Person:Jacob Kimberlin (3)

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Jacob Kimberlin
m. 6 Mar 1797
  1. Mary Rhinehart Kimberlin1801 - 1873
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Name Jacob Kimberlin
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1757 Augusta County, Virginia
Marriage 6 Mar 1797 Knox County, Tennesseeto Sarah "Sally" Hines
Death[1] 26 Jul 1801 Knox County, Tennessee
Burial[1] 1801 Seven Islands Cemetery, Seven Islands, Knox County, Tennessee

Jacob Kimberlin was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Find A Grave.

    Jacob Kimberlin

    Birth: 1757
    Death: 1801

    Revolutionary War Soldier

    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14853621

  2.   WBIR.com.

    Namesake: Kimberlin Heights in Knox County

    The twists and turns of Kimberlin Heights Road will take you past a small post office, a lot of farm land, and a university.

    "It is the best kept secret in Knox County. A lot of folks don't know what a beautiful campus we have here," said Tom Smith, history professor at Johnson University.

    Johnson University is the newest name for the school previously known as Johnson Bible College. When the school was originally founded in the 1890s by Ashley S. Johnson, it went by a different name.

    "It was called the School of the Evangelists," said Smith. "It was an educational institution to train preachers. From the beginning, the educational program was not just the Bible. It also contained a portion of what we would call liberal arts courses. Ashley Johnson's vision of building church leadership included a broader education."

    Johnson was inspired to start the school after coming across a multitude of poor churches without any trained leaders. He set up the school on his old family farm along the French Broad River.

    "There was a working farm here and the students were able to work off their education on the farm," said Smith. "The river itself has played a really important part in the history of the school. A large number of people from Knoxville came up to the heights by river on steamboats. The reason it's called Kimberlin Heights is because we're really on a bluff above the French Broad River."

    The Kimberlin portion of the name comes from the man who started the farm more than a century before it was transformed into a school. Ashley Johnson's great-grandfather was a Revolutionary War veteran named Jacob Kimberlin.

    "Jacob Kimberlin was my fifth great-grandfather," said Tim Holt, a direct descendant of Jacob Kimberlin. "He was from Pennsylvania and the family was originally from Germany. He got a land grant from fighting in the Revolutionary War. The United States didn't have any money but it had plenty of land so veterans were paid in land."

    Kimberlin's land grant was not for the pristine spot overlooking the French Broad River that now bears his name.

    "He got a land grant in Davidson County. Jacob Kimberlin and his brother Mike signed the first Cumberland Compact, which was an early version of the state constitution. The Indians were still pretty hostile out in the Nashville area. After a few years a lot of the people who signed the Cumberland Compact were killed by Native Americans. I think he said he needed to go somewhere else and moved to what is now Kimberlin Heights."

    Kimberlin sold his land in Davidson County and purchased the farm in Knox County in 1787. Kimberlin was a gunsmith and mined lead on the property for production of bullets, according to Holt. Kimberlin died in 1802 and is now buried about a mile from his estate at the Seven Islands Church cemetery.

    Today Kimberlin's name lives on with the community's moniker and his family legacy continues with Johnson University.

    "This is where my ancestors lived. They walked here and they lived here and they farmed this country and this is a part of me," said Holt.

    "Jacob Kimberlin would probably be surprised that his great-grandson's impact has gone far beyond this little family farm," said Smith. "From this spot there is now a full university with international programs that reach students across the globe all the way to China. It is a remarkable place."

    If there is a place or landmark with a name you would like us to research, send your suggestions to 10News reporter Jim Matheny using the "Namesake Suggestions" form on this page. Be sure to include your name and a note on how to pronounce it in case we use your suggestion on-air. Likewise, please let us know if you do not want us to use your name on-air.

    http://archive.wbir.com/news/article/186208/0/Why-do-they-call-it-that-Kimberlin-Heights-in-Knox-County

  3.   KnoxNews.com.

    Kimberlin Heights

    The South Knoxville community that is known as Kimberlin Heights today has been a populated area since the 1780s.

    Jacob Kimberlin was a Revolutionary War soldier who moved to Knoxville in the 1780s, and is listed in county records with the last name of Kimberlin and Kimberland. Jacob Kimberlin married Sarah Hines in March of 1797 and died in 1801. Jacob and Sarah had one daughter, Mary, who married Jeremiah C. Johnson in 1816.

    From an 1807 surveyor's book, there is a survey for the estate of Jacob Kimberland that says his land was situated in Knox County on the French Broad River.

    http://www.knoxnews.com/knoxville/life/a-place-in-history-universitys-founder-helps

  4.   Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

    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

    http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glamberson/p155.htm