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    1. Re: [KEIM] KEIMs in Allen Co
    2. Arthur Kime
    3. Cindy writes: > Anyone know which Daniel, George, and Solomon Keim were living in > Allen Co, IN in 1890? Daniel or (William Daniel), George, and Solomon KEIM were residents of Ft. Wayne (Allen Co., IN) partial ref material found in "The Descendents of Jacob Hochstetler". These were sons of Daniel KEIM whose father was Solomon KEIM whose father was none other than our Nicholas KEIM, the gentleman which had three wives and 21 children. Arthur

    01/04/2001 03:04:49
    1. [KEIM] Notice of searchable databases
    2. Cindy
    3. For those searching the internet for mention of their ancestors, you may want to consider subscribing to the Ancestry Daily News. This FREE e-zine is mailed directly to your email address and lists the NEW databases Ancestry adds to their vast collection of references for paying subscribers. The new databases are available to look at for free for just 10 days. To subscribe to the newsletter, visit http://www.ancestry.com and type your e-mail address in the box provided.

    01/04/2001 01:42:37
    1. RE: [KEIM] "kin" in the War with Spain
    2. Eileen Keim
    3. Is there a comparable site for PA citizens who served? Eileen K -----Original Message----- From: Cindy [mailto:ckimes@mvillage.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 8:01 PM To: KEIM-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [KEIM] "kin" in the War with Spain Free to search until 01/13/2001: Ohio Soldiers in the War with Spain, 1898-99 1 hit for KIMES 2 hits for KEIMs To search this database, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/5306.htm ==== KEIM Mailing List ==== A URL for searching ALL the publicly available WWW documents is: http://searches.rootsweb.com/htdig/search.html

    01/04/2001 01:30:55
    1. Re: [KEIM] Re: KIMES in Henry Co, MO
    2. Gene Kimes
    3. Hi I believe Stella Kimes (1874-1921) never married. dau of William H Kimes and Hanna J Crisman, she is a year younger than Jacob Lindsey Kimes (1873-1942) and a year older than Ida May Kimes, all are buried in Englewood Cem, Henry Co, MO, source Cem Index, USGenWeb Archives Gene Kimes

    01/03/2001 01:37:15
    1. Re: [KEIM] Re: KEIM-D Digest V00 #138
    2. donley
    3. Hi Nancy, I've been pondering the info that you sent. Seems I have seen it before and figured it was doubtful. Still feel that way for several reasons. 1) Our Jacob was the son of Valentine. There does not seem to be any connection between Valentine and Johannes, as I'm sure you have seen on this list. 2) Our Jacob was born April 10, 1764. 3) Cindy just sent me census records for Fredrick Co. MD and Jefferson Co. VA. Seems there was a Jacob in both places. The one in Jefferson Co. matches the child count and ages for our Jacob. The Fredrick Co. one does not. 4) Edward Kime II has land records that show our Jacob moved to VA about 1809, soon after his father died. So looks to me like the History Book may have combined the two Jacobs, totally confusing those of us who are trying to straighten all this out...LOL Now I wonder where he got the info...hmmm Hope your holiday season was great! Now the quiet let down after the first of the year is a good time to get back into genealogy....yea! :>) Nola nancythomson wrote: > Nola asked: > >Hmmmm.... are you saying the "older Jacob" actually was in northern OH > >for a time? > >Any idea what years? > Nola, I have this in my records. I don't know whether to trust it or not, > but here it is: > > One of Johannes Keim's grandsons, Jacob Kime, b. 1760, moved to Frederick > Co. MD in 1801, then Jefferson Co. VA (now West VA) in 1820. In 1825, > Jacob, his wife and children, arrived in Seneca Co. OH ("Swamp Land") and > obtained a land grant for 320 acres in Hopewell Twp. > [from "History of Bettsville and Liberty Twp." (Seneca Co.) by John E. > Durrett. Hayes Presidential Library] > > Nancy > > ==== KEIM Mailing List ==== > Keep in mind that anyone will have access to messages posted to this list. > If there is *anyone* you would not want to see your message, do not post > it to the list!

    01/03/2001 01:11:14
    1. [KEIM] "kin" in the War with Spain
    2. Cindy
    3. Free to search until 01/13/2001: Ohio Soldiers in the War with Spain, 1898-99 1 hit for KIMES 2 hits for KEIMs To search this database, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/5306.htm

    01/03/2001 01:01:10
    1. [KEIM] KEIMs in Allen Co
    2. Cindy
    3. Anyone know which Daniel, George, and Solomon Keim were living in Allen Co, IN in 1890?

