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Alanson Jr. would serve in the Civil War from 1861-1865, meriting his veteran's burial in 1880. He married Louisa (last name "Kick"?) in Rushville, in Schuyler County, IL, on Nov. 30, 1874.
PARENTS & SIBLINGS.
1850, FATHER PRESENT. His father would have been that Alanson Ripley born between Oct. 24, 1797 and Oct. 25, 1798, based on his age of 52 for a US Census interview dated Oct. 14, 1850. The 1850 interview was in Illinois, in Pike County. (Note that some indexes mis-listed his unusual first name of Alanson as Manson.) He listed his occupation as surveyor. His children (Milo, Adeline, Alanson the Jr.) had been born in multiple places, as he and wife Sarah traveled for his work, according to a separate biography for him.
He was also a lawyer and church leader, according to a biography provided by his religious organization, which gave his birth more specifically as Jan. 8, 1798. His biography stopped with the 1850 Census, with the church biographer then assuming he must have died, giving his death as sometime before 1860:
FATHER'S BIOGRAPHY: josephsmithpapers.org/person/alanson-ripley
MOTHER AS HEAD, 1860. His mother, Sarah, born NY, age 60,was listed without the father, but with the same children in the 1860 Census, same county, Atlas Township, One extra person was in the house, a Susan Ripley, 19, born Illinois.
Alanson Jr. was 14 by the 1860 Census, clearly listed as born in Illinois this time, though the prior census could have said Indiana or Iowa.
His older brother Milo, age 20 by 1860, born in Missouri, supported the family by working as a laborer.
Alanson Jr. would serve in the Civil War from 1861-1865, meriting his veteran's burial in 1880. He married Louisa (last name "Kick"?) in Rushville, in Schuyler County, IL, on Nov. 30, 1874.
PARENTS & SIBLINGS.
1850, FATHER PRESENT. His father would have been that Alanson Ripley born between Oct. 24, 1797 and Oct. 25, 1798, based on his age of 52 for a US Census interview dated Oct. 14, 1850. The 1850 interview was in Illinois, in Pike County. (Note that some indexes mis-listed his unusual first name of Alanson as Manson.) He listed his occupation as surveyor. His children (Milo, Adeline, Alanson the Jr.) had been born in multiple places, as he and wife Sarah traveled for his work, according to a separate biography for him.
He was also a lawyer and church leader, according to a biography provided by his religious organization, which gave his birth more specifically as Jan. 8, 1798. His biography stopped with the 1850 Census, with the church biographer then assuming he must have died, giving his death as sometime before 1860:
FATHER'S BIOGRAPHY: josephsmithpapers.org/person/alanson-ripley
MOTHER AS HEAD, 1860. His mother, Sarah, born NY, age 60,was listed without the father, but with the same children in the 1860 Census, same county, Atlas Township, One extra person was in the house, a Susan Ripley, 19, born Illinois.
Alanson Jr. was 14 by the 1860 Census, clearly listed as born in Illinois this time, though the prior census could have said Indiana or Iowa.
His older brother Milo, age 20 by 1860, born in Missouri, supported the family by working as a laborer.
Find A Grave contributor JBrown
Alanson Jr. would serve in the Civil War from 1861-1865, meriting his veteran's burial in 1880. He married Louisa (last name "Kick"?) in Rushville, in Schuyler County, IL, on Nov. 30, 1874.
PARENTS & SIBLINGS.
1850, FATHER PRESENT. His father would have been that Alanson Ripley born between Oct. 24, 1797 and Oct. 25, 1798, based on his age of 52 for a US Census interview dated Oct. 14, 1850. The 1850 interview was in Illinois, in Pike County. (Note that some indexes mis-listed his unusual first name of Alanson as Manson.) He listed his occupation as surveyor. His children (Milo, Adeline, Alanson the Jr.) had been born in multiple places, as he and wife Sarah traveled for his work, according to a separate biography for him.
He was also a lawyer and church leader, according to a biography provided by his religious organization, which gave his birth more specifically as Jan. 8, 1798. His biography stopped with the 1850 Census, with the church biographer then assuming he must have died, giving his death as sometime before 1860:
FATHER'S BIOGRAPHY: josephsmithpapers.org/person/alanson-ripley
MOTHER AS HEAD, 1860. His mother, Sarah, born NY, age 60,was listed without the father, but with the same children in the 1860 Census, same county, Atlas Township, One extra person was in the house, a Susan Ripley, 19, born Illinois.
Alanson Jr. was 14 by the 1860 Census, clearly listed as born in Illinois this time, though the prior census could have said Indiana or Iowa.
His older brother Milo, age 20 by 1860, born in Missouri, supported the family by working as a laborer.
Alanson Jr. would serve in the Civil War from 1861-1865, meriting his veteran's burial in 1880. He married Louisa (last name "Kick"?) in Rushville, in Schuyler County, IL, on Nov. 30, 1874.
PARENTS & SIBLINGS.
1850, FATHER PRESENT. His father would have been that Alanson Ripley born between Oct. 24, 1797 and Oct. 25, 1798, based on his age of 52 for a US Census interview dated Oct. 14, 1850. The 1850 interview was in Illinois, in Pike County. (Note that some indexes mis-listed his unusual first name of Alanson as Manson.) He listed his occupation as surveyor. His children (Milo, Adeline, Alanson the Jr.) had been born in multiple places, as he and wife Sarah traveled for his work, according to a separate biography for him.
He was also a lawyer and church leader, according to a biography provided by his religious organization, which gave his birth more specifically as Jan. 8, 1798. His biography stopped with the 1850 Census, with the church biographer then assuming he must have died, giving his death as sometime before 1860:
FATHER'S BIOGRAPHY: josephsmithpapers.org/person/alanson-ripley
MOTHER AS HEAD, 1860. His mother, Sarah, born NY, age 60,was listed without the father, but with the same children in the 1860 Census, same county, Atlas Township, One extra person was in the house, a Susan Ripley, 19, born Illinois.
Alanson Jr. was 14 by the 1860 Census, clearly listed as born in Illinois this time, though the prior census could have said Indiana or Iowa.
His older brother Milo, age 20 by 1860, born in Missouri, supported the family by working as a laborer.
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