First Name:
Temple
Last Name:
Ripley
Type: Light Keeper
Collection / Donor:
Born:
1873
Died:
1945
Place(s)
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Year Started:
1900
Year Departed:
1900
Begin Salary:
435
Place:
Title / Position:
Principal Lighthouse Keeper
Year Started:
1908
Year Departed:
1930
Begin Salary:
576
End Salary:
1620
Place:
Title / Position:
Principal Lighthouse Keeper
Year Started:
1907
Year Departed:
1908
Begin Salary:
576
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Year Started:
1901
Year Departed:
1905
Begin Salary:
420
Place:
Title / Position:
1st Assistant Lighthouse Keeper
Year Started:
1905
Year Departed:
1907
Begin Salary:
550
Source:
Register of Lighthouse Keepers
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Entered Date:
Nov 13, 2018
The Daily Press (Newport News, VA),
Thurs, 1 Feb 1945, p2, c8
Mathews, Jan. 31 - James Temple Ripley, 72, of Shadow, Mathews county, retired lighthouse keeper, died at the U.S. Marine Hospital, Norfolk, this morning of bronchial pneumonia. He had served as keeper at the Nansemond river lighthouse many years before his retirement because of ill health.
Surviving him are one sister, Mrs. James Hudgins of New Point; one brother, Raymond Ripley of Mathews Courthouse; one niece and one nephew.
Funeral services will be held at the Forrest Funeral home, Mathews Courthouse, at 3 p.m. Friday, conducted by the Rev. W. S. Grant, pastor of the Mathews charge of the Methodist church. Interment will be in Friendship cemetery, near Susan.
Mr. Ripley was the son of the late John S. and Elizabeth Davis Ripley of this county. He was a member of Oriental lodge, A.F. and A.M., of Nansemond county.
Active pallbearers will be Walter Ripley, Harold Burroughs, Hubert Diggs, Charles Diggs, Franklin Hudgins and Luther Hurst.