52 Ancestors: #18 David R. Kinnick

52 Ancestors: #18 David R. Kinnick

 

This year, Amy Johnson Crow has issues a new 52 weeks blogging challenge:

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks

 on her No Story Too Small blog.


The challenge: have one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor. It could be a story, a biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem — anything that focuses on one ancestor. Not only should this get me blogging more, but also to take a deeper look at some of the people in my family tree.

My approach: I have made this a Tuesday Theme, and, use it to enhance my WikiTree ancestor profiles. That is, focus on a different ancestor on my WikiTree list of profiles, each week (include possibly adding new profiles), Great idea! Thanks to Randy Seaver's post for bringing this to my attention!

Going back three weeks… to the first George Washington Kinnick… to his sibling David. This time, adding his family to the WikiTree entries.

He would also be a first cousin, five generations removed. Also part of this fascinating extended family - and, another part of the largest single groups of KINNICK surnames in the country (counting their descendants). My mother was a KINNICK, of course.

 

#18 David R. Kinnick
 

This family was included in the first book I published about the Kinnick ancestors:

Kinnick Early US Family History (this is a different book than I featured the last couple of weeks)

 

ebook:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/dr-bill-smith/kinnick-early-us-family-history/ebook/product-17413775.html

print book:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/dr-bill-smith/kinnick-early-us-family-history/paperback/product-16516494.html


David R. Kinnick was born in Maryland in about 1780 before his parents (John and Ann) moved to North Carolina in about 1792. He was their second born child and son, after John Adam, and before Elizabeth and George Washington.

He married Sarah Rector, in May of 1804, in Surry Co, North Carolina. They had eleven children, most of whom lived into adulthood and had children of their own. The first eight were born in North Carolina before the family migrated west into Tennessee in about 1820 where the last three were born.

Their children:

1. Elizabath (b. 1805)
2. Nancy (b. 1806)
3. Qunicy (1808-1811)
4. John (1809-bef 1910)
5. George (1812-?)
6. Joanne (1814-?)
7. Youry (1815-1894)
8. Susan "Patty" (1819-?)
9. Martha (1822-?)
10. Mary "Polly" (1823-1870)
11. Murry Riley "Riley" (1834-1874)

The descendants of this family have been fascinating to research and write stories about (and share information with!). This is the only family I have to research that lived in Tennessee. And, I've only scratched the surface. There is much more to be done on this family.

The 1953 Kinnick Genealogy Book, that has been the starting point for much of my KINNICK family history research, had virtually nothing on this particular family. She did not recognize that David and his family had moved to Tennessee.

When I compiled, with the aid of nearly 100 other contributors, the 2003 Online KINNICK Genealogy Book, in 2003 (nearly 900 online pages, inter-linked) - the 50th anniversary of the earlier work - we extended the family history to all KINNICK descendants that we could identify. It has become the definitive work on the KINNICK Surname, and is the basis for the One-Name Study currently continuing the work.


What fun! ;-)

Families are Forever! ;-)

Tombstone Tuesday - David C. WILSON

We don't often get to Alabama to do research and cemetery visits, but a wedding in Pensacola, Florida, on Saturday provided to perfect excuse. My wife has been attempting to determine the date and place of death of a great-uncle for several years. He had retired in 1880 and seemed to move between Farmington, IL, northern MO, and Citronelle, Alabama over the following 25 years or so. Recently, she has gathered much information on Citronelle during that period, so we were ready to do some searching on our arrival last Friday.

We arrived in the area about 11 in the morning; the library didn't open until 1. She had the location of what appeared to be a main cemetery, so we drove around a bit, to find the road, that led out to the correct edge of town, where it was supposed to be. Upon arrival, we saw that it was our favorite kind, where we could do a first pass in the car - it was quite cold, even for a December day.

We drove down the first aisle, turned right, up the hill, driving slowly, I looked at the surnames on the left, she was watching the right. Suddenly, she said: "WILSON!" There, about a hundred feet out, was a tall WILSON marker. I got out to check [note the "I" not her ;-)]. A few seconds later, when I gave her a "thumbs up" - she was out of the car immediately with pad and camera in hand... ;-)

Not only were David C., and his wife, Martha C., WILSON buried there, with dates, their only two daughters were there, as well. As you can see, my wife, Nancy, was very happy with our "find."

Families are Forever! ;-)