Here lie Alice and Paul. Now I know that Alice was born in 1840, fourteen years after Paul, and that makes her 28 when they were married and he 42. So he didn't exactly rob the cradle. This may explain why her father, a lawyer and politician from Kentucky, had a house built for her in Edgewater Park, NJ. Perhaps he worried she'd never move out on her own? Or maybe he thought she needed a dowery in order to find a husband. Her age, and the fact that she'd moved to New Jersey before she was married, suggest that the house may have been built in the mid-1860s rather than later in the decade, as I'd been thinking.

Tomorrow, I'm visiting the archives in the Philadelphia Inquirer library to see if I can find anything there about the Shipmans -- perhaps a couple of obituraries, if nothing else.