Ezekiel Henry Stipes jr. was born at Harpers Ferry, July 20, 1825.

His father was Ezekiel Henry Stipes, sr. who married Verlinda Ogden. The latter was born September 25, 1791; died at Harpers Ferry, August 29, 1877. Her husband died about 1831. The brothers of Ezekiel, sr., were Benjamin, Reuben, Daniel and Harry. The children of Ezekiel Stipes, sr., and Verlinda Ogden were:

Salomi Stipes

John Derritt Stipes

Ezekiel Henry jr. Stipes

Miranda Lucetta Stipes, b. 1828; m. John Donohue, fall of 1877; d. April 19, 1883

Ezekiel Henry was employed for several years in the United States armory at Harpers Ferry, learning the gunsmith's trade.

In 1850, in company with John Briscoe he came to Brunswick, Missouri, where the two opened a gun shop, under the firm name of Briscoe & Stipes.

After his marriage in 1851, Ezekiel located on a small farm near the Cruzen home and worked at farming and gunsmithing, also doing carpenter work.

In 1868 he bought land in Carroll County, Missouri, and there the next year established a home, yet occupied by Mrs. Stipes and two youngest sons. Since 1875 his sons (Wilhelm and Jeffries at first, and after 1881, Jeffries, and also Frederick W. when the latter reachred maturity) have had control of the farm, while Ezekiel worked part of each season at his trade as a carpenter, until his death, which occurred on January 30, 1894. He was a man of excellent mechanical ability.

At the outbreak of the Civil War he spent several weeks at Brunswick aiding in the conversion of a lot of old flint-lock muskets, of which the Confederates had come into possession, into modern percussion guns. During that war he remained at home, meeting with no serious loss or molestation, though in a country that, for two or three years, was on the borderland between the two contending factions.

Children are:

Millard Fillmore Stipes, born November 12, 1851

Wilhelm Crosby Stipes, born September 10, 1854

Jeffries Stipes, born September 23, 1856

Cora Verlinda Stipes, born September 29, 1860

Frederick Winfield Stipes, born January 16, 1876