My great-grandfather was James Robert Clipper, born in Georgianna, Alabama. He later moved to Boley, Oklahoma and was one of the early settlers in 1903. I believe that Mitchell Clipper was also known as Duncan and also moved to Oklahoma, Morse township. My branck of the Clipper family later moved to Vado, New Mexico and to California in the mid-to-late 1930s.

My grandmoter was Ora Lee Clipper born in Boley, 1916 and she died in Los Angeles, 1990. Her oldest brother was James Cherry who was the grand-father of jazz musician Don Cherry who passed in 1995.