Person:Thomas McKim (1)

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Thomas Ross McKim
m. 14 Sep 1796
  1. John T. McKim1797 - 1855
  2. Thomas Ross McKim1800 - 1873
  • HThomas Ross McKim1800 - 1873
  • W.  Sarah Bird (add)
Facts and Events
Name Thomas Ross McKim
Gender Male
Birth[2] 1800 New Madrid, Missouri, United States
Marriage License 30 Mar 1822 Perry, Indiana, United StatesLicense only, no marriage certificate returned
to Sarah Bird (add)
Census[4] 1830 Meade, Kentucky, United States
Property[3] 2 Aug 1832 Harrison, Indiana, United StatesReceived patent for land in Harrison County
Census[5] 1840 Harrison, Indiana, United States
Census[6] 1850 Harrison, Indiana, United States
Census[7] 1860 Harrison, Indiana, United States
Census[8] 1870 Perry, Indiana, United States
Death[1] Mar 1873 Arkansas, United States
Burial[1][2] Arkansas Post, Arkansas, Arkansas, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Thomas Ross Mckim, Memorial 18956614, Created by: C.R., 16 Apr 2007, in Find A Grave
    Accessed 2 Feb 2020.

    Thomas Ross Mckim
    BIRTH 1800 Meade County, Kentucky, USA
    DEATH Mar 1873 (aged 72–73), Arkansas, USA
    BURIAL Eckart Cemetery, Central, Harrison County, Indiana, USA
    [No photograph of gravestone or cemetery]

    THIS IS A MEMORIAL TO THOMAS ,HUSBAND OF SARAH BIRD MCKIM,
    HE WAS NOT BURIED WITH HIS WIFE BECAUSE HE DROWNED IN THE ARKANSAS RIVER AND WAS BURIED ON THE RIVER BANK AT ARKANSAS POST AR.

    Spouse: Sarah Bird Mckim, 1799–1868 (m. 1822)
    Children: Thomas Ross McKim, 1830–1913; Aaron B. McKim, 1834–1862; George McKim, 1842–1863

  2. 2.0 2.1 Stonecipher, Elmer Thomas. "Some Information Concerning the History of the McKim Family of Harrison and Perry Counties, Indiana". ts, 26 Oct 1975. Attached to "William McKim" in Walker - McKim Family by Sharon McKim and Alfred Walker, Ancestry.com Family Trees
    accessed 1 Feb 2020.

    Notes:
    From family bible of Henry W. McKim [grandson of Thomas McKim], who died 24 Feb 1933
    -Wm. McKim lived at Rising sun, IN in 1800, emigrated to New Madrid, MO, where Thomas McKim was born in autumn of that year. Wm McKim died in New Madrid and 4 members of family moved to Perry county, IN where Thomas McKim m. Sarah Bird in 1823. They moved to Meade County KY a few yrs later.

    [information and sources for William McKim]

    Family members [sons] John and his brother Thomas, among others, returned to Perry County, IN; may also have been a Robert, possibly (based on age) their uncle

    Letter by Henry McKim, 18 Nov 1931, with information from his grandfather, Thomas McKim:
    Thomas McKim moved from Perry County, IN to Meade County, KY about 1822, worked at the cabinet trade in Village of Louisville
    Spring of 1832, moved to IN
    Thomas (son of Thomas) was 2 yrs old when family moved from Doe Run, Meade County, KY

    Thomas Ross McKim (b. 1800) died in 1873 traveling by boat to Little Rock, Arkansas with his daughter Elizabeth and her husband Dvid Cotner. He was buried along the Arkansas River at Arcansas Post, AR
    [More information about family)
    [Elizabeth McKim married David Cotner 25 March 1842 in Harrison County, IN, with consent of parents -- "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007" on FamilySearch]

    See also: John McKim; William McKim; and Robert McKim

  3. United States. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records.
  4. Brandenburg, Meade, Kentucky, in United States. 1830 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M19)
    p. 289.

    Thomas McKim
    2 males under 5, 1 male 30-40, 1 female under 5, 1 female 5-10, 1 female 30-40

  5. Boon, Harrison, Indiana, in United States. 1840 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M704)
    p. 35/537.

    Thos. McKim
    1 male 5-10, 2 males 10-15, 1 male 40-0, 1 female 5-10, 1 female 10-15, 1 female 15-20, 1 female 40-50

  6. Boon, Harrison, Indiana, in United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432)
    HH 1384, Fam 1384.

    McKim, Thomas, 50, farmer, RE=$500, b. KY
    , Sarah, 51, b. KY
    , Christiana, 18, b. VA
    , Robert, 15, b. VA
    , Aaron B, 16, farmer, b. VA
    , George, 8, b. VA

  7. Boon, Harrison, Indiana, in United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M653)
    HH 924, Fam 905.

    McKim, Thomas, 61, farmer, RE = $600, PE = $265, b. KY
    , Sarah, 61, house keeper, b. KY
    , Robert, 25, PE = $30, b. IN
    , Malinda, 25, housekeeper, b. IN
    , Wm H., 5, b. IN
    , George W, 3, b. IN

  8. Clark, Perry, Indiana, in United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publications M593 and T132)
    p. 26, HH 181, Fam 181.

    McKim, William W., 47, farmer, RE = $400, PE = $300, b. KY
    , Nancy, 49, b. IN
    , Thomas, 20, farm laborer, b. IN
    , John, 11, at home, b. IN
    , Melinda, 4, b. IN
    , Thomas, 70, b. KY