Barbara Ellen (Beeler) Shipley (1903 - 1934)

Born 26 Dec 1903 in Union, Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Dewey Clifford Shipley — married about 1923 in Kentucky, United States

Died 18 Dec 1934 at age 30 in Cheatham County,Tennessee,United States

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Biography

Early Life

Barbara Ellen Beeler was born in Union, Tennessee on 12/26/19031,2. Her parents were James Harrison Beeler (05 Oct 1875) and Allie Florence Heck (29 Oct 1887). She had four brothers (Harve Edgar Beeler (1913), Tyson Edgar Beeler (07 Jul 1915), General Lawton Beeler (01 Jul 1918), Jay Will Beeler (1922)) and eight sisters (Vernie Beeler, Mattie Geneva Beeler, Charlotte Mossie Beeler (01 Mar 1905), Lillian Mae Beeler (17 Aug 1908), Ida Florence Beeler (06 Mar 1911), Emily Cleo Beeler (10 May 1913), Vesta Ruth Beeler (24 Feb 1920), Hazel Frances Beeler (17 Jun 1925)). When she was 24 years old, her mother Allie Florence Heck died (4/8/1928).

Family

She married Dewey Clifford Shipley (01 Apr 1905) in Kentucky in 1923. She was 19 years old when she married Dewey Clifford Shipley, who was 18 years old at that time. She had six children with Dewey Clifford Shipley: Eva Marie Shipley (18 Jun 1924), Dorothy Helen Shipley (20 May 1927), Emert Shipley (13 May 1929), Arley Paris Shipley (30 Mar 1931), Velma Fae Shipley (28 Jul 1934), Zelma Mae Shipley (28 Jul 1934). In 1920, she moved to Civil District 7, Claiborne, Tennessee. She moved to Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee on 12/17/1934.

Death

On 12/18/1934, she died in Cheatham County, Tennessee when she was 30 years old.^[1] She was buried on 12/19/1934 on the Beeler farm in Cheatham County.^[2] Her husband Dewey Clifford Shipley died on 9/6/1975, 41 years after her.

Sources

1. ↑ "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1963," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NS4L-HPT : 25 May 2014), Ellen Beeler Shipley, 18 Dec 1934; citing Gattlin Field Cemetery, Cheatham Co., Tennessee, cn 26833, State Library and Archives, Nashville; FHL microfilm 1,876,819.
2. ↑ Conversation with Ellen’s granddaughter Karen Diane Davis Fletcher, 14 Feb 201. Note: Death Certificate notes Gattlin Field as burial place.

• Source: Barby Buler in household of Harrison Buler, "United States Census, 1920" "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MNG1-H3M : accessed 20 February 2018), Barby Buler in household of Harrison Buler, Civil District 7, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States; citingED 35, sheet 10A, line 46, family 205, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1732; FHL microfilm 1,821,732. File @O58450189@ CRE 20 FEB 2018 Time: 10:54:23