Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 26 March 2005

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FANNIE KLIPPART, farming; P. O. Edwardsville born Feb. 24, 1817, in Campbell County, Virginia; she is single and the daughter of John and Nancy Henry Klippart; the former is now 93 years of age, being born in Campbell Co., Va., Sept., 1788. He was the first white settler on the reservation, where he now resides; he settled at his present home when 29 years of age, when the heavy timber covered what are now beautiful and fertile fields. He married Nancy Henry, of his own native State, and to him she became a faithful partner; sharing the dangers, hardships and privations of the log cabin and the wild wilderness; she was a woman of more than ordinary force of character, prompt and careful in all duty, truly a wife and mother of the old character. She was a woman, who, leaning upon the brave heart and strong arm of her husband, soon made the wilderness to blossom as the rose and make aboriginal barbarism yield to the sunlight of civilization and improvement. Mr. Klippart was a soldier in the war of 1812 and served under Gen. Butterfield, in and around old Richmond, Va.; when the war was over, he returned to his home and in after years received two substantial testimonials for his fidelity to the flag of his country, in the form of two land warrants, calling for 80 acres each. He entered 150 acres of land, a part of his present farm, for which he paid $3 per acre; he at once began to clear and plant, laboring late and early in rain and sunshine until he had not only reared his family but added land also to his farm to the extent of 100 acres. These parents had a family of three sons and four daughters , the majority of whom are well situated in life; the children are George, born in 1813, deceased; Fannie already mentioned; Henry, born in 1819, married to a Miss Smith; William, born Feb. 17, 1822, deceased; Lucinda, born Dec. 1827; married to Thomas Turplin; Theodosia, born Aug. 24, 1824, married to John Nicky, and Elizabeth, born Dec. 26, 1830, married to Charles Smith. John Klippart the father of the above, was a native of Hesse Cassel, Germany; he was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and fought against the colonists under the royal standard of George the 3d, king of England; he was under the Hessian General Rahl and was captured by Washington at Princeton, N. J., where the Hessian General Rahl was slain; be remained a prisoner for some. time in Pennsylvania, and admiring the chivalrous spirit of the people, he never returned to the service; he married Barbara Brue, of Pennsylvania, and soon after settled near Winchester, Va., where now repose his remains.