Some new clues come from current correspondence w/another KIME researcher: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A bit of info came in a letter from a lady in NM. This is all quoted from her letter (dated 1973). "Several people have done research on the Kime family. One source wrote that the Keim family were originally from Nurnberg, Germany. They left Nurnburg because of religious persecution and settled in Wurttemburg, Germany. One John Keim left Wurttemburg and came to America when America was just beginning its history. This John Keim settled at Oley, PA in Berks Co. He is often called the founder of the Keim family in this country. The Keim family is mentioned as a well known Pennsylvania family in the book "German & Swiss Settlements of PA" by Kuhns. Also a minister, now deceased, in North Carolina gave his version of one Keim family, the first to settle in his region of North Carolina. He told of a young married woman named Peggy Reitzel, who lost her husband at sea while on their voyage to America. Mr. Reitzel was swept overboard and drowned. The widow, Peggy, landed at Charlestown, South Carolina and traveled to North Carolina where she met and married Phillip Keim. To Peggy and Philip Keim were born: Philip Kime Jr. who married Dolly Glass (daughter of Philip Glass); David Kime who married Dorothy Coble (daughter of George Coble), Christian Kime who married Margaret Brown (daughter of Michael Brown); and Henry Kime who married Hannah (we believe her maiden name was Rudolph). The minister only knew that Henry had owned a lot of property in North Carolina and sold out and moved west. Of Henry and Hannah Kime, originally of North Carolona, the next records of his are in Indiana. It is not known when he came or how, but it may be that he received land grants for service in the Revolutionary War. Henry and Hannah raised a family of eight or possible nine children. An old German Bible contained a sheet of paper with the births of eight of their known children. An old neighbor of the Kimes, remembers seven girls and the Bible has two sons mentioned, but only six daughters, so I can not be sure how many children, at this time. Children of Henry and Hannah Kimes, as shown in Bible: Maria Born, Oct 29, 1781; Anna Margarte Born June 20, 1784; Mahtelina born Jan 25, 1787; Henry born June 1, 1789 (my son) ; Barbara born May 8, 1792 (my daughter), Hannah born aug 26, 1794 (my daughter); John born July 14, 1797 (my son); Helen born Oct. 5, 1800 The Bible mentioned was published in Nurnberg, Germany in 1770 and is now in the possession of Mrs. Dorcas Boyer, of Nabb. [the email continues re: Hannah, born aug 26, 1794] Child 10 of Robert Fowler Wardell was Charles born 1811 Child 5 of Robert Fowler Wardell: John married Hanna Kime Johnson Aug. 8, 1825. This is continued from page 7. Hannah (Kime) Johnson/Wardell was married to Jonathan Johnson and they had 4 children which were listed on the other page (?)." _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Comments??? __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

Checking the Indiana State Library Genealogy Database: Marriages through 1850 <http://199.8.200.229/db/marriages_search.asp> a search of the database lists: Last Name: Johnson First Name: Hannah (widow) Spouse Last Name: Wardell Spouse First Name: John County: Clark Date: 8-4-1825 --- Cindy Kimes <[email protected]> wrote: > Some new clues come from current correspondence w/another KIME > researcher: > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > <cut> > > Child 5 of Robert Fowler Wardell: John married Hanna Kime Johnson > > Aug. 8, 1825. This is continued from page 7. Hannah (Kime) > Johnson/Wardell was married to Jonathan Johnson and they had 4 > children which were listed on the other page (?)." > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

The following email was posted to the HINSHAW Mailing List on 2 Oct 2005 by Arleigh Birchler <[email protected]> ================================================================ This weekend I visited the Battlefield on the Alamance (North Carolina), where William Hinshaw and his brothers-in-law in the Regulators faced the Loyalist Militia on May 16, 1771. It is actually on a tributary of the Alamance named the North Prong of Stinking Quarters. A few miles east of the battlefield is Kimesville on the South Prong of Stinking Quarters. Just a mile or so down stream is Little Creek ("Little Stinking Quarters") the home of Peggy Reitzel and Phillip Kime. Their son, Henry Kime, later moved up to Pennsylvania where he joined the Chester County Militia and fought the British at Brandywine and the Paoli Massacre. Henry is buried just a few miles north of Lincoln, Illinois, in the Zion (Musick) Cemetery. Peggy, Phillip, and Henry are all my ancestors. Peggy Reitzel's husband (a minor German nobleman who gained his title in the Spanish Wars) was swept overboard on their passage to America. When they arrived in Charles Town, South Carolina, Peggy and her son were sold on the auction block. She later escaped from an abusive owner, and was pursued by slave catchers through the South Carolina swamps. At one point she hid her young son and left him behind to lead the hounds away. She later returned and found him. Eventually she got to the religious radical settlements in North Carolina, along the Alamance, where she married Phillip Kime. William Hinshaw was married to his cousin, Mary Hinshaw. After the Battle on the Alamance he joined the Virginia Militia, and served in the Revolution. Some of their sons moved to Central Illinois, where one of them served in the Illinois Assembly with Abe Lincoln. Their granddaughters married the sons of Sally Musick and John Benson. Sally Musick was the sister of Jesse Musick, who was mortally wounded at Tippecanoe. John Musick, the son of Jesse, and his widow, Hannah Gudgel, moved to Central Illinois, where he married Mary Johnson, the granddaughter of Henry Kime. (Henry Kime's grandchildren personally knew Abe Lincoln when he was a young man.) His great-grandchild, William Henry Musick, served in company C of the 106th Illinois Infantry. The great-grandchildren of William and Mary Hinshaw served in several other regiments formed in Central Illinois. I have never heard anything about Henry (or any other member of the Kime family) being involved in the Battle on the Alamance. They did, however, live a short walk from the battlegrounds. There home was actually very near the Cane Creek Friends (Quaker) Meeting House, where William and Mary Hinshaw were members (we also visited the building, and the cemetery that surrounds it.) The Benson's in Central Illinois, were also Quakers. I believe that Phillip Kime came from the Palatine region of Germany, and was a member of one of the persecuted radical protestant groups. Kime's and Hinshaw's clearly still live along Stinking Quarters. The guide at the Battlefield knew several folks by those names. http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hs/alamance/alamanc.htm __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

Sure enough... we find Hannah Kime JOHNSON WARDELL listed on the 1850 Scott Co, IN census, undoubtedly with one of her sons from her first marriage. http://www.rootsweb.com/~inscott/309.htm Cindy Kimes forwarded some new clues come from correspondence w/another KIME researcher: > > A bit of info came in a letter from a lady in NM. This is all > quoted > from her letter (dated 1973). > <cut> > > [the email continues re: Hannah, born aug 26, 1794] > > Child 10 of Robert Fowler Wardell was Charles born 1811 > > Child 5 of Robert Fowler Wardell: John married Hanna Kime Johnson > > Aug. 8, 1825. This is continued from page 7. Hannah (Kime) > Johnson/Wardell was married to Jonathan Johnson and they had 4 > children which were listed on the other page (?)." > __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com