Notes:
Name derived from "Kammer Herr" meaning "Keeper of the Chamber" or "Treasurer"
Two theories on the origin of Jacob Kimerer:
1/ Father was John Kimerer, grandfather was Jacob who came from Rheinlanpfalz, Germany(Paletine)in September 1752 on the Edinburgh, from the port of Rotterdam to the port of Philadelphia. Also on the passenger list was Carl Korn, the grandfather of Catherine Baker Korns, wife of Jacob Kimerer.
2/Parents came from Hesse Darmstadt, Germany.
Perry Kimerer's grandmother stated that "our grandfather, Jacob Kimerer, was born in PA. His parents were natives of Hesse Darmstadt, Germany. Our grandmother was born in Virginia, moved with her parents to Lancaster, PA. Her maiden name was Catherine Korns, daughter of Michael and Susanna Korns. Susanna's maiden name was Baker, sister of Col. Jacob Baker of the Continental Army."
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Notes from Kimerer Genealogy by Glenn D. and Edith Spiva Kimerer: The ancestors of Jacob Kimerer were German from the RheinlandPfalz (Paletine). They emigrated to America between the years of 1751 amd 1768. Jacob was born near Reading, PA in 1778, just two years after the Declaration of Independence of the USA, and died in 1837. The parentage of nationality of his mother is not known. Jacob's father was a stone mason. This trade he taught to the young lad in early age. There is strong information that Jacob's father was John and his grandfather was Jacob. This will be covered in more detail on another page. In the year 1801, at the age of 23 years, he married Catherine Korns, age 19, daughter of Michael and Susan Baker Korns, near Somerset, PA, and moved to Kingwood, VA, then to Morgan (Morgantown), VA, where they lived for thirteen years. Nine children were born to them during these years.
During the administration of President James Madison he secured a three quarter section of land from the government, located in and adjacent to Shreve, Wayne County, Ohio; copy of deed recorded in Vol 10, pg 101, deed recorded 1831 in Wooster, Wayne Co., Ohio--480 acres. Here they raised to young womanhood and manhood their children.
After purchasing his land, he and his wife, and at the time, nine children, lived in a log cabin on this land for some months. He cleared land for the house and planted corn and rye to be used in the manufacturing of whiskey. In a short time he began the erection of a large house. The second story of logs and the top half story of boards; the basement story made of solid cut sand stone taken from the land. This house was a landmark for many years. The story basement was used as the distillery. Wonderful water service was given him in the distillery from the springs in the woods above the house.
WEDDING AT THE OLD HOUSE
Samuel Davenport married Rebecca Kimerer, the third child of Jacob and Catherine. One of her brothers, Jacob, for a lark got on his horse and drove from the farm on down the creek as far as the infirmary the day before the wedding and invited every settler along the way. They came the next day, women on horseback and men with oxen hitched to sleds. There was such a crowd that they killed a large steer and roasted it. Many stayed overnight, and of course, the pure rye whiskey was given freely.
Jacob gave his daughter, as a wedding gift, a large barrel of whiskey. The groom, Sammy, owned a little black mare and bob sled. He had built a log cabin on his land in Monroe Twsp. and had made a crude table and some benches. After the wedding he started for Wooster with the barrel of whiskey and his young wife; there they exchanged the whiskey for a cook stove and bed, some dishes and one rocker.
After Jacob died, his wife, Catherine, then known as Granny, lived with her son, Joseph, and daughter Julia in the big house; there were three small houses on the farm and the sons lived in them. A part of the farm had been sold to Thomas McConkey before Jacob died. Joseph Kimerer was the youngest son and he bought a farm in Ripley twsp; Granny went there to live with him and died there. She lived 22 years after Jacob's death and was 76 at the time of her death. Jospeh married three times.
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from Glenn D. Kimerer
This is being written to show why I think John is Jacob's father and why I believe that Jacob who came to America in 1752 (on Ship "Edinburgh" with Carl Korn) is Jacob's grandfather. If you have a better idea or evidence of someone else, please let me know.
As already stated, Jacob was born in Pennsylvania in 1778. Jacob married and moved to Virginia. In the Virginia census of 1810 we find Jacob, John & John, Jr. page 29. Jacob went to Kingwood, Preston Co., Virginia and then to Morgantown, Monongalia County Virginia. Jacob's son, Jacob, shows this in his military record.
