• General Notes

  Richard Shipley, Jr. was born the 15th of November, 1814 in Tennessee the fourth identified son of Richard Shipley, Sr. and Hannah Retta Hughes.(1)   He married 1) Julinda Windham/Windom in 1834 in Tennessee.(2)   She was born the 14th of October, 1816 in what became Hamilton County, Tennessee in 1819,(3)  perhaps to William Windom.(4)   She had red hair.  Her family operated a noted horse stable in Dallas, Hamilton County, Tennessee.  A family legend told by Murrel R. Owen to his grandson Rick Albright was that, when courting, Richard had to row a boat across the river to visit Julinda.  Richard worked as a blacksmith during the week and was a local preacher of the Methodist faith on the Sabbath.(5)  The couple was living in Bledsoe County, Tennessee in 1835 when Nancy Ann was born.  William Preston was born there in 1837.  Supposedly, Julinda rowed across the Cumberland River with her babies to visit her folks when her babies were little.(6)   By 1839 the family was in Hamilton County, Tennessee where Benjamin Rush was born.  Family tradition is that they moved to Missouri in 1843.(7)   It is more likely that they moved in 1842 since Sarah Elizabeth was born in Lawrence County, Missouri in February, 1843.  Family folklore is that, "Richard left Tennessee because he was a Methodist minister and a Republican and the South called them all Yankees."(8)   It is thought they traveled the Tennessee River, the Ohio River, the Mississippi River, and the Arkansas River to visit Richard's brother, Benjamin in Arkansas on their way to Missouri.(9)  Their last four children were born in Lawrence County, Missouri:  Reuben Richard in 1848, Mary Susan in 1849, Joseph Douty in 1852, and George about 1859.  They were in Eddyville, Mahaska County, Iowa by the 11th of January, 1861 when Julinda died.(10)   She is buried across the county line in Hayden Chapel Cemetery, Monroe County, Iowa probably the 14th of January, 1861.(11)   Richard married 2) Amanda Cline the 12th of May, 1862 in Mahaska County, Iowa.(12)   She died the 14th of February, 1863 in Iowa and is buried in West Des Moines Township, Mahaska County, Iowa.(13)   There were no children born of this marriage.  He married 3) Sarah Ann Fisher the 4th of July, 1863 in Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa.(14)   She was born on the 14th of December, 1839 in Deer Creek Lower Township, Harford County, Maryland, USA to James Fisher and Jane Ellen Boyd.(15)    Richard and Sarah had six children.  Johnnie W. and Ellen Jane were born in Eddyville, Mahaska County, Iowa in 1863 and 1865, respectively.  Hannah Rettie "Rita" was born in Allerton, Wayne County, Iowa in 1867.  They then moved to Clio, Wayne County, Iowa where their last three children were born:  Lulla May in 1869, Etta Eliza in 1872, and Eddie in 1874.  Richard became dissatisfied with the Methodist Church and joined the Highland Baptist Church in Wayne County, Iowa where he was certified to preach the 13th of October, 1895.  He died the 13th of January, 1908 in Clio, Wayne County, Iowa.  Sarah died the 28th or 29th of April, 1918 in Clio, Iowa at the home of her daughter, Hannah Rettie (Shipley) Preston.(16)   Richard and Sarah are buried in the Clio Cemetery.
  
  Footnotes:
  
  (1)  All information on Richard Shipley, Jr. and his descendants is from R. Cecil Shipley unless otherwise noted.  His sources were:  1) C.M. Crawley, Sr. of Longwood, Florida, 2) Rick Albright of Merced, California, 3) Allen Dale Garton, and 4) Barbara Howe who had a copy of Richard's death certificate with the above birth and death dates. 
  Some people give Richard's birthplace as Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee.  Rick Albright says, "I have NEVER seen any record proving him to have been in Nashville, Davidson Co., TN at any time.  The Rhea/Bledsoe/Hamilton area is his home place, to the best of my knowledge, and his residing there is proven several times over."
  
  (2)  Lynne Chandler lists Dallas, Tennessee as the place of marriage.  Others have listed Nashville, Tennessee.
  
  (3)  Rick Albright of Merced, California at <KD6DKC@@aol.com> says that as far as he knows "that is her hometown.  He has no evidence that she was ever anywhere else but in that region of Tennessee.  Census records also give Tennessee as her place of birth."
  
