivan, Tennessee; Roll: M432_897; Page: 61B; Image: 128.
  705  Shipley   Martha    39   1811      Female    Tennessee
  705  Shipley   Elizabeth      15   1835      Female   
  705  Shipley   Juletty   13   1837      Female   
  705  Shipley   George    12   1838      Male     
  705  Shipley   Nathan    10   1840      Male     
  
  1860 United States Census:  District 10, Sullivan, Tennessee; Roll: M653_1275; Page: 92; Image: 307; Family History Library Film: 805275.
  848  Shipley   Martha    51   1809      Female    Tennessee
  848  Shipley   Betty     25   1835      Female    Tennessee
  848  Shipley   George    21   1839      Male      Tennessee
  848  Shipley   Nathan    19   1841      Male     
  849  Dyson     William H      73   1787      Male      Virginia
  
  1870 United States Census:  District 11, Sullivan, Tennessee; Roll: M593_1565; Page: 481B; Image: 223; Family History Library Film: 553064.
  118  Shipley   Gee  29   1841      Male      White     Tennessee
  118  Shipley   Lydia A   26   1844      Female    White     Virginia
  118  Shipley   Wm Thor   10/12     1869      Male      White     Tennessee
  118  Shipley   Martha    55   1815      Female    White     Tennessee
  118  Shipley   Elizabeth      34   1836      Female    White     Tennessee

Details of Martha Patsy's family with William Park Shipley