Hugh Rippey

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Husband Hugh Rippey ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - ? County Fermanagh, Ireland
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           Died: 1750 - Shippensburg, Cumberland Co, PA 1 2
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Wife

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Children

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1 M John Rippey ^{1 3}

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           Born:  - Ireland
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           Died: Oct 1758 - Shippensburg, Cumberland Co, PA 1 3
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         Spouse: Mary [Unk] (      -      ) 1 3
           Marr: ? Ireland

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2 M Samuel Rippey ^{1 3}

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           Born: 1713 - Ireland 1 3
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           Died: 22 Aug 1791 - near Middle Spring, Cumberland Co, PA 1 3
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         Spouse: Rachel [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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3 F Mary Rippey ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Ireland
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           Died: 19 May 1733 - Shippensburg, Cumberland Co, PA 1 2
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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4 F Isabella Rippey ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Ireland
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           Died: 10 Mar 1778 1 2
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - Hugh Rippey

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He was probably born at Maguire's Bridge, a market town on Maguire's river, near Enniskillen, in County Fermanagh, Ireland. He was among the early Scotch-Irish emigrants to Pennsylvania, and was one of the pioneers of Shippensburg in 1732-33. He brought his family with him, and was the first of the Shippensburg settlers whose cabin was entered by the Grim Reaper. "Hugh Rippey's daughter Mary," James Magaw wrote, May 21, 1733, [was] "berried yesterday; this will be sad news for Andrew Simpson when he reaches Maguire's Bridge. He is to come over in the fall when they were to be married. Mary was a very purty girl; she died of a faver, and they berried her up on rising groun, north of the road or path, where we made choice of a piece of groun for a graveyard. She was the first berried there. Poor Hugh has none left now but his wife, Sam and little Isabel." This is the earliest story of domestic grief in the Cumberland Valley that has come down to us. In Magaw's simple and homely language it is very sad; his eccentric orthography only tends to make it more pathetic. Only in Irish poetry could be found a fitting dirge for Mary Rippey's unmarked grave in this forgotten graveyard. At the time of Mary Rippey's death there were eighteen cabins in the new town afterward called Shippensburg, but the hamlet was then without a name. We have no means of knowing where Hugh Rippey's house stood. It was probably on one of the lots for which his son Samuel received deeds from Edward Shippen, in 1763. That he prospered is evident from the fact that among the first letters of administration granted in the new county of Cumberland were those on his estate. The date of the administration was Feb. 28, 1750; John Rippey was the administrator.

1 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 52.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 834.

3 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 835.