    01/03/2001 12:35:29
    1. [KEIM] Allen County, IN, 1890
    2. Cindy
    3. Free to search until 01/08/01: ALLEN COUNTY, INDIANA DIRECTORY, 1890 This database is a transcription of a directory originally published in 1890. The directory provides residents' names, addresses and occupational information. To search this database, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/5301.htm

    01/03/2001 12:29:11
    1. [KEIM] KIMEs from England in Indiana Co, PA
    2. Cindy
    3. Some of you with an interest in Indiana Co, PA and/or KIME/KYMEs from England might want to look at this: http://www.pa-roots.com/clearfield/aldrich/chap30.htm The "History of Burnside Twp" includes some biographical information on a John Donaby Kime. This same history also mentions a George DARR whose dau. was married to another John Kime. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Note: There is an ancestral file which lists some of John Donaby Kime's descendants. If you aren't familiar with that site, see http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp Search for John's son-in-law, William Widdowson.

    01/03/2001 11:46:27
    1. [KEIM] Lorenzo kime
    2. Diana Davis
    3. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard & Patty Curran" <OCurrans@cfl.rr.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 3:52 PM =================================== > Source: MCCOLLUM-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: RE: [MCCOLLUM] Martha Lou McCollum > > > The Clan MacCALLUM / MALCOLM Society database has this couple. > > McCollum, Martha E. (L.?) > born: 1856, NC > married: 25 Dec 1878 > spouse: Kime, Lorenzo > father: McCollum, Levi B. > born : - c.1800 > married: 22 Dec 1827, NC ,Randolph Co. > spouse: Pitts, Mary Ann, 7 ch > m.(2)2 Apr 1855 Elizabeth Becknell, 5 ch > Remarks: shoemaker; s/o Henry? > > Levi's children were born in Randolph Co., and he was married there too, so > that may be a starting point to start looking for Martha and Lorenzo's > marriage location. > > Best of luck, > > Howard Hunt Curran Oviedo, FL > OCurrans@cfl.rr.com > Researching: > CURRAN - Vermont, New York >> Ireland > McCOLLUM - Vermont >> Canada >> Scotland > HUNT - North Carolina > STITT - Indiana >> Ireland > > > -----Original Message----- > From: SHodges782@aol.com [mailto:SHodges782@aol.com] > Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 6:53 PM > To: MCCOLLUM-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [MCCOLLUM] Martha Lou McCollum > > > I am looking for information on the marriage of Martha Lou McCollum to > Lorenzo Kime in North Carolina around 1879. If anyone has the place of the > marriage or the parents of Martha Lou McCollum please e-mail me at > shodges782@aol.com. Thanks. >

    01/03/2001 07:07:11
    1. [KEIM] KIME in Oneida Co, NY
    2. Cindy
    3. Who are Charles S. (b.1862) and Louise KIME (b.1866) buried in Evergreen Cemetery? See: http://www.interment.net/data/us/ny/oneida/evergreen/evergreen%5Fkl.htm

