Lafayette Westerfield Rippeto

M, #12, b. 18 January 1861, d. 26 April 1938
Father*John T. Rippeto b. 28 Sep 1828, d. 3 Feb 1875
Mother*Matilda Jane Sapp b. 26 Apr 1833, d. 4 Sep 1907
ChartsPedigree - Alma Pearl Rippeto
Reference1G Grf, 12
To-Do* Lafayette Westerfield Rippeto was to-do There's a letter written by him to James Hil Rippeto (grandson of Henry Thomas Rippeto) at the Boone Co Hist Soc Lib with the rest of Opal Schneiderhahn's records. Get a copy of it. 
Birth*18 January 1861 He was born on 18 January 1861 at Boone Co., Missouri. 
(Witness) Census18701870 He appeared on the 1870 census in the household of John T. Rippeto, pg 23 378-399, Cedar Twnshp, Boone Co., Missouri; Evd 83. 
Census18801 June 1880 Lafayette Westerfield Rippeto appeared on the 1880 census as the head of household, pg 27 #246-255, Cedar Twnshp, Boone Co., Missouri, (an unknown value.) 
Marriage*11 September 1880 He married Laura Lee Hagans, daughter of Nathan Glascow Hagans and Rebecca Wilcoxson, on 11 September 1880 at Boone Co., Missouri. 
Census19001 June 1900 Lafayette Westerfield Rippeto appeared on the 1900 census as the head of household, ED 215 sht 18a, Cedar Twnshp, Boone Co., Missouri, (an unknown value.) 
Residencecirca 1905 He lived circa 1905 at 156 45th St, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California: We have a picture of the house where they first after moving to Los Angeles. 
Census191015 April 1910 He appeared on the 1910 census as the head of household, Los Angeles Precint 170, Los Angeles Co., Californa, (Evd 81) w/wife. 
To-Do1920 He was to-do Find 1920 census, probably in Los Angeles in 1920. 
Residence*1937 He lived in 1937 at 4837 Oakwood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California: Informant Opal Schneiderhahn gave this address when she said "She [wife Laura] died in 1937, in Los Angeles CA, where they had lived since the early 1900's." 
Story*November 1937 Article proported to be from The Missouri Statesman newspaper of unknown date, though son LaFayette mentions Nov 1937.
          A Notable Boone County Missouri Family
     The Statesman has received the following short history of one of its remarkable families, several members of whom still reside in the south end of this county.
     The Rippeto family of Cedar Township boast an ancestry that has few parallels on the American continent for patriotism, longevity, and race suicide, proclivity traits which would certainly commend the whole generation to our strenuous president.
     The Original Rippeto emigrated from France some time in the latter part of the sixteenth century and settled in what is now old Virginia, and was subject to all the trials and hardships of colonial life, up to the Declaration of Independence. There were twelve boys of this family (full brothers) who joined the patriots and went in a body and enlisted under Washington. They left twelve sisters at home who also bore their parts in the sruggle for liberty. At the end of three years, three of these boys got a furlough for a few months and returned home, the other nine having been killed in battle. At the end of three months, those three brothers returned to the army and when peace was declared only one of them was permitted to return home. From this lone one descended the rippeto Families of Cedar Township. Their grandfather emigrated from Virginia to Kentucky and from Kentucky to Missouri, settling on Silver Fork Creek in Blackfoot, Boone County and later in cedar Township on the river bluff near Wilton. The mother of those twenty-four children died at the age of 110 years old. There was one sister of this numerous family who never married. She emigrated to Kentucky with her nephew and from there to Missouri with her great nephews, John and Henry Rippeto who were the fathers and grandfathers of the present generation of that name living now in Cedar Township, all of whom so far as the writer knows are honorable high minded citizens.
     The unmarried sister mentioned above was known all over southern Boone county as Aunt Polly rippeto, and spent the whole of her long life for the good of others. she was born in 1750 and died in 1865 at the age of 115 years. Her mortal remains rest in old Goshen Cemetery near Wilton, Boone County, Missouri.
     This Nov 1937, I, LaFayette W Rippeto, 77 years old, do well remember Aunt Polly Rippeto, who died in my father's home (John Rippeto). She spoke often of the hard struggle, how she plowed and farmed like a man and had carried many a bucket of cold water to Washington's army, as well as sweet potatos and other things that she had helped raise for them to eat.
     The American People, nor the posterity of this wonderful family will never know fully the part that he deserves credit for in the freedom of this great American People. Of the influence of Daddy Rippeto and his boys had in gaining Gen. LaFayette's help. History says that from the first, Washington and Gen. LaFayette became firm friends. [end quote]
     There has been nothing surface to suggest that there was anywhere near 24 children. 
Death*26 April 1938 He died on 26 April 1938 at Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California, at age 77. 
Burial* He was buried at Oddfellows Cemetery 3640 Whittier Blvd, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California. 
To-Do* He was to-do Find the original newspaper source of the Missouri Statesman article. Here is the info from Newspapers In Microform.

Missouri Statesman 1843-1913 Weekley
Continues Columbia Patriots
Merged w/Missouri Herald to form Columbia Herald Statesman
KHi m 1854-1855
MoHi m s 1843-1860, 1880-1885, 1890-1900 Jul 1902-1900
KHi = KS State Hist Soc Topeka KS 66612
MoHi = MO State Hist Soc Columbia 65201.

 

Family

Laura Lee Hagans b. 4 Sep 1863, d. 11 Nov 1934
Marriage*11 September 1880 He married Laura Lee Hagans, daughter of Nathan Glascow Hagans and Rebecca Wilcoxson, on 11 September 1880 at Boone Co., Missouri. 
Children
Last Edited13 Sep 2004