Birth* 1757 Jacob Kimberlin was born in 1757 at US.1
Marriage* 6 March 1797 He married Sarah Hines, daughter of William Hines and Martha Bright, on 6 March 1797 at Knox County, TN, US.1
Death* 26 July 1801 Jacob Kimberlin died on 26 July 1801 at Knox County, TN, US.1
Burial* after 26 July 1801 He was buried after 26 July 1801 at Seven Island Cemetery, Knox County, TN, US.1
Note* He THE LOOKOUT AUG 7TH, 1926 CHATANOOGA TN..TN ST. LIB. FROM R.B. CARTER,JR.
JACOB KIMBERLIN, ONE OF THE EARLIEST PIONEERS OF TENNESSEE, WAS BORN PERHAPS IN PENNSYLVANIA 1757, DIED 1801, AND IS BURIED IN SEVEN ISLAND CEM. NEAR KIMBULIN HEIGHTS, TN. HE WAS A REV. SOLDIER (EKENROD'S LIST OF VA. SOLDIERS, P. 225). HE RECEIVED LAND WARRANTS FOR MILITARY SERVICE OF 640 ACRES OF LAND AND TOOKUP SAME (GRANT # 163, BOOK G. P. 86) THE LAND SITUATED IN DAVIDSON CO., TENN., ON BLEDSOE CR. JACOB AND MICHAEL KIMBERLIN WERE SIGNERS OF CUMBERLAND COMPACT 1780. JACOB KIMBERLIN SOLD HIS LANDIN DAVISON CO. AND SETTLED IN KNOX CO., TENN., WHICH LAND IS HELD BY HIS DESCENDENTS--KNOWN AS KIMBERLIN HEIGHTS--NEAR KNOXVILLE. AT THAT TIME ONLY ONE OTHER FAMILY WAS LIVING NEAR, THE FAMILY OF WILLIAM HINES, WHOSE DAUGHTER, SALLIE, MARRIED JACOB KIMBERLIN. JACOB KIMBERLIN WAS A GUN SMITH, MOUNTED GUNS FOR THE EARLIER SETTTLERS, ALSO WAS SHOWN BY THE INDIANS A LEAD MINE ON HIS FARM FROM WHICH HE MADE FROM THE ORE, LEAD TO MOLD BULLETS, USED NO DOUBT IN MANY A BATTLE WITH THE INDIANS. FAMILY TRADITION SAYS THAT JACOB KIMBERLIN WAS ONE OF TWELVE MEN SENT OUF AS SPIES AGAINST THEINDIANS; THAT WHILE GOING THROUGH A FOREST IN TENNESSEE THEY FOUND A YOUNG WHITE CHILD AND NO TRACE OF ANY ONE NEAR, THAT THEY TOOK THE CHILD AND CARED FOR IT UNTIL IT DIED. NO DOUBT ITS DEATH WAS CAUSED BY EXPOSURE AND LACK OF PROPER FOOD.
ONE CHILD WAS BORN TO JACOB KIMBERLIN AND WIFE SALLIE HINES KIMBERLIN; MARY RHINEHART KIMBERLIN, WHO MARRIED JEREMIAH JOHNSON, A SECOND COUSIN OF ANDREW JOHNSON.1
Family: Sarah Hines
Child: ◦Mary Rhinehart Kimberlin1
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