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Following is an article that was on a page of general news in the West Union
Republican Gazette, West Union, IA 11/16/1883The body of Mrs. Gardner arrived at Dr. Fullers yesterday from Stockton, Kansas where she died. The funeral will be held at the residence of Dr. Fuller today at 1 o'clock, preliminary to the burial at Auburn. Mrs. Gardner was the mother of J.W. at Rock Rapids, Jo, of this city and Mrs. Callender, of Stockton, who accompanies the remains. She was also a sister of Mrs. Dr. Fuller.
NOTE: I believe the Gardner at Rock Rapids is W.W. instead of J.W.
NOTE: Mrs Gardner was Nancy Tipton, sister of Jemima Elizabeth Tipton
NOTE: Mrs. Dr. Fuller was Jemima Elizabeth Tipton. Daughter of William and Elizabeth (Shade) Tipton.
All of this information is from the homepage of Don Gardner.
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ABRAHAM S. TIPTONAbraham S. Tipton was born Jan.26, 1820, in Howard township. He was a son of William Tipton, who came to Centre County as early as 1796. William Tipton was of English origin, but was born in Cumberland County, Jan.13, 1773. His wife was Elizabeth Shade, born May 30, 1780. Their children were Mary, born Aug.26, 1802, married to James Heverly, and died Dec.10, 1836; Sarah, born Feb.27, 1806, married Isaac W. Meese; William, Jr., lived at Howard, and died Jan.21, 1850; Washington, died April 16, 1839; Nancy, born April 22, 1815, married Samuel Gardner and now lives in Kansas; Caroline M., born Aug.16, 1817, married George Spearing; she died in 1879; Jemima B., born June 3, 1826, married Levi Fuller, and is now living in West Union, Kan.
David Tipton was a brother of William (the elder), and was a resident of Howard as early as 1800. William Tipton was a millwright and keel-boat-builder, running the latter upon the river. He purchased from Job Packer part of the Joseph Wilson warrantee and part of the Winston Dallam, and of John Miller the site of the borough of Howard, and built one of the first houses in Howard borough. He died Feb.22 1834.
Abraham S. Tipton grew to manhood at the old homestead. In early life his health was poor, nevertheless, while still young, at his father's death he assumed the management of his estate, aided by his mother and sisters. In 1846 he bought out his father's heirs, which estate he still holds, except what has been sold off for lots in the borough. Mr. Tipton laid out the town of Howard, and sold his first lot to Samuel Brickley.
He married Dec.27, 1859, Rebecca J. Garman, who was born near Salona, Clinton Co., June 19, 1836. Their children were Mary E., born Jan. 27, 1861; George W., April 28,1862; Frances R., Sept. 12,1863; Sarah C., April 11, 1865; Laura J., July 1, 1866; John Howard, Nov.16, 1867; William F., Jan.14, 1870; and Isabella J., July 18, 1871. Of these, Sarah C. and Isabella died in infancy.
Mr. Tipton was early instructed in the doctrines of Christianity, attending with his mother the preaching of Rev. James Linn, the first preacher of whom he has any distinct recollection. In his boyhood there were nine distilleries within the space of eight miles along Bald Eagle Valley, and liquor was the curse of the community. He recollects well the fearful scourge of fever and ague that prevailed in the fall of 1827, which shook his weakened constitution, already sapped by early infirmity. After ague, rheumatism set in, and he recollects well Dr. Dobbin's cure, which was to plunge him suddenly head foremost into the water; which was followed by partial relief. though he has never had perfect good health or lived a day free from some ache or pain. He recollects that his first wages for steering for his brothers was one dollar per day. He took the craft through the broken chute at Muncy, a feat so difficult and dangerous that old pilots refused to do it. When but seventeen years of age he piloted an ark-load of iron for the Valentines.
Mr. Tipton was brought up to believe in the principles of Jeffersonian Democracy, but became a sturdy advocate of the doctrine set forth in the Wilmot proviso, and has ever since advocated opposition to slavery, papal influence, and the liquor interest.
Mr. Tipton has done good service in lumbering and farming, cleared and improved farms, and built dwelling and barns, and despite the infirmities of his body has been one of the most enterprising citizens of his township; replaced the old canal banks in places, and restored to the town the privilege of the water of Spring Run, where his father wintered his boats eighty years ago.
