Isaac Roscoe Kinser & Naomi
Josephine Young) Kinser
This is the way it was told to me and the way part of it was written,
recorded
in a small-town newspaper clipping, brittle and yellowed with age. A few
details
were contradictory in various accounts, And they most likely were copied here
with-out certain proof of complete accuracy, More ambitious persons may
appear
later and compile a more lengthy history, but at the present time, his seems
to have
satisfied our curiosities to a considerable extent,
A young couple came in a one-horse wagon from the Virginias to make
their home in Illinois. They were Michael and Mary Ann (Grubb) Kinser, The
parents
of Isaac Roscoe Kinser,
From Alabama came the family of Philip and Elizabeth Beach Young,
They had been prosperous as owners of 240 acres of land, until their farm was
raided
by Union troops, and every thing confiscated, even his last coat, General
Carlin
noticed how neatly the farm was kept and gave them passports though union
lines
to get to the northern area, He had served as Justice of the peace for 16
years in
South Carolina, before moving to Alabama, and later was justice in Illinois
for 8 years,
This couple had 12 children, one of whom we know best Naomi Josephine,
The marriage of Isaac Roscoe Kinser and Naomi Josephine Young took place
in 1873 and they went to house-keeping in a one-room log cabin on the north
side of
the road and west of the old-home place where Della and Glenn lived, The
first two
children were born there and the new house was built in about 1882, When the
Kinser
Family had loaded all the household goods onto the wagon to move to the
new house,
They had every thing but the cat, and the she jumped on with the rest and
went along,
Ten children were born, The first and every third one, from then on was
adorned
with hair of a reddish color. Brilliant red hair has appeared in many of the
following Generations,
Mabel Kinser Cole, age 93 years
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