Fred Lips was born 15 Jan 1866 in Cuero, DeWitt, Texas.1 He was the fourth son and seventh child of William Ernest Lipps and Mary Harriet Cringle.2
In 1880 Fred is 14 years old and the oldest child at home. He is living with his parents and siblings – Nannie, Mollie, Nettie and Otis. He has an older sister, Sallie Abbie, and her husband Urial Owen, a dentist, who are visiting the family.3
Fred must have been living with his brother, John Oscar, in El Paso, Texas prior
to 1900 since he is found living with John and his wife, Tidy, in El Paso on the 1900 Texas census.4 It was here that Fred married Juda Malone Buchan.5 One daughter, Maude A, was born in El Paso, 31 Oct 1895.6
Juda or Julia, as she was known, had previously been married to George Wesley Buchan.7 They evidently divorced.8 She had three children with him, George Wesley Buchan born 10 July 1881 in De Leon, Comanche, Texas.9 A second child, Clint Buchan was born 1885 in De Leon,Texas,11 and died in 1900.12 Her third child, Eugenie Sidney Buchan (Jennie) was born 31 December 1887 in De Leon, Commanche, Texas.13
In 1900, Fred and Julia are found in Benson, Cochise County, Arizona.14Living with them are Jennie and Maude. Clint probably died in 1899 since he is not mentioned in the 1900 census.
Fred is a gun smith. What had brought them to Arizona from Texas is unknown. Perhaps it was the mining industry and the El Paso and Southern Arizona Railroad which transported copper and silver from the neighboring mining communities to a refinery in El Paso, Texas.15 He did have a cousin, Charles H. Neimeyer, living in Florence, Arizona.16
Sometime before 1910, Fred and Julia had moved to Naco, Cochise, Arizona.17 Fred is a barber working in a barber shop. He and Julia have been married 17 years. Maude A. is 13 years old. Living next to them on C Street is Jeannie who had married 22 Oct 1905 in Naco, Cochise, Arizona to Daniel L. Culp.18
Many changes take place between 1910 and 1920 for Fred and Julia. Fred and Julia divorce.19 Fred is found living in Yuma, Crane, Arizona. He has a new wife, Agnes M Shaw. He is 47 years old and Agnes is 34. Fred is again working as a barber.20
Maude is living in Phoenix with her mother who has several roomers living with them. One of the roomers is Jesse Palmer, a printer.21 He later marries Maude.22 About 1922 Jesse takes Maude and Julia to Los Angeles, California where he continues to be a printer.23
On the 1930 California census, Jesse and Maudie are still living in Los Angeles and Jesse is doing printing jobs.24 Jessie must have been very sick and is addmitted on March 31, 1931 to the US National Homes for Disabled volunteer Solders. He dies in San Francisco, California on 14 June 1942.25 Maudie dies 14 Oct 1975 in Los Angeles26
On the 1930 census, Fred and Agnes are again in Maricopa County but in Glendale and have a rooming house.27 It is not known when Fred and Agnes move to California but on 9 Jan 1948 Fred dies in Kern County.28 Agnes Marie dies later on 13 May 1953 in Placer County.29Juda Margaret Malone was born 28 Dec 1857 in Alabama.30 Her parents were Peachy Brooks Malone born 15 Sep 1818 in Georgia and died 5 January 1899 in Cisco, Eastland,Texas31 and Sarah Margaret Burson born 2 August 1822 in Georgia and died 25 January 1864 near Jefferson, Harrison, Texas.32
Juda was one of eight children, the others were Catherine Cely Luticia Malone born 23 September 1839, Mary Jane Malone born 12 Apr 1842, Caroline Isabel Malone born 20 November 1844, Missouri Ann Malone born 3 May 1847, Sarah Quimby Malone born 2 Feb 1849, Robert Henry Malone born 4 March 1852 and Sidnie Eugenie Malone born 24 Dec 1861.33
Juda married George Wesley Buchan on 23 October 1880 in Comanche County, Texas. George Wesly Buchan was born 23 February 1851 in Pulaski County, Georgia to John Buchan and Artha Sermon.34
