YANCEY COUNTY, NC - OBITUARIES - Wiley Tipton, 6 Oct 1934 ============================================================================ USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the North Carolina USGenWeb Archives by: Sandra Fender fender@hci.net ============================================================================ Transcribed from: Minutes of the 40th Annual Session of the Jacks Creek Free Will Baptist Association which met August 30 & 31, 1935 at River View Church, Tennessee Wiley Tipton Departed this life Oct. 6, 1934, age 71 years. He had been a member of the F. W. B. C. for 10 years. Before he died, he called his daughter, Carrie Bailey, to his bed and said " I must depart from this life: I want you to meet me in Heaven. I am ready to go and not afraid to die." He left a wife, four sons, and four daughters to mourn his loss. Yancey County Death Index: Wiley Tipton, died Oct. 6, 1934. Son of J. D. Tipton and "Blank".