in the early 19th century, tipton's son, william (1761–1849), known as "fighting billy," acquired much of the land in cades cove, in the great smoky mountains. tipton's in-law, joshua jobe, convinced john oliver to become the cove's first white settler in 1818. the tipton place, built by tipton's descendants in the 1880s, still stands along the cades cove loop road.