Samuel Allen 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.
The birth date in her father's family records in illegible. It was changed at least once. The original may have been 1778, or 1776. It was changed to 1777. Thomas Harris's copy says 1776, John Harris Stewart ( a most careful genealogist) has 1777 and this is used.
Appearance: medium height and weight.
Religion: Presbyterian, at her death belonged to the First Church, Allegheny.
Lived at Doyle's Mill with her family before her marriage.
Saw George Washingtin at Shippensburg in 1794 when he was on his way to the western part of PA to suppress the Whiskey Insurrection. This must have been Oct. 11, 1794, when General Washington dined at the Branch Hotel in a place which was then owned by Capt. William Rippey, an uncle of the man she afterwards married. Died at her nephew's (John Harris Stewart) home.
Buried besides her husband. Her tombstone had "Our mother - Satiah Murry- Died Sep. 2, 1857, in the 80th year of her age. This mortal must put on immortality."
She outlived all of her brothers and sisters, the last whom died 21 years before. She outlived all of her children, most of who died of consumption.
Named after her aunt Sutia (Stuart) Harris.
Portraits of her were owned by the children of the late Mrs. Mary Linn Shaiffer,of Alhambra, CA. Her family bible was in the hands of Seth F. Stewart, of Redlands, CA.
Unmarried.
Unmarried.
Named after her grandmother Stewart.
Unmarried.
Named after his uncle.
Named after his mother's maiden name.
Unmarried.
Named after his father.
Named after his grandfather Steuart.
Perhaps named after his mother's uncle, Dr. John Harris, of Nova Scotia.
He married Sutia Steuart 16 May 1797 . Sutia Steuart was born at Tuscarora Valley, Juniata, Pennsylvania 7 Oct 1777 daughter of George S. Steuart and Margaret Harris .
They were the parents of 7
children:
William Allen Rippey
born 3 Apr 1798.
Margaret Rippey
born 7 Oct 1800.
Dunning McNair Rippey
born 27 Dec 1802.
Stewart Rippey
born 19 Feb 1805.
Samuel Rippey
born 9 May 1807.
George Rippey
born 25 Sep 1809.
John Harris Rippey
born 11 Jan 1812.
Samuel Allen Rippey died 16 Feb 1812 at Wilkinsburg, Allegheny, Pennsylvania .
Sutia Steuart died 2 Sep 1857 at Allegheny, Pennsylvania .