William Ira Rippee was born Jan 5, 1885 in Wright County, MO. His parents were Truston P. and Tennessee Royster Rippee. His grandparents were Garnett and Sarilda Rippee(maiden name also Rippee) and John and Ellender McGill Royster. William had an older sister N. L. 'Anna' Rippee who died young. His mother died 30 days after he was born in 1885 and is buried in Kincheloe Cemetery in Wright County. In 1900 at the age of 15, he was lving with Mailissa P. and William Rippee(1848). It is unknown when or why William changed his last name to Rippie.
William was married to Esther Iona Line on March 3, 1914 at Salina, KS. The story is that they met through a newspaper or lonely hearts club. They moved to Tobasco,CO (now a coal mine ghost town near Trinidad, CO) where William had been working as an engineer/hoist man in a coal mine for Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.
William and Esther had one son, Albert Foster Rippie, who was born March 16, 1915 and a stillborn daughter born Oct 12, 1916. Due to Albert's asthma at the age of two, Esther and Albert moved to Kansas with William scheduled to follow. William died on his last day of work in a coal mine accident in which a trip car broke loose, he could not get to a cutout in time and was crushed on March 9, 1917 at the age of 32. He was buried in Lincoln, KS cemetery where Esther was living with her grandparents at the time.
note:birth date is wrong on tombstone.
William was married to Esther Iona Line on March 3, 1914 at Salina, KS. The story is that they met through a newspaper or lonely hearts club. They moved to Tobasco,CO (now a coal mine ghost town near Trinidad, CO) where William had been working as an engineer/hoist man in a coal mine for Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.
William and Esther had one son, Albert Foster Rippie, who was born March 16, 1915 and a stillborn daughter born Oct 12, 1916. Due to Albert's asthma at the age of two, Esther and Albert moved to Kansas with William scheduled to follow. William died on his last day of work in a coal mine accident in which a trip car broke loose, he could not get to a cutout in time and was crushed on March 9, 1917 at the age of 32. He was buried in Lincoln, KS cemetery where Esther was living with her grandparents at the time.
note:birth date is wrong on tombstone.
William Ira Rippee was born Jan 5, 1885 in Wright County, MO. His parents were Truston P. and Tennessee Royster Rippee. His grandparents were Garnett and Sarilda Rippee(maiden name also Rippee) and John and Ellender McGill Royster. William had an older sister N. L. 'Anna' Rippee who died young. His mother died 30 days after he was born in 1885 and is buried in Kincheloe Cemetery in Wright County. In 1900 at the age of 15, he was lving with Mailissa P. and William Rippee(1848). It is unknown when or why William changed his last name to Rippie.
William was married to Esther Iona Line on March 3, 1914 at Salina, KS. The story is that they met through a newspaper or lonely hearts club. They moved to Tobasco,CO (now a coal mine ghost town near Trinidad, CO) where William had been working as an engineer/hoist man in a coal mine for Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.
William and Esther had one son, Albert Foster Rippie, who was born March 16, 1915 and a stillborn daughter born Oct 12, 1916. Due to Albert's asthma at the age of two, Esther and Albert moved to Kansas with William scheduled to follow. William died on his last day of work in a coal mine accident in which a trip car broke loose, he could not get to a cutout in time and was crushed on March 9, 1917 at the age of 32. He was buried in Lincoln, KS cemetery where Esther was living with her grandparents at the time.
note:birth date is wrong on tombstone.
William was married to Esther Iona Line on March 3, 1914 at Salina, KS. The story is that they met through a newspaper or lonely hearts club. They moved to Tobasco,CO (now a coal mine ghost town near Trinidad, CO) where William had been working as an engineer/hoist man in a coal mine for Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.
William and Esther had one son, Albert Foster Rippie, who was born March 16, 1915 and a stillborn daughter born Oct 12, 1916. Due to Albert's asthma at the age of two, Esther and Albert moved to Kansas with William scheduled to follow. William died on his last day of work in a coal mine accident in which a trip car broke loose, he could not get to a cutout in time and was crushed on March 9, 1917 at the age of 32. He was buried in Lincoln, KS cemetery where Esther was living with her grandparents at the time.
note:birth date is wrong on tombstone.
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