An American Family History

The Ripley Family of Greene County, Tennessee

In 1607 the London Company established Virginia as the first permanent New World English colony.

Thomas Ripley, Sr. was born about 1770 in Northumberland County, Virginia. He was a potter.

He married Phoebe Stanfield.

Their children included:
Lydia C. Ripley Haworth (1791, married Absalom Haworth son of Abaslom, Absalom, George),
Samuel Ripley (1793 - 1846),
Henry Ripley (1796 - 1859, married Mary Bowers), and
Thomas Ripley (1801 - 1862).

In 1797-1798 they were on the Greene County tax list of Captain Jacob Henninger (Heneger).

They were on the 1805 Greene County tax list.

Thomas Ripley died about 1823.

Greene County, Tennessee developed from the Nolichucky settlement. It was formed in 1783 from part of the original Washington County, North Carolina.

Thomas Ripley, Jr. was born on September 2, 1801. He married Margaret Matthews.

Elbert Sevier Ripley (1824),
Loceda V. Ripley (1829),
Lindsey F. Ripley (1830),
Melissa Elvina Ripley (1834),
Virginia Vandilla Ripley (1834),
Nathaniel M. Ripley (1836),
Demetrius B. Ripley (1840, married Catherine Elizabeth Smith), and
Bloomfield Ripley (1845).

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