Daniel Phipps, Elizabeth Pringle, and Elizabeth Tenney

of Upshur County, West Virginia

      It can be really confusing when an ancestor gets married to people that have same first name. This is what happened with Daniel Phipps. I looked this family up for a friend and I was initially very confused because the data I was finding on them didn't seem to be very accurate. I was starting to think that maybe there were two entirely different families involved. I finally figured it out though. 

      Daniel Phipps was born March 25, 1807 in Charlemont, Franklin County, Massachusetts. He was the son of George Phipps and Catharine Fry. At the age of ten he left his parent's house and traveled to Virginia with Jacob Hunt. Jacob Hunt had agreed to raise and educate him and gave him 80 acres of land when he came of age. All of this is found on Jacob Hunts Revolutionary War pension application.

He was married for the first time to Elizabeth Pringle on August _ 1830 in Upshur County, West Virginia. 

Elizabeth Pringle was the daughter of John Pringle and Mary Cutright.

      

1840 Lewis County, West Virginia census

Daniel Phipps 30-39

Elizabeth Pringle 30-39

Mary Phipps 5-9

George Phipps 0-5

1850 Lewis County, West Virginia census

Daniel Phipps age 42

Elizabeth Pringle age 38

Mary Phipps age 18

George Phipps age 12

Catharine Phipps age 8

James Phipps age 1

Elizabeth Pringle Phipps died between June 1, 1850 and April 21, 1853 in either Lewis or Upshur County.

Daniel Phipps married second Mrs Elizabeth Tenney Howes on April 21, 1853 in Upshur County, West Virginia.

Elizabeth Tenney was born in 1819 to Josiah Tenney and Lydia Currence.  She married Silas G. Howes on August 18, 1838 in Lewis County, West Virginia.

1850 Lewis County, West Virginia

Silas Howes age 40

Elizabeth Tenney age 30

Lydia Jane Howes age 9

Serena Ann Howes age 4

Louisa Howes age 1 

Silas G. Howes died between June 1, 1850 and April 21, 1853.

1860 Upshur County, West Virginia Census

Daniel Phipps age 52
Elizabeth Tenney age 41
Serena A. Howes age 14
James Phipps age 11
Martha E. Phipps age 6
Ama Phipps age 3

They appear to be missing from the 1870 census but according to the Upshur County marriage register another daughter named Arminda was born in 1862.

Elizabeth Tenney and her second husband Daniel Phipps are mentioned in her mother's (Lydia Currence Tenney) will in 1864.

In 1866, Catharine Phipps Burrough (daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Pringle Phipps), applied for the pension of her deceased husband. One of the witness statements was from her step-sister Lydia Jane Howes Hunt (daughter of Elizabeth Tenney and Silas Howes). 

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