This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rippey Piper Fletcher Thompson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JaB.2ACE/2915 Message Board Post: I'm trying to firm up the lineage of both parents of Elizabeth Rippey, b. ca. 1801 in Shippensburg, supposedly to John Rippey and Mary Piper. Elizabeth was present in Bedford, PA, by around 1820, and married William Fletcher, son of Jacob and Anna Margaret Fletcher of Bedford by 1825. I've not found a Rippey relative in Bedford during that timeframe, though the Piper's were plentiful. A question: would Elizabeth have come to live with a Piper relative in Bedford, presumably after the death of one or both parents in Shippensburg? I don't have death dates for either John Rippey or Mary Piper Rippey. The only proof of parentage is from the Hugh Rippey article inlcuded in the "Biographical Annals of Franklin Co." On a similar front, Julia Ann Fletcher, sister of William Fletcher of Bedford, married Col. John Piper (b. either 1798 or 1800, Shippensburg, d. 1870 in Gaysport, Blair Co.) in 1819 in Bedford. This John Piper is believed to be the son of William and Sarah Thompson Piper of Shippensburg (later in Bedford?). Was the Mary Piper, wife of John Rippey, tied to this William Piper? Was Elizabeth Rippey a cousin in some way to the John Piper who married her sister-in-law in Bedford? Calling all Rippey and Piper experts! David Fletcher Richmond, VA