"In his young days (he) went west to see the new country. In Kansas he had his hat shot off his head on the prairie (this time period would have been later when he traveled to Oklahoma because Kansas is not on the way from New York to Michigan). He kept riding as he thought someone had lost his horse and was trying to get another to make his get away. After marrying Grandma (Louisa Drake), he bought and paid for 40 acres of good farm land (1839) in Clinton County (Michigan). Grandma was dissatisfied. She heard of new land ... of them off and sold out. But the land (purchased 1864) was poor. They separated. She went to her mother. He kept my father (William Riley Tripp) and Aunt Ellen (Tripp). Papa (William Riley Tripp) was 8 years old - Ellen (Tripp) about 10. Later she (Louisa Drake) married Henry Lackey. Then she went and got Papa and Aunt Ellen while grandpa (Gideon Bowdish Tripp) had gone to town. They (William Riley Tripp and Ellen Tripp) stayed awhile then Aunt Ellen went back to her father. She (Ellen) married when about 15 years. She (Ellen) was 22 when she died. For their day they (Ellen) had a nice home with ... and furniture suited for that day. Grandpa (Gideon Bowdish Tripp) was restless hunting new country. He married again and on his way to Texas he took the fever and died. He is buried in Oklahoma but we don't know where.", Journal of Mary Louisa Tripp-Fields; 1950; copyright renewed 2006 by Carolyn Fields-Collins and Mark L. Fields.


It appears that Gideon married (1) Harriett Carpenter, (2) Louisa Drake, and (3) Unknown although most researchers have Louisa first and Harriett second. See The Tripp Family by Lucinda Ruth Tripp-Avery.

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