William tiptaft biography

Gospel Standard 1864:

William Tiptaft, Of Abingdon

William Tiptaft died at Abingdon, August 17^th, 1864, aged 61.

A warm and general desire having been expressed by many who knew and loved my late dear friend and brother, William Tiptaft, that a little Memoir of him should be published, embracing a longer account of his life and death than could be comprised within the limits of an Obituary, and the execution of that task devolving by their wishes on me, I find myself placed in a strait.

On the one hand, I feel that I must not and cannot decline the labour of love thus allotted me, especially as it falls in with my own wishes that some more full and abiding memorial should be raised of one so much esteemed and greatly beloved by the living family of God than our scanty and fleeting pages can afford; and as I was intimately acquainted with him for more than 35 years, I shall feel a solemn pleasure in rearing, as far as the Lord may enable me, this last tribute of affection to h