I suppose a start would be the location over these rock formations as they exist today. "Whipp's Ledges" are part of the Hinckley Reservation your Cleveland Metroparks. This is the same Hinckley that is world renowned for it's returning buzzards. Other than attempt to write down the exact location from a park, I think it is by far less ambiguous to don't use anything except Google Maps to find the place. If my photographs now have inspired you to actually visit, I suggest that you are making a whole weekend of this trip.
All of the information I have collected on the person whom these ledges are really named after (Robert Whipp) was attained from inside the Hinckley and the Medina The history Societies, especially the Historical System of the Medina Public Library.
An previously statement concerning Robert Whipp: I about fell over i started to dig to the long forgotten history to that person! In a nut-shell (I will expound on this later), there was an instalment in this man's life that's been the O. J. Simpson trial a century removed (117 to set you back exact).
Robert Whipp would be a Cattle Baron, in today's standards he the multi millionaire... he famous eight penniless, so much to ensure that there were no funds for the headstone, not only which often can, the head stone to which he was buried (his the early wife's), a volunteer was sought to do the engraving. There will also be one other very unconventional anomaly: the date of course his death, there isn't any "day" just the end of & year. Why?? Stay with me and I will best wishes my supposition. If anyone if you decide to visit his grave, it is every bit in Hinckley's local cemetery (the Walnut Hill Cemetery), it's of this south side of Rt 303, about 1/2 mile west from the intersection of Ridge Road (Rt 3) and Rt 303. You will discover mausoleum in that cemetery; the Whipp's final repose is 10' northeast of the northeast corner of its structure.
I need to undertake a slight digression. I is going to make several suppositions. If you are a History Buff, and declare seeing this "You can't explain that", I will merely admit... No I sectors. My conclusions are influenced by circumstantial evidence and a common gut hunch... and an almost plausible explanation.
After a guide of the salutary e-book of R. Whipp, it is easy to reasonably suspect he the dirty old man, however, let me quote verbatim when History of Medina County.
"He never chewed often smoked nor was he viewed as drinking man, and divergent his word in sale, nobody questioned it. So he never loafed or wagered, and possessed the push and energy of four ordinary men"
"He certainly not abused his hired suggestions or treated his wife even though kindly"
"He was not directed to profanity"
So... Who was Paul Whipp? He was born in great britan in 1824; in England he the butcher. At the the age of 15 in Yorkshire vibrant inherited a sheep institute from his father. The actual was prosperous but almost deleted by a sheep blight about 1845. Shortly thereafter he decided to sell all his holdings and for you to Australia. In Liverpool, awaiting a speed boat to Australia, he met a good deal of men that convinced him to see America instead. He come to New York, than : Cleveland, than to Brunswick Ohio exactly where he worked as a farm hand for just about any Preston Hart. After simply a month working for T. Hart, Whipp rented some real estate from him and commences raising picture flock of sheep.
Commence an Civil War, and every single and every gyrations of the costs of material to aid the effort. There the craze by entrepreneurs (R. Whipp) decide to purchase as much land as feasible. One of the notable persons of times was one Horace Waite, always that used to be "Deacon Waite". Evidently almost farmers in the arena became insolvent save brand, Deacon Waite. He drops dead, survived by his significant other Mehetible. Whipp marries "The Widow Waite". "Ittie" as Whipp seen the her, was substantially your girlfriend senior. Herein is the stage that conjecture... Did Robert Whipp marry her on the basis of absorbing her land? This question cannot be answered definitely yes because they remain single for 30 years until such time as her death in 1876 (or thereabout), and, he always spoke with regards to her in endearing verbiage. The next supposition: the two never had any children regarding; they adopted a child named Marvin Wilcox. What normally happened to M. Wilcox is unknown as they dies "in young manhood".
In 1877 HE. Whipp was worth $100, 000, along land holdings of 2000 acres. Do you suppose that everybody would be scheming-kniving countless to inveigle him by his worldly positions? Why No! Whatever gave you an idea like that?! (Ha-ha).
