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He became Governor of the Island Navassa in the West Indies. He became quite wealthy. He was killed by the natives and buried seven feet deep in solid rock."The other son, George W. Tipton, was born December 29, 1841, and died in 1891.
George W. Tipton, my grandfather, was a rebel in the Civil war. He married Frankie Shearer, daughter of Powhatan Shearer. Powhatan Shearer was the son of James Shearer, whose father came from Ireland. George W. Tipton had four childrenn: Charles Lee, Lloyd Mitchell, Myrtie Lou, and Minnie Jane.
Because of domestic difficulties George W. Tipton left home about 1880. He spent that year in and about Philadelphia, Pa. He soon grew very homesick for his children. I found written in his diary these verses:Why do I feel so sadly?
Why this burning aching heart?
I once was gay and happy,
My heart is breaking now.My eyes are filled with tears unshed,
From my heart comes pitious moans.
Better, far, that I was dead,
Since I cannot have my own.Later in the same year I find this quotation in his diary: "More hearts pine away in secret anguish for the want of kindness from those who should be their comforters, than for any other calamity in life." This quotation was followed by the heavily underscored words, "Truth, Truth."
It is easy to discern from the letters that he wrote back to his sons, that he loved his children dearly and longed to be with them. These letters also indicazte that he was a very intelligent man. In every letter to his children I find good advice was given. I noted in one letter that he attended the Susqui-Centennial of Baltimore, Maryland, in October of 1880. In one of his letters he wrote, "Well Lloyd I hope that you are doing well at school and I hope that you will apply yourself closely to your studies and try to make a good practical scholar of yourself. You have the head to do so if you will only stick to your studies closely. If you wish to make a complete success of it you should not run about much to keep your mind on something else beside your studies. Shun all bad company and all good and bad whiskey. A man is generally judged by the company he keeps."
On July 30, 1881, he shipped from Batimore, Md., for the West Indies. He landed on the Island of Nevassa, August 23. He went as assistant superintendent of the Navassa Phosphate Co., of New York. This company owned this Island and imported guano, from it. He was later made superintendent of this island. He says in a letter concerning this island, "The weather was never finer here than now. Just imagine how everything looks about you in mid summer and you will have some idea how everything appears here. Only we have entirely different kind of trees and frueits and flowers." This letter was written February 7, 1889. and he says, "We have ripe cocoanuts, oranges, limes, and papaws." Navassa, West Indies, is a small island off the southwest coast of Haiti; about two miles long and one and half miles wide;--In 1857 Peter Duncan, an American, discovered on this island a deposit of guano estimated to amount to one million tons.f
From this island he made occasional trips back home, his last in 1889. Of his fourth and last trip back to Navassa he writes:
Navassa Island, West Indies
Feb. 7, 1889C. L. and L. M. Tipton
Speedwell, Ky.
My Dear Sons:"For the fourth time the good old Brig "Romance" has landed me safe at the Island of Navassa. We arrived here at noon Saturday (2) the last of a long and tiresome voyage of twenty-one days. We were in the Chesapeake Bay six days and on the Atlatic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea fifteen days. We had some terrible rough weather for about a week after we left Cape Henry. It blowed a living gale of wind which caused the ocean to roll its ponderous waves in a threatening way. I am satisfied they were rolling forty feet high, but the gallant old "Romance" fode them out in a noble manner."
Soon after he landed on his last trip he bacame ill and after about six months of severe illness, he died and his body was buried there in a deep fissure in the rocks, and there it remains.
His sister, Tabitha Irvine, said of him in a letter to my father, "Though not a Christian, he left an honored name." However, I find in his letters statements that make me believe that he was a secret beliver."from "A Memorial Message, Family History and Heavenly Thoughts, Charles L. Tipton" by Letcher H. Tipton (Letcher was Charles' son, and the small book was written for his father's funeral).
"Frankie Tipton, our grandmother, died May , 1888 and was buried in a grave, chosen by herself, which is in a garden back of the old home place. The grave is easily located in this garden by a very large snowball tree which stands by it. This garden is on the old Elliston place near Speedwell, Ky.
Her grandfather, James Shearer married Peggie Martin. They had four children: Powhatan, Robert, who went to Illinois; Rebecca, who married Thomas Johnson, and another daughter.
Powhatan Shearer had four children. Besides my grandmother, Frankie Tipton, the only other one that I know of was Nancy, who married Dudley Dunbar. Dudley Dunbar had five children:
1. Arbor, who married Kate Eads. 2. Louisa, who married John Tipton. 3. Fannie who married Rufus Powell. 4. Billie, who married Mary Ellen Turpin. 5. George, who married Clara Freeman. Later he married Liza (Keen) Baber."from "A Memorial Message, Family History and Heavenly Thoughts, Charles L. Tipton" by Letcher H. Tipton (Letcher was Charles' son, and the small book was written for his father's funeral).
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Obituary
Richmond Register
May 26, 1882
Kentucky"Darius Bernard Tipton was born near Foxtown, Madison County, Ky., January 2, 1812and therefore was in the 71st year of his age, at the time of his death, Which occured a few minutes before 2 O'clock yesterday moring. He was the youngest and eighteeth child of Jabez Murry Tipton, grandson of John Tipton, and great granson of Thomas Tipton, who was born in the year 1700. These three ancestors were natives of the State of Maryland, and sprang from an old English family. The paternal grandmother of the deceased was of the Murry family of noted politician know in Maryland during the Revolution. The mother of the deceased was Mitchell, one of the old Maryland families. and the second wife of Jabez M. Tipton. The father, mother, and grandfather, about named left the shores of Chesapeake shortly after the Revolution ,went by wagon to Pittsburg, where they embarked on the Ohio, but owing to the hostility of the Indians, they returned to Maryland, Sonn again how-ever they repeated the efford and reached Maysville, Kentucky, then called Limestone. Thence proceeded by wagon to Lexington, seeing Indians on the way, and took up their abode in a cabin that stood on the ground now occupid by a large storehouse of Appleton and Lancaster. In a few months they remove to a point a few miles this side of Lexington, and after a brief stay, came to this county, while Daniel Boone still lived their. They settle near the late General Green Clay and the two family became neighbory. Several of the deceased oldest brothers went with General Clay in the Nortwesterm Campaign of the War of 1812. When the oldest ones of these families passed away the friendship remained, so much so that the deceased always entertained an admiration for the distinguished son of the other family, even thugh he had no kind felling for any one else who held abolition views. Darius was an invalid for years of his younger life, and yet was the main support for a widowed mother and others of the family. He lived to see all his brothers and sisters precede him to the grave, except one, Nenus P., who lived in Montgomery County, Ky. Darius Bernard died in 1882, of paralysis in the 71 years of his age. He married Mary Jane Majors, March 2, 184, and she passed from earth a year ago this month. Paralysis was the affliction of both. Deceased was by no means orthodox in religion . His faith was Do all the godd you can, and as little harm as possible. As a rule he never forgot a friend or forgave an enemy. He believed that a funeral discourse should consist of abiographical sketch of the person.
On e night last winter, while in richmond, the deceased fell to the ground with his first attack of paralysis, two weeks ago he agian was attacked, and again the following thursday, while on his way to Richmond. Growing worse,by last thursady he was unconcious, and lingered in that condition until Monday morning, when he breathed gently his last.
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Sometime before she died, she fell from her bed and broke her arm. Before it was completely healed she developed a fever and she passed away.
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Lola and Oliver did not have any children together, they reared severval. they moved to Middletown, New Boston and finally to Portsmouth, Ohio. Oliver had one daughter by a former marriage. (Gladys)
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