STORY OF JACOB KINSEY

1807-1881

1. Jacob Kinsey was born of John W. and Barbara Heckman Kinsey August 22, 1807 in Jefferson Twp. Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio

2. Jacob married Elizabeth Reasor August 22, 1828 in Montgomery County, Ohio

3. Daughter, Margaret born 1829 in Montgomery County, Ohio

4. Son, John R. (Reasor?) born October 1831 in Montgomery County, Ohio

5. Daughter, Mary Ann born 1833 in Montgomery County, Ohio

6. Son, Daniel born June 25,1837in Montgomery county, Ohio

7. Son, Jacob born 1839 in Montgomery County, Ohio

8. Daughter, Sarah Ellen born 1842 in Ohio

9. Son, David born 1844 in Ohio

10. Jacob moved his family to Indiana about 1845.

11. Son, Benjamin F. born 1847 in Indiana

12. Daughter, Margaret married Lewis Hopper June 27, 1847 in Miami County, Indiana

13. Son, Henry born 1849 in Indiana

14. Daughter, Mary Ann married Henry N. Walters October 5, 1850 in Miami County, Indiana

16. Jacob moved his family 1853 to Fairmount, Vermilion County, Illinois

15. Son, John R. married Elizabeth Chronister October 7, 1854 in Miami County, Indiana

17. Son Emanuel born in Fairmount, Vermilion County, Illinois

18. Daughter, Minerva born in Fairmount, Vermilion County, Illinois

19. Daughter, Minerva died in infancy

20. Son, Daniel married Matilda Pillers July 25, 1857 in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois

21. Wife Elizabeth Reasor died March 22, 1861(6?) in Oakwood, Vermilion County, Illinois

22. Son, Jacob died December 17, 1861 in St. Louis, Missouri, Civil War

23. Daughter Sarah Ellen married William Haller April 1864 in Fairmount, Vermilion County, Illinois)

24. Son, Benjamin F. died February 10, 1866 buried Shock cemetery, near Fairmount

24b. 1870 living with Margaret in Fairmount

24d. Married Phebe Ann Hill, April 6, 1873

24c.Married Mary Hess January 10, 1877

24a. Spent his last years in Kansas probably with Daniel

25. Jacob died January 31, 1881 in (Fairmount, Vermilion County, Illinois ?)

June 20, 1860 Vermilion County, Catlin Twp., Illinois Census lists Jacob, farmer and Elizabeth with six children, Jacob 20, Sarah 19, David 16, Benjamin F. 14, Henry 10, and Emanual 3, and a farm hand Joseph Pillars 20yrs. old

June 14, 1870 has Jacob and Emanual living with Margaret and Lewis Hopper

Items to look for Jacob Kinsey's family:

Indiana Census for 1850, Miami County- look for Twp. Same as ????

Illinois Census for 1880 Vermilion County

From Glen F. Kinzey,8/1999

Jacob living with son Daniel on 1880 Kansas State Census, Rockcreek twp. Bulter County. Note on census shows Jacob paralized (1850 census, Miami County, Indiana reel 160). Marriage Book B, page 20, Jacob Kinsey to Elizabeth Riser by George Oblinger, JP. Buried in the Oakwood Cemetery.

Portrait and Bigraphical Album Vermilion County, Illinois has Jacob

Married twice after death of Elizabeth, Having nine sons and four daughters, five living in 1889

From Glen F. Kinzey 8/1999

Burial, Tombstone reads, Elizabeth Kinsey, wife of Jacob, 22 March 1861, 55y 5m 10d. (This would make her DOB October 2, 1805. )

1860 Census has Elizabeth 49 yrs., make her birth about 1811. Has Emanual 3 yrs. old or born in 1857, Elizabeth would have been 46 if born in 1811 but 52 if born in 1805.