  (4)  Rick Albright of Merced, California at <KD6DKC@@aol.com> says, "I suspect her father may have been named William based solely on the fact that no other person of that surname of the proper generation has so far come to light in Hamilton County."  The only Windoms in the state of Tennessee on the 1840 census were William Windom in Hamilton County, and Sharlott Windom in Marion County (next to Hamilton).
  
  (5)  Doug Moomey says, "I don't think he became a preacher until after he moved to Missouri and possibly not until after he moved to Iowa.  His obituary states "...He professed Christ in the year 1849 at the age of thirty-five years, became a member of the M.E. church and was a local minister for that denomination ....".  Since he moved to Missouri sometime around 1841-1842, this would mean he was not baptized until after he lived in Missouri for 5-10 years."
  
  (6)  This story and Julinda's red hair are taken from the notes of Effie Belle Shipley Jewell.  It is believed by some researchers that it was the Tennessee River or one of its tributaries that Julinda rowed across and not the Cumberland River since all the known evidence of birthplace or dwelling place for the Shipley, Hughes, and Windom families points to the area where Hamilton, Bledsoe, and Rhea counties intersect and there is no evidence that places any of these families in Davidson County where the Cumberland River is found.  (The known evidence is from census records, official county death/estate/bankruptcy records and Union Army service/pension records, in some of the latter cases quoting the actual person involved as to where they were born or married.)
  
  (7)  Burnette Wishmeyer, January 13, 1978.  From Raymond E. Newell who found this information in his mother's effects after her death (much of the information originated from Burnette Wishmeyer and was written in 1978).  Shared by Dale Garton <ADG3679@@aol.com>.
  
  (8)  "Taken from a book kept by Effie Belle Shipley Jewell, daughter of Rueben Richard Shipley."  From Raymond E. Newell who found this information in his mother's effects after her death (much of the information originated from Burnette Wishmeyer and was written in 1978) and shared by Dale Garton <ADG3679@@aol.com>. 
  
  (9)  R. Cecil Shipley e-mail states that there is an extant letter Richard wrote to his nephew, a son of William Park Shipley.
  
  (10)  Her death date on the tombstone has been read as the 14 Jun 1862 but this conflicts with his subsequent marriage to Amanda Cline the 12th of May, 1862.  It is now believed that she died on the 11th of January, 1861 which is the date listed on the cemetery records.  The 14th of January, 1861 may be when she was buried.
  
  (11)  Take Route 34 to Albia, Iowa then north on 37. The chapel is on the north side of the road.  Julinda and William (a son) are buried side by side with identical stones.
  
  (12)  Doug Moomey located the marriage records in Mahaska County.  Amanda's father was George Cline, who was in Tazewell Co., Illinois just before 1830 until he moved to Mahaska County, Iowa in the late 1840s.  His widow owned 40 acres in Des Moines Township, which later was sold to Cooper Boyd Fisher, brother of Richard Shipley's third wife, Sarah Ann.  Richard also owned 40 acres in that township.
  
  (13)  Rick Albright of Merced, California at <KD6DKC@@aol.com>.
  
  (14)    From the Bible of Etta Shipley Owens as quoted to her great grandson, Rick Albright by her daughter, Mrs. Burnette Wishmeyer, now deceased.  The Bible's whereabouts today are unknown to Rick.  The Mahaska County Marriage Records confirm this date.
  
  (15)  Rick Albright says:  "The 14 Dec 1839 date came from Richard Shipley's Bible as quoted by my grandfather and his sister, but I did NOT personally see the entry. However, Sarah Ann Fisher Shipley's newspaper obit says she "... was born in the state of Maryland in the year of 1839 and passed away April 29, 1918 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Rettie Preston at the age of 79 years, 4 months and 15 days."" If Sarah's December 1839 birth is correct, her mom must have become pregnant with Sarah quite soon after delivering another child as Sarah's brother Stephen John Fisher was supposedly born 11 Feb 1839.  Some give her birth year as 1836.
  From the Bible of Etta Shipley Owens as quoted to her great grandson, Rick Albright by her daughter, Mrs. Burnette Wishmeyer, now deceased.  The Bible's whereabouts today are unknown to Rick.
  
  (16)  The cemetery book date of the 28th, varies by one day from the obit date, 29th.
  
