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Family Group Record: Elijah D. Biffle and Sarah Elizabeth Skelton

Information supplied by: Janet M. Roseen

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Husband
   Elijah D. Biffle 
   Born: ca. 1825 Place: Tennessee
   Married: November 17, 1852 Place: Dickson County, Tennessee
   Died: before 1860 Place: Tennessee
   Parents: Nathan Biffle and Ursula Isom
Wife
   Sarah Elizabeth Skelton  
   Born: April 11, 1833 Place: Horse Branch, Dickson County, Tennessee
   Died: October 12,1911 Place: Dickson County, Tennessee; she is buried in the Shipp Cemetery, Buffalo, Humphries County, Tennessee
   Parents: Abner Brown Skelton and Susan Lyon Vick
  She married a second time to John E. Shipp in Humphreys County, Tennessee, January 28, 1862; Humphries County, Tennessee; they had six children
Children
1 James H. Biffle
Sex Born: February 23, 1854 Place: Dickson County, Tennessee
M Married: Place: He never married and lived his whole life with his mother.
   Died: April 14, 1902 Place: Humphreys County, Tennessee; he is buried in the Shipp Cemetery, Humphreys County, Tennessee
  • 1850 U.S. Census, Wayne County, Tenn., Elijah is living with his brother George R. Biffle.
  • 1860 U.S. Census, Waverly, Humphrey's County, Tennessee, M653, Roll 1257, p. 175; Sarah is living with her 6 year old son James and what looks like a brother, Joseph Seklton.
  • 1870 U.S. Census, Humphries County, Tennessee, Elijah's wife and son are living with her new husband, John E. Shipp.
  • 1880 U.S. Census, District 13, Humphreys, Tennessee, T9-1263, pg 144D, Sarah and her son are in the household of J.E. Shipp, her new husband, along with her other 5 chldren that she had with Mr. Shipp.
  • 1900 U.S. Census, Buffalo Pct, Humphreys County, Tennessee; Sarah and son James found in household of John Shipp, Sarah's 2nd husband
  • 1910 U.S. Census, Humphreys County, Tennessee, Sarah is in the household of her son John R., along with her daughter Sallie Shipp.
  • See also Kith and Kin of James Garner Patey and Robert Nesbitt Patey by James G. Patey, 1988, p. 159


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