In a message dated 10/4/98 8:52:18 AM Pacific Daylight Time, joldham@fastlane.net writes: << My name is Judith Oldham, and I am a great great granddaughter of David E Kimble, who along with Jasper Gates settled Mt. Vernon. His sister, Clarinda Kimble Gates, married one of the Gates, and I do not know which one, Do you? >> Judith, my information says that Clarinda KIMBLE married Jasper Newton GATES. Clarinda was born September 20, 1845; died March 21, 1909. Jasper was born April 9, 1840; died November 29, 1923. My booklet ("Abel Gates, His Ancestors, His Descendants") shows that they had thirteen children. The above mentioned booklet says that Jasper was Abel's sixth child and was born in Cole County, Missouri. "Jasper enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was described as six feet one inch tall, light hair, fair skinned, blue eyes, and was twenty-two years old. He was a member of Company C, Twenty-seventh Regiment, Missouri Infantry, and was a Sergeant. On the 6th of October, 1860, Jasper married Clarinda Kimble at Kirksville, Missouri. Following the war he pioneered in the Oregon Territory (Washington State) where he was awarded a land claim. Mt. Vernon, Washington is situated on a part of his claim. The Skagit County History states that Jasper was a County Sheriff, and later a US Marshall. With his family, he left Missouri by covered wagon and arrived in Skagit County about 1870. He was a man of distinction and was called "The Father of Mount Vernon." Well, "cousin," I always warn everyone that I have not personally verified any of the GATES information. It does give a pretty good idea of where to start looking for data, though. About David Kimble: in "Yarns of the Skagit Country (Ray's Writin's) by Ray Jordan, David Kimble is mentioned several times. . . . . "What constituted the first school in Skagit County was in progress in 1873 in a log stable on the homestead of the late David E. Kimble, a short distance below the present site of Mount Vernon. . . . . ." (Page 145) "When D. E. Kimble settled on his homestead just below the present site of Mount Vernon in 1869, he was at the end of the river, in a manner of speaking. . . . ." (Pate 147) "More specifically, as to location, the old History states that the jam began at the lower boundary of the Kimble claim and extended upriver about on-half mile to a point opposite the present Kimble residence. . . . . ." (Page 148) "The Van Fleets had planned to spend the remainder of the night at the hotel, but David E. Kimble, who had a homestead at the lower end of what had been the Big Jam wouldn't hear of it. . . . ." (Page 178, describing Christmas 1880 Judith, I'm going to post this to the GATES list and the PUGET SOUND list. (Glad you liked my web page! I'll get back to adding genealogy stuff in about a month.) = = = = = = = = = = If anyone has more information on Clarinda Kimble GATES and David E. KIMBLE, please e-mail the information to Judith: joldham@fastlane.net Thanks! HOLTON-L List Owner The Rootbound Researcher * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ^ ^ Kitty (CURTIS) Martin Kent, Washington - - k9504m@aol.com Researching: CURTIS, GATES, HENSLEY, HOL(E)TON, JAMES; ZIEGLER, SWIFT, POLK, GREGORY, GRACE (etc.) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/8946/index.htm