  Compiled and written by Susan Kimes Burgess as of May 9, 2005
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  This obituary appeared in the Allerton News under the column titled Clio, in one of the January issues of 1908. It was copied and typed as written by A. D. Garton on February 23, 2002.  <ADG3679 at aol dot com>
  
  Richard Shipley
  Obituary
  
  Richard Shipley was born in Tennisee Nov. 15, 1814 and died at Clio, Iowa, January 13, 1908, having reached the extreme age of ninety-three years and almost two months, and retained his mental and physical powers powers in a wonderful degree. He was first married in 1834 to Zulinda Windham in Tennisee. The date of her death we unable to give. To this union were born five sons and three daughters, of who two sons and three daughters remain. He was again married to Miss Amanda Kline in south Missouri, who lived thereafter but about a year leaving no children. In July 1861 he was married to Miss Sarah A. Fisher. To this union were born two sons and four daughters of whom three daughters remain. All his surviving children were present together for the first time in forty years, and were recognized by uncle Dick as he was most familiarly known to the last moments of his life. Besides the seven sons and daughters mentioned, Mrs. Nancy Hunt of south Missouri, Benj. F. Shipley of Jefferson township, Mrs. Mary Garton of Clay township, Richard Shipley of Brock, Neb, and Madams Ella Cook, Etta Owen and Rittie Preston of Clio, he leaves forty-five grand children, seventy-five great grand children, and six great great grand children.
  Mr. Shipley made a profession of the religion of Christ in the year 1849 and became a member of the Methodist church and for many years served the church as an efficient local preacher. About 1895 he changed his connection to the Baptist church where his order as a lay preacher was also recognized. By trade he was a blacksmith, and in his day pronounced a good one, and worked at the anvil until he had passed the allotted space of three score and ten years, working in the shop week days and preaching as opportunity offered on Sabbaths. The funeral services were held at the M. E. church in Clio and conducted by his long time friend, Elder G. W. Smith of Fairfield, Iowa, a great number attending to show their marks of respect for a strong and good man passing away with the frosts of many years upon his honored head.
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  Research of R. Cecil Shipley:
  1840 United States Census
  Name:    Ricd Shipley
  Township:    Not Stated 
  County:    Hamilton 
  State:    Tennessee 
  Roll:    525 
  Page:    184 
  Richard Shipley
  2000100001000
  1000100000000
  Male age 20-29, one
  Female age 20-29, one
  Male age under 5, two
  Female age under 5, one
  Male age 70-79, one
  Official enumeration date is 01 June 1840,
  
  1850 United States Census
  Name:    Richard Shipley
  Age:    36
  Estimated birth year:    abt 1814
  Birth place:    Tennessee
  Gender:    Male
  Home in 1850
  (City,County,State):    District 47, Lawrence, Missouri
  Page:    288
  Roll:    M432_404
  Enumerated 14 September 1850,
  Family 268/272,
  Richard Shipley,36,m,blacksmith,100,TN,
  Julinda Shipley,33,f,TN,
  Nancy Ann Shipley,16,f,TN,
  William Shipley,14,m,TN,
  Benjamin Shipley,11,m,TN,
  Sarah E. Shipley,8,f,MO,
  Richard Shipley,4,m,MO,
  Mary S. Shipley,1,f,MO,
  
  1860 United States Census
  Name:    Richard Shiply
  Age in 1860:    46 
  Birthplace:    Tennessee 
  Home in 1860:    Des Moines, Mahaska, Iowa
  Gender:    Male 
  Value of real estate:    400/200
  Occupation:  Farmer
  Post Office:    Oskaloosa and Eddyville
  Roll:    M653_334
  Page:    16
  Year:    1860
  Enumerated 07 June 1860,
  Family 109/109,
  Name Home in 1860 Age in 1860 Estimated Birth Year Birthplace Gender
  Richard Shiply Des Moines, Mahaska, IA 46  1813 Tennessee  Male   
  Julenda Shiply Des Moines, Mahaska, IA 44  1815 Tennessee  Female, not read or write
  Sarah E Shiply Des Moines, Mahaska, IA 17  1842 Missouri  Female   
  Richard Shiply Des Moines, Mahaska, IA 14  1845 Missouri  Male  
  Page 17
  Susan Shiply Des Moines, Mahaska, IA 11  1848 Missouri  Female   
  Joseph Shiply Des Moines, Mahaska, IA 7  1852 Missouri  Male
  
