Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Kimes, Richard H. June 25, 1838 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Glapha Cox rcoxfam@earthlink.net January 16, 2006, 7:28 pm Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884) Jackson Township p. 577 Richard H. Kimes was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, June 25, 1838, a son of William C. Kimes a native of Maryland, born in 1808, who came to Ohio in 1812 and learned the hatter's trade at which he worked many years. He was married in 1836 to Elizabeth Wheatley, a native of Canton, Mass. They reared three children---Richard H., our subject; Sarah H., married George M. Pierce, who died in June. 1871; and Oscar J., studied medicine, and after having taken his first course of lectures at Cleveland, Ohio, he died in 1873 with consumption. William C. Kimes came to Indiana with his family in 1841 and settled on a farm near Centreville, on Green's Fork, where he resided many years, and at the same time operated a saw-mill. He disposed of his mill property, and in 1854 purchased the Jacob Myers farm on Simon's Creek, where he followed farming till his death in 1880. He had been almost an invalid for several years previous, caused by a stroke of paralysis. His widow still survives and is making her home with our subject. Richard H. attended the common schools in early life, and completed his education at the high school at Dublin. He then taught school several terms, since which he devoted his time to agricultural pursuits. He attends to his farm of 150 acres near Hagerstown and the farm of 200 acres where he at present resides. Mrs. Kimes is a member of the Evangelical church at Pleasant Hill. In her early life she was for a number of years a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/wayne/bios/kimes145gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb