Individual Details

Jesse W. McKimmey

(1838 - )



Jesse married 7 Jun 1860 to Lucinda Clevenger - the census was taken on June 12th.

1860 Census. Salem Twp, Delaware, IN, Hh 242
Jesse McKimmey, age 23, doing Farm Labor for Samuel Davis.
next door in Hh 241
Lucinda McKimmey, 22, b. IN was living in the household of Samuel Clevenger, age 65, b. NJ, as housekeeper - Samuel appeared to have young grandchildren, a son living back at home, and neither had a wife.

A Portrait and Biographical Record of Delaware County, Indiana, A. W. Bowen & Co. 1894,
p.623 - Monroe Township
The biography of Jesse notes that was married to Lucinda, daughter of Samuel & Margaret Clevenger and they had four children:
Sanford L.,
Elnora A., wife of John Lowe
James O. who died in infancy
Charles B., deceased before 1894.
Lucinda died, and Jesse married two years later to Rebecca (Sharp) Bowers, daughter of Edward & Anna Sharp and they had three children:
An infant who died Aug 1877, March M. and Erie E.
Rebecca had previously been married to Jacob Bowers by whom she had thirteen children: L. C., Edward M., Isabella A., Oliver P., Russell, Lora L., wife of William P. Gilmore; Amanda who died in 1859; John C. who died in 1858; an infant who died Aug 1862, Martha who died in 1863, an infant who died in Oct of 1869, and Earl O. who died in 1870. Jacob Bowers died during an accident at a barn-raising, 6 Jun 1873.

Events

Birth1838Delaware County, Indiana

Families

FatherJames McKimmey (1796 - 1876)
MotherSusannah ADAMSON (1806 - 1840)
SiblingArminta McKimmey (1825 - )
SiblingMargaret McKimmey (1827 - 1900)
SiblingLevin Bishop McKimmey (1828 - )
SiblingHannah McKimmey (1830 - )
SiblingRuth McKimmey (1831 - )
SiblingJoel R. McKimmey (1834 - )
SiblingJames N. McKimmey (1836 - )