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Show "giioFHEBER C. KIMBALL ,, u -lorv ot the Kimball Family-How tho Lino ' a Traco'l DI'"niiltlo Encountorod nnil How They v.oro " orconic-Soarchlng Rocords in the East. ., .tUuul'V si "" ur '' jKiinirnl. nut only ' 1 '' , ,.,ti,e .ncc.lral ImtUiry Z "Ml 1Ml...t.r..l..vS.m,K ' 1 H e im .denial -.Kltrv .; '", : , h.. K'f Ulel ... 3 "' ma'., mil. iV- 1 .. sJiniOU I Kiill ti . ,k.r I., yuu. the rente- !"' ,.,', ol Hebtr c. ("'"KjnV.J.I taimlv ol Clan, " '"".".'rhr about three tr. IM" " ".I JV. I bad .ear( he. .;x " '' V1 t r.inklm Co.. Vl., ..It1;, . ' k .mtnll was Dot it, and 1 ""1"!: Vic "in v Ai,t..im.i j A .'' '" ',',,,1 1 alterwar.l. '':rl"m e.ert , t ',J, ,.,.,, ,,, wan are l.imiliar iefl'JI I a "I 'eliv-iloK11'11' 1 - ,U e'"lif,.ll T ! nil n. I II' 1 " ...L ,lfl-uhul Solomon '"j;,,:.,!!, the letlKT ol Me'.tr ' lcuuf "I ', "elu,.iial r l.iiaUml duiim Hit lasl T " ...k I l.aie "lct 1 l'"'S. I i've l..mi.-i '1 " H lh.1 ah I' "" "" I , ltH.rllle,Ui.nn two brother. I f , "j "'i!.h tin "n "W"''!" """ 1 ,h h' - I i.r t0if If""' 'ollanu His-tnaui, 1 ai-ii im Un.ll cam thence tu j l Wrmunt wli.re Metier C wa. 3 t ih'Df wa m contradiction to J'SjI ."" ii''i-" I u. l '" I"''"1 cnilii.linii i .ora04.0J!.l.)tl " ""K1" 'UIUly J n. rtl'in " ""' '' II'''"' 1 """ "'"",ll"",,r I ji i bieiner cine lli.nl hi til-""1. "I B w in timing lh ",0'l,tn fl imidtenil""!".'' i vrt.iTil.ti J.i y I'1' l"K" MIWIH ' l lwlJ u'k. 1 ",ve " ,.lllii.iltiiilil lulwuroiwuiiii ui ibtl nior niuili m.)ir ju,;r.KkiKf? H vjmU ductmJrd. Hut tvery rllurt j(j;t grruiitnm ritlicr tint it4lr if U ultlir fi-s,trtHtiK tliv alien J Miiuta irjrt XuiUnd lo Cmiftilii anil jiut W ermont, lailrd romplctrly. rftictT ttriiifit m-.m ty m, inL'uh jHtftrrC. KimUII' rn.iUihrr. A f ul ihe l-mily in 1-t.ih lulJ me 4M,tvtdHVM llionii. tinit thiit Ihe t bfMt!r .Solomon 1 . hutl un .Uiti, t-ui this mioniMtiun wni apo if tfoi, aDil, ImUt dcvrlupniciilk mnl, utterly MiUiuut touniiUo in -m ludUea fui suing my invchcation I ..( ujf tirti 1 Irarnvd thtit I'fo 1 iwi P Sriiri'ln ot Huston wai com j lifntAloicv ol Hie Kimlt-tll Unuly AtBUnl iiocu Kiciutil and Heniy. I vmpgrultd ilh hitn, but it ruuU I (tBw ooiofoniutioti if ruling tu how mu l ilett-rnt ol Sol union I'., i Aft of Htbci l . KiiiiI'aII. Al'uul a tiriju, lim in llunion, 1 illrd on tile iMuM.uiJtiainiiied hu ni4nut ii(tt D k.i mi4Ui e, but our comt'incil . -irtUifJto ttiJr the Mptliat in 4 rttoedm the line 1 sought toronnct t 1 ki mtirrul. I loimd him an ex j R(tn4iu:st ot etniiiv experience j dCKTupuluui cuiiiM-iillounen. Me, I ix)it l, atcDiiixIi-nt tht the Huh M.U .!i drKendrd from the liniily he I m m rorapilinf, lat the tr-jiibl w.n to I tbt..ilktbf tuit ruiin-( lion. i Wuj( BiytNveUm New I nitUih) 1 !Jliioroui;h u-archr in the hhr.inr i Jnotoo, ii J motit: rrcuttU in m.iny , f" town?! in MaiMunetW, New ! ,A Hu-irf.KFiodF lil.unl rfiid L'ouneui- ! f AUttcully wittiuut turcfHt. 