CATHERINE/KATHRYN SAWYER HIPP AND HENRIETTA HIPP
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Holdrich Hipp's Second Marriage
10. Kathryn/Catherine Sawyer married Holdrich Hipp in October of 1859 in Lauderdale County, Tenneessee. They had three children: Jacob Wesley Hipp; Virginia Kathryn "Jenny" Hipp and Susan Hipp.
a. Jacob Wesley Hipp was born in 1862 in Tennessee and moved to Scott County, Arkansas with his mother around 1873. In married in the latter county when he was age 33, to Susan Roland [Rowland], age 18, on the 30th of November 1884 [Scott County Marriage Book A page 179]. Susan Roland was from the pioneer Rowland family who lived east of Mt. Pleasant in the community of Cardiff. Jacob Wesley Hipp relocated his family to a place known as Sugar Grove in nearby Logan County where he established a mercantile store. Their children are: Jennie born Dec 1885; daughter, Levie, born Aug 1890; Louella, born Oct 1893; and Beulah born Oct 1899.
Jacob Wesley Hipp died on 31 July 1953, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. W. Swint, in Benton, Arkansas. He was survived by his wife, Susan, and three daughters: Mrs. D. N. Horton; Mrs. L. W. Fennell, Sugar Grove; and Mrs. W. W. Swint, of Benton, six grandchildren and ten great grandchildren [Booneville Democrat, 6 August 1953]. Susan Rowland Hipp followed her husband in death the following year on 11 March 1957, also at the home of her daughter Mrs. W. W. Swint at Benton, Arkansas [Booneville Democrat 15 March 1957].
b. Virginia Kathryn "Jenny" Hipp, born in 1865, in Tennessee, helped her mother Catherine/Kathryn Hipp wait on tables at the boarding house in Waldron, Scott County, Arkansas, where they found work soon after arriving there around 1873. It would be another ten years before V. C. Hipp would marry a local boy, Thomas Bartow Williams, on 20 September 1883 [Marriage Records Scott County, Arkansas Book A page 86]. Virginia Kathryn Hipp was a devout Baptist, attending the Pleasant Grove Church #3, just west a few miles of the Mt. Pleasant Community. When she died it was in this cemetery that she would be buried in 1936 beside her beloved husband, Bartow, born in 1861, and who died in 1935. In the 1880 Census of Scott County, Arkansas, Thomas Bartow Williams was enumerated in the Mt. Pleasant Township Dwelling #307 Family #311, age 19, born in Georgia, in the household of his brothers and sisters: Martin Williams; Susan V. Williams, and Mary J. Williams, 24.
Kathryn and Bartow Williams had four children: Lottie Lea born 3 March 1888; Dennis C., born in 1892; Nellie E., born in 1896; and a daughter, Lelon B., born in 1898. Additional information about these children follows:
1. Lottie Lee Williams died 1 December 1918 with burial in the Duncan Cemetery at Waldron, Arkansas. She married at the age of 19, James Barto Harvey, the son of John N. Harvey, on 10 November 1907 [Scott County Marriage Book C page 583] and they had one child, a daughter, Delma Harvey, who currently resides on the homeplace in Waldron. Delma married Chevis Bates and they have three children: Lottie, Colette, and Harvey Bates. Interestingly enough, Harvey Bates married a cousin, Linda Sue Newberry.
2. Dennis C. Williams was born on 26 May 1891 and died on 28 April 1971, with burial in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Scott County, Arkansas. According to Scott County Marriage Record Book D page 471, he married Paralee "Dutch" Farnsworth on 7 October 1914. She was born on 4 January 1893 and died on 13 December 1964, with burial beside her husband. They had three children: Milbern Williams, Bryce Williams and Joyce Williams. Joyce Williams grew up near, and rode the school bus with her husband to be, a neighbor, Cyril Roach.