Also have name from marriage listings as Riser

Don't believe the Shock death date, believe death date to be March 22, 1866, would make birth October 11, 1810 and Elizabeth would have been 47 when Emanual was born. If we find dates of Jacob's next marriages it might help

John MacPhee has August 28 1828 but in Kinsey's on the Move July 1984 that date is the next one in line for Jacob Kinsey and Catherine Backer

Joel Thomas, Mg

Source also marriage license abstract Vermilion County, Illinois

1860 Vermilion County, Carroll Twp. Census lists Lewis born in Virginia and Margaret with four children, farmer

June 4, 1870 Vermilion County, Carroll Twp., Illinois census lists Lewis farmer, Margaret keeping house, John farm laborer, Sarah, Susana at school, Martha at school, Frank at school, Mary at school, Jacob Kinsey 62 born in Ohio carpenter, Emanual Kinsey 13 farm laborer, Thomas Tuttle 16 born Illinois farm laborer.

1880 Vermilion County, Carroll Twp., Illinois lists Louis, farmer, now married to Elizabeth L. children listed are Martha J., Frank, and Mary M. also stepsons Gui Omstead, 16 and Earnest Omstead 11

Written up in Portrait and Biographical Album for Vermilion County, Illinois, 1889

"LEWIS HOPPER, among the notable characteristics in the make up of this gentleman is his great self-reliance and the ability to take care of himself, which was evinced at an early age and when thrown among strangers. His life occupation has been that of farming in which he has been eminently successful and from which it has been exceedingly difficult for him to make up his mind to retire, although he has now done so , and is comfortably established in a pleasant village home at Fairmount. Among the other fortunate things which befell him during his early manhood was the careful wife and mother who has stood by the side of her husband for these many years, encouraging him in his worthy ambitions and ably assisting him in the struggle for a competence. They have lived happily together for many years and are now reaping a mutual enjoyment from the fruits of their early toil and sacrifices. Such have been their lives that they have commanded the esteem and confidence of the people where ever they have lived, bearing that reputation for solid work and reliability of character, which form the basis of all well regulated society.

In reviewing the antecedents of Mr. Hopper we find that his parents were Beverly and Sarah (Miller) hopper, natives of Virginia and the father born in Culpeper County. They lived in the Old Dominion after their marriage until 1829, then changed their residence to the vicinity of Newark in Licking County, Ohio. Later, they removed to Indiana, where they died after their nine children married and scattered. Of these our subject, was the youngest born and six are still living. He first opened his eyes to the light in Virginia on ht the thirteenth day of February, 1827, and was a child in his mother's arms when they moved to the Buckeye State. He attended the subscription school and worked with his father on the farm until a youth of eighteen years.

Upon reaching his majority young Hopper began learning the carpenter trade, but the failure of his employers soon threw him out of the business and he returned to the farm. He was married in 1847 to Miss Margaret, daughter of Jacob Kinsey, of Peru, Indiana and lived in the Hooser State until August, 1853. That year he came to this county with his little family and settled four miles northeast of Fairmount, residing there for a period of eleven years. he then sold out and purchased a farm five miles south-east of Fairmount and comprising of 160 acres all prairie. He turned the first furrow there and effected all the other improvements which finally rendered it a valuable piece of property, and occupied it until their removal the village.

The six children born to our subject and his first wife are recorded as follows: John married Miss Rebecca A. Carrington, is the father of three children and lives on a farm four miles southeast of Fairmount; Sarah is the wife of Joseph English, lives near Peru, Indiana and is the mother of one child; Susannah married George Darr and is the mother of four children; they live three miles south-west of Fairmount; Martha Jane, Mrs Charles Pemberton, is the mother of four children and lives six miles south of Fairmount; Frank married Miss Cora Hall, is the father of one child and lives six miles south of Fairmount; Vina, Mrs. James Smith, is the mother of three children and lives near Peru, Indiana; Mrs Margaret (Kinsey) Hopper departed this life at the home farm in 1876.