1 did 1 'i wpildue tuthc luifmg link 1 W4t , n i.ich cf Inrxt uci.l loMeiuln, 1 -y 'wCNfw York, where llcbci ; r kr.t:l'. pamit holuniuii K and u (spjuLn.K) KiiuImII tl i.l, and krtuicir nr-ii sun Homer KimUII t-w. Ttw Uitrr rcceivet me with Umdrn,bui 4lut.iliyiiit4bic lo 'UBt iacu,MtiK Ihe kji in tin ant'en-l-o(. Mytiljrtmai .Monroe, like alt ' i tHnlhaJ uiadr. were utterly I utile o KpiyiDB tile Ill.lUi W.tl Cull- hui I i4iuc home (r.ini there ocd tit . n ever thit my theory tw4icer.ni HthrrC. K-mhall Irum OtUntubruinerH. named ahove. JWfttt, and Hut 1 would ultimately U November U,i aain kit Utah tor J MMtrn tairM.utiy uitbuMiitHt " P"H) to ilt ..-ntulotiu al rttonU. in lUi.m 1 .K.,m vikited tan" wim had, mmo my ' .rl,,'1" k;,r,llV aiiKinented hin i but an I he could oduMoOitin.sM.ltnk. Upent tek .., Ilu-iori miriV a h.echol w,l;,in print likely wum clge, but louml not the 'tn, Ntver beloie in all my iiuc, ha I i.tt-n u L-ouipleicly x;'nK!u,1(JinE that I had repeatedly J jA'71'Kll"l'-ll.andtl)St Al'.Jtna, i ciik . . iwreu oy trie . . u,e 'f'nier, mid probate "'" l-'l-'ln U.at iht-.r rev y1"1'- -id nut Rive the inlur-tlort inlur-tlort 1 ue"UP' Vl-.ll a.i k . ,mJ m-lie penunal search ;t"o . ys l,trr uir lvet ln ,','' UV1,1' "bippetl iu nuke itc'ir., .f U ay 'n, "rlie.t c.U , (lu t"blon dale batk lo x uxxat XUk e,"llCit tuwl1 returda ' "''"'H and dentin ure HrSl lu 7tr 'Hiee uie all loo 4fIr lUtie i ' W,",, 1 wn,'."J 1 1. Tr, Until a tew yen in 1 Km i i c "lclery did nut con- Mii'l' 've, marked as ucn, I lifiu ,,l'U'f l"1 w,luin 1 tailed, Tll 'M,' 1 .'m",rurtcV iut 1 '' C'1,'1" J4'11- Kimbali ami tut 4 l-JmSii i fv":u,,y -K-il coupl,-, it rtc 1 '7Aomhveyeaii "B-n.w,a .,' ," '"-'lUticre. In "" umi. Mlul '-r. ober u ! a. , K"l,,"llli appeared m i , orow'' ot land, J llJlr D-" were John, S l.rnan I ., J uiu-h. '.Kvi, Step. .en and I nun tran4.n ti -m that touk place and roniraria thai were in.t.lr amo iifan.! Iteta-een J -m-n ami M, ribah .md ll.e other -a Kirnltrtlh. I Ik-, ante r it mred that Ihcv w.-rc inp t.imi.v. (a litr. muthT i -oti-. l- ttiiti MieKio i I wrnt I1. idling I .,Hi, (, villaKe kuhil- n-mr.l Kimhlll ot wlwin T'lnd TeT ir ihe h pethat Ihev urrerii ihcahiMt family iiml uiinl u;tp;riif i n,f tact, had I lrl 4,ilt nil Mr l---M)artlo i iUUf. k nil,. Ii atb mi ii't,-'lir. . vi, Old. wIm rtinvtl me wiy kindly. I lie moment I saw I. mi I waa MnicK with hi rr-ti-tntilaiii m.iiij ol the mum M'lerC. KhiiIi.,11, Ti, h r. s.'iIiM.,fi, r w i4 not f;niy een m Ins huirt-i a id physi.iir, hut estm-led to hit LuiKuae anu ntftiul ipialitiri. I rum hun I oi -tailed a rei ord at tar l ,rk hit tcraih!-laihcr, tcraih!