The major players: There was in Granger or perhaps Hinckley Center (not clear) a british family on friendly key points with Whipp. Hanna Spensley along with this family was hired to be Whipp's housekeeper. She posesses a daughter Rachael (a first widow) and son Lonsdale Spensley. Rachel has a boyfriend (lover) "Taylor". (The specifics of the identity of Rachel's boyfriend is definitely not clear)
The plot is born; Hanna Spensley approaches Whipp with proposition that young Rachel "make him a contented home". Never mind the website Whipp is 30 several years her senior. Shortly and then Rachel and Whipp play a "seeing each other". Your puppy becomes "in a precious condition", (this a quote when Medina Gazette) a 19th century euphemism for pregnant. Here is my in close proximity supposition: Even though Whipp & Rachel are with another woman, there is probable cause to suspect that Whipp tend to be the father of her unborn child. The father might that were Taylor (The "History and if Medina County" does confirm that Taylor was the guardian, but, what happened to Taylor and likewise child I restarted to).
In defense of the Robert Whipp, it must be observed that he never thought parents marring Rachel was a good suggestion. To Wit: Twice a date for your wedding was set and instances Robert Whipp leaves her for alter. A third ceremony is put; Rachel threatens to deliver Whipp on sight presuming he didn't show! Simultaneously were married at the us House Hotel in Medina Tennesse on August 13, 1877. She was 22 (one source says 24) anf the was 54.
Very shortly thereafter Rachel gets a super bitch. Quoting designed by Medina Gazette, who contract from court testimony, in .... they constantly had threatening arguments, and Rachael called her husband a mean old devil. It was intimated Whipp the man bordering on insanity. Whipp chose to sleep out and the field hands, and talked along the divorce within three weeks your nuptials".
The plot thickens. Albeit Rachel denied everything, Rachel concocts a scheme so that you have her brother Lon with her boyfriend Taylor kill Whipp and make it look like a suicide. The suicide idea looks like plausible (if they paid a commission for away with... which they didn't) because Whipp a couple of times had lamented to his neighbors that if the economy continued its squeeze, he would commit suicide. Rachel buys a rope with the John Brongers, a online community merchant. She said this person needed a strong rope by which she would hang cream and butter with regard to well... the rope have ½ inch in diameter.
The plan is that will assist chloroform Whipp, than hang down him! (It never was ascertained and also got the chloroform). Of this night of September 15, 1877 simultaneously attempt the murder, the study fail. Keep in mind that Robert Whipp hasn't been the average man, he stopped 6' tall and 250 lbs... he fights your ex off!
I will greatly condense the information of what happened immediately after. Lonsdale Spensley, Taylor and Rachel were arrested. Until now arrest Rachel flees connected with neighbor's house, than : her mother, than source of income home on September 17th. From the Medina Gazette "Her husband unceremoniously toted out of the house and set her in the middle the road".
Mrs. Whipp, Lon Spensley and "Taylor" are charged with assault with reason why to kill. I will now revisit "Taylor". He demands an ardent trail, under the law the court is bound to grant his request. In the history from a incident he is only that used to be "Taylor", this is because Whipp couldn't positively identify him as one of his two assailants. Ultimately he never goes to trial... his exact identity vanished within the sands of time.
The simulation began January 14, 1878, and lasted 11 days. Lonsdale Spensley and Rachel H Whipp put together guilty and sentenced to fit 7 years hard utilization. Both Rachel and Lonsdale serve only one year of their lexical. Rachel and Taylor get spliced and move to somewhere between southern Ohio and also vanish for just a sands of time.
For additional 12 years there is nearly nothing mentioned about also a once mighty cattle baron John Whipp. His final abode was on one of his land holdings, the "Kline Farm" through Hinckley Ridge. Now I will return to the afore mentioned anomaly inside date of his fatality. This is also one of my conjectures, why for it "September 1890"? Could it be that he was so disliked due to his increasing debts, that a) he must have been a hermit and b) nobody demanded him anyway? Until c) Somebody was walking by ones own house and wondered... "What's that stink?! "
And so ends the saga of your other half who's name is indelibly connected to the Ledges of Hinckley Brink. One endnote: I have named certainly one of my pictures "Inscription moreover Whipp's Ledges". I suspect but can't prove this is not a connection to the name on the inscription, (William Sargeant) and Robert Whipp.
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