Alison Shipp (1889 - 1958)

Born 24 Sep 1889 in Taylor County, Kentucky, United States

Ancestors

Died 26 Jan 1958 at age 68 in Taylor County, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

This profile is part of the Shipp Name Study.

Alison was born in 1889. He was the son of John Shipp and Candace Hord. He passed away in 1958.

Obituary

The News-Journal, January 30, 1958

Allison Shipp, 68, president of the Citizens Bank & Trust Company here the past eight years, died at his home at 701 North Columbia Avenue, City, at 4:30 a.m. last Sunday. Mr. Shipp, a charter member on the Board of Directors of the bank, was made president on the death of the bank's president, W. E. McWhorter, in 1949. The bank was organized in 1939. A native of Taylor County, Mr. Shipp was a farmer and stock raiser and had lived on a farm prior to moving to Campbellsville 15 years ago. He was a member of Pitman Masonic Lodge No. 124 F & AM. He also was an elder of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church some 15 years. He was owner and operator of Shipp Seed House here for 20 years. He married Miss Lizzie Fawcett in 1907. She died in 1923. He later married Mrs. Ruth Claycomb Moss, who survives. Other survivors are a son by his first wife, Odgen Shipp, Campbellsville; two daughters by his second wife, Mrs. Virginia Smith, Route 5, Campbellsville, and Mrs. Jean Dyer of Wyattsville, Maryland; a step-son, D. C. Moss, Campbellsville; a step-daughter, Mrs. Frances Namby of Homestead, Florida; a sister, Mrs. Eliza Leslie Poe of Los Angeles, California; and seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. The funeral was at 2 p.m. last Tuesday from the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Ray Morris officiated with the assistance of T. S. Curry, Sr. Burial was in Brookside Cemetery. Honorary pallbearers were Albert Miller, Abe McKnight, Hugh Colvin, R. S. Bailey, Ray Smith, Lynn Mitchell, and George Phillips, Sr. Pallbearers were Arthur Hayes, Andy Speer, Dick Shipp, Glenwood Shipp, Harold Kirtley, and Ligh Phillips.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Taylor County, Kentucky Message Board,Ancestry.com, accessed 22 March 2022, Obituary for Allison Shipp, posted on 9 February 2009

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9CS-MXQ : accessed 16 January 2022), Allison Shipp in household of John Shipp, Magisterial District 4, Ireland Elkhorn town, Taylor, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 119, sheet 8B, family 150, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,552.

• "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJ5-RNY7 : 2 March 2021), Alison Shipp, 26 Jan 1958; citing Death, Campbellsville, Taylor, Kentucky, United States, certificate , Office of Vital Statistics, Frankfort; FHL microfilm 1,709,623.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105790252/alison-shipp : accessed 22 March 2022), memorial page for Alison Shipp (24 Sep 1889–26 Jan 1958), Find A Grave: Memorial #105790252, citing Brookside Cemetery, Campbellsville, Taylor County, Kentucky, USA ; Maintained by Judy Lynn (contributor 47402250) .