"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE

MORGAN COUNTY
GREGG TOWNSHIP
PAGE 347

JACOB ALONZO SHIPLEY first saw the light of this world on March  4, 1846, in
Jefferson Township, Morgan County, being the second son of Tolbert and Sarah (Mc-
Inturf) Shipley, natives of Tennessee and Ohio respectively;  they were pioneers of this county, having lived in this township for forty-five years. Jacob Alonzo Shipley spent
his boyhood in farm work and pursuing education in the schools.  August 15, 1861,
he enlisted in Company A, Thirty-third Indiana Volunteer Regiment, and served four
years, having become a veteran in February, 1864.  He was made a Corporal, and
was captured at Thompson's Station, held thirty-three days and exchanged.  After the
war, he engaged in saw milling for five years in Jefferson Township, after which he
resumed farming, which he has since followed.  October 19, 1871, he married Victoria
Rouseau, from which union descended five children--Bertie (deceased), Percy (de-
ceased), Myrtie, Jesse and Hazel.  Mr. Shipley was elected Trustee of this township
in 1882, and still serves as such.  He is a Republican in politics, a member of Blanken-
ship Post, G. A. R., and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Data Entry Volunteer:  Diana Flynn 

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