Subscriber wrote: > > In one of the Keims digests from 1998, I found a > reference to a letter from Abraham Keim (supposed son of Heinrich) to his > daughter Sarah "Sallie" Kimes-Givens and his son-in-law (John Cleek) on > 19 Nov. 1836: > "Our children since my last marriage (to Nancy Evans), are John and Jacob > -- boys; and Mary Ann a daughter. She lives with us on earth no more. She > died a Christian on the 23rd of March 1834....Jacob was married a short time > since to a Miss Leodicea Coleman, and lives about 3/4 a mile from us. John > is yet single and so is Abraham, your own brother...." (Source: "EARLY > WESTERN AUGUSTA PIONEERS" by C.W. Cleek) This appeared in the KEIM emails on > Friday, 23 Oct. 1998. > 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. > I believe that is the concensus. Perhaps someone from this line knows details. ______________________ In reference to this family: 1 Abraham Kimes b: 1782 Loudoun Co, VA d: November 1840 Meigs Co, OH .. +Mary O'Hare m: 09 November 1804 Franklin Co, VA d: Bet. 1808 - 1810 ... 2 Abraham Kimes b: 15 September 1805 Meigs Co, OH ....... +Louisa Eliza Vermille b: 1817 NY m: 11 October 1838 Meigs Co, OH ... 2 Sarah Kimes b: 03 March 1807 d: 1885 ....... +John Cleek, Jr. b: 1803 m: 14 July 1825 d: 1887 ... 2 Harriett Kimes b: 27 September 1808 Bath Co, VA ....... +Robert Solomon Carner Bradley b: 04 July 1790 m: 23 November 1826 d: 09 March 1860 *2nd Wife of Abraham Kimes: .. +Nancy Evans b: 1788 VA m: 20 March 1810 Bath Co, VA ... 2 John Kimes b: 17 December 1814 VA d: 28 December 1894 Meigs Co, OH Burial: Keebaugh Cemetary, Orange Twp, Meigs Co, OH ....... +Effa H. GREEN b: April 1814 NY m: 10 September 1840 Meigs Co, OH d: 1901 Meigs Co, OH Burial: Keebaugh Cemetary, Orange Twp, Meigs Co, OH ... 2 Jacob J. Kimes b: 07 January 1817 Meigs Co, OH d: 16 January 1901 New Virginia, Warren Co, IA ....... +Lodicia Coleman m: 05 July 1836 Meigs Co, OH ... *2nd Wife of Jacob J. Kimes: ....... +Sarah Hicks b: 27 February 1823 OH m: 21 February 1841 Ravenswood, Jackson Co, VA d: 27 January 1901 New Virginia, Warren Co, IA ... 2 Mary Ann Kimes b: 04 February 1818 d: 23 March 1834