Posted on: Davidson County, NCGenWeb Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NC/Davidson/1697 Surname: Bodenhamer, Butner, Hege, Imes, Idol, Laughenour, Motsinger, Smith, Styers, Weavil, Teague ------------------------- Hi Dan, The following is from the "Collignon-Foley Family Tree" web page: A Moravian Journal in NC Entry- May 18, 1837 Friedberg...The Kimmling family visited where at 2am the old Bernhard Kimmling died. Entry- May 19, 1837 Friedberg...At the request of the family to hold the funeral I rode at midday to the burial place at the Eder home 4 miles from Friedberg and after burial I preached in English out of doors in front of a large company. Now, when I first saw this, I was curious about who wrote the journal. So, I started searching through my records to see what I could come up with. I found a disk with the same similar entries and dates. Mind you, this disk of information was taken when I first started my family tree, years ago !!!! For the entry of May 18, 1837, it read the same except after the phrase, "old Bernhard Kimmling", there was a number 88. For the entry of May 19, 1837, the burial place read "Ebert" and it did not mention mileage. My source was simply listed, NC Room(sorry), no book name, page, or anything to lead me back to this source. However, I think that the entries were made by a traveling preacher, not a moravian.(just a hunch!!) If the age of Bernhard was 88 at time of death, he couldn't possibly be born abt. 1770 as stated by Karen's web page. With this age, he would have been born abt. 1749 or 1750. - ---------------------------------------------------------- There is a Catharina Kimmel buried at Friedberg Moravian Church, God's Acre. She died in 1846, buried in section 11, interment XXXVII. This section was for women only. (You probably already know this, but each Moravian cemetery is divided up into sections. 1-men 2-women 3-girls 4-boys.) I checked what Catharinas I had in the Kimel family tree. I have Catharina Weaver Kimel, Bernhard's wife(abt. 1771), Catherine(Bernhard's dau) married Henry Shutt,Catherine(Andrew and Anna Kimel's dau)-(1824-1911)married Archibald Sink(1854-1940) and I have a Catharine(Barnabas and Hannah Kimel's dau)-(1833-?). If the latter Catharine died in 1846, she would have been buried in the girl's section(age 12 or 13). This leads me to believe that this was Catharina Weaver Kimel's grave. If it is, and she was born abt. 1771, she lived a long life of about 75 years. It is very possible that Bernhard waited until he was around 42 to marry, and it's very possible that he had already married before he met Catharina. And, it's still not proved that Bernhard was NOT born abt. 1770 !!!(smiling). May-be there were 2 Bernhards, 1 born in 1749 and 1 born in 1770. I also found the following: 1- 1790 Stokes County census..Henry Kimble 1 1 2 0 0 2- 1800 Stokes County census..Robert Kimble-pg.544 3- 1810 Stokes County census..Charley Kimble-pg 567 line# 39. Best of Luck and Keep In Touch, Carol