Peggy Smith-Hake's
"Window to the Past"
Note from Peggy:
Amanda (Colvin) & Silas Loveall were my gr-gr grandparents. I am a descendant of their daughter, Leatha Jane Loveall, who married Josephus Whittle in Miller County....
Note from Kelly:
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John Colvin was indeed the father of James Hamilton Colvin as Peggy had surmised. John Colvin III (c/1770-1851) married Margaret Hamilton (1784-1846), daughter of William Hamilton (1755-?) and Elizabeth (McFerren) Hamilton (1757-?). John and Elizabeth they had at least 7 children...
James and Judy Phipps were the parents of Barbara (Phipps) Colvin. James Phipps parents were William Phipps (1745-1820) and Rebecca (Kenderick) Phipps (1745-?). The Phipps lineage can be traced back to Joseph Phipps, Sr. (1613-England - 1715 Pennsylvania)
Field stone marking the gravesite of James Hamiton Colvin.
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Field stone marking the gravesite of Barbara (Phipps) Colvin.
Colvin-Phipps Families...​
​(printed in THE MILLER COUNTY AUTOGRAM-SENTINEL in 'WINDOW TO THE PAST', Sept. 23, 2012)
​James Hamilton Colvin was born in Grainger County, Tennessee in December 1804 and died in Miller County, Missouri on June 12, 1889 at the age of 84 years. It is believed James was the son of John Colvin who was living in Grainger County, TN in 1810 when the third U.S. Census was taken. In John's household were four sons under the age of 10 years and James evidently was one of the four. Earlier, the Colvin family may have been in Wythe County, Virginia.
On December 17, 1826, James Hamilton Colvin married Barbara Phipps in Grainger County. She was born about 1810 there in Grainger County. It is uncertain who her parents were, but are suspected to be James and Judy Phipps of Grainger County.
James Phipps was a son of William Phipps of Wythe County, Virginia and when William died in 1818, one of his heirs was a son, James Phipps, who was living in Grainger Co., Tennessee when the will was probated in 1818. The last will and testament of William Phipps is recorded in Wythe County, Virginia in Will Book 2, pages 255-256. In the old document William names all his children who were: Catherine (Miller), George Phipps, Mary Phipps, Jasper Phipps, James Phipps, John Phipps, Jacob Phipps, and Isaac Phipps.
James H. and Barbara (Phipps) Colvin reared several children, all born in Grainger County, Tennessee. Included were:
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MARGARET/PEGGY born 1837 m. Caswell Kitts
NANCY/STACE born 1834 m. John David Evans
JANE born 1839 (no record after 1850)
JAMES, JR. born 1840 (no record after 1860)
​R0SANNA born 1844 m. John E. McGlothin
​AMANDA born 1842 m. Silas Loveall
LURANA born 1846 m. Lewis Bodine
​WILLIAM born 1849 (no record after 1850)
​GEORGE W. born 1852 (no record after 1860)
STERLING MAYNARD born 1857 m. Sarah Melissa Cochran.
Sometime between 1860-68, Barbara Phipps Colvin died and later James Hamilton married a widow lady, Mary Elizabeth Shoemaker Roark, on 8 Feb 1868. They had several children: DAVID H. born 1869 m. Nancy Huddleston; ANN LIZA born 1871 died 1914; ISAAC born 1874; ALLEN born 1877 m. Annie M. Jeffries; ALEXANDER: and TILLMAN (died young).
James Hamilton Colvin and his first wife, Barbara (Phipps), came to Miller County about 1858 and settled in the Bear Creek area of Glaize township. The Colvin family cemetery is located on their homesteaded land and contains the remains of many Colvin ancestors.
Most of the Colvin descendants today are from the ancestral families of Sterling Maynard Colvin and his wife, Sarah Cochran; and Amanda Colvin and her husband, Silas Loveall.
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