Vermilion county Illinois, ANDREW H. KIMBROUGH, M. D. ==================================================================== Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives Joy Fisher ==================================================================== p. 228-229 ANDREW H. KIMBROUGH, M. D., was born near Elizabethtown, Hardin Co., Ky., on the 27th day of February, 1823. His father, Richard C. Kimbrough, was a native of Wexhall County, S. C., and his grandfather, Goldman Kimbrough, was born in the State of Virginia. The Kimbrough family settled early in Virginia, and in Colonial times owned a large tract of land and were extensive farmers. They served with distinguished ability in the Revolutionary War. The grandfather of Andrew H. Kimbrough removed from Virginia to South Carolina after the Revolutionary War and later to Alabama, where be bought large blocks of land, and where he died in 1835. He was a large slaveowner. Richard C. Kimbrough, the father of Dr. Kimbrough, was under age when the War of 1812 broke out, and in order to enlist, he ran away from home and served in the army until the close of the war. He was in several battles including the Horse Shoe fight and was with Gen. Jackson at New Orleans. He was wounded in the former battle. After the close of the war he went with some of his comrades to Hardin County, Ky., and there taught school until his marriage, and then with a brother, he engaged in the business of tanning. In 1825 he emigrated to Illinois and was therefore a pioneer of Edgar County. The removal was made with teams, bringing all the household goods along, camping out on the way. He entered a tract of eighty acres of land in Wayne, now Stratton Township. There was no house on the place and he was compelled to rent a cabin, but in the following spring he erected a house on his own land, which was surmounted by a stick and clay chimney. There were no sawmills in the county, a fact which compelled him to make his own boards in order to build the doors. He had no nails and so used wooden pegs instead. The old fashioned fire-place was used to cook food in those days, stoves being an unknown utensil in the economy of kitchen work. The cloth with which they made their clothes was constructed from yarn spun entirely by hand. He bought another eighty acres of land which added to his former purchase made a good farm. He died in 1833. The maiden name of the mother of the subject of this sketch was Jane Morrison, a native of Kentucky. Her father, James Morrison, it was thought was born in Virginia and removed from there to Kentucky and settled in Hardin County. He was a farmer and spent his last years there. The maiden name of his wife was Mary McWilliams. She was born in Virginia and removed to Kentucky with her parents in 1791. This family were pioneers of Hardin County, where they brought a large tract of timber land and improved a farm which Mr. McWilliams afterward lost on an old claim. Mr. McWilliams spent his last years in that State. The mother of our subject was married a second time in 1847 to Hall Sims and resided in Edgar County until her death. Andrew H. Kimbrough was eleven years old when his father died leaving his mother with six children to care for. He resided with his guardian until 1842, and then returned home and managed the farm for his mother until her second marriage, when he purchased her interest in the farm. He continued farming until 1854. He had some time before resumed the study of medicine, but had to abandon that on the account of the lack of funds, but later he again took up the study and graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in March, 1858. In that year he commenced practice at Georgetown, this county, and continued so doing until 1873, when he removed to Danville and has practiced there continuously since that time. He married Sarah Ashmore, who was born in Clark County, April 10, 1820. She was a daughter of Amos and Patience Ashmore, natives of Tennessee. They were truly pioneers of Clark County, Ill. Andrew H. Kimbrough is the father of three children—Laura H., E, R. Eugene, and Lillie A. T. Politically, he is a Democrat, and socially, is a member of Franklin Lodge K. of H. He joined the I. O. O. F. in 1850 and has filled all the chairs.