  1870 United States Census
  Name:    Richard Shipley
  Estimated Birth Year:    abt 1815
  Age in 1870:    55 
  Birthplace:    Tennessee 
  Home in 1870:    Grand River, Wayne, Iowa
  Family and neighbors:    View Results 
  Race:    White 
  Gender:    Male 
  Value of real estate:    View Image
  Post Office:    Grand River 
  Roll:    M593_425 
  Page:    297 
  Image:    103 
  Year:    1870 
  Enumerated 13 August 1870,
  Family 73/73,
  Richard Shipley,55,m,w,farmer,2000,500,TN,
  Sarah A. Shipley,32,f,w,keeps house,MD,
  Joseph Shipley,17,m,w,farm work,MO,
  Ellen J. Shipley,5,f,w,at home,IA,
  Hennetta Shipley,3,f,w,at home,IA,
  Lulu M. Shipley,1,f,w,at home,IA,
  
  Source:  1880 Federal Census, FHL Film 1254369, National Archives Film T9-0369, Page 328D
  Census Place:  Jefferson, Wayne County, Iowa
  Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
  Richard SHIPLEY Self M M W 65 TN Occ: Farmer Fa: TN Mo: TN
  Sarah Ann SHIPLEY Wife F M W 43 MD Occ: Keeps House Fa: MD Mo: MD
  Ellen J. SHIPLEY Dau F S W 15 IA Occ: At Home Fa: TN Mo: MD
  Hannah R. SHIPLEY Dau F S W 13 IA Occ: At Home Fa: TN Mo: MD
  Etta May SHIPLEY Dau F S W 8 IA Occ: At Home Fa: TN Mo: MD
  
  1900 United States Census
  Name:    Richard Shipley
  Home in 1900:    Grand River, Wayne, Iowa
  Age:    85 
  Estimated birth year:    1815 
  Birthplace:    Tennessee 
  Race:    White 
  Relationship to head-of-house:    Head 
  Occupation:    View Image
  Image source:    Year: 1900; Census Place: Grand River, Wayne, Iowa; Roll: T623 464; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 148
  Enumerated 06 June 1900,
  Family 190/191,
  Richard Shipley,self,w,m,Nov 1814,85,m36,TN,TN,TN,
  Sarah L. Shipley,wife,w,f,Dec 1837,62,m36,6/3,MD,MD,MD,
  Susie Shipley,granddau,w,f,Jun 1886,13,s,IA,UNK,IA,at school,
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  http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnhamilt/deeds.htm
  FHL Film No. 1906294 Hamilton Co, TN Record Book ABC, Vol. 1 Register Transcribed by Jeri L. Corbitt, jericorbitt@@juno.com
  Transcript Register Book D - Vol. 1 (Transcript Register)    pp 162-163
  Original Book Pages 150 and 151
  Deed of Trust             Book D, pages 158
  Henry Daughtrey, sr.
         To  
  T. W. Spicer  
  For the use of 
  D. J. Rawlings 
  
  I, Henry DAUGHTREY, sen., have this day bargained and sold and do hereby convey to Thos. W. SPICER, for the sum of one dollar to me paid and the other considerations herein after mentioned five hundred and fifty bushels of corn and fourteen year and a half old hogs, ears marked with a crop and two splits in the right ear and cross cut under the left ear, and nineteen acres of land in the State of Tennessee, Hamilton County, To have and to hold the same to the said Thos. W. SPICER, his heirs and assigns forever.   I do covenant with the said Thos. W. SPICER, that I am lawfully seized of said property of said property have a good right to convey it and that the same is unincumbered. I do further covenant and bind myself, my heirs and representatives to warrant and forever defend the title to the said property and every part thereof to the said Thos. W. SPICER, his heirs and assigns against to lawful claim of all persons whatsoever. But this deed is made for the following uses and trusts and for no other purpose. That is to say I am indebted to one Daniel J. RAWLINGS, in the sum of One Hundred Dollars by note, under seal of this date and due on the 23rd day of December, 1839 and am desirous to secure and make certain the payment of the same. Now if I should pay the said debt at the time aforesaid, then this deed to be void, but if I should not, then the said Thos. W. SPICER, as Trustee, after giving notice in writing at the Court house door of said county ten days, and at two other places in the Seventh District in said county ten days previous to selling may expose the said property to public sale and sell it to the highest bidder for cash and appropriate the proceeds first to the payment of the necessary expences, and costs, secondly to the satisfaction of said debt of one hundred dollars to pay the balance if any there be to me. This, the 13th day of Nov. 1839.
  Executed and delivered in the presence of the day and date above written
  Henry DAUGHTERY, Sr. (seal)
  S. S. CONDRY
  Richard SHIPLEY
  