    01/03/2001 12:33:14
    1. RE: [KEIM] Call for URLs
    2. Jeff Reimert
    3. Many of you may know of these, but these sites are what I am currently using as I go through my database checking on all my dead ends: LDS Site: http://www.familysearch.org (Free access to Ancestral File, Pedigree Resource File, International Genealogy Index and The Family History Library Catalog) Ancestry.com http://www.ancestry.com (subscription site, but many free databases and a convenient link to the rootsweb and message board searches as well) Family Tree Maker http://www.familytreemaker.com (I mainly use the internet searches and the user homepages, but also good if you want to purchase CDs...I had a subscription to Genealogylibrary.com which is included here, but cancelled because I thought Ancestry.com's content was better) Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com AltaVista http://www.altavista.com (they have a free translator here too!) If you are doing royalty research, I also recommend these free sites: http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~kasab/arm/realNPCs/people-titles.html#Indices http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/top/glouc/d/002.htm http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/2444/descent.htm http://pages.prodigy.net/reed_wurts/magnacharta/magchrt.htm http://www.peterwestern.f9.co.uk/burke1/Burke%20index.htm http://www.patpnyc.com/conq/ http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/book.html http://www.royal.gov.uk/history/index.htm Mayflower research: http://members.aol.com/calebj/ Free for all genealogy links: http://www.cyndislist.com/ And last but not least: The Library of Congress for finding and documenting source info!!!! http://catalog.loc.gov/ For instance- a search on KEIM will produce this and several others: The Keim and allied families in America and Europe. LC Control Number: sn 85064836 Type of Material: Serial (Periodical, Newspaper, etc.) Brief Description: The Keim and allied families in America and Europe. Harrisburg, Pa. : DeB. Randolph Keim, c1898-[c1900]. 2 v. : ill., plates, ports., facsims. ; 23 cm. No. 1 (Dec. 1898)-no. 24 (Nov. 1900) = v. 1-2. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- CALL NUMBER: CS71.K27 1899-1900 -- Request in: Jefferson or Adams Bldg General or Area Studies Reading Rms -- Status: Not Charged OR Keim family papers, LC Control Number: mm 81028340 Type of Material: Archival Manuscript Material (Collection) Brief Description: Keim family papers, 1861-1874. 200 items. 1 container. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- CALL NUMBER: MMC-0882 -- Request in: Manuscript Reading Room (Madison, LM101) -- Status: Not Charged -----Original Message----- From: Cindy [mailto:ckimes@mvillage.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 7:15 AM To: KEIM-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [KEIM] Call for URLs Several of you have been finding info on the net that relates to other subscribers lines and posting the info to this list! We are greatful for info anyone finds! It helps piece different families together! BUT, the rest of us wonder HOW you find this data! Different subscribers have written me asking where to look for their ancestors. I have my favorite search engines, but there are certainly others unfamiliar to many of us! How about posting those other search engines! If you don't see a URL posted that you use frequently, please share the address so the rest of us can try it! Thanks! ==== KEIM Mailing List ==== If you are new to this list, be sure to check the archives to see if information about your ancestors has already been posted! Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl

    01/02/2001 01:20:08
    1. [KEIM] Re: KIMES in Henry Co, MO
    2. Cindy
    3. Gene Kimes wrote: > > I list Stella Kimes born 1874 and died 1921, buried Englewood Cem, Henry > Co > Do you know which family she connects to, or was KIMES her married name?

    01/02/2001 10:40:09
    1. [KEIM] Edith belle KIME m James Peter Redman 1884
    2. Diana Davis
    3. Diana ddavis@logicsouth.com Website: http://www.my-ged.com/davis/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "mimi" <donandmimi@jps.net> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 10:58 AM ============================= > Source: ILLASALL-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ILLASALL] Re: KIME > > > I have Edith Belle KIME m. James Peter REDMAN in my files. > m. 6 Feb 1884 in Farm Ridge. They lived in Grand Ridge. > > Hope this helps. > > Daily Republican Times, Ottawa, Illinois > 7 Mar 1919 > Friends in Grand Ridge wher shocked to learn of the death of Mrs. Edith > Redman at her home in Streator on Wednesday. Mrs. Redman was a resident of > Grand Ridge and vicinity for many years and has a wide cirlce of friends who > will mourn her death. The sympathy of the community is extended to the > sorrowing family in their bereavement. > > 1870 LaSalle Co, IL Census (abstract) > 86-83 > Carter, Chas. 33 M NY farmer > Lizzie 21 F KY keeping house > Lilly 9/12 F IL [b. Sept] > Nellie 6 F IL at home > Hanson, Wm. 21 M GY farm hand > Kime, Nancy 25 F KY [living with sister] > Kime, Edith 5 F IL at home > Kime, Geo. A. 3 M IL at home

