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A Lifetime Under the Hood
Our ancestor Larry Pipes was a professional drag racer, holding two world records in the early 1970s. But his love affair with cars started much earlier. Larry was born in…
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An Artistic Eye
Our ancestor Elaine Burmeister was not only a homemaker who loved to travel, she was also an accomplished oil painter. But her creativity drove her to explore other media as…
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Veteran of the Revolution
Our ancestor John Pipes Jr. was born in 1739 in Rockaway, New Jersey, approximately 40 miles west of New York. His father, John Pipes Sr., and mother Susan Hathaway, moved…
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A Civil War Story
James Richard Pipes There is a story told in our family about our ancestor James Richard Pipes. He once received $125 from the federal government as compensation for property that…