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William M. Shipp October 25, 1810 - December 31, 1881 Christian-Bourbon County KyArchives Biography

Author: County Christian, Kentucky. Historical and Biographical. Edited by William Henry Perrin, F. A Battey Publishing Co., Chicago and Louisville, 1884

WILLIAM M. SHIPP, deceased, was born October 25, 1810, in Bourbon County, Ky.; 
he was the son of Laban Shipp, who came to Christian County about 1816, where 
he spent the remainder of his useful life, endearing himself to a large circle 
of friends; he and his wife, Elizabeth Shipp, were both natives of Virginia, 
and were among the pioneers of Bourbon County, Ky. William M. was the younger 
of a large family and was educated under Prof. Rumsey in the old Hopkinsville 
Academy. In 1833 he married Elizabeth Hopson, of Christian County, who died in 
1867, leaving two children, viz.: May S., wife of Dr. William Hopson, of 
Hopkinsville, and Sallie P., wife of W. J. Withers. His second wife, who still 
survives him, and who resides on the old homestead adjoining the city of 
Hopkinsville, was Miss Lottie LeMaster. Mr. Shipp himself improved the above 
mentioned farm, consisting of several hundred acres of valuable land, where he 
spent about forty years of his life, and where he died on Saturday, December 
31, 1881. Mrs. Lottie (LeMaster) Shipp, is the daughter of John W. and Nance 
Lee LeMaster (nee Allmond). The father descended from an early Huguenot family 
of South Carolina, and served as a soldier in the war of the Revolution. Capt. 
John W. LeMaster was born in South Carolina, but came from there in early life 
to Tennessee, where he was married to Miss Allmond; he served in the war of 
1812. Their union resulted in the birth of several children, of whom five grew 
to maturity. Mrs. Shipp, the third of this number, was born in 1832, in 
Columbia, Maury Co., Tenn.' Was educated in her native town, and when about 
nineteen years old became a teacher in the old Columbia Anthenaeum, in which 
relation she continued until her marriage with W. M. Shipp, in October, 1868. 
She has one daughter, Elizabeth Jones Shipp, born April 24, 1871.


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