Mr. Hopper contracted a second marriage March 27, 1880 with Lou (Stansberry) Olmstead, daughter of Bonaparte and Jane (Wooden) Stansberry of Catlin this state. Mr. Stansberry was a farmer by occupation and the parental household included six children of whom Mrs. Hopper was the fifth in order of birth. She was born at Catlin , January 27,1842, and grew up amid the scenes of pioneer life, her parents having been early settlers of that region. Mr. Stansberry died when his daughter Lou was a young child. The mother is still living and is now aged seven-seven years; she is bright and intelligent old lady and takes delight in reviewing the scenes of her early life in Illinois to which her father came as early as 1812. She was present at the opening of the first court to Vermilion County.

Mrs. Hopper attended the common schools during her childhood days and was carefully trained by an excellent mother in those housewifely duties which have so much influence upon the happiness and comfort of a home. Although not belonging to any religious denomination Mr. and Mrs. Hopper have made it the rule of their lives to do unto others as they would be done by, and among their neighbors and friends have maintained that kindly Christian character, which is the true index of an unselfish benevolent heart. Their home is pleasantly situated at the east edge of Fairmount, where they have five acres of ground and a neat residence erected in 1887. The year following Mr. Hopper put up a fine barn. He keeps some stock and pays special attention to the raising of swine. He has enough to keep himself comfortably busy without overtaxing his energies.

While not by any means a politician, Mr. Hopper etc. page 331"

Glen F. Kinzey stated she was married in Fairmont, Vermilion County, Illinois

Listed in June 30, 1860 Census, Vermilion County, Carroll Twp., Illinois Farmer

Listed with five children in August 3, 1870 Census, Vermilion County, Oakwood Twp., Illinois, Farmer

Listed in June 10, 1880 census, Vermilion County, Oakwood Twp., Illinois, farmer, four children

From " Portrait and Biographical Album of Vermilion County 1889"

"JOHN R KINSEY, The community of Oakwood Township recognizes in the subject of this notice one of its most useful and worthy citizens, a man liberal and public spited, one who gives generously to his is church (The United Brethren), in which he is a Class leader and Steward and an active worker in the Sunday school, and who in all the walks of live strives to make the best of circumstances and follow that line of conduct by which he may be enabled to leave a good record for his children to look upon in future years. Conservative in politics, he was first identified with the Old Line Whigs and upon the abandonment of that party by the organization of the Republicans, he identified himself with the later in whose principles he thoroughly believes and votes accordingly. His occupation in that of a farmer, and he operates forty acres of good land on Section 23, also owning fifty-seven acres in Catlin Township. He has neat and substantial modern buildings and a comfortable home, built up by his own energy and industry.

The native place of our subject was a few miles west of the city of Dayton, Ohio, and his birth occurred October 20, 1831. His parents were Jacob and Eliza (Ressor) Kinsey, the former a native of Ohio, and the later born in Germany, whence she was brought to America by her parents in early childhood. Grandfather John Kinsey, of Pennsylvania, removed at an early age to the vicinity of Dayton, Ohio, and purchased land from which he constructed the farm which now belongs to the grounds of the Solders Home. There his son Jacob was born about 1812. The latter was reared to manhood and married in his native state where he followed farming and carpentering and became owner of a fine property. Later he met with reverses and had little to leave his children at the time of his death.

The mother of our subject was a lady possessing all the womanly virtues, and a member of the United Brethren Church. There were born to her and her husband, nine sons and four daughters and five of these children and living. Four of the boys entered the Union Army during the late Civil War. Jacob was in the 35th Illinois Infantry and died in the service; David passed safely through the vicissitudes of army life and after the war took up his adobe in Spring River, Missouri, where he died about 1867 or 1868; Benjamin Franklin contracted measles in the army, was sent home and died; Daniel, of the 35th Illinois Infantry, was taken prisoner and wounded but recovered; returning home, he is now a resident of Butler County, Kansas. The mother has long passed away. Her children cherish the revere her memory above all others for she was truly a mother in every sense, devoted to her husband and regarding her children as her dearest treasures on earth. Mr. Kinsey, the first father was twice married after the death of his first wife and spent his last years in Kansas.

