Alvin Kalo Kipp

The figure to whom the binder is dedicated.

1841 — 1905

Sourced fact

Alvin Kalo Kipp was born on March 8, 1841, in Tennessee.¹ He was the third of James Kipp's five sons.²

Sourced fact

He married Marie Jane Clark on January 27, 1863, per the family binder.³ (The GEDCOM records his marriage but the wife's record there is partially incomplete; the marriage date and the spouse's full name come from the binder, where they are recorded in the typed register.)

Sourced fact

The binder lists six children for Alvin Kalo and Marie Jane: Eugene Alonzo (b. January 16, 1864 — through whom Benjamin descends), Samantha Kaywood (b. December 5, 1865), James Henry (b. September 10, 1868; died February 28, 1896), William Sanford (b. December 11, 1869), Hubert Ephram (b. August 13, 1873), and Elmer Lee (b. October 2, 1880).⁴

Sourced fact

The GEDCOM's record of Alvin Kalo's children is consistent with the binder's on count and order, with small variations in the recorded names — Samantha C for Samantha Kaywood, Herbert for Hubert Ephram, William for William Sanford, James H for James Henry. These are typical variations between a typed family register working from oral tradition and a database working from documentary records.⁵

Sourced fact

Alvin Kalo Kipp died on October 23, 1905, in Metcalfe County, Kentucky — the same county James Kipp had moved the family to in 1857.⁶ He was sixty-four. Marie Jane (Clark) Kipp died on April 28, 1918, per the binder.⁷

Sourced fact

The 70-page binder we have inherited from this family is titled, on its cover page, "Descendants of Alvin Kalo Knipp — Roots dating to January 14, 1810."⁸ The compiler made a deliberate choice: of James Kipp's five sons, only Alvin Kalo's line is followed in detail. The other four branches — John A., Pleasant DoC, James K.P., William O.B. — survive in the wider Kipp tree but are not the subject of the binder. Benjamin descends from Alvin Kalo through his eldest son Eugene Alonso.

Author's framing

Alvin Kalo Kipp is, in the literal sense, the founder of the family record we have. Without his branch being chosen for documentation in the 20th century, the line from James Kipp's sons to Benjamin would be much harder to reconstruct. He is, on this page, less a man whose life we know in detail than the figure around whose descent the rest of the binder is organized. Future chapters may fill him in with more specifics; this one names him for what he is.

Citations

1. Alvin Kalo Knipp, BIRT: 8 mar 1841, Tennessee — Ancestry.com Export — Family Tree Thompson Elias (15 May 2026)

2. Binder page 6: birth order of James Kipp's five sons. Alvin Kalo is listed as #3 (1c). — Descendants of Alvin Kalo Knipp — the 70-page family binder (circa 2000s, with handwritten annotations through the 1990s) · /a/kind-spring

3. Binder page 6: "Alvin Kalo Knipp, the third son in this family was born March 3, 1841, and was married to Marie Jane Clark on January 27, 1863." Note: the binder's "March 3" is a typo for March 8; the binder's own birth-order header reads "1c. ALVIN KALO KNIPP, born March 8, 1841." — Descendants of Alvin Kalo Knipp — the 70-page family binder (circa 2000s, with handwritten annotations through the 1990s) · /a/kind-spring

4. Binder page 6: "To this marriage was born 6 children, (five sons & one daughter.) 2a. Eugene Alonzo Knipp, born 1-16-1864; 2b. Samantha Kaywood Knipp, born 12-5-1865; 2c. James Henry Knipp, born 9-10-1868, died 2-28-1896; 2d. William Sanford Knipp, born 12-11-1869; 2e. Hubert Ephram Knipp, born 8-13-1873; 2f. Elmer Lee Knipp, born 10-2-1880." — Descendants of Alvin Kalo Knipp — the 70-page family binder (circa 2000s, with handwritten annotations through the 1990s) · /a/kind-spring

5. GEDCOM children of Alvin Kalo Knipp: Eugene Alonso Knipp (1864), Samantha C Knipp (Abt 1866), William Knipp (Abt 1870), Herbert Knipp (Abt 1874), Elmer Lee Knipp (Oct Abt 1879), James H Knipp (no date). Approximate years from the GEDCOM differ slightly from the binder's exact dates; the binder's record is the more authoritative on these specifics because it was compiled from the family Bible. — Ancestry.com Export — Family Tree Thompson Elias (15 May 2026)

6. Alvin Kalo Knipp, DEAT: 23 Oct 1905, Metcalfe, Kentucky, United States — Ancestry.com Export — Family Tree Thompson Elias (15 May 2026)

7. Binder page 6: "Alvin Kalo Knipp died on October 23, 1905 and Marie Jane Clark Knipp died on April 28, 1918." — Descendants of Alvin Kalo Knipp — the 70-page family binder (circa 2000s, with handwritten annotations through the 1990s) · /a/kind-spring

8. The binder's title page reads: "Descendants of ALVIN KALO KNIPP — Roots dating to January 14, 1810." — Descendants of Alvin Kalo Knipp — the 70-page family binder (circa 2000s, with handwritten annotations through the 1990s) · /a/kind-spring

How this chapter was made

Method: AI-drafted under editorial review · AI involved: Claude (Anthropic), via Cowork mode · Author: Benjamin Thompson · Reviewed by: Benjamin Thompson · Reviewed: 5/17/2026

Drafted by Claude (Anthropic) from the Ancestry GEDCOM export and the binder's typed register. The binder is the primary source for the marriage details and the children's naming convention; the GEDCOM is the primary source for the birth/death dates that have made it into modern records. Where they disagree on a child's name, both are noted.

Paragraphs are tagged at the left margin: FACT = sourced and cited; CONTEXT = general historical background; AUTHORIAL = the writer's framing, not a factual claim. Numbered superscripts link to the citations at the bottom of the page.

Artifacts

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