Meigs County, Ohio # 2 An article in the March 1986 copy of "Meigs County Historian" Religious Society The Chester Religious Society of the third township and twelth (sp) range in the county of Meigs and the state of Ohio whose names and numbers are herein specified, seeing the necessity of attending to public worship do hereby certify our resolution to form ourselves into a society for religious purposes and we hereby do the same by the name of the Chester Society for promoting Religious Piety, and do hereby certify to you that John C. Bestow is our agent to represent our paid society to you gentlemen trustees in compliance with the law and for the purposes therein specified. In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our names at Chester, Meigs County this 24th day of June in the year of our Lord 1826. Isaac Foster, Thomas McGrath, Ira Baker, William Torrence, Joel Hull, Albert Torrence, Lawrence Jencks, Peter Grow, Jacob Kimes, Thomas Kimes, Henry Kimes, Samuel Kimes, George Saunders, Charles Gardiner, Randal Stivers, Nail Nye, Jasper Branch, John C. Bestow, Aaron Torrence, Theodore Nye, J. L. Hubbard, Phineas C. Robinson, L. Hull, Lyman Stedman, Daniel Lott, Fines Robinson. I do hereby do certify the above to be a true copy from the original, Dec.1, 1826. (End) I am sorry to say I could not find any mention of George Washington Kimes, except where he married Emily Williams on Sept. 23, 1839. I really wanted to pin him down but failed. He may have been "Old" Jacob’s son or he may have been Williams. It may be productive to search some archive in Columbus or in Ripley, West Virginia the county seat of Jackson Co. where he lived so long.