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Abner Wallace Tipping (son of Thomas Henry Tipping and Sarah Wallace)359, 360 was born 11 Jan 1876 in Melancthon Twp, Grey County Ontario361, and died 18 Jun 1965 in Stayner Ontario. He married Mary Ann Baker on 23 Sep 1903 in Stayner On362, daughter of Daniel Baker and Matilda Jane Lewis.

 Includes NotesNotes for Abner Wallace Tipping:
I can remember spending hours sitting by my grandfather Tipping as he lay on a couch in the living room of their house at Stayner. He had a huge German made radio that could bring in Shortwave stations and stations from all over the US. I would listen to that with one ear and to his stories with the other.
He was a tall thin angular person who had a wicked sense of humour and would often imitate the neighbours way of walking and talking. He had nick names for them too. Stickup because he bought a lot across the street and was intending to "stick up a house". Gub Gub and Blub Blub were two ladies who lived next door and talked strangely because of missing teeth or missing brain cells. His wife was aghast at this performance of his and said that one day they would hear him and he would live to regret his teasing.
He had farmed for many years and had owned a horse called Gamey. He sold the horse and it was mistreated. He often said how sorry he was that he had let some wretch mistreat his horse. He had a huge garden on the sandy soil of Stayner and raised many vegetables, notably potatoes and onions. I can still smell the odour of dill curing in the back wood shed. They had a huge Granny Smith apple tree and we used to climb into it's lower limbs and sit for hours looking out over Grandpa's garden.
One day we had to catch and dispatch a chicken from the chicken pen at the small barn he had at the back of the lot. The chicken was caught but when I tried to chop its head off, I missed and only cut the end of the beak off. It was a very angry chicken until I ended its embarrassment.
Grandpa used to drink a beer called Porter, and the dirt floor of the wood shed had a bright decoration of these orange caps that he had popped off the bottles. He could drink it in the woodshed but not in the house. The explanation I got was that it was for his stomach ulcer.

More About Abner Wallace Tipping and Mary Ann Baker:
Marriage: 23 Sep 1903, Stayner On.362

Children of Abner Wallace Tipping and Mary Ann Baker are:
  1. +Matilda Mae Tipping, b. 24 May 1913, Creemore, Ontario363, 364, d. 21 Jul 1991, Collingwood Hospital , Collingwood, Ontario365, 366.
  2. +William Howard Tipping.
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