Silas Tucker OLIPHANT

1859 - 1941  (82 years)

• Name	Silas Tucker OLIPHANT
  Birth	30 Jun 1859	Lavergne, Rutherford, Tennessee
  Gender	Male
  Religion	Burns, Dickson, Tennessee, United States   [1]
  	Deacon
  Residence	1920	Civil District 4, Dickson, Tennessee, United States   [1]
  _FSFTID	L67Y-DC8
  _FSLINK	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L67Y-DC8
  _UID	CDDA349F69764B0D9255A536991FC9A79BAB
  Burial	1941	Burns, Dickson, Tennessee, United States of America   [1]
  Death	24 Dec 1941	Burns, Dickson County, Tennessee, United States   [1]
  Person ID	I7002	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Presley Ward OLIPHANT,   b. 1810, Rutherford County, Tennessee d. Jun 1884, Williamson County, Tennessee (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Mary Leanne FITZHUGH,   b. 1825, Nolensville Pike, Davidson County, Tennessee d. 9 Dec 1889, Williamson County, Tennessee (Age 64 years)
  Marriage	16 Feb 1848	Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
  Family ID	F7283	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alice Serena HALL,   b. 1863, Tennessee d. 5 Jun 1936, Burns, Dickson Co., Tennessee (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	16 Oct 1879	Dickson, Tennessee, United States
  Children	1. Mary A. OLIPHANT,   b. 1880, , Dickson, Tennessee d. Abt 1880, Dickson, Tennessee, United States (Age 0 years)   2. Leonard Rodolphus OLIPHANT,   b. 26 Feb 1881, Burns, Dickson Co., Tennessee d. 10 Sep 1958, Marienaga, Cobb, George (Age 77 years)   3. Mary Magdalene “Maggie” OLIPHANT,   b. 1 Jul 1883, Dickson County, TN d. 30 Dec 1918, Burns, Dickson, Tennessee, United States (Age 35 years)   4. Rosa Bell OLIPHANT,   b. 18 Oct 1887, Dickson, Tennessee, United States d. 17 Oct 1967, Dickson, Dickson, Tennessee, United States (Age 79 years)   5. Beulah E. OLIPHANT,   b. 20 Dec 1889, Dickson County, Tennessee, United States d. 20 Aug 1914, Burns, Dickson, Tennessee, United States (Age 24 years)   6. Nettie OLIPHANT,   b. 1897, Burns, Dickson, Tennessee, United States d. 30 Mar 1900, Burns, Dickson, Tennessee, United States (Age 3 years)
  Family ID	F545	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Silas T Oliphant Biography: [1] "...I was born June 30, 1859, in Rutherford county at a place call La Verne about fifteen miles south of Nashville, which makes me eighty years old my last birthday. I am a son of Presley Ward Oliphant, whose father came from Scotland and settled in Rutherford county when my father was about two years old. My mother was before her marriage to my father, Mary Fitzhugh, who was born in Davidson county on the Nolensville Pike. My father was a carpenter by trade, but later took up farming as his occupation. I don't remember but very little about the beginning of the Civil War, except the last two years. My father was too old for service in the War. He was gray as far back as I can remember. About that time I remember seeing the Yankees having six wagons in our field gathering our corn. Three years after the War we moved to the First District in Williamson county. In regard to my father's family, there were 13 children born, seven boys and six girls. All lived to be grown except the youngest boy, who died at fourteen years of age. There were six boys and three girls older than myself. I have outlived all of then except my brother B.M. Oliphant who has lived on Beaverdam Creek about sixty-two years. He and also his wife are members of the Over-eighty Club. From the time I was nine years old to fifteen years I got what little schooling I have, which is very limited. At about that time, I bagan to have, as I thought the best time of my life. I would ride as far as anyone to a night dance. Would dance and court all night and work all next day. It was very common for a boy of this age to love the last girl he is with the best, until he meets the right one, which, on the Christmas following, 1877, I met the right one on the ballroom floor where the Rev. J. O. Reavis now lives, which was known as the "Mason Hall." On entering the Mason ballroom, Jim Hall came to me and I noticed Lundy White, a friend of mine, was dancing with a girl who attracted my attention, and I turned to Jim and asked him who Lundy was dancing with, and he said she was his sister-"hacked again." I asked Lundy to make me acquainted with Miss Hall, which he did, and I asked her to dance with me the next set, which was accepted. I was in her company all the time I could be from the time I met her in the latter part of 1877 until September 1878. We were at the Bill Austin old place sitting under the old weeping willow, and there it was I asked her to be my wife. She asked for time to make me an answer as she was very young. Her father took sick and died before I saw her again. We were together often during the fall and winter of 1879, so in April of that year at her home I asked her what she thought about the question I asked her under the willow tree. She told me she hadn't thought anything about it but at this time we became engaged and were married October 16th of that year. We began keeping house the following Christmas at the Ben Hall place, one and a half miles north of Burns. We were the parents of six children. Two died in infancy and the other four include: Leonard Oliphant, of Marietta, Ga.; Maggie Walp, deceased, of Burns; Rose Dunn of Burns, and Beulah Jones, deceased, of Burns. Eleven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren are living. We moved with our family to Burns in February 1896 and were united with the old Baptist Church at Burns the Fourth Sunday in August 1903. On Saturday before the fourth Sunday in May 1904, we were ordained to the office of Deacon. My wife served as Deacon's Wife 32 years, she having much better qualifications than I had. The good Lord saw fit to call her home June 5, 1936, making our wedded life sixty years... SILAS OLIPHANT Burns, Tenn." Silas passed away in 1941. [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 16 Sep 2024), entry for Silas Tucker OLIPHANT, person ID L67Y-DC8. (Reliability: 3).