Our subject remained a resident of his native State until a youth of sixteen years, then in 1847, removed with his father's family to Peru, Indiana. He lived there until 1853, then coming to this county he located on a farm just east of his present homestead. He had received a common school education, but was of that temperament and disposition which led him to keep his eyes open to what was going on around him, and he thus became a well informed and intelligent citizen. When ready to establish a home of his own he was married at Peru, Indiana, to Mrs Elizabeth Chronister and soon afterwards, coming to this county, he purchased fifty acres of land from his father where he put up a frame house and became involved in debt. Then selling out, he rented land of his father for a year and one half, after which he purchased forty acres-his present farm. Here he hewed his own logs an built a house and stable and since that tike has given his attention to the cultivation and improvement of his land. It has been well titled and drained and is very productive. Besides this he has fifty-seven acres in Catlin Township. He rents other land of his neighbors and besides raising quantities of fruit, having a flourishing orchard, he feeds each year a goodly number of cattle and swine.

Mr. Kinsey and his family now occupy a two story frame dwelling, thirty-six feet square and which was erected in 1881. It makes a very attractive home, beautifully located in the edge of the timber, and is elsewhere represented in this work. To Mr. and Mrs. Kinsey there have been born five children, Te eldest, Mararet A., is the wife of Thomas J. Peterson, lives in Kansas and has two children. Jasper N., and the youngest child Sardis H., remain at home with their parents. John A., is unmarried and a resident of Dakota. Sarah Ellen, Mrs. Daniel Clapp, has one child and lives in Oakwood Township."

Marriage index lists Lewis Hopper filing affidavit

Lincoln County is near Oklahoma City north of Seminole County.

Found a 1915 map of Lincoln County on internet, has Willzetta just north of Prague.

1880 census has him in Kansas

LIFE STORY OF DANIEL KINSEY( my best guess)

1837-1911

1. 1837 Daniel born in Montogomery County, Ohio

2. 1844 moved with his parents to Wayne County, Indiana

3. 1853 moved with his parents to Fairmount, Illinois farm 10 miles southwest of Danville

4. 1857 married Matilda Pillers in Fairmount, Illinois

5. 1859 son Benjamin born Illinois

6. 1860 daughter Icy born Illinois

7. 1861 William born Illinois

7a. Civil War, taken prisoner, wounded

8. 1865 daughter Margaret born Illinois

9. 18?? (before 1873 after 1870) Moved to Lincoln, Lincoln County, Kansas

10. 1867 daughter Emma born Illinois

11. 1870 son John born Illinois

12. 1873 daughter Cora born Douglass, Bulter County, Kansas

13. 1878 son Charles born Douglass, Kansas

13a. 1884 Fairmount newspaper has Daniel moving from Oakwood to Douglass

14. 1894 wife Matilda died in Willzetta OK

15. 18?? ( after 1880 before 1894) Moved to Willzetta, Lincoln County, Oklahoma Unassigned land was laid out in 160 acre homesteads and on April 22 1889 it was opened to white settlement in the "run" for farms and town lots. (Could Daniel been part of that "run"?) Operated a store of some kind?

16. 1899 Married Ella C.

17. 1911 died in Willzetta, OK

From Glen F. Kinzey 8/1999

no issue by second marriage.

1860 census- Vermilion County, Carroll Twp., Illinois; July 13, 1870 census-Vermilion County, Catlin Twp.,Illinois: 1880 census-Kansas: 1900 census-Oklahoma.

Served in Company I, 35th Regiment of Illinois Infantry. Pension record for service in the civil Was. Civil War file 342706 and 309077, National archives. Letter is this file from Daniel stated: 1. Born and lived in Montgomery County, Ohio until 1844. 2. Moved to a farm a few miles SW of Peru, Miami County, Indiana where he lived until about 1857. 3. Moved to a farm 10 miles west of Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois where he lived until May 1870. 4. Listed relatives in the Danville area: Louis Hopper of Fairmount, Vermilion County, Illinois: George H. Haller of Goodrick, Vernon County, Missouri: Samuel Pillars of Muncie, Vermilion County, Illinois: a brother John R. Kinsey of Oakwood, Vermilion County, Illinois.