The children of Juda and George Wesley Buchan were:1. George Wesley Buchan born 10 July 1880 in De Leon, Comanche, Texas.35 He married Mae Ethel Barto on 27 December 1906 in Bassett, Rock, Nebraska.36 Another record of their marriage was found in Kadoka, Jackson, South Dakota on 4 January 1930. George is listed as a widower and May Barto Buchan is listed as a widow. 37 Perhaps they divorced and remarried. They had one son, Cecil Glen Buchan, born 16 April 1908.38 In 1918 George workes as a well digger in Gordon, Sheridan, Nebraska.39 and Mae teaches in a rural school.40 Later in 1930, George is a farmer in Gordon, Sheridan, Nebraska and Mae is a beauty operator. Cecil is 22 years old and living at home. He sales farm machinery.41 George dies 27 August 1961 in Gordon42 and Mae dies 25 December 1979 in Gordon, Nebraska.43 Ceil married Blanche Irene Gosling on 13 May 1932 in Martin, Bennett County, South Dakota.44 Some miscellaneous information was found about Cecil: On 22 June 1938 Cecil is mentioned in the Lincoln State Journal Newspaper. Under Liquor Board Actions article Change of location is Cecil G. Buchan and Bruce Hummer, Crawford, retail package liquor45 and on 10 June 1943 and article from Gordon, Nebraska stating: Governor Dwight Griswold vacation briefly in his home town, enjoyed an overnight fishing trip on Snake river south of Gordon. Included in the party was Cecil Buchan of Gordon.46 Cecil and Blance had one son, Robert W. Buchan born 15 December 193347 and who died 2 Nov 2000 in Rushville, Sheridan, Nebraska.48 Cecil dies 16 September 1984 Gordon, Nebraska.49 Blanche I Buchan dies 3 Apr 1989.50
2. Clint Buchan born in 1883 probably in Comanche Co, Texas51 and died 1899 in Leon River, Comanche, Texas.52
3. Eugenie Sidney Buchan was born 31 December 1887 in De Leon, Comanche, Texas.53 The first mention of Jennie as she was called is in Benson, Cochise, Arizona in 1900 living with Fred and Juda. Here Jennie is listed as being 10 years old along with her half sister, Maude A. age 4.54 Fred moves his family to Naco, Cochise, Arizona.55 It is here that Jennie marries Daniel Luther Culp on 22 Oct 190556 who works as a brakeman on the railroad. He continues this occupation all his life. Jennie and Daniel have a little girl, Drusilla Carolina Culp, born 26 December 1906 in Naco.57 She dies on 24 November 1910 in Phoenix, Arizona of infantile spinal paralysis and is buried in the Greenwood Cemetery.58 At this time, Jennie has been living in Phoenix a little over a year. She is living at 237 West Madison.59 She and Daniel divorce so it is not known if they were divorced at the time of their child's death. Also between 1910 and 1920 Fred and Juda divorce. Juda or Julia as she was listed in the 1920 census puts her marital status as widowed.60
Daniel Culp was born 9 September 1879 in Hunt county, Texas.61 He remarries to a Mary Irene and they live in Tucson, Pima, Arizona62 until his death on 14 December 1937. He dies of Carcinoma of the left lung.63
Jennie also remarries to Hubert Leslie Hatchel on 29 November 1916.64 Hubert is an auto painter in Phoenix. Hubert was born 17 Mar 1897 in Ardmore, Oklahoma.65 Jennie and Hubert or Bert as he was called continued to live in Phoenix. However Juda goes to California with Maude and Jesse Palmer and dies there on 14 Oct 1924.66
In Phoenix, Jennie gives birth to a baby boy, Hubert Leslie Hatchel, Jr born 9 September 1923.67
They are living at 308 W. Madison. She also gives birth to another son born 17 October 1925 while they are living at 1525 W. Taylor.68 However, this baby does not live.
Jennie dies 12 April 1932 in Phoenix and is buried at Greenwood Cemetery.69> Bert goes back to Oklahoma and marries Mavit Etta Fritz.70 In the meantime Hurbert L. Hatchel, Jr. called Les joins the Navy in 1941.
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Les marries Dorothy Louise Welch in 1947.71 They had two sons, Lanson Leslie Hatchel and Larry LaVerne Hatchel.72 Leslie and Dorothy were divorced in 1957.73 Leslie retired from the Navy in 1960 and married Maria Kobayashi in 1963.74 They adopted Kim Sachiko Hatchel.75 In 1980 Leslie brought his father to Oregon where he is living76 and where his father dies in September 1980.77