Someone ask: > Did Jacob marry Leodicea and then divorce her? There is a later marriage > in Meigs Co., OH, between a Leodicea Kimes and an Elias Congrove on 7 Jan > 1841. Jacob Kimes married Sarah Hicks 1841 in Virginia, later West Virginia. > Cindy Wrote: I believe that is the concensus. Perhaps someone from this line knows details. Jacob and Lodicia On July 5, 1836 Jacob Kimes and Lodicia Coleman were married by Elizah Hews Fields in Meigs Co., Ohio. This is from Meigs Co. records. I never found a divorce record. Lodicia Kimes married an Elias Congrove on Jan. 7, 1841. It is interesting to note they married on Jacob's birthday. Was this coincidence or spite? Seem to me a stretch to be a coincidence. Six weeks later Jacob and Sarah Hicks went across the Ohio River to Ravenswood, Jackson Co., [West] Virginia and were married on Feb. 21, 1841. Jackson Co. records. The Colemans and Kimes' had pioneered the area five or six years before young Jacob was born. Undoubtedly Jacob and Lodicia grew up as neighbors. In 1836 you didn't travel far to find a spouse. I couldn't find them in the 1840 U.S. census. Perhaps they had already divorced and Jacob was back living with his folks Abraham and Nancy. The 1840 census shows two males in the household the right ages for Jacob and his brother John. It also shows a male between the ages of 10-15 years. The age is to old to be Jacobs and Lodicia's son. I couldn't identify him. In 1850 Meigs Co. census Lodicia and Elias had Alexander 7, Sophia 3, and Samuel 2, Congrove. There were no stepchildren named Kimes. This is from my files. I notice a difference in spelling of Lodicia (Leodicea). Meigs County marriage records uses Lodicia, but I am open to change. Don Kimes

Kimes wrote: > > I couldn't find them in the 1840 U.S. census. Perhaps they had already > divorced and Jacob was back living with his folks Abraham and Nancy. The > 1840 census shows two males in the household the right ages for Jacob > and his brother John. It also shows a male between the ages of 10-15 > years. The age is to old to be Jacob and Lodicia's son. I couldn't > identify him. In 1850 Meigs Co. census Lodicia and Elias had Alexander 7, > Sophia 3, and Samuel 2, Congrove. There were no stepchildren named Kimes. > Who could he be???? Has anyone looked for a Kimes buried in one of the cemeteries in Meigs Co. born 1825-1830? Or could Abraham and Mary's son, Abraham have married before he married Louisa Eliza Vermille? _________________ Just "throwing out" some thoughts on this missing male!!!!!!! Cindy