Kim, For some reason I had trouble getting a response to you through your address so I'm answering here. Kim wrote: >I also show Abraham Kimes and Nancy Evans as the parents of George >Washington Kimes born about 1821 married Emily Williamson. >Unfortunately, I do not have the source for this information because....... Sorry for the confusion. I was quoting a post from someone named Don, e-mail address below. He is the one who can answer your question. Here is the full text of his post along with excerpts from the posts he was responding to. Good luck, Bill Bojanowski Highland, IL > > > Subject: [KEIM] Meigs Co 1814 > Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:10:46 -0600 > From: "Kimes" <windstone@pcis.net> > To: KEIM-L@rootsweb.com > > BOJANOWSKI wrote: > > > > Sylvester Kimes b. 1832 in Meigs Co., OH; d. 1904 in > > Streator, IL > > He was the son of Elias Kimes b. about 1814 in OH; d. probably > between > > 1860-1870 in Meigs Co. OH > > I still haven't figured out who Elias' father was. > > > Cindy wrote: > > > >Don, have you just about determined that Jacob Kime(s) was the ONLY > >KIME(S) in OH by 1814? > > Don wrote: > < > Cindy, > > In 1814, living in Meigs Co., Ohio were two households: > > Heinrich's son Abraham Kimes B 1782, wife Nancy (Evans) with > Abraham and Mary O'Hare's son Abraham B 1805. > Abraham and Nancy's son John, born in 1814, (Jacob 1817 and Mary Ann > 1818). These are my lineage and I am very fortunate to have Abraham's > will. > > Also living there in 1814 was one "Old" Jacob Kimes ( ?? B.1772 > Heinrich's son??) wife Margaret. > > Over the next few decades several more Kimes appeared in the > census. Surely some of this were "Old" Jacob's sons and some were his > grandsons. I am not able to document the exact lineage. Time, place > and voting records led me to speculate that William, Samuel. Thomas, > and John were his sons. > > Henry may also belong to Jacob. > > If Elias was born in 1814 he probably was Jacob's son. > > William started his household in 1820 with two males 16--26 maybe > a brother living with him. > > Elias started his in 1830, as one male 15--20. Fits the time > line. > > In 1820 Jacob had two males under 10 living with him and in 1830 > one under 5, and one between 5 and 10. > Does this mean Jacob had sons and grandsons in the same age bracket? > Probably, but trying to sort them without proper documentation is a > futile grasping at straws. > > George Washington Kimes could have been William's or Jacob's. > > Jacob's older sons were not born in Meigs Co. Maybe Rockbridge > Co. Va. or ? > > > > Don