Published in the Pilot, September 12, 1940

MRS. LIPPINCOTT DIES AT 84; CAME HERE 68 YEARS AGO

WIDOW OF EARLY-DAY IMPLEMENT DEALER DIED AT HER HOME SATURDAY

Mrs. T. P. Lippincott, almost 85, widow of an early-day Blair implement dealer and a resident of Blair almost 70 years, died Saturday at her home, 200 west State street. She had been in failing health since she fell and broke her leg eight years ago, and had been bedfast the past five months.

The body was removed to the Bendorf Funeral Home, where the Rev. Charles Myers, pastor of St. James Episcopal church of Fremont, officiated at funeral services Tuesday at 2 p.m. Pallbearers were three nephews, Clark, Richard and Donald Lippincott, and W.W. Wilkinson, Harry L. Morris and H. Lyle Guyer. Interment followed in Blair cemetery by the side of her husband, who died in 1925.

Hettie Rebekah Camp was born October 6, 1855, on a farm which is now in the heart of Buffalo, New York. Her parents were dead when she was nine years old, and she lived with relatives for several years. When she was 17 years old, in 1872, she came to Blair at the invitation of her brother, Dan Camp, who was a railroad man here. Blair was then a sprawling village only three years old. For the ensuing 68 years she had been a resident of this city, having lived here longer, perhaps, than any other present Blair citizen.

She and T. P. Lippincott were married here June 8, 1876, and for years he was in the implement business on west State street, where the present municipal power plant stands.

Besides her husband, Mrs. Lippincott was preceded in death by two children, Dora, who died in infancy, and Edna, who was nine years old when she died. Surviving Mrs. Lippincott are two sons, M. R. “Ray” Lippincott of Blair, and Paul of Missouri Valley, and a daughter, Miss Lydia Lippincott of Blair.