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Facts and Events
| Name |
John Kincaid |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[2][3] |
27 Nov 1813 |
Kentucky, United States[pos Fayette County where so many in this area came from] |
| Marriage |
24 Dec 1835 |
Decatur, Indiana, United States[no issue]
to Martha McCracken |
| Marriage |
Bef 1844 |
[2nd wife]
to Priscilla J Alexander |
| Marriage |
1844 |
Indiana[3rd wife - she is the sister of the 2nd wife]
to Nancy Helen Alexander |
| Census[1] |
1850 |
Fugit, Decatur, Indiana, United States |
| Death[2][3] |
5 Apr 1894 |
Fugit, Decatur, Indiana, United States |
| Burial? |
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Springhill Cemetery, Greensburg, Decatur, Indiana, United States[stone exists] |
| Religion[2] |
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Decatur, Indiana, United StatesSpringhill Presbyterian church |
References
- ↑ Family Recorded, in Decatur, Indiana, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M432).
Year: 1850; Census Place: Fugit, Decatur, Indiana; Roll: M432_142; Page: 81B; Image: 169
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Family Number Surname Given Name Age Birth Year Race Gender Birth Place
311 Kincaid John 37 1813 Male Kentucky
311 Kincaid Nancy E 25 1825 Female Kentucky
311 Kincaid Martha E 9 1841 Female Indiana
311 Kincaid Mary A 7 1843 Female Indiana
311 Kincaid Pricilla J 3 1847 Female Indiana
311 Kincaid Rhoda M 1 1849 Female Indiana
311 Hall Amos 19 1831 Male Kentucky
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Family Recorded, in Harding, Lewis Albert. History of Decatur County, Indiana: its people, industries and institutions, with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families. (Indianapolis [Indiana]: B. F. Bowen, 1915)
662-664.
... Gilbert Gordon Kincaid is the son of John and Nancy Helen (Alexander) Kincaid, the former of whom was born in Kentucky in November 1813, and who died in May 1894. He was the son of John W. Kincaid, a native of Tennessee, who emigrated to Kentucky and who brought his family to Decatur County in 1831, shortly after the settlement of this county began. He was preceded to Indiana by two of his sons, Joseph and Andrew, to Decatur County where he entered government land and eventually came to own a large tract of land in Fugit Township. John W. Kincaid had married a Miss English.
Gilbert Gordon Kincaid is the son of his father by the third marriage. The father was first married to Martha McCracken, no children having been born to this marriage. Later he married Miss Alexander, a sister of his third wife. By this marriage there were two daughters, Mrs. Martha Helen McCracken and Mrs. Mary A. Martin. He then married Nancy Helen Alexander, to which third union there were six children, three of whom are deceased. The names of the children in order of their birth, are as follow: Priscilla, who married Sutherland McCoy; Rhoda M., deceased; John, who died at the age of twenty; William, of Decatur County; Gilbert Gordon, of this sketch, and Cyrus, deceased.
It was the good fortune of John Kincaid, whose home was northwest of his son’s place and who also owned a house north of his son’s farm, that he prospered as a farmer and became the owner of several farms and extremely wealthy. A Democrat in politics, he always took an active interest in the councils of his party and was regarded as one of its leaders in Decatur County. The family were always active in the Springhill Presbyterian church. ...
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Family Recorded, in A Genealogical and biographical record of Decatur County, Indiana: compendium of national biography. (Chicago, Illinois: Lewis Publishing Company, 1900)
353-354.
... John Kincaid, the paternal grandfather of our subject, was born in Tennessee in 1775, and thence removed to Kentucky, and in 1828 to Clarksburg, Decatur County. Here he took an active part in the young community and reared his four sons to be as useful citizens as himself. Joseph, the eldest, remained in Clarksburg, and David and John Jr., continued to dwell in Fugit Township, while Andrew, the second son, settled in Rush County, IN. Each of the brothers left numerous descendants, and thus the family name is well known throughout this portion of the state, always standing for good citizenship and industrious, honorable yeomanry.
John Kincaid, Jr., the father of William J., was born in Kentucky, November 28, 1813, and died at his old home in Fugit Township, April 7, 1894. He was about fifteen years of age when he came to this county with his parents, and here he had abundant opportunity for the exercise of the varied talents with which nature had endowed him. He was a successful business man and accumulated a fine estate. Conscientious in all his dealings with others, his word was considered as good as his bond, and his sincerity and uprightness never were doubted by those who knew him well. True to the religious tenets of his ancestors, he was a Presbyterian of the old school, for many years an elder in the local church and always one of its most liberal supporters and active workers.
The first wife of John Kincaid, Jr., was Martha McCracken, and for a second wife he chose Priscilla Alexander, who bore him two children, namely: Martha H, now the wife of T.H. McCracken, of Fugit Township; and Mary, deceased. After the death of Priscilla Kincaid, her sister, Nancy E., became his wife and the kind foster mother of his little ones. She was a lovable Christian character, and for about two score years they traveled the pathway of life together. She survived him four years, her death occurring August 25, 1898. ...
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