Eugene Alonso Kipp
He married Martha Ellen Nance, born January 7, 1866, in Kentucky.4 (The binder, working from family memory, recorded her surname as "Nancy" — treating it as a middle name in a longer chain like "Martha Ellen Nancy." The Ancestry GEDCOM records her surname as Nance and her parents under that surname. The Nance reading is the documentary one and is used here.)5 The binder gives the marriage date as September 20, 1885.6
Eugene Alonso and Martha Ellen raised at least nine children. The binder enumerates them: Clarence Underwood (b. January 28, 1887), William Claude (b. November 2, 1888, a twin), an infant son (also November 2, 1888, died November 21, 1888), Orie Herbert (b. January 1, 1890), Tina Agnes (b. August 16, 1893 — through whom Benjamin descends), Lester Clayton (b. November 21, 1895), Horace Dewey (b. April 24, 1899), Homer Allison (b. March 11, 1902), Ada Marie (b. October 5, 1905, died April 10, 1920), and Lena Naomi (b. February 10, 1909).7
Eugene Alonso Kipp died on April 20, 1950, in Connersville, Fayette County, Indiana — far from the Kentucky he was born in. The family had moved north into Indiana between his childhood and his old age.8 Martha Ellen had died sixteen years earlier, on March 15, 1934, in Brownsville, Union County, Indiana.9
The migration from Kentucky to Indiana is not, on the documentary record, a single dramatic move with a date; it is the slow arrival of a Kentucky-born family into Indiana through marriages and farms over roughly forty years. Eugene Alonso's children are born in Indiana (Tina Agnes in Boone County, 1893; later siblings in Wayne County, Indiana). The Kipps had become Indianans by the time he died.
Artifacts
Photos, scans, and documents that back this chapter. Each carries a SHA256 fingerprint so the file can be independently verified as unchanged since upload, and a short code — the tiny adjective-noun pair below each card — for compact reference (e.g. lineage.sent.li/a/sage-pine).