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Honorable Levi FULLER, M. D."Honorable Levi Fuller, M.D., a leading citizen of Fayette county for nearly fifty years, was born August 14, 1824, at Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. He was the eighth child of a family of eleven children and the only son who grew to maturity. His father, Capt. Elijah FULLER, was born December 9, 1787, at Surry, Cheshire county, New Hampshire, and died January 5, 1880, at West Union, Iowa. He was eighth in direct line from the Pilgrim Edward FULLER, who, with his wife, came in the "Mayflower" in 1620 and landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, his line being, Edward, Samuel, Samuel, Barnabas, Samuel, Joshua, Levi, Elijah. He married Matilda NEWCOMB, born May 10, 1790, at Leyden, Massachusetts, died May 11, 1862, at West Union. She also was a lineal descendant of the Pilgrims. The blood of Governor William BRADFORD and Edward FULLER of Plymouth Colony were united in the marriage of Matilda NEWCOMB and Elijah FULLER. Jerusha BRADFORD, daughter of Thomas BRADFORD, son of Major William BRADFORD, son of Governor William BRADFORD, married Hezekiah NEWCOMB. Matilda NEWCOMB was a lineal descendant of this union. Elijah Fuller's father, Levi Fuller, and three brothers, Samuel, Joshua and David, were in the Revolutionary war. Joshua was killed at the battle of Bennington, Vermont. Levi was a member of Capt. John GRIGG's company, Col. Alexander SCAMMEL's New Hampshire regiment, Continental Army, at the age of sixteen years. He enlisted at Walpole, New Hampshire.
Elijah Fuller was captain of a company at the time of the war of 1812, but was not called into service. In 1818 he was a member of the New Hampshire Legislature. His wife's father, Hezekiah Newcomb, was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature continuously for eighteen years. Dr. Levi Fuller, of this review, . . . attended the academy at New Castle, Pennsylvania, after which . . .came to Stephenson county, Illinois, in 1846, and practiced his profession at Rockgrove several years. On May 13, 1845, he married Jemima Elizabeth TIPTON, born June 3, 1826, who was his loved companion until her death, February 1, 1899. She was the daughter of William and Elizabeth(SHADE) Tipton, of Howard, Center county, Pennsylvania. . .. To them were born three children, William E., born March 30, 1846; Matilda Jane, born May 17, 1848, died August 6, 1851; Mary Elizabeth, born June 9, 1850, died December 7, 1851. Dr. Fuller came to West Union, Iowa, in April, 1853, and practiced his profession for a time, but soon entered into general business. He opened up a hardware store in West Union, in May, 1854, the first in the town and county. In 1868-9 he and his son, William E., owned and operated the West Union Bank, the only bank in the county, which was sold to S. B. ZEIGLER and afterwards merged in the Fayette County National Bank. . . .
Mr. Fuller was a Whig and a Republican. . . He was in the convention that nominated Lincoln in 1860 and attended most of the subsequent national conventions of his party. He represented Fayette county in the Legislature during the war, serving through two sessions . . . .For about twenty years he was president of the board of trustees of the Upper Iowa University . . .The Methodist Church at West Union was the constant subject of his fostering care and he assisted liberally in the building of all the churches in West Union. Doctor Fuller became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at nineteen years of age and was an active member until his death. . .
We quote the following extract in reference to his death from the West Union Gazette: All Saturday forenoon Dr. Levi Fuller was in his office or on the street following the daily routine of his life in this community for nearly fifty years. At 3:30 Saturday afternoon, December 8, 1900, he was dead. Through the morning he complained of not feeling well and attributed his condition to indigestion, to which he was often subject. He was persuaded to not come up town after dinner, occupying the lounge in conversation with Mrs. W. E. Fuller. Suddenly, in the midst of the talk, with no warning, without a struggle, he ceased to breathe. . . . ".
From the Homepage of Don Gardner
The following was written for Jemima Elizabeth Tipton in a West Union, Iowa paper on 2/10/1899.
A FUNERAL SERMON
Delivered by Rev. J.A. Davis at the M.E. church, Feb 4, 1899
On the life and character of Mrs. Dr. L. Fuller
Books, paintings, sculpture, beautiful enough in themselves, are valuable only when in the turning of the pages we note the steps of someone with whom we have been acquainted, or, better, one whom we have loved, every line is full of value.
We come to-day to make a brief summary of a life, the beauty and sweetness of which have grown upon us with the years. Seventy three years ago the third of next June, when the mountain sides and fertile valleys were bursting with flowers and verdant with vegetation and rich foliage, in the little city of Howard, in Centre county in the good old Quaker State of Pennsylvania, just over the divide where the mountains rise abruptly with their wooded peaks, and the waters rush wildly to the lovely Susquehanna, Jemima Elizabeth Tipton was born. In the old home she was only the more tenderly cherished because she was the last of a large family to fill the home with the cheering prattle of baby innocence and sunshine. Perhaps the days of her girlhood were not unlike those of many others in this life-giving, soul-thrilling mountain atmosphere, other than that her home spot was to her the dearest; the memory of whose every detail was so vivid that a score and a half of years afterward her skilled fingers made the brush bring on canvas the home from which years and space separated her. She hung it upon the wall in the little room in which she lived so much, looking upon it she many a time romped again in the dear old home yard.
I said it was a home. For here was the very breath of prayer and Christian devotion in the happy household of her childhood. This was made more sweet and impressive by the frequent visits of the itinerant preacher, who found in the Tipton home what the Master found in the Bethany home-Friends and rest and kindred spirits.
