Moses Tippets

Source: Find-a-Grave

Abigail Jane married John Harvey Tippets in October 1834, and they had three children: John Austin Tippets, Sarah Fidelia Tippets, and Moses Tippets (who died at birth). The first two were born in Missouri, and the third in Illinois. Abigail died from complications of childbirth with her third child.

Quoting from the autobiography of Nancy N. Tracy: "[Being driven out of Missouri] we took our march towards the rising sun. It stormed continually. Our outfit for the journey was a meager one. It consisted of one horse attached to the two wheels of a wagon with bed sheets for a cover. The box was seven feet long; so sometimes at night we could make a bed in the cart by taking things out. But we would make our bed outside when the weather would permit. It was tedious traveling. When we got on the Mississippi bottom, it was terrible. It was 9 miles across and took two days to cross. At last we landed in Quincy, Illinois, and found the people very hospitable. They seemed willing to do all they could to alleviate the condition of the Saints. We traveled on up the river about 40 miles and stopped to see what we should do. This was in Adams County. There, five families of us, 3 families named Tippets and Gustavus Perry and ourselves, stopped. We found some empty cabins which the owner let us go into. The place was sparsely settled, but we were glad to get shelter. It was 7 miles to the little town where there was a store and other public buildings. The Saints in general traveled on up the river, but we stayed here one year and raised corn, turnips, and other garden stuffs. Brother John Tippet's wife died here in child birth. Her babe also died, which cast a gloom over us. She was a good woman, and we sadly missed her. I suppose her grave is still alone and unmarked to this day." (Nancy Naomi Alexander Tracy, Autobiography, BYU Special Collections, Writings of Early Latter-day Saints, http://www.boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/NTracy.html)