  State of Tennessee
  Hamilton County 
  Personally appeared before me, Asahel Rawlings, Clerk of County Court of said County, Henry DAUGHTERY, the bargainor within named,  with whom I am personally acquainted, who acknowledged the same to be his act and deed for the purposes therein contained. Given under my hand at office this 13th day of November, 1839.                   Asahel Rawlings, Clerk
  
  State of Tennessee     Register's Office, Nov. the 13th, 1839,
  Hamilton County  then was the within deed of Trust and the certificate of acknowledgement thereof Registered in this office in Book D, page 158.
  Given under my hand at office in Dallas the date last above written.
                                J. S. Yarnell, Register
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  Death recorded in Book DR 3, p. 8.
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  Rick Albright's thoughts:  "If Richard Shipley Jr. WAS pro-Union, that MIGHT explain why he didn't tary in Arkansas and also did not remain over long in Missouri. Both states had rather mixed loyalties at that time and we know some pro-Union Shipleys and their in-laws in Arkansas were the victims of bushwhackers/scalawags because of their unpopular views.  I suspect the departure from Tennessee may have had more to do with the family falling on hard times there and lingering hard feelings about the possible feuds that sparked the earlier shootings. I have no proof, just a possible scenario."
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  This letter was in the possession of Elizabeth Shipley Collins of Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennesee.  After her death it was given to Marie Nelms, Elizabeth's neice, and descendant of Amanda Roller.  Transcribed by Susan Kimes Burgess, May 31, 2005.
  
  Clio, Iowa Mar. 12. 1903
  Geo. Shipley.
  Bluntsville Tenn.
       Dear Nephew,
            Not having
  heard from you or your family
  since 1861. and being desirous of
  doing so, I concluded to write to
  you. - I am your father's (William P's)
  youngest brother. and am now
  eighty-eight years of age. In good
  health and strong for one of my
  age. but almost blind.
            If you know of any of your
  uncles, except me. if living - or their
  families if dead.  I hope you will
  write and let me know.
            I have the following children,
  now of nearly and some past middle
  age, Benjamin R. living near Clio, Iowa
  Mrs. Mary Garton, of Clay township
  this county, Richard in Nebraska,
  Nancy Ann Hunt in Missouri
  of first family - -
            Mrs. Etta Owen of Clio - or
  near there . second family. - are all now living.
  and ages in order given.  Write soon
                 Your Uncle,
                      Richard Shipley
                      Clio, Wayne Co. Iowa
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  Addressed thusly:
  Richard Shipley    if not delivered
       Clio Iowa.        return to Bluntsville
  
                      Indian Springs R.F. D. #3
                           Mr. George Shipley
                      (son of William P. Shipley died about 1843)
                                Bluntsville
                      Sullivan Co.        Tennessee
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  On the envelope this is written:
  "Postmaster, If Mr. George Shipley
  or some of his family cannot be found, please open and read and answer.
  & obliged
                 Richard Shipley,
                 Clio Iowa."
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  This is an excerpt from The Churches of Wayne County Iowa
  HILAND BAPTIST CHURCH
  CLIO IOWA
  
  
  Sept 1895 Rev. R. Shipley was recieved into the church and baptized by Rev. C. W. Headly in the presence of a vast concourse of people. The scene they presented as they stood in the water on that beautiful day is one never to be forgotten. The candidate, a man of 80 years, with his form bowed with the weight of years and the administrator a man scarcely more than a boy in the health and vigor of young manhood.
  
  The Hiland Baptist Church was about 2 miles north of Clio and was built in 1875.
  
  Ray Newell
  A descendent of Richard and Julinda Windom Shipley

Details of Richard's family with Julinda Windom

Details of Richard's family with Amanda Cline

Details of Richard's family with Sarah Ann Fisher