Elizabeth Wallace Evans, born March 24, 1798. She married, May 1, 1817, Hon. Henry Shippen, then a prominent lawyer in Lancaster. They went to Huntingdon in 1818, on his being appointed judge for that district by Governor Shulze; and afterwards receiving the appointment of judge of the Crawford county district, removed to Meadville. In the War of 1812, he was captain of a volunteer company, and marched from Lancaster to the head of Elk in Maryland, thence to the defense of Baltimore.
They had issue:
Frances, who married Edgar Huidekoper;
Edward, who married Ellen Stokes;
Henry;
Evans Wallis, who married Catherine Yeates McElwee;
Rush Rheese, who married Zariah Rodman;
Sarah Yeates, who married Rev. Thomas Mumford;
William, who married Ruth Baker;
Franklin;
Joseph, who married Elizabeth J. Winslow;
Notes and Queries: Historical, Biographical and Genealogical: Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania, Edited by William Henry Egle, M.D.,M.A., Fourth Series. Vol.II, Harrisburg, Pa.: 1895.
HON. HENRY SHIPPEN (deceased) was born December 28, 1788, in Lancaster City, Penn. He graduated at Dickenson College, Carlisle, Penn., studied law in his native city and commenced practicing his profession there. He was united in marriage with Elizabeth Wallis Evans (a granddaughter of John Lukens, the first Surveyor-General of the State), a native of Northumberland, Penn., who bore him nine children, five of whom are now living: Mrs. Edgar Huidekoper, Meadville; Edward, in Louisville Ky.; Evans W., in Meadville; Rev. R. R., in Washington, D. C.; and Joseph, in Chicago, Ill.
They had issue:
Frances, who married Edgar Huidekoper;
Edward, who married Ellen Stokes;
Henry;
Evans Wallis, who married Catherine Yeates McElwee;
Rush Rheese, who married Zariah Rodman;
Sarah Yeates, who married Rev. Thomas Mumford;
William, who married Ruth Baker;
Franklin;
Joseph, who married Elizabeth J. Winslow;
Notes and Queries: Historical, Biographical and Genealogical: Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania, Edited by William Henry Egle, M.D.,M.A., Fourth Series. Vol.II, Harrisburg, Pa.: 1895.
HON. HENRY SHIPPEN (deceased) was born December 28, 1788, in Lancaster City, Penn. He graduated at Dickenson College, Carlisle, Penn., studied law in his native city and commenced practicing his profession there. He was united in marriage with Elizabeth Wallis Evans (a granddaughter of John Lukens, the first Surveyor-General of the State), a native of Northumberland, Penn., who bore him nine children, five of whom are now living: Mrs. Edgar Huidekoper, Meadville; Edward, in Louisville Ky.; Evans W., in Meadville; Rev. R. R., in Washington, D. C.; and Joseph, in Chicago, Ill.
Elizabeth Wallace Evans, born March 24, 1798. She married, May 1, 1817, Hon. Henry Shippen, then a prominent lawyer in Lancaster. They went to Huntingdon in 1818, on his being appointed judge for that district by Governor Shulze; and afterwards receiving the appointment of judge of the Crawford county district, removed to Meadville. In the War of 1812, he was captain of a volunteer company, and marched from Lancaster to the head of Elk in Maryland, thence to the defense of Baltimore.
They had issue:
Frances, who married Edgar Huidekoper;
Edward, who married Ellen Stokes;
Henry;
Evans Wallis, who married Catherine Yeates McElwee;
Rush Rheese, who married Zariah Rodman;
Sarah Yeates, who married Rev. Thomas Mumford;
William, who married Ruth Baker;
Franklin;
Joseph, who married Elizabeth J. Winslow;
Notes and Queries: Historical, Biographical and Genealogical: Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania, Edited by William Henry Egle, M.D.,M.A., Fourth Series. Vol.II, Harrisburg, Pa.: 1895.
HON. HENRY SHIPPEN (deceased) was born December 28, 1788, in Lancaster City, Penn. He graduated at Dickenson College, Carlisle, Penn., studied law in his native city and commenced practicing his profession there. He was united in marriage with Elizabeth Wallis Evans (a granddaughter of John Lukens, the first Surveyor-General of the State), a native of Northumberland, Penn., who bore him nine children, five of whom are now living: Mrs. Edgar Huidekoper, Meadville; Edward, in Louisville Ky.; Evans W., in Meadville; Rev. R. R., in Washington, D. C.; and Joseph, in Chicago, Ill.
They had issue:
Frances, who married Edgar Huidekoper;
Edward, who married Ellen Stokes;
Henry;
Evans Wallis, who married Catherine Yeates McElwee;
Rush Rheese, who married Zariah Rodman;
Sarah Yeates, who married Rev. Thomas Mumford;
William, who married Ruth Baker;
Franklin;
Joseph, who married Elizabeth J. Winslow;
Notes and Queries: Historical, Biographical and Genealogical: Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania, Edited by William Henry Egle, M.D.,M.A., Fourth Series. Vol.II, Harrisburg, Pa.: 1895.
HON. HENRY SHIPPEN (deceased) was born December 28, 1788, in Lancaster City, Penn. He graduated at Dickenson College, Carlisle, Penn., studied law in his native city and commenced practicing his profession there. He was united in marriage with Elizabeth Wallis Evans (a granddaughter of John Lukens, the first Surveyor-General of the State), a native of Northumberland, Penn., who bore him nine children, five of whom are now living: Mrs. Edgar Huidekoper, Meadville; Edward, in Louisville Ky.; Evans W., in Meadville; Rev. R. R., in Washington, D. C.; and Joseph, in Chicago, Ill.
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