Louisa Frances Rankin Tipton (1830-1904)

Louisa Frances Rankin Tipton

Birth

13 Oct 1830

Logan County, Kentucky, USA

Death

22 May 1904 (aged 73)

Sloan, Woodbury County, Iowa, USA

Burial

Hite Cemetery

Whiting, Monona County, Iowa, USA Add to Map

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Louisa Frances Rankin (My Great-Great Grandmother) was born Oct. 13, 1830 in Logan, Kentucky. Louisa was the 5th child born to her parents which were Jesse W Tipton and Elizabeth Ann Ashley. Louisa lived in Kentucky until sometime before 1838 where her brother, John R. Rankin was born in Lafayette, Missouri. She was later found in the 1850 US Federal Census as living there as well. It was also in Lafayette, Missouri where she met and married James A. Tipton on March 27, 1853. (Source: Missouri Marriage Records, Lafayette, Missouri, Ancestry.com)

They had 10 children together:

1-Jesse William Tipton (1853-1935)
2-Eliza Frances "Louisa" Tipton (1854-1891)
3-Rebecca Virginia Tipton (1856-1926)
4-John Quincy Tipton (1859-1944)
5-Carolina Cordelia "Delia" Tipton (1863-1956)
6-Mary Ann Tipton (Bet. 1862-1864-Unknown)
7-James Madison Tipton (1866-1886)
8-Charles Edward Richard "Dick" Tipton (1868-1941)
9-Alfred Harrison Tipton, Sr. (1870-1967)
10-Jay Lee Tipton (1877-1942)

By 1856, Louisa Rankin and James A. Tipton and family were living in Mills County, Iowa where they started farming and having their children there. (Source: Book titled, "History of Mills County" listing her husband, James A. Tipton in Mills County, Iowa from the Glenwood Library, in Glenwood, Iowa) By 1856, Jesse William Tipton and Eliza Frances Tipton were the first two to be born in Mills County, Iowa. (1856 Iowa State Census, Ancestry.com)

For over three decades Louisa Rankin & James A. Tipton called Lyons Township, Mills County, Iowa their home. (Source: 1860, 1870 and 1880 US Federal Census Records) In 1885, Louisa & James were living in Lincoln, Monona County, Iowa with some of their children. (1885 Iowa State Census, Ancestry,com)

Louisa's husband, James A. Tipton died on Mar. 19, 1889 of Asthma, bronchitis, lung trouble from an abscess as well as blood poisoning. (Source: Iowa Deaths & Burials Record, Book 1, Page 22, FamilySearch.com) On May 1, 1890, Louisa filed for a pension for her husband, James A. Tipton based on his Civil War service as a Private. (Civil War Pension Index, Roll #474, Ancestry.com)

After becoming a widow, Louisa moved in with her son, John Q. Tipton. (1900 US Federal Census).

Louisa died May 22, 1903/1904 in Sloan, Woodbury County, Iowa. She was buried in the Hite City Cemetery in Whiting, Monona County, Iowa. (FindAGrave Memorial #11668489, FindAGrave.com)
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