    01/02/2001 04:03:27
    1. RE: [KEIM] Jacob Keim Homestead
    2. Murna Hawkins
    3. Susan, This was really interesting. Thanks for sharing it with all of us. Murna -----Original Message----- From: SUSAN BURGESS [SMTP:suekbee@home.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 12:22 AM To: KEIM-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [KEIM] Jacob Keim Homestead I finally got this written after our trip to Pennsylvania and our tour of the Jacob Keim Homestead. Jacob KEIM was born the 24th of October, 1724 in Oley Valley, Philadelphia County which is now near Pikeville, Berks County, Pennsylvania to Johannes "John" "Hans" KEIM and Bertha DETURCK. He married Maria Magdalena HOCH in October, 1746 in Pennsylvania. She was born the 2nd of December, 1730 in Maiden Creek Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania to Johannes HOCH (John High) and Susanna ____. Jacob bought 50 acres from John and Susanna High (Hoch) the 30th of June, 1753. This acreage was located in an area covered in black walnut trees. Tradition says that John Hoch built a six room, two story, stone house for Jacob and Magdalena on this property in 1753. The date 1732 is found near the roof line at the end of the house but it is thought this was added much later and is incorrect. The Jacob Keim homestead is located on Boyer Road near the intersection of Boyer Road and Lobachsville Road in Berks County, Pennsylvania. This home is an example of a stove-room house with an enclosed winder staircase located near the great walk-in cooking fireplace. For warming the adjoining room there is a hole in the back of the fireplace for a five plate stove. This was five iron plates formed into a box with the open side butted up against the hole in the wall, making transfer of hot coals from the fireplace to the stove easy. Using the same chimney there is a fireplace in the second floor room directly above the first floor stove-room with a five plate stove hearth in an adjoining bedroom. This largest upstairs room also has a door leading to the outside. There is no balcony and it was probably used to facilitate hoisting grain sacks to the second floor for safe storage in the third floor attic. The ancillary house, a smaller house near the main house combines the functions of a variety of outbuildings under one roof. The ancillary cellar has a spring channel which is a lined trench with a stream running through it for cold storage and fresh water. It also has a walk-in fireplace. "This area was probably used for food storage, laundering, distilling, and dairying activity such as cheesemaking and rendering of butchered meat." Up the stairs the first floor stove-room has a side hearth for a five plate stove. This allows the area at the back of the chimney stack to have a large chamber covered by a big iron door that opens into the main workroom. This chamber was probably used as a smoke house for meat and a kiln for drying wood. The first floor workroom has four windows giving lots of light unlike the rest of the rooms in either building. It was probably used as the woodworking shop since Jacob was a turner, a craftsman who used a lathe powered by a large manually driven wheel to shape chair and table legs etc. It is thought that Jacob's great granddaughters later used this room for their loom. Jacob's son, John Keim later added onto the east end of the main house. John's son raised his eleven children in this home. John's granddaughter, Elizabeth Keim was the last Keim to own the Jacob Keim farmstead. After her death in 1911 and the sale of the property in 1912 one hundred-fifty acres of old growth black walnut trees were cut into timber in 1913. Some of the trees were said to be 4 to 5 feet across and 100 feet tall. The two houses and newer barn remain and have had few alterations since they were constructed. They are now maintained by the Historic Preservation Trust of Berks County in Douglassville, Pennsylvania. Jacob Keim died the 18th of October, 1799 in Rockland Township, Berks County Pennsylvania. Magdalena died the 21st of April, 1804 in Lobachville, Berks County, Pennsylvania. They were both buried on the Jacob Keim farmstead on Boyer Road. Their graves are located in a small walled graveyard under a lone cedar tree in the middle of an open field across Boyer Road and slightly to the right of their home. A second larger walled Keim graveyard is also across Boyer Road behind the second house to the left of the Keim home. This graveyard is up a hill hidden behind a row of (cedar or cypress) trees. It contains the graves of John Keim and his progeny. Jacob and Magdalena had at least two children Barbara and Johannes "John" Jacob Keim. Susan ==== KEIM Mailing List ==== To post a query so everyone on receives it, send it to: KEIM-L@RootsWeb.com Your message will be sent to everyone in both modes.

    01/02/2001 01:40:24
    1. [KEIM] Call for URLs
    2. Cindy
    3. Several of you have been finding info on the net that relates to other subscribers lines and posting the info to this list! We are greatful for info anyone finds! It helps piece different families together! BUT, the rest of us wonder HOW you find this data! Different subscribers have written me asking where to look for their ancestors. I have my favorite search engines, but there are certainly others unfamiliar to many of us! How about posting those other search engines! If you don't see a URL posted that you use frequently, please share the address so the rest of us can try it! Thanks!

    01/02/2001 01:15:07
    1. [KEIM] Wife of Johannes Hoch
    2. Susan Burgess Wrote "She , Maria Magdalena Hoch, was born the 2nd of December, 1730 in Maiden Creek Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania to Johannes HOCH (John High) and Susanna ____." Susanna was a born Herbein, (1698--1763)