-laihcr, hut no larilin. Iln r.iml .uhci wa lani. brother to Stiloman I-. a'-d un le to llrher kimbali. lie did not know tin-, I to we-, t? r, nd h id never heard ol llvber L. Kimball i. r the latter' lat-ter' faihi'r. Mr. 1 -rrtiandu Cirliee Ki.n'allS ! r in. h itUt r l .in. s lud gumr ho n S tv-; tv-; ilon to lJunluni, C Hiiatla, vmu- h.n-n ; nineh i.orlh, whi re hit unuly leired, while lleher C. kmiali l.uhrr. u' .r.n i hr tame time, n-inovf-d (o wet:rrri Nr i York. I hut thje bram hr ol the limilylrti track ol eaih oihtr, Mr. I' vriianilo Cunaxe K all r.-lei red nu- : to a ohmf; man. a remiive ol hu, Uu a i rr i tic nt oi I .-lyburK l-.tiN, wIhj, be tiai 1 J n.nld pruhibly nir me atUition.il inruf Kit lames Ihirlon Kimtall. and if- wat j a it real -rc rand on ol l.tniet, hroilur if i StTloiiion I-"., the latter tie me l..t .. r ol H.ber C. KiMilall. Me rn.niy Kv. mr the hutory ol Iim br.un h ol the family a lull..,: The anreMor of ihe Kimball ol Sheldon Shel-don bad lunn. rlv live.) at l.nhtld, N II tie had tin-re lometl a Shak-r community, commu-nity, Mhk h held .ill proprrty incotninon, and had deeded to u Imo tr.icta ul Itinil, one ol vj and the other of inn, acrf. Alter remaining a tin ruber ul the com niunily hIiouI a year he led it. I'lie m, I a ret were deeded hktu hint hut the b mi were not, and lb nun buyer-, had j i llered to Un detrendaiita to tiy to re , cover ih'-nioiia r. iitiinit he Alier leavini: the Shaker? hr r-moved in Shrl whum wat it-ai-r.uult.ither to my in lurinant, and wat named Jame-.. My inloniiiint could remember Uir in turn ol two o.heis ol the x, wr. lofin and Motet. I his was a t it ihr rontirmaliuii i.l the theory I had lomit-d alter tear, hing the land retonls at Such I on. I t-oinniiimt t lel these lacln lo I'rufettnr Suarpiet, and they were -.iMincnt to etallitli n imedion with hit material, ami then came an easy explanation uf the dith-cully dith-cully I frad evpt-riemed m lindum ihr icramllathtrol licber C. Kmiball Ihe hirili ol hit lather Solomon I ., had not been rerorded by the toatulcik ul M p kltiluii, IN. H.. w Here he Mat born. He wat one of a family ol eleven t hihlren, the births uf nine ul whom air properly recurded; but bit name, and that cl it younger brother Jrtse, are omitird from the bull) record. Il has alwa been suppo-ed that Ihe birth record of tint family was lornplete, heme Solomon I . was uut tupptiti-d to hpluii- to it, and hem-e ihe dntivuliy ol comieiiiiig him with his parents. Thit cunneciion mii.le, the line was complete and perleU bat k to kirhard Knitiiall, who was born in iws, in Kat-tletiUu, Kat-tletiUu, Sullolk county, I iiKiaml, uud who, with hit brother Henry, rame to Matsarliuteitt in nn. 1 ma K cluiil had Heiijamin born !;; he had iJavid born id, i ; he t u J eiemi.th bom andheut lather ot Jainet, burn i who married Merihan -. and sethed in Sheldon, Vl., and anion m hose hi sons was .Solomon I'., Utn.-r ol Meber Kimball 1 he Utter uth in descent Irom Kit hard Ihe imnutant, and the seventh Keiieratton ol his line who hri lived in America. 1 ie;.ird the correctuestj ot tliit peih Ktee a beiti well autlieutica'ed, but am corresponding wild membcfB of Ihe family in the a-t with a view to further confirmation and information. 