Tipton family

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a letter written by Bessie [typed Bessoe] S. Beck to Miss Riker of the Indiana Historical Bureau.She ordered a copy of Gen. Tipton’s papers and detailing her grandparents’ and parents’ history, as she is the great-granddaughter of Gen. Tipton. She lists her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren by name (daughters by husbands’ names). She asks who was Frank C. Townsend, who mentioned her grandfather’s children, of whom she knew there was only...