    01/02/2001 01:00:54
    1. RE: [KEIM] Jacob Keim Homestead
    2. Jeff Reimert
    3. I have a copy (posted with permission)of a 1972 Reading Eagle article regarding the Keim homestead at my site. Here are the links: http://reimert.org/genealogy/keim_walnut_page1.jpg http://reimert.org/genealogy/keim_walnut_page2.jpg -----Original Message----- From: Murna Hawkins [mailto:Dhawkslady@alltel.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 7:40 AM To: KEIM-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [KEIM] Jacob Keim Homestead Susan, This was really interesting. Thanks for sharing it with all of us. Murna -----Original Message----- From: SUSAN BURGESS [SMTP:suekbee@home.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 12:22 AM To: KEIM-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [KEIM] Jacob Keim Homestead I finally got this written after our trip to Pennsylvania and our tour of the Jacob Keim Homestead. Jacob KEIM was born the 24th of October, 1724 in Oley Valley, Philadelphia County which is now near Pikeville, Berks County, Pennsylvania to Johannes "John" "Hans" KEIM and Bertha DETURCK. He married Maria Magdalena HOCH in October, 1746 in Pennsylvania. She was born the 2nd of December, 1730 in Maiden Creek Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania to Johannes HOCH (John High) and Susanna ____. Jacob bought 50 acres from John and Susanna High (Hoch) the 30th of June, 1753. This acreage was located in an area covered in black walnut trees. Tradition says that John Hoch built a six room, two story, stone house for Jacob and Magdalena on this property in 1753. The date 1732 is found near the roof line at the end of the house but it is thought this was added much later and is incorrect. The Jacob Keim homestead is located on Boyer Road near the intersection of Boyer Road and Lobachsville Road in Berks County, Pennsylvania. This home is an example of a stove-room house with an enclosed winder staircase located near the great walk-in cooking fireplace. For warming the adjoining room there is a hole in the back of the fireplace for a five plate stove. This was five iron plates formed into a box with the open side butted up against the hole in the wall, making transfer of hot coals from the fireplace to the stove easy. Using the same chimney there is a fireplace in the second floor room directly above the first floor stove-room with a five plate stove hearth in an adjoining bedroom. This largest upstairs room also has a door leading to the outside. There is no balcony and it was probably used to facilitate hoisting grain sacks to the second floor for safe storage in the third floor attic. The ancillary house, a smaller house near the main house combines the functions of a variety of outbuildings under one roof. The ancillary cellar has a spring channel which is a lined trench with a stream running through it for cold storage and fresh water. It also has a walk-in fireplace. "This area was probably used for food storage, laundering, distilling, and dairying activity such as cheesemaking and rendering of butchered meat." Up the stairs the first floor stove-room has a side hearth for a five plate stove. This allows the area at the back of the chimney stack to have a large chamber covered by a big iron door that opens into the main workroom. This chamber was probably used as a smoke house for meat and a kiln for drying wood. The first floor workroom has four windows giving lots of light unlike the rest of the rooms in either building. It was probably used as the woodworking shop since Jacob was a turner, a craftsman who used a lathe powered by a large manually driven wheel to shape chair and table legs etc. It is thought that Jacob's great granddaughters later used this room for their loom. Jacob's son, John Keim later added onto the east end of the main house. John's son raised his eleven children in this home. John's granddaughter, Elizabeth Keim was the last Keim to own the Jacob Keim farmstead. After her death in 1911 and the sale of the property in 1912 one hundred-fifty acres of old growth black walnut trees were cut into timber in 1913. Some of the trees were said to be 4 to 5 feet across and 100 feet tall. The two houses and newer barn remain and have had few alterations since they were constructed. They are now maintained by the Historic Preservation Trust of Berks County in Douglassville, Pennsylvania. Jacob Keim died the 18th of October, 1799 in Rockland Township, Berks County Pennsylvania. Magdalena died the 21st of April, 1804 in Lobachville, Berks County, Pennsylvania. They were both buried on the Jacob Keim farmstead on Boyer Road. Their graves are located in a small walled graveyard under a lone cedar tree in the middle of an open field across Boyer Road and slightly to the right of their home. A second larger walled Keim graveyard is also across Boyer Road behind the second house to the left of the Keim home. This graveyard is up a hill hidden behind a row of (cedar or cypress) trees. It contains the graves of John Keim and his progeny. Jacob and Magdalena had at least two children Barbara and Johannes "John" Jacob Keim. Susan ==== KEIM Mailing List ==== To post a query so everyone on receives it, send it to: KEIM-L@RootsWeb.com Your message will be sent to everyone in both modes. ==== KEIM Mailing List ==== Perhaps the best place to start your search..... Surname Resources at: http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/

