McNairy Family Notes Page 1

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category of files and therefore need to be presented as a whole so the visitor can get
"the big picture" rather than just one tidbit of information that may or may not be
easily connected to all the other information submitted.

Groom:  Lipford Amous,
Bride:  Frizzell Elizabeth ,
Date :April 13, 1814,
Marriage Location: Pittsylvania County, VA,
Source : The family was listed in the 1850 McNairy County Census, Family 249:
Lipford, Amon/M/60/FM/VA
Elizabeth  /F/56/VA
Abraham/M/26/VA
Sarah/F/18/VA
John/M/20/VA
Elizabeth/F/15/VA
1850 McNairy County Census, Family 251:
Lipford, Anthony/M/25/VA is living with McCullar, David and family.

Amos Lipford died in 1866 in McNairy County, Tennessee.

His wife Elizabeth was listed in the 1870 census, #214.  She was 81 years old.
She died in 1878 in McNairy County, Tennessee.

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Groom:   Lipford  Abraham ,
Bride:  Anderson Johannah,
Date :Abt. 1852,
Marriage Location: McNairy County, TN,
Source : Abraham Lipford was a farmer
Abraham and Johannah Lipford had thirteen children.
At the beginning of the Civil War, the brothers were hidden from the Confederates with the sisters leaving food for them in the woods.

In the 1900 census Abraham was 77 and Joannah was 66, mother of 13 children, 11 still living, in the household with their single son Fillmore and daughter Ollie, age 22.

In the 1910 census Johannah was 80, living as a widow with Ollie and Willie Whorton (Horton). It stated that she was a mother of 13 with 10 still living.

Sources:
Richard D. Lipford
Mary Ruth Holt Mills

p.71 William G. Mager and Elmira McCalip applied 19 October 1861, second bondsman A.B. Lipford

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Groom:  Lipford Daniel Frank,
Bride:  Gage Harriett ,
Date :January 15, 1898,
Marriage Location: McNairy County, TN,
Source : Daniel Frank Lipford married Harriett Gage on January 15, 1898 in McNairy County, TN.  After Harriet died he married Mary Dracus Malone on December 27, 1930. Daniel Frank Lipford's(b.1874  d.7/6/1960) children were as follows: With Harriet Gage:
-Roy Lipford- b.9/14/13
-Ida B. Lipford Jones Plunk- b.8/18/1908  d.6/5/1975
-Troy Lipford- b.11/20/1903  d.10/23/1986
-Lessie(Lizzy) Lipford-  b.1906
-Margaret Lipford Garrett-  b.1898  d.1977
-Edna Lipford Plunk-  b.1901  d.1929
I was told there was also another child, but no name given.  I think he/she died as an infant.
With Mary Dracus Malone:
-Frances Jean Lipford Austin-  b.12/8/1931
-Arlie Levi Lipford-  b.11/24/1934  d.6/29/1974
-Charles Wayne Lipford-  b.9/17/1936
-Linda Carolyn Lipford Wilson Gilbert-  b.5/27/1943
When planning to marry, the prospective groom took out a bond from the clerk of the court in the county where the bride had her usual residence as surety that there was no legal obstacle to the proposed marriage.
Submitted by: Wanda (Lipford) Teaster,  --    [email protected]

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Moses W. Shields b. 1828 d. 1865-1870 m. CA 1849 Carian C. Bourland d/o
      John M. Bourland and Martha Patsy Simmons. [Carian m. (2) H.W. Roten McNairy Co., TN]
      Moses W. was a Sgt, Co.B, 21st (Wilson's) Tenn. Cav. Regt. - CSA
      4 Alexander Shields b. 1849 -|same?
      4 John A. Shields b. 1850   -|
      4 Thomas Marion Shields b. MAR 1853 d. 1928 m. 8 SEPT 1872  Mc Nairy Co., TN to Sarah Catherine Armstrong b. DEC 1855 d. 09 AUGUST 1933
        5 James Robert Shields b. 26 FEB1875  Falcon, McNairy Co., TN d. 31 JAN1943 m. 1896 Hattie Belle Long b. 3 May 1875 d. 15 Jan 1947           
        5 Cora Lulabelle Shields b. 1878 m. Robert Kinchin
        5 Albert Otis Shields b. 7 Dec 1884 d. MAR 1934 m. 1907 Mary Jeanette (Nettie) Fenter 
        5 Julia E. Shields b. DEC 1887
        5 Allice Edna Shields b. FEB 1890 m. Bo McKue
        5 Emma D. Shields b. JUNE 1893
        5 Lucy Myrtle Shields b. JUNE 1894 m. Carl Castleberry
        5 unknown infant Shields
        5 Kay Shields m. Jim Kilpatrick
      4 Martha C. Shields b. 1854 m. 6 Jan 1878 Joseph H. Roberson  McNairy Co., TN
      4 Emily (Emma) A. Shields b. 1856 m. 09 SEPT 1874 J.R.Prather  McNairy Co., TN
      4 Susan E. Shields b. 1860
      4 Robert J. Shields b. 1862 m. 05 SEPT 1881 Mattie S. Armstrong McNairy Co., TN
      4 Moses Shields b. 1865

submitted by Greg Shields <[email protected]>

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