Posted on: Sumner Co. Tn Queries Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tn/Sumner/11962 Surname: RIPPY, BLACK, STONE, KEY, ROALIN, MARTIN, PERRY, GANT, BROWN, JACKSON ------------------------- According to a Bible Record a cousin gave me in 1983 she found in her mother's stuff when she died, Jesse and Elizabeth MOODY had Wiley, Elvis Jefferson, Jesse Anderson, James and Adaline who died young. The record went on to say that Jesse and Mary BLACK had children, but I find no proof of this and a marriage record for Jesse Anderson and Eliza BLACK making it seem she was the daughter of John and Mary BLACK before Jesse and she married and then there is a marriage record of Malinda BLACK and Elvis Jefferson RIPPY marrying in Odin, IL Marion Co, so that would appear that she was not a step sister but the daugher of Mary and John or one of the other BLACK families, which were all related in Odin, IL. Tom and Nettie POWELL BLACK were in Odin at the same time. I show that Jesse Anderson Rippy, my GGGGDad b. 3 FEb 1814 Sumner Co TN d. 25 Nov 1888 Sumner Co TN had 9 children. His Dad married Mary BLACK 21 July 1829 in Sumner Co and Anderson married Eliza BLACK 21 Sep 1835 Sumner Co TN. Their children were Tabitha b. 1836 TN d. bef 1888; Isaac b. 31 Mar 1839 TN m. Angeline GRAVES m. (2) Martha Ann MILLER d. 2 Aug 1923 Sumner Co TN; Nancy Adaline b. 14 Oct 1842 Tn d. 7 Oct 1872 TN; William Morgan my GGDad b. 24 Nov 1845 Sumner Co TN d. 9 Sep 1926 Odin, Marion Co IL m. Mary BROWN 1867; M. Mary RIPPY 1869 m . Mary E HAULIE 2 Jan 1872 and had 7 children by Mary E HAULIE. Alice Belle, Jesse Woodson my GDad b. 1 Aug 1877 Sumner Co TN d. 1954 Simpson Co, Franklin KY m. Ellen TAYLOR she died of TB after giving birth to Dee Ottis RIPPY 6 Feb 1900 d. 26 Oct 1951 and then these children were born to Gmother Malinda Frances "Lennie" STONE RIPPY EThel, Rober Wm, Annie BEll, Herbert Lee, Mae Elizabeth, Hubert Enoch, Viola and Daddy, Jesse Eldridge RIPPY; Flora Gardner and Mae Erie. Anderson had Henry C, George Terrance, Jeremiah McMillin, and James M who married Eliza DAVIS and had Thomas W, DAisy Myrtle, Etta M, Vangie B, Charles E and James Virgil and Caroline E RIPPY who married Soloman CHARLTON was a daughter of Jesse Anderson and Eliza BLACK RIPPY. Now there was another Anderson Rippy, but he was Quenton Anderson RIPPY he was the son of John M RIPPY and Elizabeth Jane BELL and he married Martha A DORRIS. There was also a John Woodson RIPPY called Woodson like my GDad Jesse Woodson was called by his middle name. On some genealogies it is listed a Woodson RIPPY b. 1870 d. 1940 Sumner Co TN that is not my Jesse Woodson RIPPY for he was b 1877 and died 1954 in KY. He wasn't married to Alice BRADLEY or Cintha GRAVES but was married to Ellen TAYLOR and Malinda Frances STONE and Gma had a note in her personal journal that he also was married to a woman called "Cid or Sid" who died of T. B. but I do not know who that person was. Hope this helps some. The only reason I knew about the BLACK girls was that at sometime I got an e-mail from a BLACK family genealogy that said she had found 8 children listed as being born to John Michael and Mary BLACK from VA and that Mary BLACK originated from PA, haven't found that for sure, yet. Also there's a Perry-Rippy history that says that Andy "Nat" BLACK was married to a Sina GRAVES and then Elizabeth TUCKER after Sina's death. Hope this helps some. Patti Florecne Wade "Uncle Rip" Dovie Doris Anna Ula Ethel