Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...Among her children were Wiley, John, Sally, Iby, Elizabeth, Mary Ann, Alfred and Samuel. Wiley C. Tipton, father of William, was born in Yancey County, North Carolina, August 7, 1835, and spent his early life on the home farm. After the death of his father he came over into Kentucky, and after about six months spent on Big Mud Creck, continued on to Ohio. He soon returned to Kentucky and enlisted in Company B of the Thirty-ninth Kentucky Mounted Infantry, with which command he went to the front, and was with it in all its marches, campaigns and battles until hostilities ceased. He served until after the war, and received his honorable discharge in September, 1865. He had married, February 17, 1856, Nancy Vance, who was born in Yancey County, North Carolina, July 22, 1840. Both her father, David Vance, and her grandfather, Robert Vance, were natives of the same county. Robert Vance, who spent his last years in Wise County, Virginia, married Mary Googe, who as a widow returned to North Carolina and died there. David Vance was reared on a farm, and subsequently moved to Wise County, Virginia, where he bought a farm in a valley between the mountains, far away from any railway or town and five miles from his nearest neighbor. He had the instincts of the real pioneers and frontiersman, and was an expert hunter and fisherman and supplied his table with the wild game which was everywhere in great abundance. He also kept a flock of sheep and raised flax, so that the item of clothing was well provided for. His wife had unusual skill in the entire range of housewifely duties, and especially in the carding, spinning and weaving of wool and flax, and dressed her family in homespun. Her daughter, the mother of William Tipton, became proficient in the...
