Edward Herndon Piper and his descendants, part 2

For information about the parents, Edward Herndon Piper and Ann Blackburn, click this link.


Orlando Ficklin Piper

Orlando was the eldest child and son of Edward Herndon Piper and Anna (Ann) Blackburn Piper. He was said to have been born 12 February 1822, but his next brother William Chauncy was said to have been born only one month later, 12 March 1822, which clearly doesn’t work. I don’t know whether Orlando was born in 1821 instead, or whether William Chauncy was born in 1823 instead. Either would work with the parents’ marriage date and with the birth of the third child in late 1824.

Orlando married Mary A Hawkins in LaPorte, Indiana, in July 1844 when he would have been about 23 years old. He was a merchant and farmer, and then he became an Indian Agent for New Mexico, though their permanent residence was in Macomb, Illinois. He and Mary had 8 children, only 4 of whom were living in 1900:

• Edward S Piper, born 19 April 1845; died 18 July 1863 in Coffee, Tennessee (a casualty of the Civil War—Company C, 84th Regiment Illinois Volunteers), age 18.
• Alice B Piper, born 10 September 1847; married David S Blackburn on 26 Dec 1872 and had a son (Jesse M, b 1875 and d 1891); died 24 Mar 1927 (age 79) in Ventura County, California.
• Mary Cornelia Piper, born 24 April 1850; married Arthur Moore on 10 Sept 1873. Lived in Illinois; widowed about 1900; married in 1910 in DeWitt County, Illinois, to James McMillan.
• Ann J Piper, born 4 August 1852; died 1 November 1856, age 4.
• Walter L Piper, born 19 March 1856; joined the Presbyterian Church in June 1882; married Ella S Riddick on 24 January 1884; died August 1886, age 30.
• Charles Webster Piper, born 3 March 1862; died 29 August 1879, age 17.
• Louis H Piper, born 24 May 1865. Cannot find anything else about him, but he must have been one of the four children still living in 1900, so that means he is hiding from me . . .
• Orlando Hawkins Piper, born 21 May 1870; married Mary Louise Ralston in 1904 and had a daughter, Nellie; died 22 July 1950 in Ventura, California, age 80.

Orlando Ficklin Piper died in November 1900 and his wife, Mary, died after he did.


William Chauncey Piper

William Chauncey Piper was the second child and second son of Edward and Ann Piper. He was born 12 March 1822, or maybe 1823. He and his older brother could not have both been born in 1822 a month apart; if only I could find something to tell me which birth year is the wrong one.

William married Mary Lavinia Sims on 7 May 1857 in Jessamine, Kentucky, when he was around 35. He had been a farmer, a school teacher, and sometime was a preacher. He died in November 1879 in Kentucky, at the age of about 57. His wife, Mary, died in 1903.

William and Mary had six children in Kentucky, where they lived all their lives:

• John G Piper, born 13 April 1858 and died at the age of two months on June 1st.
• Augustus Bowman Piper, born 13 July 1860; married Lucy W Hammond on 8 Jan 1884; had ten children, all of whom reached adulthood; died 12 March 1919, age 58.
• Lucy W Piper, born 1 January 1862; married Milton Elliston on 9 Feb 1887; had a son (Milton) in 1890; died 2 Feb 1896 at the age of 34.
• Edward Sims Piper, born in April 1865; married Elizabeth E Davison about 1892; no children; died 19 Feb 1936 in Portland, Oregon, a little before he was 67 years old.
• Richard Rickets Piper, born 10 February 1869; married Carrie Bell Adams on 19 Sept 1891; had five children; died 31 January 1937, ten days before he was 68 years old.
• Frances “Fannie” Ann T Piper, born 5 October 1872; married Telford Newton Burrows on 22 June 1892; three children; died 30 October 1953, age 81.