STANLY COUNTY, NC - HOFFMAN - William Kimmer - 1871
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From Notebook of Lilly Carter Hoffman:
 
In the fall of 1871, William Henry Kimmer, an orphan of four years, came to 
live with the Carters. His mother died and his father and step mother did not 
want him. The step mother treated him so cruelly that his Uncle Jim Kimmer, a 
boy of only seventeen, took him from house to house asking for a home for the 
pitiful little child. For punishment, he had been made to stay in the cold and 
dark, barefooted for hours at a time, sometimes until midnight. Through pity, 
Bob and Betty took him in. Betty ( his foster mother) kept poultices on his 
feet for three months- his feet were so badly frost bitten. During all this 
time, he could not play, but had to sit before the fire as he could not stand 
on his feet. The only clothes that he possessed when he came to them were the 
ones he wore. He was so thinly clad when home with his uncle in search of a 
home that when stopped at Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Mauldin's home, they were told 
that she couldn't keep him, but that the Mauldin girls would make him a dress 
out of thick heavy cloth which they had spun and woven. So the girls dressed 
him up and they sent him to Bob and Betty. Josephine Mauldin, later Mrs. Noah 
J. Pennington of Albemarle, was one of the girls who made the dress. Will grew 
up and became a railroad engineer.
 
Submitted by Jodie Gee