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Sarah DeBord
Parents Reuben DeBord and Elizabeth Groseclose
Born 3/24/1837
Probably Va
Married Thomas Phipps 10/4/1857
Died 2/24/1918
NOTE
Reuben DeBord kept a leather bound bible where he entered the family names and dates with a goose quill pen.
Some dates were added after his death.
CHILDREN
Rosa E
m Fields Richardson
Emory
m Ida Perry
Jestin
m David Moran
Wiley
m Lou Reedy
William Seymore/Seymour
m Bernice Young.
no kids.
FaG 69633110
SEE NOTES BELOW
Etta T
m Nathan Fields aka Bud
Alverda
m William Shelton
Ada m Joe Ball
Arthur
never married
NOTE ON SEYMOUR'S DEATH
Another Violent Phipps “Altercation,” 1893
An earlier post referred to an 1893 event in which Lee N. Hash of Grayson County, Virginia, adjacent to Ashe County, North Carolina, shot and killed Seymour Phipps.
At first, it was assumed that this was entirely the fault of Hash.
Then new evidence was introduced and the governor got involved.
Some evidence suggested that Hash had simply acted against Seymour Phipps in self-defense.
An early connection between the Phipps and Hash families is prominent in various Eastern Cherokee Applications submitted in the very early 20th Century.
This Seymour would appear to have been a son of Thomas and Sarah Ann (Debord) Phipps, Thomas being a son of William and Nancy (Griffith) Phipps, and William being a son of Benjamin and Jean (Hash) Phipps.
Benjamin was one of those several (seven, to be exact) presumed brothers of an unknown Phipps in 18th century North Carolina.
One prominent conjecture is that their father may have been named Joseph, but no one knows for sure.
A reader alerted us to additional articles about the matter, plus a couple others were uncovered.
Here is information from some of those sources:
From the Alexandria Gazette, Alexandria, VA, 12 Sep 1893, p. 2:
Virginia News.
Lee N. Hash, a young man of Grayson county, shot Seymour Phipps near Edgewater last week, in a quarrel over a trivial matter, and fled.
He was caught Thursday night in Taylorsville, N. C.
He was taken back to the county seat of Grayson, Independence, on Friday. Saturday the authorities learned that a mob had been formed and would take him out and hang him.
The sheriff and posse took him from jail at 8 o’clock Saturday night, secreted him in the mountains, and next day took him to Lynchburg and lodged him in jail.
Phipps died Wednesday morning.
From the Alexandria Gazette, Alexandria, VA, 24 June 1897, p. 2:
Virginia News.
Governor O’Ferrall has determined to pardon Lee H. Nash, who is serving a term of fourteen years in the penitentiary for killing Seymour Phipps in Grayson county.
From the Richmond Dispatch, Richmond, VA, 24 June 1897, p. 7:
A Pardon for Hash.
To Be Discharged from Penitentiary To-Morrow Week.
Why Clemency is Extended Him.
The Governor Sets Forth His Reasons for Shortening the Young Man’s Term of Imprisonment – Church People’s Interest in Case.
Lee N. Hash, the young Grayson county man who was sent to the penitentiary some three and a half years ago to serve fourteen years for murder in the second degree, has had ten years cut off of his sentence, and will become a free man one week from to-morrow.
He secures his freedom through the clemency of Governor O’Ferrall, and the Executive’s action, while based on substantial reasons, appears as though in answer to the prayers of Christian people, whose sympathies were enlisted in the prisoner’s behalf.
The case of Hash, as fully told in the Dispatch some weeks ago, when the first intimation that Executive clemency would be extended was given, is quite an interesting one. The young man is the only son of a humble but highly respected couple, who live near Edgewater, in Grayson county.
He attended Richmond College for a year or two, was a good student, of exemplary character, and became quite popular.
KILLED SEYMOUR PHIPPS.
Hash became involved in an altercation with Seymour Phipps, at Edgewater, in September, 1893, and shot and killed him. He was tried in the January following, convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to fourteen years in the penitentiary.
His conviction was due chiefly to the testimony of J. Lawson Kesling, whose character is not considered savory, and who has since become a fugitive from justice, having been charged with theft.
Since the trial some additional testimony has been discovered, given by Athen Anderson, a boy then 13 years old, who was in close proximity when the shooting was done, and who has since made oath that the shooting was done by Hash in self-defense [sic; self-defense].
It has also been brought out that the verdict against Hash was unusually severe, inasmuch as the killing of Phipps followed the shooting of several persons in that locality at short intervals.
All these points have been explained to the Governor in detail, and his Excellency has finally become convinced that in this case the appliance of mercy would be justified. . . .
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