Notes for John S. KINZEY

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Notes for John S. KINZEY

John Kinzey, who is 27 years old, is listed as a farmer and living with his parents Dawalt and Sarah Kinsey. John's sisters Sarah Ann and Kate and his brother Amos are living in the same household and farming in Center Township near Tipton, IA. There is no indication if he is farming with his father or working his own farm.

SOURCE: 1870 Federal Census Center Twp, Cedar, IA

John Kinzey and Ester V. Breyfogle married in about 1872 and moved to Kansas after 1875. This is based on the fact that both children listed on this census form, Charles and Winnie, are born in Iowa. John is listed as a farmer.

SOURCE: 1880 Federal Census Douglas Twp, Butler, KS

John and Ester Kinzey continue to live and farm in Douglas Township on a farm they own. The significant change at this time in this family group is that both children have passed away. Ester reports giving birth to two children with none living at this census. Since the 1890 census is not available it is not known when these two died.

SOURCE: 1900 Federal Census Douglas Twp, Butler, KS

3. John S. Kinsey, Apr. 18, 1844 – Aug. 9, 1909.
2. Dewalt Kinsey, 1814 – 1897.
1. Jacob Kinsey, 1769 – 1851.
4. (1) Charles Kinsey, June 2, 1873 – Feb. 1, 1888.
4. (2) Winnie Kinsey, Oct. 27, 1874 – Mar. 5, 1883.

John S. Kinsey, 1844 – 1909, married Esther V. Breyfogle of Iowa; was ten years old when his parents migrated from Pennsylvania to Iowa; grade school educations; farmer; moved from Iowa to near Douglas, Butler Co., Kansas, in the fall of 1878; the last year of his life he moved from the farm, five miles southeast of Douglas, into Douglas where he died the following year, 1909. Hence he spent the first ten years of his life in Pennsylvania; the next twenty-four years in Iowa, four miles west of Tipton; and the last thirty-one years in Butler Co., Kansas.

The writer is in possession of a number of his letters which reveal that he was a good penman; and have proved resourceful in information for this History, as were the other letters of the kin who “went west.” These letters were written to the writer’s father, from the 60’s to the 90’s of the last century.

For further personal history of John S. Kinsey, see Chapter VIII of this volume.

On one occasion, he drove from his home in Kansas to visit his cousin Anthony Kinsey, five miles south of Cedar Rapids, Ia. It required a week’s time to make the trip one way.

His wife died in the year 1916. They are interred in the Cemetery on-half mile east of Douglas, Kansas.

SOURCE: A History of Jacob Kinsey (Jacob Kintzy) and His Descendants

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