Eli FIPPS

   Cause of his death was consumption.

  General Notes:

1860 Raleigh Co., VA Census
Coal River Marshes P.O., pg. 981
17 July 1860

300/274Eli Fipps35 MDay Laborer VA(cannot read/write)$17 personal estate
Mary A. Fipps30 FMatron "
Jesse Fipps 9 M "
Daniel T. Fipps 6 M "
Crocket Fipps 2 M "
Fielding Fipps 2/12 M "


Military Records of Individual Civil War Soldiers

Name: Eli Fipps
Enlistment Date: 03 June 1861
Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
Side Served: Confederacy
State Served: Virginia
Unit Numbers: 794
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 03 June 1861
Enlisted in Company C, 36th Infantry Regiment Virginia on 03 June 1861.
Absent, sick on 01 August 1861 (With measles, no further record)

  Noted events in his life were:

• Military: Civil War: Private, Co. E, 36th Virginia Infantry, 1861. ²⁴⁷

• Military: Civil War: Private, Co. H, 7th West Virginia Cavalry, Between 1861 and 1863.

• Military: Civil War: Private, Co. H, 8th West Virginia Infantry, 1863.

Eli married Mary Ann DANIEL, daughter of Nehemiah DANIEL Jr. and Catherine "Kitty" MANKIN, on 20 Nov 1849 in Beckley, Fayette Co., VA ¹⁹⁶.^,267 (Mary Ann DANIEL was born in 1828 in Patrick Co., VA,⁴⁰⁹ died on 8 Mar 1884 in Raleigh Co., WV ²⁶⁷ and was buried in Phipps Cemetery, Sand Lick, Raleigh Co., WV.)

  Marriage Notes:

According to county records, Eli and Mary were married by Alfred Beckley. According to Eli's Civil War Pension application, they had been married by Rev. Matthew Ellison.