My Genealogy Hound

GILES KIMBLE. One of the prominent farmers of Pleasant Township is Mr. Kimble, who has resided in Clark County more than half a century, and whose portrait* will be noticed on the opposite page. During the long years of his residence here, he has witnessed a decided change in the appearance of the country, its population, and civilization, and takes a just pride in the fact that he has borne a share in the labors which have produced its present fine condition. He is respected by a large circle of acquaintances to whom his sterling qualities of mind and character are well known.

Our subject is descended in the second generation from Giles Kimble, a native of England, who came to America and settled in Maryland. His occupation was that of a farmer. He had two sons and two daughters: Martha, Irilla, John, and a son who died when quite young. John Kimble, who was born in Maryland, married Nancy Ford, a native of North Carolina, who died about 1827. She left eight children, named respectively: Sarah, Martha, George, Giles, John, Ford, Nancy, and Ellen, all of whom married, except Nancy. The second wife of John Kimble was Sarah Morland, who died in 1852, leaving two children, Alexander and Anna. In September, 1816, John Kimble and his family removed from their home in Maryland to Guernsey County, Ohio, the journey being accomplished in wagons, according to the primitive method. That county was the home of the parents until their death, the father of our subject dying in August, 1863, at the age of eighty-two years. He was a carpenter by trade and had accumulated about seventy acres of good land. Politically, he was first a Whig, and afterward a Republican.

In Hartford County, Md., Giles Kimble was born January 8, 1815, and was therefore not yet two years old when his parents came to Ohio, He was reared on a farm and enjoyed a limited attendance in the pioneer schools that were held in a log cabin to and from which he walked the distance of four miles, lie remained under the parental roof until twenty-one years of age, and the winter following went with an older brother to Logan County, where he worked by the month until July, 1837. He then came to Clark County, and in Harmony Township obtained work by the month, continuing the same three years, his employer being James Turner. A short time after his marriage he began renting land, and in November, 1846, located upon ninety-four acres where he now resides. Beginning his own career without capital other than that with which nature and training had endowed him, he has made a financial success and now owns a comfortable estate of one hundred and seventy-six acres. He has reared a large family and yet has been able to place himself in a condition which promises comfort in his old age.

On October 24, 1839, Mr. Kimble led to the hymeneal altar Miss Eveline, daughter of Samuel and Leah (Jones) Turner, of Harmony Township. Mrs. Kimble was born in that township, January 27, 1823. She has borne her husband twelve children: Nancy J., Samuel, Mathewson, William, Francis, Alfred, Elizabeth A., Alzina, Aaron T., Mary E., Clara A., and Andrew. Nancy is the wife of James Baird; Samuel died when two and one-half years old; Mathewson served in Company F, Forty-eighth and Eightieth Ohio Cavalry during the war, and William who died when twenty-seven years old had served in Company F, One Hundred and Eighty-sixth Ohio Infantry; Elizabeth is the wife of Charles Hodge; Mary married Thomas Eberhart; and Clara is the wife of Grant McCartney.

The father of Mrs. Kimble was twice married. His first wife bore him three children, namely: Eveline (Mrs. Kimble), Nancy and Andrew. His second wife, formerly Miss Jane Sewell, reared four children: Madison, Aaron S., Franklin B. and Abigail J. Mr. Turner and his wife were from Maryland and Pennsylvania respectively. He was a son of Samuel and Jane (Vance) Turner, and was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

*A portrait was included in the original printed volume.