Tina Agnes Kipp
Tina Agnes Kipp was born on August 16, 1893, in Boone County, Indiana.1 The binder uses the spelling "Tina Agnes Knipp" in its typed register; the GEDCOM records her given names as "Tiny Agnes Knipp."2 Boone County's principal town is Zionsville, which is the place name the binder uses for her birth.
She was the fifth of nine children of Eugene Alonso Kipp and Martha Ellen Nance.3
On February 24, 1923, at age twenty-nine, she married William Wilmar "Fritz" Hoffmann, born January 10, 1899, in Muncie (or Cambridge City), Indiana — six years her junior.4 The marriage took place in Wayne County, Indiana, and the couple settled there.
Tina and Fritz raised four children, all in Indiana: Donald Keith (b. April 13, 1924), Jackie Darrel (b. June 26, 1926 — Benjamin's maternal grandfather, who went by Jack), Wilma June (b. January 15, 1929), and Joyce Eileen (b. August 21, 1933).5
On the spelling. The GEDCOM uses "Tiny Agnes Knipp" as her record-form name; the family's binder writes "Tina Agnes Knipp." Both forms appear in the historical record. The family voice — Benjamin's grandfather Jack's mother's name as it was actually spoken — was "Tina," and that is the form used in this chapter's narrative.8
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).