This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kimsey, Moomaw, Smith, Christenson, Greenlee, Ballinger, Hills, Lake Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4121 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. January 3, 1918. "ANDREW E. KIMSEY".-- Andrew Ewell Kimsey was born on February 7, 1858 in Crittendon county Kentucky, where his parents were making a visit to their old home. They returned in the spring of the same year to Iowa, near Sidney. He was married on May 30, 1880 to Miss Ella Moomaw (Ruth Tysor's correction on another posting of her maiden name is sustained here. W.F.), and to this union six children were born, one of whom died in infancy.The five surviving children are Mrs Myrtle Smith of Omaha, Jess Kimsey of Shenandoah, B. C. Kimsey of Farragut, Mrs. Anna Christenson of Rembrandt, Iowa, and Ray R. Kimsey of Shenandoah. All sttended the funeral. Mr. Kimsey united with the Baptist church at Sidney in 1890 of which church he was a member until his death on Sunday December 23, 1947 aged 59 years 10 months and 16 days. In March 1898, he moved with his family to Shenandoah, where they have lived till now. While a resident of Fremont county he was engaged in farming,and since his removal to Shenandoah was employed in the nursery business and as traveling salesman for stock powder. He was a memer of the Modern Woodmen of America. Besides his five children and his widow, Mrs. Ella Kimsey, he in survived by four sisters, Mrs. Greenlee, Mrs. Ballinger, Mrs. Hills of Sidney, Mrs. Lake of Battle Creek, Iowa, and by five grandchildren. Mr. Kimsey as a old resident was very well known in Fremont county and in Shenandoah and the state of Nebraska, in which he traveled extensively. Many friends join the immediate family and those relatives who deeply grieve in the departure of a devoted husband and father and brother and friend.