Biography of John Kimmer, Independence Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas. 
Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
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John Kimmer is the youngest but one of the family of eight children,
five sons and three daughters, born to Henry and Sarah Kimmer, both of whom
were natives of North Carolina, where they spent their lives. Henry Kimmer was
a farmer by occupation. John Kimmer was born February 2, 1815, and was reared
in his native State of North Carolina, where he received a common-school
education. In the year 1836 he married Miss Esther Eford. Mrs. Kimmer was born
in North Carolina in 1817, and died in Arkansas, March 3, 1888, leaving nine
children, four sons and five daughters, viz.: Henry, Margaret, wife of John
York; Sarah A., who married William McBride; Mary, now Mrs. William Fulbright;
George W., Robert, Louisa, wife of J. B. Fulbright; Martha, now Mrs. A. D.
York, and Jacob. About the year 1867 Mr. Kimmer removed with his family to
Independence County, Ark., where they have since resided. He owns a fine farm
of 267 acres, about sixty acres of which he has under cultivation. In politics
he is a [p.683] Democrat, and, as an nterprising farmer and well-to-do citizen
of the township, he is most highly respected. He resides about two miles
southeast of Cushman postoffice.