{"id":3246,"date":"2022-01-10T15:38:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2022-01-10T15:38:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:38:12","slug":"lipscomb-richard-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/lipscomb-richard-f\/","title":{"rendered":"Lipscomb, Richard F."},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard F. Lipscomb<\/strong> was born in De Soto County, Miss., March 24, 1856, and is
\nthe oldest of four sons born to John T. and Caroline W. (Nowell) Lipscomb, and
\nis of Scotch descent. Our subject’s mother was a daughter of Prof. F. H.
\nNowell, who was president of the Semple Broadus College, at Center Hill,
\nMiss., where he died in 1860. He was a native of Virginia. The father was
\nalso a Virginian, and when a boy moved with his parents to Huntsville, Ala.,
\nand the first year of the war they moved to De Soto County, Miss. He enlisted
\nin the Confederate Army, and was an officer in Forrest’s command, and was in
\nthe battle of Fort Pillow. He served until the close of the war, and is now
\nliving near Huntsville, Ala. Our subject’s mother was a Virginian, and died
\nnear Huntsville in 1869. Richard F. was raised and educated on a farm, and
\nengaged in farming until 1880, when he began merchandising at Henning, Tenn.,
\nin the firm of Lipscomb & Bro., but in May, 1886, the store and contents was
\ndestroyed by fire, and he has since been engaged in the livery business, in
\nconnection with farming, owning 100 acres of land six miles south of Ripley,
\nTenn., on the Newport News & Mississippi Valley Railroad, giving special
\nattention to stock raising. Mr. Lipscomb is a Democrat, and cast his first
\npresidential vote for Gen. Hancock. He was married in Madison County, Ala.,
\nNovember 30, 1881, to Miss Dora M. Harris, daughter of T. B. Harris, an
\nextensive planter before the war. During the war Mr. Harris was shot in battle
\nthrough the lungs, and died from the effects of it. Mrs. Lipscomb was born in
\nMarshall County, Ala., in 1861. They have three children — Richard F., Mary
\nH. and Rose. Mrs. Lipscomb is greatly esteemed in the community in which he
\nlives.<\/p>\n

Goodspeed’s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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