Lewis Kimberling Letter May 21, 1897 Pages 17 - 19
- Letter from Lewis (Lou) Kimberling May 21, 1897 -
- To his sister Rachel Jane Kimberling Hill -
Pages 17 - 19
Rachel Jane and Lewis Kimberling about 1900
- Page 17 -
PS: I have thought of something more on the 2nd of May it snowed nearly all day.
We have had a very cold spring but we have a good prospect for a crop, the wheat is headed out and a fair
prospect for a crop. We will have plenty of fruit, peaches and apples, I have corn big enough to plow.
Old Bill Barnett and his wife is parted and he married a young girl. Old Hiernan Jacobs is about dead
with consumption.
Hiernan must be the father of all the Jacobs girls that married into the
Kimberling family.
- Page 18 -
2 of Bills folks married into old Hicman's family and Jondr is about to
marry an other one.
Two of William Harrison Kimberling's girls married Jacobs, Victoria Belle (Jude) Kimberling
married a Jacobs, first name unknown, he died two years after marriage. Prudence (Prady) Kimberling
married Ike Jacobs in 1892.
John married one and she died and he married a widdow, Galispie and Prady married Ike
Jacobs and he died, and she came back home.
John is felt to be John Kimberling first child and son of William Harrison Kimberling.
It is recorded that John married Elizabeth Jacobs. They were the parents of one son. She died and
John than married Laura Alice Gillespie.
Mat married one of John Brannons girls, used to live on your place. Brannons lives
in the Jack Stephins house and built a part of that place.
It is recorded that Nathaniel Kimberling, fourth child and son of William Harrison
Kimberling, married Maggie Love Brannon, not sure if the "MAT" referred to here is
Nathaniel or not.
The back side of page 18
Page 18, back side
The children's names are, Odus Franklin, Mildest Frances, Eva Penelope, Albert Craig
(Toby), Molina Agnes.
