Wayne County IN Archives Obituaries.....Kimmel, William February 14, 1913
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Cambridge City Tribune - February 1913
William Kimmel, a pioneer citizen, of Washington Township, passed to final rest 
last Friday, February 14, 1913, after a sickness extending over several months.

Mr. Kimmel was born at the Kimmel homestead east of Milton, June 8, 1833, the 
fourth of twelve children born to Jacob and Martha Wilmer Kimmel. The father of 
this large and prominent family located in Washington township in 1823, having 
come, when a young man, from his birthplace in Schulkill county, Pa., in 
company with his brother-in-law, Daniel Waltz, and others of that name to the 
then far West in search of land and a home. That he succeeded well is record in 
the fact that he acquired a tract of 370 acres, and with the help of his sons 
and daughters cleared a home of property and content from the almost unbroken 
wilderness. 

In this great struggle, little known to the present generation, William Kimmel 
bore an honorable and industrious part. Later he acquired 180 acres of the land 
he helped to clear and till, and here, December 25, 1857, he took his bride, 
who was Miss Vashti Willits, daughter of William and Mary Willits, who lived on 
the farm now owned by Samuel Blaer, immediately southwest of Cambridge City. 
This ;union was blessed by five children - Monroe who died in infancy, Clara 
wife of Squire Cornthwait, of Cambridge City, Nora, wife of Adam Spence, of 
Indianapolis, and Clayton, who lives on the home farm. The fourth child of Mr. 
and Mrs. Kimmel died in infancy. From these have descended 11 grandchildren and 
5 great-grandchildren.

Mr. Kimmel was a pioneer, and with the wife who survives him, soured to the 
hardships of the early development of this country. In politics he was always a 
Democrat, and in his prime a local leader of his party. He was in a sense a 
leader strong men engaged tin forwarding the various means whereby the 
resources and conveniences of his home township were made available, and his 
name will long be revered by those who knew him for his interest in matter of 
church, school and whatever tended to the up building of the community.

His declining years and weeks of sickness were soothed by the gentle 
ministration of his invalid wife, his children, and his grandchildren, and 
particularly by his step grandsons, Jesse H. and Wm. O. Huddleston, who never 
tired in whatever was for his comfort.

Mr. Kimmel was the last of his father's family, and with him disappears on the 
wave of time a family that for 90 years was identified with the best interests 
of Washington township. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the 
Franklin church, where Mr. Kimmel's thoughts ever turned in matters religious, 
and to the upkeep of which he was always read. Rev. McCormick, of Milton had 
charge of the services, assisted by Harry Doty, who sang several very pretty 
solos. Burial was in that cemetery.

Persons from a distance attending the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. John Hiser, 
Mrs. I. J. Kimmel, Muncie; Jacob Buser, Mrs Ervin Buser, Anderson; Mr. and Mrs. 
Frank Kiplinger, Wheeling; Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Allen, Miss Nora Allen, Fairmont; 
Mr. and Mrs. Origsby, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Kimmel, Centerville; Emmet Kimmel, 
Mrs. A. C. Tonley, Miss Alice Willits, Kokomo; Mr. and Mrs., Luther Orr, 
Elwood; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Paul, Mrs. B. F. Drischol, Wm. Drischol, Joseph 
Basson, Richmond; Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Spence, Ralph Spence, Mildred Spence, Mr. 
and Mrs. Fred Beal, Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Williams, Indianapolis; Luther Kimmel, 
Winchester; Abe Honck, Shirley; Miss Cora Brown, Coalsville; Mr. and Mrs. Chas. 
Rinhart, Baltzer Eikenberry, Hagerstown.



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