Samuel RIPPEY

                   Of Shippensburg, PA.
His family appears among the first settlers of Shippensburg, and were prominent for along time there.
Occupation: Surveyor. Esq. on his tombstone also indicates that he was probably a justice of the peace.
Residence: Moved with his wife to Western PA, probably with her brother, Robert Stewart and his family. They settled in that part of Allegheny County which was afterwards organized as Butler County. Here they owned land in 1800, 1801, and 1803. One farm consisted of 200 acres; another, on Beaver Creek, 500 acres.
They also lived in Wilkinsburg, where Sutia's sister Ann and their mother lived.The place was then called McNairstown from her sister's husband, Col. Dunning McNair. Here he started a tavern on the old pike where the Penn Ave Hotel later stood. It became so famous as to change the name of the town to Rippeyville.
Died of apoplexy. The Beulah Presbyterian Church is about 2 miles north of the town. The Rev. James Graham preached there. His tombstone was horizontal in the middle of the cemetery. His tombstone read "In memory of Samuel Allen Rippey, Esq. who died at Wilkinsburg, PA., Feb 16, 1812, Aged 45 years".
Shippensburg was the first village west of the Susquehanna. A settlement was made there as early as 1730. In June of that year the following persons came to that locality, and built the first habitations there, viz. Hugh Rippey, John Rippey, and Johnston, and twelve others.
                  

                   Descendents in Shippenburg.