1 part cu larlv tletiretl lo le-rn more of Ihe urn let til Hcber C Kimball. At tlated aliove, 1 luve a iuiI r runl ol the posterity ul mule Jamei, bat I was able lo learn little ur nothing ol the others in respect tu their prosily. What 1 learned at Stuldun in) rut: to Mirniisu thai they went lo Canada, and 1 conv. uen ly went lu Montreal, hut gut no trace ol either of tuent there. 1 found two men named Kimball in Montreal. They belonged be-longed lu the New ). 'inland family, bill not t the Slu-luun tiruneh. A I iiutl.urn halt 1 wat Riven the adilrts ul Kevereud J tintH J' tlwin K ni-bad, ni-bad, an rtsident ol Webster Cny, Miimilltxi t.jiintv, Iowa, at likely tu have vidua bk intorniatioii. Me is a son ..ll.ui.BBKi.iiia.li, brother tu iKul mion I-'., and const .pienlly is first rout in to Heber C. KmibdI. lie remained in ur near Sheldon until past rnuUIle ae, and ttodoubl can ive some account nl lot ui lea and aunts, w ho were Ihe children ol Juit s and Mmbali Isimball, p imiti ol ute Snchioii i.imity. 1 nave Hntieii tu him and ant auditing a reply. As Ut u 1 collect returd. 1 am Itlui-ing Itlui-ing them UM-r to I'rolexsor Sliarplts, to be mcoipor.itcd in his book, the early paei ol which have I cm printed, and which will be cut ol Ihe press in two or thrte month. Hy adding my material lo hi both it nude mure complete, and printing the m hole in a book inturea lis preservation better than any other wav. Richard and Henry Kimball, the im migrant aiicstois, though brut item cent-nig cent-nig to America auuiil lne name time, clitltr wondt nuliy in the number ot their puMeiily. the nameH ul all, ur what lit known lo lie very nearly all ol Henry's dtcuinLntb, havo been collected, uud they numbei not moru than Irum three to lour hundred. Hut ol the ikMienty ol Klcliard, who was uiaeM.,1 uf Heber L. Kimball. ti;e tunics at ni..ro ihan ten thousand have been obtained, ami it i kn wu thai the record i s ill lar liuni cumplele- DcK'ciidaulk bvaiing l'ic kUinami! ol K mi ball are here riuatu. I'rufekvir bharple' bouk caniet tlic lauiily hack several generations priui tJ the stllli'ineiilN.) New 1'iigl.uid, tucck the hitlury and etymclogv ul Ihe name, and completely divtuvc the t eoi y that it is Scotch, ur was dcrtvetl loni Cuiupuell, a. has been suppwKd by some. lne ronnectitiii with ibcmico. IraUlock 111 Kti-land is o wtll u.ked a.slo lay a broad hnimlallMi tot Ih -liaibor l-I trutuiK out ili- hi an. lies ul l e Kimball tacu in that country, a ork ut v.iht magnitude. V itli the names ul their kindled mat have already been H a liter I J, uJ with tin,' uit'H a'rtadj mlr l..r inniiniiinK the Inbnr of i ot bcnnK record, the desrendantt of He-her He-her i Kunl.all ai- Itd.y oi Irone.l with a wotk lo be done lor tl eir drad wht, i stent is greater than Ibt y can I mol cordially with them tb hncbtt-st devr-e ol M,c,est. ,ry r-p-ctlolly yyui brother. b. I-. Ci mmi.sos. r. |
