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That’s great! So now I can give you what I have. Understand that this may not be 100% correct. In my research of this family, I have found a number of times things that I am certain were wrong. To the best of my knowledge the following is correct.
Your grandmother Patricia Ann according to my sources had a brother Bobby Keith Lipscomb who married Elizabeth Florence Muren and had 4 children; Beverly Ray, Jaime Muren, Robert Keith, and Ronald Leon. Your grandmother also had one sister, Fonda Margaret Lipscomb.
Your grandmother’s parents – your great-grandparents were Ray Earl Lipscomb who married Clarice P. Estep. Ray Earl was the brother of the Harry Lance Lipscomb I mentioned in the previous post. There were a number of other brothers and sisters that I’ll be happy to provide if you want.
Ray Earl Lipscomb’s parents (your great-great-grandparents) were Patrick Franklin Lipscomb and his wife Emma Settie Withrow. Again Patrick had several brothers and sisters among these John Norwood Lipscomb who was my grandfather. That’s how we are related.
Patrick Franklin Lipscomb’s parents (now we’re talking your great-great-great-grandparents) were John William Lipscomb (1857-1940) and Anna Ferguson (1856-1918). John W. left the Franklin County, Virginia area shortly after the Civil War and bought 75 acres to farm in a little town call Tango in Lincoln County West Virginia. I recently discovered a copy of his death certificate and the interesting thing (for me) was that he basically died of a broken hip. He was in his 80’s at the time of course. But what was interesting for me was that I’m just now getting over a broken hip.
John Williams parents were Richard Coleman Lipscomb (abt. 1816 – abt. 1881) and Sarah Francis Woods (1831 – abt. 1872). These are your great-great-great-great-grandparents. The little I know about these ancestors are that Richard Coleman was abt 35 when he married 20 year old Sarah. Sarah’s father was one on the larger landowners in Franklin County at the time. They had eleven children including the eldest, John William. One of his sisters name was interestingly ‘Pocahontas’.
This is just conjecture, I don’t have any real facts. But it appears that the Richard Coleman lived his entire adult life until his death on the farm of his father-in-law’s. Probably the farm was passed down to one of his wife’s brothers. This would explain the exodus of most of his children northwestward to the new state of West Virginia.
At this point I have no concrete date as to who Richard Coleman Lipscomb’s parents were or where he came from. There was a lady in Indianapolis name Dorothy Hellman Garr who wrote an amazing book titled something like “Lipscombs – 300 years in America” that seems to track every possible Lipscomb there could have ever been – especially those in Virgina. This book is over 600 pages long! With all this she doesn’t seem to have ever heard of this Richard Coleman Lipscomb. There is another in her book, who oddly enough had a wife named Sarah but the dates and places are all wrong.
I have a theory – and that’s all it is. She has listed a Richard Uriah Lipscomb who was born according to her ‘between 1802 and 1816’ that she admits that she looses track of. She says that she doesn’t know if he died young or left Virginia but she know that his parents were a Temple Lipscomb and his first wife Mildred. She then traces this line back to the one Lipscomb that she states all future Lipscombs are directly related to, one Ambrose Lipscomb born in Devon England in the early 1600’s.
My theory is that Richard Uriah and Richard Coleman are one and the same. At about the time Richard Uriah disappears, Richard Coleman shows up only one county or so west of Richard Uriah’s last known whereabouts and marries Sarah Woods. Even if this is not correct, there has to be some very close connection at this point. The names ‘Temple’ and ‘Coleman’ show up a number of times in the geneology Ms. Garr presents. These names also show up prominently in the history from Richard Coleman down to you and me.
If you would like copies of some of the data I have that show the complete descenancy from Richard Coleman down to you, just let me know, give me your mailing address and I’ll mail it to you. You can contact me at either donlipscomb@dot.state.wv.us or hutdon@charter.net .
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