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- Note: Granville married Ann his cousin, daughter of David
Burial: Family Cemetery At Beans Creek
Cause of death: died of Diabetic Trouble
Religion: Primitive Baptist Church, excluded because he advocated the New Testament teaching of undenominational Christianity.
Abolitionist and in 1835 moved to Sangamon County, Illinois and liberated his slaves. He remained there one year, during which time his second wife (Ann Lipscomb) and 3 children died.
From Goodspeed's History of Tennessee, p. 831:
JOHN LIPSCOMB, merchant at Bean's Creek, Franklin County, Tenn., was born it) this county in 1838, and is one of seven children born to Granville and Jane (Breeden) Lipscomb. The father, a native of Virginia, was born about 1805, and married his first wife in Virginia, then moved to Franklin County, Tenn., where she died, having borne one child. Mr. Lipscomb then married his second wife, also a native of Virginia, and removed to Illinois, where he remained two years, and then returned to this county. where his second wife died, leaving two children, William and David, the latter being editor of the Gospel Advocate at Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Lipscomb's third wife was our subject's mother; she was also born in Virginia. At the age of sixteen John entered Franklin College, near Nashville, and attended two terms. In 1863 he enlisted in the Forty-first Tennessee Infantry, with which he remained about eight months, then returned home, and in 1865 began operating the tan-yard at Bean Creek, now owned by him. and recently remodeled with the view of running it on a large scale. It was the pioneer manufactory establishment of this part of Franklin County, being first operated in 1823. In 1876 Mr. Lipscomb began merchandising at Bean Creek, and in 1881 a cousin, J. C. Breeden, became his partner. In 1863 Mr. Lipscomb married Ann Smith, who has borne him nine children, all living. Mr. Lipscomb is a supporter of the principles of Prohibition, and he with his family are members of the Christian Church.
Tombstone reads:
GRANVILLE LIPSCOMB
BORN IN
Louisa Co, Va
Jan 13, 1802
DIED
Nov. 16, 1853
_______
Though He Scarcely Lived Beyond
the Meridian Of Life, Yet Eternally
Alone Can Reveal The Vast
Influence For Good Exerted By
The Pure Region Manifested In
His Godly Life
This Mortal Must Put On Immortality
Source: Marisa Benson, Rootsweb
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