We don't have any direct proof that John, Jr. is a brother of Jacob, but the dates check out and they are traveling together. John, Jr. was born in 1781 just 3 years after Jacob. It is reasonable to believe that John is the father of John, Jr. John, Jr. moved to Knox County, Ohio. (from his Will)
Now go back to John Kimerer, Sr.; John Kimmerer bought property in 1795. He then paid taxes in 1798 and 1799. In 1800 his name was scratched out. To me this indicates that he sold out and moved away. I figure that this is when he took his family to Virginia, including Jacob and his new wife, Catherine Korns. I did not uncover any sale of this property. We know that they showed up in Kingwood, Preston County, Virginia. The census shows this on page 29. We know that he moved with Jacob to Wayne County, Ohio. In his estate sale, you will see where he owed a man in Preston County, Virginia. He also owed Jacob Kemmer's note balance due. This shows us that they did in fact live in Preston County before moving to Monongalia County.
Now a word about who came from Germany. My great aunt, Mary Louis Kimerer, in 1917 said that Jacob's ancestors came in ship Edinburgh in 1768. I have examined all the pages of the script enteries into Philadelphia, PA in 1768 and the only Kimerer's that I can find are Peter Kamers, Daniel and Danyel Kammer and they are not on the Ship Edinburgh. However, we do find on page 19, Jacob Kimerer and Carl Korn in Ship Edinburgh, 1752. In 1754 on Ship Edinburgh, we find one Johannes Kimerer. As I have previously stated, in our Kimerer line we do not find the name Johannes used as a given name at all. We do however find Jacob and John used many times.
John Kemerer, a married man, paid taxes in Maxatawney Township, Berks Co., PA in 1785. This is the same area where Jacob (1778-1837) was born. John Kemerer also bought property in Londonderry Township, Bedford County, PA in 1795.
John Kimerer died in 1822. Beck and Poltz Admin. 1823. This estate is in Chester Township, Wayne Co., Ohio. This is the John Kimerer that came to Ohio from Monongalia Co., Virgiania in 1814 with Jacob. We belive this is Jacob's father.
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from Mary Boyd, Maxwell, Iowa
Jon and Mary in Monongalia County, Virginia, as early as 1802 to 1814, record of land transfers. Bought land 18 October 1802. On 20 July 1810, they sold a part of that land to John Jr. and Nancy Kimerer. Both sold their holdings in 1814 and John, Jr. and Nancy went to Knox Co., Ohio. I find John, Jr., and family in Jackson Twsp, Knox Co., Ohio in 1820 census. There is an older man past 45 with them. The 18th of June, 1814, John Kimmer bought 1/4 section of Military Land from Peter Lepley for $500.00. Description: NE 1/4 of section 24, Twp 6, Range 10 of unappropriated land in the Military District of lands directed to be sold at Zaneville. In his will, he gives 1/4 sec. to Samuel, but calls it the SE Qtr, whether one is a mistake or he bought 2 quarters. In his will he leaves to his wife what he calls his plantation on which he lives. His will is dated 8 September 1825 and recorded 17 Oct 1825. He mentions 9 children, but named only Samuel, who was his only son.
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From Mary Louise Kimerer: Jacob Kimerer's farm was a fine old landmark and was a place of great interest to all: it consisted of 480 acres and there were two distilleries and a power mill on this place; there were four houses on the farm.
After Jacob's death, Joseph, Julia and Granny lived in the big house, Jacob and Stanza in another house; Michael and Nancy in the second small house, and Jacob Keifer and Rachel Kimerer in the third house.
The farm was all sold later and Joe and Granny went to Ripley Twsp, Ohio on his farm; Julia married; Jacob and Stanza went to Crocos Mill and built and run a distillery; Michael moved west.
Joe and his wife and Granny lived in Ripley Township, Ohio for 22 years, and after Granny's death, he sold his farm and moved to Valparaiso, Indiana where he died. He was loved and respected from young manhood, for the love and care he gave his old mother for 22 years in his home, and was known to be a very fine gentleman.