He helped build the first stone Methodist Church of Douglass, Kansas (Ref. Pamphlet, Centennial Anniversary, 1870-1970 United Methodist Church, Douglass, Kansas 1970)

Death certificate State of Oklahoma, registered No B 6691. Obit. gfk The Prague Record, September 28, 1911. Buried in the Guild Cemetery. Tombstone inscription: Daniel Kinsey, Born June 25, 1837. Died Sept. 23, 1911. Woodmen of America headstone

Glen F. Kinzey has Pillars

Tombstone inscribtion: Matilda Kinsey, wife of Daniel. Dec. 22, 1838-Apr.9, 1894

Danville, Illinois library, DAR marriages 1840-1862-p.135

Marriage License Abstract, Vermilion County, Illinois

1900 census shows born in Kansas. 1910 census shows born in New Jersey. No children by marriage to Daniel Kinsey. Buried in the Guild Cemetery. Tombstone shows born in 1861.

Jim hammer send info (e-mail 6/1/2000) from Clarence H. Brown, skipbrown@tenforward.com, giving some information on Sarah and her children

According to Shock Cemetery listing there are two Haller young children buried there. Charlie died 10/10/1869 at 1 yr. 7 months and 18 days son of GH & SE. Eddie died 9/12/1867 at 1 yr. 15 days son of GH & SE.

August 4, 1870 Vermilion County, Danville Twp., Illinois Census lists George Haller 38, blacksmith, Sarah28 keeping house, Susannah 16 born in Indiana, Emanual Kinzy 13, born at home in Illinois, and Henry Kinzy 21 R.R. Laborer born in Indiana

1860 Vermilion County, Illinois had birth Indiana

1880 Vermilion County, Carroll Twp., Illinois has three children listed

1880 Vermilion County, Carroll Twp., Illinois has her name as Rebecca J.

1860 Vermilion County census has birth Indiana

Fairmount newspaper has Frank moving back to Fairmount from Kansas in January 5, 1888 edition.

Called Vina

From Glen Kinzey

Born 10 miles west of Danville, Illinois. No known relation to her husband, Amos Frank Kinzey, prior to marriage. At the time of the application for marriage license to John T. Bulock, her second marriage, she was shown living at Meeker, OK. No issue by second marriage. Death certificate State of OK. register No C7473. Obit gfk The Prague News, Oct 13, 1916. Died of malaria and pneumonia. Buried in the Kellerby Cemetery.

There is a reference to Cora Kinsey's two daughters from Oklahoma, visiting Della Hann Yohe in Lincoln, Kansas in 1941(See Della Hann)

1900 census has Cora and John in Davis Twp. Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma

Douglass Museum sent picture of graduating class 1891, has Cora and Della Hann

Also has Earl D.

Lived Arlington, Lincoln County, Oklahoma at time of marriage.

Was supposedly a city Marshall in Prague and Meeker, OK according to his daughter Amelia

Marriage: Lincoln County, territory of Oklahoma Book 2 page 47, Office of the Probate Judge. Married by Henry Gabba, Baptist Minister. Witnesses were Lorena gable and Mary H. Gable.

Lived Henryetta, Oklahoma in 1941 when his brother John Westly died.

He told his daughter Amelia that the Kinsey's were originally "Pennsylvania Dutch" and that the original pronunciation of Kinsey was "Kintzy " pronounced "Kent-Zee".

Above from Glen Kinzey

Death date from California Deaths Rootsweb, Glen had 1955, has mothers maiden name Pillow

Lived Bellemont, OK at time of marriage

Buried south side of Fairlawn Cemetery, Shawnee, OK in Block6, Tombstone reads KINSEY, Laura M. Dau. of J.J. and Mary Coyer. 1879-1924. On her left is buried her mother and on her right is buried her daughter.