Ancestry of
Amy Adams

Movie Actress

Milford Bard Shipp

View famous kin of Milford Bard Shipp

• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Amy Adams — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 22 
  • Father:
  • Austin Shipp 
  • Mother:
  • Louisa Caroline Farnsworth   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Mar 1838 
  • Birth Location:
  • Edinburgh, Johnson, Indiana 
  • Christening Date:
  •  
  • Christening Location:
  •  
  • Death Date:
  • 14 Mar 1918 
  • Death Location:
  • Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah 
  • Burial Date:
  • 17 Mar 1918 
  • Burial Location:
  • Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Ellis Reynolds
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 May 1866 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah 
  • Child:

  Olea Shipp (Ahnentafel No:11 )

  • Notes: 

  • Dr. Milford Bard Shipp was a Mormon who practiced bigamy as he was married to at least four wives.

    Some records state that Dr. Milford Bard Shipp was born at Crawfordsville, Montgomery, Indiana. However, Milford B. Shipp, at the age of 69, gave his birth location as Edinburg [sic], Johnson County, Indiana on his application to the State of Utah for one of the Indian War Veteran Medals.

    Although some sources give Milford Shipp's birth year as 1836, his tombstone has it as 1838.

• Additional marriages for Milford Bard Shipp

  ---

  • Spouse:
  • Cornelia Sherman Winn

  ---

  • Spouse:
  • Alice Eldredge
  • Marriage Date:
  • Nov 1864

  ---

  • Spouse:
  • Margaret Curtis
  • Marriage Date:
  • 31 Dec 1867

  ---

  • Spouse:
  • Mary Elizabeth Hillstead

  ---

  • Spouse:
  • Mary Catherine Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Feb 1872

  ---

  • Spouse:
  • Martha Waggoner

• Sources for Milford Bard Shipp

  • ¹ Federal Census, UT, Salt Lake County, 1880, Salt Lake City, E.D. 53, p. 25, Image 25 of 27.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/07/2018).
  • ³ Idaho, U.S., Death Index, 1890-1964, Death record for daughter Olea S Hill.
  • ⁴ Idaho, U.S., Death Records, 1890-1971, Death certificate for daughter Olea S Hill.
  • ⁵ Salt Lake County, Utah, Death records, 1908-1949, Death record for spouse Ellis Reynolds Shipp.
  • ⁶ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Application for daughter Olea Shipp Hill.
  • ⁷ Utah, U.S., Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961, Death certificate for Milford Bard Shipp.
  • ⁸ Shipp, Ralph D., The Shipp Family Genealogy, Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1975), 127, 137-140.

Amy Adams photo by NYCArthur (CC BY-SA 2.0)