PHILIP STONECIPHER
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As of today, 1/20/26, I'm 2 months shy of my 69th birthday.
It seems to me a bio on a memorial website should probably touch on a couple of items of genealogical interest. One of the things I'm most proud of in my & my three siblings' lives is that even though both our parents came from very humble backgrounds in Depression-era Louisiana and never went to college, our generation went whole-hog for academics: My sister, the oldest, attended classes at night over several years while also working -- never an easy thing to do -- and her dogged perseverance finally earned her a bachelors degree; the three boys (I'm the youngest) all have bachelor's degrees from either Louisiana Tech or what is now the University of Louisiana - Monroe plus our Master's degrees -- from Syracuse, LSU, and the University of Tennessee. The irony of my grad school choice of Tennessee at the Vols' main campus in Knoxville is that for two years my wife and I lived only 40 miles from a long-term Stonecipher ancestral home in Morgan County, TN, and didn't even know it. We've visited Knoxville and the nearby Great Smoky Mountains with our now two adult daughters many times over the years but not since our genealogy research began in earnest more than a decade ago. My own Louisiana-/Texas-based family now considers that part of Tennessee our second home, and it turns out that it was first the home of our Stonecipher family branch beginning in the 1750s.
Although our 35-year marriage is now behind us, my former spouse Susie and I remain close and we are proud of our two daughters Rachel, 34, and Meredith, 29. Meredith and husband Patric gave us a new member of the 12th Generation of our Stonecipher line originating in Siegen, Germany prior to emigrating to America: our granddaughter Guinevere Jo Whitsett, who turns 5 in April. (For more info on our branch of the family see the 4/20/21 update of our 'Family Ancestry Exhibit' now shown on each of our forebears' Find a Grave memorial pages.)
Alas, I must report that my eldest brother and fellow family genealogist Alan Wayne Stonecipher passed on January 21, 2025, at the age of 74. He was a wonderful guy with a great sense of humor -- he often joked that he would like his epitaph to read: "I always suspected this would happen." I created a Find a Grave Memorial for him today in recognition of the first anniversary of his death.
As of today, 1/20/26, I'm 2 months shy of my 69th birthday.
It seems to me a bio on a memorial website should probably touch on a couple of items of genealogical interest. One of the things I'm most proud of in my & my three siblings' lives is that even though both our parents came from very humble backgrounds in Depression-era Louisiana and never went to college, our generation went whole-hog for academics: My sister, the oldest, attended classes at night over several years while also working -- never an easy thing to do -- and her dogged perseverance finally earned her a bachelors degree; the three boys (I'm the youngest) all have bachelor's degrees from either Louisiana Tech or what is now the University of Louisiana - Monroe plus our Master's degrees -- from Syracuse, LSU, and the University of Tennessee. The irony of my grad school choice of Tennessee at the Vols' main campus in Knoxville is that for two years my wife and I lived only 40 miles from a long-term Stonecipher ancestral home in Morgan County, TN, and didn't even know it. We've visited Knoxville and the nearby Great Smoky Mountains with our now two adult daughters many times over the years but not since our genealogy research began in earnest more than a decade ago. My own Louisiana-/Texas-based family now considers that part of Tennessee our second home, and it turns out that it was first the home of our Stonecipher family branch beginning in the 1750s.
Although our 35-year marriage is now behind us, my former spouse Susie and I remain close and we are proud of our two daughters Rachel, 34, and Meredith, 29. Meredith and husband Patric gave us a new member of the 12th Generation of our Stonecipher line originating in Siegen, Germany prior to emigrating to America: our granddaughter Guinevere Jo Whitsett, who turns 5 in April. (For more info on our branch of the family see the 4/20/21 update of our 'Family Ancestry Exhibit' now shown on each of our forebears' Find a Grave memorial pages.)
Alas, I must report that my eldest brother and fellow family genealogist Alan Wayne Stonecipher passed on January 21, 2025, at the age of 74. He was a wonderful guy with a great sense of humor -- he often joked that he would like his epitaph to read: "I always suspected this would happen." I created a Find a Grave Memorial for him today in recognition of the first anniversary of his death.
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