Finally found information.

[ErnieMac]

For what it is worth I am finding records of a John W. Sipple, Co. H, 4th Kentucky Cavalry who died at the Point Lookout POW camp on July 25, 1864, and is buried in the Confederate Cemetery there. Downloads from Ancestry.com follow. Sipple is seventh from the bottom in the first image and second from the top in the second.

 

[Reconstructed Rebel]

John does seem to be a widely used name in the Sipple family. I have been down numerous rabbit holes for the same reason - there are just too many relatives with the same name and of similar ages to pinpoint who is who sometimes. It is a real challenge.

 

[Reconstructed Rebel]

Just throwing out the thought - The Point Lookout John W. Sipple may very well have been captured when on his way home to visit his sick wife, but it was another John Sipple in Kentucky who fell victim to Order 59.

Unless the family in Bardstown received a notice from someone of their husband/father's death, they could have read the notice in the paper at a later date and assumed the worst.

 

[Mike Serpa]

More at the link below.

History of Kentucky : Connelley, William Elsey, 1855-1930 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

5 volumes

archive.org

 

[Reconstructed Rebel]

More at the link below.
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History of Kentucky : Connelley, William Elsey, 1855-1930 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

5 volumes

archive.org

This source was published in 1922. Does it list primary sources or is this a collection of family lore from local families?

This is where I run into trouble with my own family history. We have stories that were passed down, some of which have been printed in various collections, but when I go back and try to connect them to primary sources, sometimes they don't line up and then there is a a decision to be made as to which source has the most weight….which usually leads to a search for more sources.

 

[Stryker65]

I smell Stephen Burbridge

THAT'S what it was. I knew i recognized that order somewhere...

 

[Mike Serpa]

This source was published in 1922. Does it list primary sources or is this a collection of family lore from local families?

This is where I run into trouble with my own family history. We have stories that were passed down, some of which have been printed in various collections, but when I go back and try to connect them to primary sources, sometimes they don't line up and then there is a a decision to be made as to which source has the most weight….which usually leads to a search for more sources.

It doesn't give a primary source. I tend to give the earliest printed source the nod over latter printed sources. The closer the source is to the actual event means less time for facts to get turned around.

 

[Reconstructed Rebel]

It doesn't give a primary source. I tend to give the earliest printed source the nod over latter printed sources. The closer the source is to the actual event means less time for facts to get turned around.

These early sources are the ones I love to read for the same reason. In my later years though, I think I am becoming leery of family histories written by family members that don't contain a scrap of negative information. It is entirely understandable, of course, but those family legends just don't always stand up to research in other primary records.

 

[lupaglupa]

Memories are sharper closer to the event. But people are often motivated to ignore unpleasantries.