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from Kimerer Genealogy written by Mary Louise Kimerer in the 1920s
Jacob Kimerer, the seventh child, married Stanza McCullough; they moved to a place known as Croco's Mill where they ran a distillery. Jacob Kimerer was known locally as one of the greatest fiddlers of his day. During the taking of the City of Mexico and while a soldier in the Mexican War, it was he who did so daring a deed--"He was a most wonderful violinist, and during the thickest of shot and shell, he stood on the City's walls encouraging the men and playing 'Yankee Doodle' on his old violin while the City was being taken." The violin he used was in the possession of an old hermit named Jacob Zauger living on the outskirts of Fredericksburg, Ohio, and no offers made by relatives or others could induce him to part with this sacred relic. Several years ago the old hermit was burned to death, and the historical violin was destroyed.
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The following was contributed by a grandchild of Jacob Kimerer on the Perry Kimerer side of the family.
Jacob Kimerer moved from Kingwood, W.VA. to a farm near Shreve, Ohio, in 1815. His brother, John Kimerer, had previously occupied part of this farm on which was a saw mill and a distillery. At the time of his settlement in Wayne Ohio, the country was full of trecherous Indians. Jacob was perported to be an Indian hater and according to this account, "in a sly way, an Indian slayer." It was said that an Indian Chief who went rambling about the country stopped at Jacob's house one day wearing a peculiar string of beads around his neck. He was asked about the shape and content of the beads and the Indian replied that they were made of white men's tongues. There were 99 beads and he is reported to have said he wanted one more, inferring that addition to be the tongue of Jacob.
Jacob said nothing, but walked into his house and took his gun down. He took deliberate aim in the direction of the Indian, but his son, John, moved the gun up as he fired and the bullet whizzed over the chief's head. The chief left, but in a few days, Jacob saddled his horse and remained away for several days. The story goes that the old chief was never again seen in the area.
Jacob owned a flint-lock rifle with a large number of notches carved on the angle of the barrel. When asked about these notches, he replied that each notch represented a deer he had shot. He was known to have killed many deer, but no one ever saw him file a notch on his rifle after killing one.
During the course of his life he got into a dispute with one Oliver Johnson and a fight between the two men was instigated to settle their differences. Johnson gouged out Jacob's eye with his thumb during this fight and Jacob is reported to have said, "When I get well again, I will kill him." As a result, Johnson left the area and was never seen again and Jacob remained blind in one eye.
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Jacob Kimerer 168 - Mexican War - Private
Enlisted:
Kimerer, Jacob age 34 yrs. Blk Eyes Blk Hair Dark Complexion 5'11" Born: Virginia, Morgan
Farmer. Enlisted March 24, 1847 at Millersburg, Ohio by Hoagland
15 Infantry I Co. Discharge 4 August 1848 - end of service at Cincinnati, Ohio Ohio Volunteers
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TO ALL TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
KNOW YE, That Jacob Kimerer a Private of Captain Moses Hoaglands Company I 15th Regiment of Infantry who was enlisted on the twenty fourth day of March one thousand eight hundred and forty seven to serve during the War with Mexico, is herby HONORABLE DISCHARGED FROM the service of the United States, this fourth day of August 1848, at Cincinnati, Ohio by reason of Expiration of term of service. (No objections to his being re-enlisted is know to exist.)
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Mexican War Pension
Act of January 29, 1887
Information taken from:
Stanza MuCullock Kimerer
born: November 29, 1811
married: May 9, 1833
Jacob Kimerer
enlisted: March 24, 1847
Died: February 19 (20), 1882 age: 76
Living at Greenwood, Cass Co., Nebraska at time of death, died in Lancaster
County, State of Nebraska
The papers were signed with her X mark. Stanza filed claim to Jacob's
pension as she was "dependent upon my children for support" and "disabled
because of old age." I found it ironic that the pension was to pay her $8.00
per month and that there was a $10.00 fee payable to the 'Des Moines Agency"
for filing the paperwork. ******************* from a triibute to the "Kammer Herr" family by John Henry Leh of Princeton
University.
A wise old sage once said, "Every person today has a family tree, but some of
them are more shady than others, and for that same reason he should have it pruned
now and then."
The Kemmerer families have been good husbandmen. They seem to have eliminated
all the dead wood. They have pruned their family tree so that all branches
are alive, active and growing. It has grown large and strong and if you will
permit, it has "put in the shade" a great many other family trees, some of which
may be many generations older.
