Elisabeth Minerva Shipley 
Elisabeth Minerva was born on June 10th, 1898 in Chester, Crawford County, Arkansas, USA.1 Elisabeth Minerva's father was Nathan Pascal Shipley and her mother was Mary Tennessee Temple. Her paternal grandparents were Nathan Pascal SHIPLEY and Elizabeth Mildred LESTER. She had five brothers and four sisters, named Daniel Webster, Guy Vernon, Norman Pascal, Edgar Allen, Harold Eldred, Nellie Dean, Bertha Dee, Hazel Irene and Nora Belle. She was the fifth youngest of the ten children. She died at the age of 106 on April 23rd, 2005 in Grand Junction, , Colorado, USA.General Notes
She never married.
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Elisabeth Shipley
June 10, 1898 – April 23, 2005
Elisabeth Minerva Shipley was born June 10, 1998, at Chester, Arkansas, the sixth of ten children of Nathan Pascal Shipley, Jr. And Mary Tennessee Temple Shipley. She died in Grand Junction, CO, of natural causes at the age of 106 years, 10 months, 13 days on April 23, 2005. She was the last remaining member of her immediate family.
Miss Shipley began a long teaching career at the age of 18 which continued for 47 years in the Springdale and Fayetteville, Arkansas school systems. A charter member of the Iota Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma honorary teachers organization, she was a life-time member for 60 years. She was active in organizing the Parent Teacher Organization in the Fayetteville Public Schools and bringing music education and school lunches into the public school systems.
She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from the University of Arkansas. During her extended tenure in public education, she had a deep and positive influence on her students, many of whom remember her with admiration and affection to the present day.
Elisabeth Shipley is survived by many nieces and nephews, as well as friends and former students in the Fayetteville, AR, Laurens, SC, and Grand Junction, CO areas who have been enriched by her life. Those who have been especially close to her in recent years are her nieces, Helen Bement Reecher, Tulsa, OK; Marilyn Jane Shipley Aromi, Mobile, AL; her nephew James Duard Marshall and wife Bonnie, Kansas City, MO; great nieces Janet Soule Hassell and husband, William B. Hassell, Sr.; Grand Junction CO; Mary Beth (Elizabeth) Soule Pelletier, her husband, Eugene, and family, Fuquay-Varina, NC; Jan Reecher Edwards, Tulsa, OK; Jane Shipley Smith, her husband, Sy, and family, Springdale, AR; great nephews Michael Earl Soule, wife, Kay, and family, Wyoming, MN; Dennis Reecher and family, Broken Arrow, OK; great-grand nieces and nephews, Kathryn Eileen Pierce, her husband, John Robert, and son, Colton Garrett, Grand Junction, CO; William B. Hassell, Jr., his wife, Rebecca and their children Hannah Noel, Emily Elisabeth and William B. Hassell, III, Norcross, GA; John Daughety and wife, Carlene, Dallas, TX; Anne Dethrow and husband, Brian, Dallas, TX; and cousin Grace Belle Shipley, Eau Claire, WI.
Graveside services will be held at a date and time to be announced at Mt. Comfort Cemetery, Mt. Comfort, Arkansas. Arrangements are being handled by Callahan-Edfast Mortuary, Grand Junction, CO, and Lugenbuel Funeral Home, Prairie Grove, AR. Memorials may be sent to First Methodist Church, Laurens, SC, Martha Frank Baptist Retirement Center, Laurens, SC, Hospice and Pallative Care of Western Colorado, Grand Junction, CO, or a charity of your choice.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 1775 in probably Maryland, USA d.01 Feb 1820 in , Rhea County, Tennessee, USA
- b.01 Jan 1805 in , Sullivan County, Tennessee, USA d.26 Aug 1881 in Mulberry, Crawford County, Arkansas, USA
- b.1759 in Dunmore/Shenandoah County, Virginia d.25 Jan 1841 in Bledsoe County, Tennessee
- b.~ 1780 in , , Tennessee, USA d.15 Nov 1857 in , , Tennessee, USA
- b.~ 1750 d.< 1840 in , Greene County, Tennessee, USA
- b.27 May 1827 in near Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, USA d.22 Feb 1863 in , Crawford County, Arkansas, USA
- b.1811 in During Oats Harvest in Tennessee, USA d.>19 Mar 1890 in , , Arkansas, USA
- b.06 Mar 1860 in Chester, Crawford County, Arkansas, USA d.23 Feb 1930 in Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas, USA
- b.31 Jul 1831 in , , Arkansas, USA d.01 Oct 1882 in , Crawford County, Arkansas, USA
- b.10 Jun 1898 in Chester, Crawford County, Arkansas, USA d.23 Apr 2005 in Grand Junction, , Colorado, USA
- b.26 Apr 1864 in Rudy, Crawford County, Arkansas, USA d.21 Jun 1960 in Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas, USA
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1 R. Cecil Shipley Gedcom, 1999
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