Person:Jonathon Kidwell (2)
Rev. Jonathon Kidwell
b.20 Sep 1750 Charles, Maryland, USA
d.15 Feb 1835 Sulphur, Henry, Kentucky, USA
Parents and Siblings
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m. Abt 1749
  1. Josiah Kidwell
  2. Joshua Kidwell
  3. Rev. Jonathon Kidwell1750 - 1835
  4. Elijah Kidwell1751 - 1831
  5. Betsy Kidwell1753 - 1845
  6. Elisha Kidwell1758 - 1779
  7. Rebecca Kidwell1762 - 1842
  8. Charles Kidwell1765 - 1812
  9. John Kidwell1765 - 1848
  10. Marshall Parker Kidwell1768 - 1801
Spouse and Children
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m. 1770
  1. Rev. Jonathon Kidwell1779 - 1849
  2. James KidwellBet 1790 & 1792 - Aft 1870
Spouse and Children
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m. 20 Dec 1770
  1. Vincent Kidwell1771 - 1850
  2. Elizabeth Kidwell1775 - 1864
  3. Drury Theodore Kidwell1777 - 1838
  4. Jonathan Kidwell1779 - 1849
  5. Thomas Kidwell1781 - 1839
  6. Rebecca Kidwell1784 -
  7. John Kidwell1785 - 1854
  8. William D Kidwell1788 - 1814
  9. James Burrough Kidwell1790 - 1870
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Facts and Events
Name Rev. Jonathon Kidwell
Alt Name[1][2][3] Jonathan Kidwell
Alt Name[4] Jonathan Kidwell
Gender Male
Birth[4][2] 20 Sep 1750 Charles, Maryland, USA
Marriage 1770 Charles, Maryland, United Statesto Rebecca Kidwell
Marriage 20 Dec 1770 Charles, Maryland, USAto Rebecca Kidwell
Residence? 1777 Rowan Co., NC
Military? Sep 1779 Served Twelve Months As A Private Soldier In Captain Douglas Hayden's Company, Colonel Francis Locke's Regiment
Military? 22 Sep 1781 Discharged
Residence? 1784 (madison Co.) Kentucky
Residence? 1828 Henry Co., KY
Military? Transferred And Served Under Quartermaster General Edmund Gambel As An Artificer (?)
Death[1][3][4] 15 Feb 1835 Sulphur, Henry, Kentucky, USA
Religion? A Founder Of The Unitarian Universalist Church
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Jonathan Kidwell was allowed a pension n his application which was executed on September 6, 1833, while residing in Henry County, Kentucky. He died on February 15, 1835, at the age of eighty-five.

Excerpt from: SWUUSI - A Burr Under the Buckle of the Bible Belt - Chapter 2, by Rev. David A. Johnson of Brookline, MA

… One of my favorite free thinking Universalist pioneers was the Rev. Jonathan Kidwell who began Indiana Universalism in the late 1820's. Kidwell took no guff from anyone and could think for himself to the point of imagining that some theory like Darwin's much later ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES might account for the world he experienced. He was outspoken on ministerial support. "It is well known," he said, " that our Universalist brethren in the West, entertain entirely different views...; while some are in favor of large salaries, such as popular sects give their preachers, so as to enable them to live in idleness all the week, and preach only on the Sabbath, others seem to think they ought to travel and preach all their time, and they and their families live by faith and snuff in the wind. The truth is always to be found between two extremes," he declared. It was George Rogers that he was referring to in the "faith and snuff in the wind" category.


UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST BUTLER COUNTY AREA TIMELINE Provided by Carol Sroczynski. 1826 First Universalist conference in the Miami country was held at Jacksonburg; attending were James Alfred, Jonathan Kidwell, and Daniel St. John. 1829 Universalist conference held at Phalanthropy (Scipio) in Morgan Township. 1820-'s-1830 Bunker Hill (Dog Town) an important preaching stop on the Universalist circuit. Reverends Kidwell, Rogers, Pingree and Manford spoke and debated on the doctrines of Universal Salvation at Obediah Welliver's tavern or hog-stand. 1889- G. T. Flanders, Universalist, attacked a group of Universalists Rationalists for questioning the Divine authority of the Scriptures, including the validity of miracles, saying the Rationalists “would come to no good end”, and that they should be completely discredited. Among them were: Jonathon Kidwell, Josiah Upson, O.D. Miller, Andrew Jackson Davis, S. B. Britton, William Fishbough, and Thomas L. Harris.

References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree. (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA;)
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    Record for Thomas Kidwell

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;)
    Database online.

    Record for Jonathan Kidwell

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree. (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA;)
    Database online.

    Record for Jonathan Kidwell

  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree. (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA;)
    Database online.

    Record for John Kidwell

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