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The Death of John Tipton b. 1820 d. Nov. 18, 1965
Martha “Patty” Bailey married (1st) John Tipton (son of Joseph). They apparently lived in the vicinity of Relief/Huntdale on Toe River. He was killed during the Civil War, and many conflicting stories are told about when, where, and how it happened. I have finally “gotten the straight of it” from statements made under oath as part of his widow’s pension applications (documents attached.) A summary is as follows:
John joined the Union Army about Sept. 15, 1865, by going across the mountains to Tennessee and joining the 8th Tennessee Regiment., Company M. Soon thereafter, he was sent back home to see if he could recruit other volunteers. Those who were willing “hid the night before departure”. His wife cooked “thin rations” for them, and they set out for the regiment in Jonesboro, Tennessee on November 18th. They crossed the mountain into Rock Creek, Tennessee and were spotted by Witcher’s Confederate Cavalry (which, presumably, had “sized them up” as potential Union soldiers. In the following skirmish, John Tipton was shot twice in the left side, and died immediately. Four others of the recruits were killed, among them Curtis Bailey. Arch Bennett was wounded in the head, recuperated at Mrs. Tipton’s house for some time, and later joined the Union Army. Calvin Bailey and Dobson Bailey apparently escaped unhurt. John Tipton’s body was taken to the home of Dr. Perry, some 13-14 miles from Tipton’s home. His wife, with Mrs. Eliza Presley and her son, went to get the body the next day. He was buried in the same grave with Curtis Bailey, “about a half mile from his house.”
When wife Martha/”Patty” applied for a pension, it was denied on the grounds that his name was not on the Company muster-role, i.e., no proof existed that he had died as a Union soldier. This was because, it was pointed out in the appeal, that no muster-forms were available at the time, and that he was sent back to North Carolina to recruit before they were available. As a result of several sworn statements, including his commanding officer, the pension was approved in 1891. The documents also state the John and Martha were married October 19, 1848, at the home of Ansel Bailey, by Dobson Deyton, J.P.
Certain other details of this event are preserved in family memory. Charles Hughes (p. 882) says that Jason and Jim Hughes (brother of Jeremiah: p. 880, who was a Confederate solder!) were shot in this skirmish, and left for dead. Relatives came and carried them home. Jim, shot in the throat, survived. The cavalry leader had ordered one of his men to shoot him again, but the response was, “Ain’t no use wasting shot on a dead man! The wound never healed, and he wore a bandage around his neck, removing it each morning to let the wound “drain”. He is buried at the Hughes cemetery at the mouth of Big Creek. Jason, killed, is buried at the Huntdale Memorial Cemetery. Yet one other person, taken alive by the cavalry, was made to ride with them to the gap between Poplar (N.C.) and Rock Creek (Tenn). They then decided to shoot him, and ordered him to march forward 10 paces. At the count of 9, he dived into a Laurel thicket, amid a hail of bullets, and escaped.
Mrs. C. R. Peterson (p.820) remembers hearing that a handkerchief was placed in John’s wounds, to try and stop the blood, and it “worked its way” though his body and came out the other side.
Larmer Byrd (p.957) had heard that John often served as the “lookout” for deserters and Union-sympathizers, who “hid out” in the Pigeon Roost/Poplar area.
In some stories, details of another event have become mixed up with John Tipton’s story. E.G., the “traditional” Bailey History says that he was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg, and this is demonstrably false. Mrs. P.A. Jones (p.971) remembered being told that he was wounded by the home Guard: a bayonet to the head, at Huntdale, N.C. then tied between two horses (to saddle-pommels) and “run to death.” Someone else told me that the leader of the Home Guard (Samuel Byrd, Jr.: see p.35) washed his hands in John’s blood. However, all these things may have happened to Jake Tipton, and certainly not to John, husband of Martha “Patty” Bailey.
John reportedly is buried just above the bridge over the Toe River at Relief (Yancey County side), in an unmarked grave in an overgrown cemetery (with “Yellow Jacket” John Bailey and others). Molly Peterson (his grand daughter) remembered hearing that “two women carried him to his grave,” which seemingly is the same event as in the sworn statements fro pension application: Mrs. Presley and “Patty” went to get his body. She also remembered that he was put in a double-grave, “with a one-legged man.” Mrs. P. A. Jones also remembered hearing that John Tipton and Curt Bailey were buried in a common grave.
Information compiled by:Burkett Bailey
905 Irwin Road
Powell, Tennessee 37849February 16, 1994
1860 YANCEY COUNTY, NC, p. 417
637-637 John TYPTON 30
Martha E. 33
Baxter 10
Sarah Ann 9
Hiram 8
Lovady L. (female) 7
Elizabeth 6
Tampie A. 5
William N. 3
Martha J. 1
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OCCU Farmer, BlacksmithSchuyler, MO 1850 Federal Census
28 317 317 Tipton Samuel 46 M Blacksmith 200 Kentucky
29 317 317 Tipton Sally 44 F Virginia
30 317 317 Tipton Elizabeth 20 F Missouri
31 317 317 Tipton Wm. 18 M farmer Missouri
32 317 317 Tipton Talbot 16 M Blacksmith Missouri
33 317 317 Tipton Mary F. 14 F Missouri
34 317 317 Tipton Sarah 12 F Missouri
35 317 317 Tipton Harrison 9 M Missouri
36 317 317 Tipton Samuel 7 M Missouri
37 317 317 Tipton James 3 F Missouri REMARKS: * states James is femaleHe was not only a successful farmer for about five or six years but also did blacksmithing while in Missouri.
Migrated: 1828, Moved to Boone County,Missouri, probably from his home of Kentucky.
Moved to Macon County in 1837, and lived in Bloomington until 1846 when thay moved to Schuyler County Missouri
Note:: 1846, From 1846 until the war, he resided in Shuyler, County, Missouri , but the first year of the Rebellion, was taken prisoner by the Union Army, and disappeared.
This family move to Iowa & MissouriDied in Fort. Delaware, Delaware, in Civil War POW Camp.
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Was alive and living in Iowa in 1889.
Sally Sarah Lynch was the daughter of Revolution war vetern Henry Lynch Born 1764 in Virginia .
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EVEN Revolutionary War Vet.
Elizabeth was supposed to have married George W. Goodpaster in Bath County, Kentucky in 1833,
and died soon afterward. But her age does'nt fit. I believe she is the correct person and that either her birth date or marriage date is wrong.
Census: 1830 Estill County, Kentucky
Census: 1840 Estill county, Kentucky