Person:Elizabeth Dipboye (1)

The family story tells that this Dipboye family was the first Dipboyes to arrive in America (probably VA), from France. The first was a Nobleman that quarreled with the King and fled to America. Later the family, while living in Middletown, was notified that a large inheritance awaited them in France if they could prove their lineage. They were able to document all but one crucial link and were denied the fortune. They pronounced their name Dep-oh. From a Vivien Foust letter, date unknown.

Another version of the story: Three brothers were run out of France during the Napoleonic Wars. They blamed the nobility and departed for the U.S. Two were lost at sea and the third, which was my g-g-grandfather, settled first in Penn. then Virginia where my grandfather was born. They continued on to Indiana where my father was born. His brothers and sisters were, if I remember right, Amanda, Robert, Abe, Roseanna, Margriet, Joseph, and Daniel. Two brothers and two half sisters Emma and Cora. The names of my brothers and sisters, Amanda, Jothan, George, John, Jenny, Raymond, Vann, Abe. From a letter dated July 22, 1953, by Raymond V. Dipboye addressed to his neice, Lydia.

Glen Smith remembered the Dipboyes of his youth wore small, white caps like the Dunkards, 9/2003.

Janice McAlpine (mcalpage@@cox.net) has offered the following insights 12/2007: "I think you have the wrong age and the wrong parents for Elizabeth. The Elizabeth, who married Abraham Noland and then Simon McWilliams, was born about 1836/1837. She married Abraham Noland by 1854, when she was about 17/18. Elizabeth was 33 on the 1870 census with Simon McWilliams.

Jonathan Dipboye and Eleanor Bartlett married November 27, 1837, in Hancock Co., Indiana. (Indiana State Library Genealogy Database: Marriages through 1850) They had one child in their household for the 1840 census. That child was Amanda, who was born 5 May 1839, and was 11 years old on the 1850 census.

Jonathan and Eleanor did have a daughter Sarah Elizabeth, born 12 April 1852, who went by the name Elizabeth, but she married Jesse Schell about 1869. They were on the 1870 census living a few houses away from Jonathan and Eleanor,

I suspect the Elizabeth, who married Abraham Noland and Simon McWilliams, was the daughter of Jonathan's brother Abraham, who had a daughter Elizabeth, age 13, on the 1850 census."

1. ↑ A. Donovan Faust (Foust). A Family History: The Ancestors of Thomas Wilson Faust. (1997).
2. ↑ 1880 Pipe Creek Township, Madison County, Indiana. (Supervisor's district #3, Enumeration district #20).
3. ↑ 1870 Salem Twp., Delaware Co., IN Census
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