BLAIR PIONEER DIES AT AGE 94 YEARS

Julia Carter Lippincott Born in 1861 On Homestead On Blair Site

Julia Carter Lippincott, daughter of the late Jacob Carter, was born August 12, 1861, on the old Carter homestead where Blair is now located.

Having been born at that early date when Nebraska was still a territory, and before Blair was founded, she knew the history of the earlier happenings of the county with a knowledge gained by actual contact.

She attended school in the little old log school house located in what is now known as the Rhoades Park, and here she received her early education.

She was one of a family of ten children, all of whom were born and reared on the old homestead.

When nineteen years of age, she was united in marriage to William J. Lippincott of Blair. They lived in or near Blair until the spring of 1893 when they moved to a farm south of Red Cloud, Nebraska.

To Mr. and Mrs. Lippincott seven children were born - Lyle of Topeka, Kansas; Mrs. Hattie Noys of Ceresco, Nebraska; Mrs. Hazel Kent of Red Cloud, Nebraska; Wayland of Whittier, California; all of whom were born at Blair; also Carter of St. Paul, Oregon; Richman of Kansas City, Missouri; and Francis of Bell, California, were born in Red Cloud.

In their life on the farm at Red Cloud the Lippincotts suffered the privations of the early settler. Drouths, hail and all the vicissitudes of those times beset them, but they reared their family and survived the hardships in the true spirit of those early days. In 1928 her husband died, and since that time Mrs. Lippincott has made her home with her children.

Besides the seven children already mentioned, she leaves twenty two grandchildren, fourteen great grandchildren and other relatives and a host of friends to mourn her departure.

All of her children but one visited her during her illness. For the past five months she had been tenderly cared for by her daughter, Hattie, at Ceresco.

Funeral services were held on November 11th, and burial was made beside her husband in the Wagoner Cemetery.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

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