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In loving memory

Johnathan Dipboye

FAMILY:

Spouse: Eleanor Bartlett

The children of Jonathan & Eleanor were: N/A

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Obituary:

Biography:
Jonathan DIPBOYE, was born in New Market, VA in 1819, and remained under the parental roof until 1838, two years after the death of his father. In 1837 he married Miss Eleanor Bartlett, native of the Old Dominion, but who came to Indiana with her father, Robert Bartlett, when but a girl. She was an intelligent Christian woman, and her death, which occured in 1877, was a sad blow to her family and friends. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Dipboye moved to a cabin in the woods and cleared a farm of seventy acres. There, this enterprising young couple lived for twenty years, after which they sold out and moved to Frankton. There, they bought and improved a farm of one hundred and ninety-five acres, and there his wife's death occurred. In 1883 Mr. Dipboye moved to his present place."

"In August, forty years ago, he entered the ministry, became a member of the Miami Conference, and during these forty years has organized forty churches. He is an evangelist, and has preached about five hundred funeral sermons. For four years he was Presiding Elder in the Eastern Indiana Conference, and held the same position for five years in the Union Miami Conference. Now he works as a he feels able to. In politics he is a Democrat, and socially a Master Mason, being Chaplin of Frankton Lodge. He is one of the old and honored citizens of the county, and has accomplished much good in his life."

"On May 9, 1869, Elder Jonathon Dipboye organized a Christian church at Elm Grove school house in Lafayette township, with eleven members. Meetings were held at the Elm Grove school house and other places in the township until 1872, when a frame house of worship, costing about $1,000. was erected on the farm of George D. Thompson, not far from the schoolhouse."

Extracted from "Portrait & Biographical Record of Madison & Hamilton Counties, IN, 1893".

[Submitted by J. P. Smith on 20 Oct 2001].