The
birthday ancestor for January 3rd is Joshua Rodney Shipman, my 2nd
gt-grandfather who was born in 1840 in Ashtabula County, Ohio. By the
1860 census, he and his wife were living in Berrien County, Michigan.
Then by 1865 the family is in Mercer County, Illinois and had moved
to Saline County, Nebraska before the 1880 census. Sometime after
their two children were married in the early 1880s, the Shipmans and
other related families moved to Sherman County, Kansas where J.R.
settled a homestead. He was widowed in 1913 when Lucy died, then he
died five years later in 1918 in Nebraska while staying with his son.
He was buried in the Edson Cemetery in Sherman County beside his
wife. I was able to visit their graves in the 1990s.
Read about Joshua Rodney Shipman on my website: www.joanneskelton.com
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