John B. Tipton

b. 1862 · Sugar Creek District

Born 1862, Georgia

Children include Minnie

John B. Tipton was born in Georgia about 1862. The 1900 census puts it at October 1864, and the 1870 and 1880 censuses both make him a year or two older than that.

He grew up in his uncle's house. The 1870 census has him at seven in Wiley Tipton's household at Hot House in Fannin County, and the 1880 census of Morganton has him there again at seventeen, working on the farm, with the relationship column reading nephew. Both his parents were born in North Carolina.

He married Josephine Crawford about 1883. She had been living fifty households away in her stepfather Berry Carter's house. They raised at least eight children in the Fannin County mountains. The 1900 census finds them at Blue Ridge, and the 1910 census at Sugar Creek, where the surname of everyone in the house reads Lipton.

Josephine died on 24 February 1919. By 1920 he had moved over the line into Gilmer County, where the census of District 1136 has him with his daughters Cara and Monnie. In 1930 he is at Cherry Log in Gilmer, sixty eight, with a second wife, Margarett E. His own death has not been found.

His first wife's grave memorial calls him John Brown Tipton and makes him a son of Wiley Tipton and Telitha Adeline Mull. The census taken in that very house in 1880 says nephew, and Wiley's own grave memorial lists eight children without him. Wiley was born in Buncombe County, North Carolina on 15 June 1829, served as a Confederate private, and died in Fannin County on 10 August 1911.

Children

Minnie Jane Tipton 1900-1994

Sources

United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007, Minnie Jane Golden. United States Census, 1910, Sugar Creek, district 34, Fannin County, Georgia. United States Social Security Death Index, Minnie T Golden, 16 May 1994

United States Census, 1950, Huntington, Cabell County, West Virginia, 15 April 1950, and Grant District, Wayne County, West Virginia, ED 50-18, 24 April 1950. United States Census, 1930, Sugar Creek, Fannin County, Georgia

United States Census, 1880, Morganton, Fannin County, Georgia, ED 59, sheet 669B, household 12583031, household of Berry Carter. United States Census, 1880, Morganton, Fannin County, Georgia, ED 59, sheet 672D, household of Wiley Tipton. United States Census, 1910, Sugar Creek, Fannin County, Georgia, household of John B. Tipton, indexed as Lipton. United States Social Security Numerical Identification File, Minnie Jane Tipton.

United States Census, 1880, Morganton, enumeration district 59, Fannin County, Georgia, sheet 672D, household 12583081. United States Census, 1870, Hot House, Fannin County, Georgia, page 124, dwelling 902. Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950, Wiley Tipton and Adaline Mull, 3 September 1854. All read through FamilySearch.

United States Census, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930, parents' nativity columns, eighty six sheets, read on the FamilySearch record pages.

Tennessee, Deaths, 1914-1966, William Gordon Tipton and Charles Burton Tipton (FamilySearch 1:1:QKM9-1FJY); West Virginia, Deaths, 1804-1999, Thomas Virlon Tipton (1:1:NM8R-R5L); Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998, Delia Jaworski (1:1:QVRN-95CW); Social Security Numerical Identification Files, Cora L. Godfrey (1:1:6KSP-12F3).

United States Census, 1870, Hot House, Fannin County, page 124. United States Census, 1880, Morganton, Fannin County, ED 59, sheet 672D. United States Census, 1900, Blue Ridge, Fannin County (FamilySearch 1:1:M3NL-C5R). United States Census, 1910, Sugar Creek, Fannin County. United States Census, 1920, District 1136, Gilmer County, and 1930, Cherry Log, Gilmer County (1:1:37V4-1PZ). Find a Grave memorials 53247900 and 20804061. Death records of his children in Tennessee, West Virginia and Illinois.

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