With the budding of young womanhood came the voice of the Spirit of God calling her to open the heart's door for his incoming. And at the age of seventeen she was soundly converted to God. The inherited sweet and thoughtful disposition was now made only the more beautiful and winsome because of His nature who was as tender as a woman, while He was unshrinking from the paths of truth and righteousness as the sun is from the pit of darkness. In her soul this Life Divine thus early embraced was to "grow" possessing all the sweetness of the blossom which was to unfold in the years yet to come.
It is not strange that here in this quiet home, thrown in the companionship of one possessing such traits of winning womanhood, a junior itinerant Methodist preacher should find himself in the throes of young manhood's first love. In due time the heart was won and the hand given, and at the age of nineteen our now lovingly cherished wife, the patient mother and playful grandmother, gave herself in holy matrimony to Levi Fuller, with whom she has walked in all the adornments of a tender and honorable wifehood till death, for a brief time, separates them. Soon after the marriage the husband entered the practice of medicine. Very soon it became apparent that the West offered larger opportunities for a young couple, and though the struggle was a severe one, she broke from the childhood home and with her husband and son she came to Illinois, where with but meagre means, and yet possessing the best of capital, viz: character, integrity and industry, they began life's struggle, which was rewarded, as it always will be, by a creditable success. In 1854 they moved to West Union. At this time our little city was but a small village hid away among the hills. Here our sister lived, here she still lives in memory's loving house.
Mrs. Fuller was the mother of three children, one son and two daughters. The daughters dying in infancy left the son to find in his mother his companion and playmate, each of which she was to him. Womanhood is completed only when its heart throbs with the joys of motherhood. Motherhood is tenderer and sweeter, and blossoms into beauty often in passing through the valley of tears. The rose
is never more beautiful than when on its cheek sparkles a dew drop.Sister Fuller was a woman with convictions that were positive, with courage that was that of a heroine, with kindness that was Christ-like. She did not fail when opportunity's door opened, either in private or in a more public way, to raise her voice of hand against evil, and was never indifferent to any evil which threatened her home or the home of others. And when courageous leadership was necessary, that naturally retiring nature, which never sought prominence, became armed for conflict and marched against the foe. At one time she was one of a band of women who entered the death pits (saloons) of West Union and rolled into the streets the barrels and kegs of hell's liquid fire, spilling the contents on the earth; while by her side as a timid boy walked her son, the now Hon. William E. Fuller.
As a mother she loved her son, but was never foolishly proud over any honors which might be bestowed upon him. Her grandchildren and Great-grandchildren each, all had a warm place in her heart and their lives will ever be the richer by cherishing her memory. But her own flesh and blood was not the limit of her love and tenderness. To her life was golden only when from each passing moment she grasped the beat that was to be gotten--not to selfishly consume, but as the sun seems gladdest when his wealth of light and heat are driving out darkness and warming the cold lifeless earth, making it burst into blossom, so she seemed happiest when by word or little set of kindness some needy and discouraged one was made warm, supplied with food or encouraged by her good cheer. A token of gratitude for kindness shown by her hand is with us to-day in a wreath of flowers gathered by the hand of a little girl and brought to be laid on the casket of her friend, Mrs. Fuller.
Sister Fuller was especially full of pleasure and warm greetings to the ministry of her church. These men who came to her home, either to be recipients of her hospitality or to make pastoral calls, always met the most kindly greeting. If they were discouraged her smile and kind words acted a spur to urge them on. In the church she was always a valuable worker, and though deprived of its privileges much, she was always interested in its success and sorrowed in its apparent reverses. The closing chapter of this life is most interesting. Strength of body or soul to do is very much different from that fortitude and steady courage which keeps sweet while it measures with few steps the round which is strength's limit. For years Sister Fuller has been practically an invalid. It is here that the Christ life embraced so early' storm-tried in life's many battles, tear-stained through many sorrows, had its grandest soil in which to blossom. Her's was an undimmed sky of Christian faith. Her Jesus was always her blessed Savior. Some people get occasional glimpses of the man of Nazareth, she steadfastly "looked unto Jesus," hence her faith among the hills of her Pennsylvania home. Some lessons are here for us.
(1) Note the value of an early Christian home such as our sister enjoyed. As we trace the interesting journey we must remember that the holy atmosphere of childhood days had much to do with shaping the years. (2) The blessings of a Christian life beginning in girlhood's innocence, opening through the long years of varied experience, maturing, like beautiful fruit for eternity. All else would be fleeting and unbearable now in this hour of our grief if the clouds gathered round the soul;s eternity. Sister Fuller's was a ripe fruit, bearing Christian experience--repeatedly, witnessed in life, sweetly resting in the hour of death. Standing by the empty clayhouse, so beautiful to loving heart, we hear, again the Masters precious truth uttered in the Bethany home of sorrow, "He that liveth and believeth in Me shall never die." Slowly our hearts struggle thro' death's wreckage to grasp the ever glorious truth. But here at the grave's mouth is immortality's sun, and most consolingly its healing and comforting truths touch us. Ah, no, our energies are not scattered. we are not destroyed, John's vision is real.