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Source: Church History Vol. 3 Chapter 39 Page: 760

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760 liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.'"

We have made considerable effort to get some record of his family, but have failed to obtain it.

JOHN SHIPPY.

John Shippy, son of Thomas Shippy and Frances (McLeish) Shippy, and grandson of Zebulun Shippy, was born January 26, 1823, in Vienna, Elgin County, Ontario. He was the sixth of a family of fourteen children. His father being a Baptist preacher, he was brought up in that faith. When he was about four years old his father moved to Kent County, Ontario.

Elder Shippy informed us that his earliest recollections are of this place. Of this he says: "Things yet fresh in memory pass before my eyes, and things occurring all along the line of youth life causes my heart to swell with feelings of emotion of childhood, and my soul rejoices in God my Savior, who has prolonged my life till now. I also thank him for bringing me into the world by honest parents, who I believe were strictly Christians, so far as they were taught."

Here John began to attend school, and recalls many reminiscences of his school days, for which we have not space here. When he was about eight years of age his father bought an uncultivated tract of land on the shore of Lake Erie, in Raleigh township. Here Mr. Shippy and his sons felled the forest trees, and by dint of effort opened up a farm and built a home.

The most of the few settlers who professed religion in this new country were of the Methodist and Baptist faith. In a log schoolhouse, erected by joint effort, they held their religious service, each organization holding on alternate Sundays. In this house they held a union Sunday school, in which John received many religions impressions which opened his mind to wider research.

About this time he saw a remarkable vision or dream, which opened to his mind the doctrine, to which he had before been a stranger, of the final restoration of the earth,

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