Elizabeth Smith Lipscomb

Elizabeth and Spotswood Lipscomb (1778-1827) eloped to Charles County, Maryland where they were married Jul. 7, 1799. In 1807 they sold their plantation called Hickory Hill in Hanover County, Virginia, then lived for a few years in Richmond. Before leaving Virginia she and her husband assigned their interest in any remaining real estate to her brother-in-law Nathaniel Sheppard, esquire, chamberlain of Richmond. They then removed to Kentucky, living in Scott and Knox Counties for three or four years, before removing to Bean's Station in Tennessee. While living there their two elder daughters married and moved to McMinn County in the same state. Elizabeth soon followed them, settling in Athens in 1833. Her obituary contains many details, her place of birth and parents' names, stating "she was related to many distinguished families in her native State," the details of her migration west, stating that she was "still hoping as she did to the day of her death to return to her native State," that she was the mother of seventeen children, only six of whom survived her, that she was a member of the Presbyterian Church for nearly sixty years, and the poignant notation that she "lost her mother when she was five years old." She was actually even younger than that when her mother died. (Biography compiled by Todd Whitesides)* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Feb 5 2020, 20:40:00 UTC

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