    01/02/2001 12:56:18
    1. [KEIM] Re: Martha Lou McCollum
    2. Cindy
    3. Great! Now we have the surname for Mrs. Lorenzo Kime! Descendants of Christian Kime 1 Christian Kime b: 1818 : 09 September 1852 .. + ? . 2 Lorenzo W. KIME b: 24 November 1846 d: 19 March 1908 ..... +Martha Lou McCollum b: 13 March 1860 d: 14 April 1944 ..... 3 // KIME ......... +D. P. HODGES ..... 3 Duff Lewis KIME b: 21 November 1880 d: 14 March 1950 ......... +Julia Laney m: 29 August 1900 ..... 3 Edgar KIME b: 28 May 1894 d: 20 January 1920 in China ----- Original Message ----- From: MCCOLLUM-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [MCCOLLUM] Martha Lou McCollum > > I am looking for information on the marriage of Martha Lou McCollum to > Lorenzo Kime in North Carolina around 1879. >

    01/02/2001 12:49:38
    1. [KEIM] Jacob Keim Homestead
    2. SUSAN BURGESS
    3. I finally got this written after our trip to Pennsylvania and our tour of the Jacob Keim Homestead. Jacob KEIM was born the 24th of October, 1724 in Oley Valley, Philadelphia County which is now near Pikeville, Berks County, Pennsylvania to Johannes "John" "Hans" KEIM and Bertha DETURCK. He married Maria Magdalena HOCH in October, 1746 in Pennsylvania. She was born the 2nd of December, 1730 in Maiden Creek Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania to Johannes HOCH (John High) and Susanna ____. Jacob bought 50 acres from John and Susanna High (Hoch) the 30th of June, 1753. This acreage was located in an area covered in black walnut trees. Tradition says that John Hoch built a six room, two story, stone house for Jacob and Magdalena on this property in 1753. The date 1732 is found near the roof line at the end of the house but it is thought this was added much later and is incorrect. The Jacob Keim homestead is located on Boyer Road near the intersection of Boyer Road and Lobachsville Road in Berks County, Pennsylvania. This home is an example of a stove-room house with an enclosed winder staircase located near the great walk-in cooking fireplace. For warming the adjoining room there is a hole in the back of the fireplace for a five plate stove. This was five iron plates formed into a box with the open side butted up against the hole in the wall, making transfer of hot coals from the fireplace to the stove easy. Using the same chimney there is a fireplace in the second floor room directly above the first floor stove-room with a five plate stove hearth in an adjoining bedroom. This largest upstairs room also has a door leading to the outside. There is no balcony and it was probably used to facilitate hoisting grain sacks to the second floor for safe storage in the third floor attic. The ancillary house, a smaller house near the main house combines the functions of a variety of outbuildings under one roof. The ancillary cellar has a spring channel which is a lined trench with a stream running through it for cold storage and fresh water. It also has a walk-in fireplace. "This area was probably used for food storage, laundering, distilling, and dairying activity such as cheesemaking and rendering of butchered meat." Up the stairs the first floor stove-room has a side hearth for a five plate stove. This allows the area at the back of the chimney stack to have a large chamber covered by a big iron door that opens into the main workroom. This chamber was probably used as a smoke house for meat and a kiln for drying wood. The first floor workroom has four windows giving lots of light unlike the rest of the rooms in either building. It was probably used as the woodworking shop since Jacob was a turner, a craftsman who used a lathe powered by a large manually driven wheel to shape chair and table legs etc. It is thought that Jacob’s great granddaughters later used this room for their loom. Jacob’s son, John Keim later added onto the east end of the main house. John's son raised his eleven children in this home. John’s granddaughter, Elizabeth Keim was the last Keim to own the Jacob Keim farmstead. After her death in 1911 and the sale of the property in 1912 one hundred-fifty acres of old growth black walnut trees were cut into timber in 1913. Some of the trees were said to be 4 to 5 feet across and 100 feet tall. The two houses and newer barn remain and have had few alterations since they were constructed. They are now maintained by the Historic Preservation Trust of Berks County in Douglassville, Pennsylvania. Jacob Keim died the 18th of October, 1799 in Rockland Township, Berks County Pennsylvania. Magdalena died the 21st of April, 1804 in Lobachville, Berks County, Pennsylvania. They were both buried on the Jacob Keim farmstead on Boyer Road. Their graves are located in a small walled graveyard under a lone cedar tree in the middle of an open field across Boyer Road and slightly to the right of their home. A second larger walled Keim graveyard is also across Boyer Road behind the second house to the left of the Keim home. This graveyard is up a hill hidden behind a row of (cedar or cypress) trees. It contains the graves of John Keim and his progeny. Jacob and Magdalena had at least two children Barbara and Johannes "John" Jacob Keim. Susan

    01/01/2001 02:22:08