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Isaac Roscoe Kinser and 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 as 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 were
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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