William M. Shipp

Birth Date

1810-10-25

Death Date

1881-12-31

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Christian County, Kentucky, farmer. Bourbon County, Kentucky, native. Son of Laban Shipp and Elizabeth Shipp. Married to Elizabeth L. Hopson Shipp in Trigg County, Kentucky, on June 19, 1833. Father of Mary S. Shipp Hopson, Sarah "Sallie" P. Shipp Withers, and William Shipp. Student at the Hopkinsville Academy. Farmer in Christian County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned thirteen enslaved persons in Christian County in 1850. Farmer in Christian County in 1860. Owned thirty-eight enslaved persons in Christian County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 1, p. 488A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 1, p. 72.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, p. 505.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, p. 255A.
Kentucky Marriage Records (1783-1965), Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, KY, Trigg County Marriages, p. 45.
William Henry Perrin, editor, County of Christian, Vol. II, Historical and Biographical, (Chicago: F. A. Battery Pub. Co., 1884), 410.

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