Elias Hardin Pipes Family

Judy Miller has shared some pictures and info on her family from the Gravel Switch area. Elias Hardin Pipes was the son of Morris Pipes and Sallie Montgomery. He had a home in the Gravel Switch area after the war and raised 9 children there. The home was located on Ward's Branch Road about half way between Ky243 and Aliceton Road. John Sheperson made a map of the area and it shows the house on the south side of the road. I am told the present day J. B. Cooley house is built where the old house stood. This picture of Elias, His wife Victoria and their children was taken about 1900. Elias and Victoria are both in the Cemetery as well as their son Clarence and one young son named Augustus who died in 1867 at age 7.

The children and their spouses:

• John Rufus(J.R.) m. Addie Johnson


• Nancy Winnifred ( Winnie) m. Tom Lane then Paul Hourigan


• Henry Taylor m. Jeanette Corman


• Ann Eliza(Annie) m. John Sinkhorn


• James Thomas(J.T.) m. Maggie Lee Robertson( Roberson)


• Clarence Newton m. Nonnie Owens


• Martha Jane m. William R. May


• Edward Appolos m. Ida Bland


• Grace Elizabeth m. James Coyle

This family was probably the last Pipes Family to call this area "home". In the 1930 Census only a couple of the children above were still living in the area.